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    mounting on a flagpole

    I have a bullet camera mounted on a 20 ft flagpole. It is used as a weather cam and points ~10 degrees above horizontal. I'm about to purchase a new bullet camera but read about the advantages of a turret camera. My question can a turret camera be mounted on a flagpole pointing up? If this is...
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    dahua camera not working on echo show 8

    I have a dahua ipc-hfw5231e-ze using it as a weather cam. I verified my RTSP stream using VLC (rtsp:/192.xxx.x.xx/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0) It worked okay. I set up the echo show 8 with the proper device name (wxcam) and asked alexa to show it. The response was "waiting for camera"...
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    adjustment screw

    Does anyone know what size (l x w) adjustment screw is needed for a Dahua ipc-hfw5231e-z camera? Thank you. Greg
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    upload file to internet

    I created a time lapse file using blue iris and I store it on my local pc hard drive. I want to upload this to my website as a mp4 file. What steps do I take to upload this file. thanks. Greg
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    configuring dahua hfw 5231e-ze

    I used the dahua config program to set up my new dahua camera. The camera is connected as a poe camera with a 12v injector. When I do the initial search with the program I get 192.168.0.239. This is correct since I can view the connections on my router. Next I try a web log in and get the...
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    dahua camera for weather timelapse

    Could someone recommend a dahua camera. I would be taking a jpg and a timelapse video of the skyline and lower sky using bi. Would a 2mp starlight dahua be useful? Thank you. Greg
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    rotate camera

    I mounted my camera sideways on a pole. I then rotated the video 90 degrees in blue iris. The video appears correctly (right side up) but the video is "condensed" sideways. The top/bottom video size is correct but the side/side video is only ~1/2 what the full video should be. Does anyone know...
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    schedule

    I set up a global schedule in blue iris for each day for morning and afternoon (each 4 hours) for 1 camera. According to the instructions you can select what type of recording occurs on the Record page. I set the "combine each video" to 2 hours on the morning profile and 1 hour on the afternoon...
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    hard drive useage

    I created a weather time lapse video using blue iris and a 4 mp hikvision camera. I transfered the mp4 file to my web site. The problem is the amount of space and time it takes to transfer an 8 hr time lapse. An eight hour time lapse is ~1gb and takes minutes to transfer to the web site. How can...
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    ftp video

    Using blue iris I can post a snapshot from my wx camera to my pc from which I am running the software and also post to my ftp site. The problem is when I try to post a video to my ftp site. The 5 minute test video is saved to my pc okay. The video does not copy to my ftp site. In "clips and...
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    clip error 80000020

    I am posting a jpg and a time lapse video to my local drive and my website. The jpg is posting properly but the video is not. What is clip error 800020? thank you.
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    Saving time lapse to web site

    I tried to set up an 8 hour time lapse using "alt/time lapse" and "combine/cut video" After 8 hours it should ftp the video to my weather web site. You can see the "clips and archiving" panel below. The problem is the video is not saved in the subdirectory "new" or my web site which I have set...
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    time lapse

    I have a weather cam set up to post jpg stills of the sky and ftp them to my site that displays wx info. I want to add time lapse video to the wx site. I am thinking of an 8 hour chunk of video per time lapse. How do I set up my "record page" of Blue Iris to get a video. What should the...
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