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I've had BI v4 for several years and never needed anything more but have recently begun to experiment with Home Assistant and found the BlueIrisNVR Add-on. I was able to enter the MQTT details into Blue Iris and connect. BlueIrisNVR detected all my cameras and a bunch of binary sensors...

I bought these brand new from Andy and haven't been able to use them. Shoot me an offer if you're interested ... I've 6 available.

I've 4 cameras in my back yard and only 1 of them caught motion of a fox in my back yard. I'm pretty upset at the moment as I want to know how he got into my fenced in yard since I've dogs which love to be outside in the yard during the summer and now I'm not sure they're safe. Please help...

I'm considering to upgrade my EliteDesk 8300 i7-3700 with something newer and love the small footprint of these mini's and they seem to have decent processing power. I've another desktop which runs unRAID for Docker containers related to media storage and would love to have just one computer...

I just ordered two Dahua 5442TM-AS cameras in 2.8mm but would actually prefer to have it in 6, 8, 10 or 12mm. That said, can the Dahua lenses be swapped out successfully? FWIW - it's possible on Hikvision ... Change a Hikvision lens from 2.8mm to 4mm or 6mm?

Last night I changed the cameras night profile to shutter speed 1/250 which resulted in amazingly clearer motion images. I then set the cameras profiles to change from day/night on a time schedule but obviously sunrise/sunset changes over the year. That said, is there a way BI can change the...

I set my cameras up a year ago but never had time to tweak any settings. That said, whenever I paused video clips the facial images were never very crisp or detailed. Last night I changed my front driveway cameras from auto to 1/250 shutter speed and anytime I pause video clips the images are...

I bought five 5231's and one 5831 camera Nov 2018 which all have the same firmware ... V2.622.0000000.31R build 2018-08-13. The strange thing is I see Dahua website shows older firmware on their product page for these two cameras ... how do I have newer firmware than the site and do I have the...

I currently have 1 x IPC-HDW5831-ZE and 5 x IPC-HDW5231R-ZE for my outdoors security cameras. I want to add 3-4 more all of which will be in areas with low light. I was looking for more 5231's but do not see them in Andy's store. FWIW - All but 2 of my existing cameras are in places with LED...

With Black Friday prices, is it worth selling my i4770K for a newer CPU, MB, and RAM or should I wait another generation?

I've the Dahua 5231 and 5831 both of which have very bright IR light at night which washes out a person's face with to much "White". I know the image can be dimmed by playing with some exposure settings but is it possible to control the "voltage" of the IR light to reduce its intensity from say...

Below is a screenshot of Blue Iris Status window. All but one of my cameras are within 10 feet of my switch as I've not had time to install them yet and they're just sitting on a table plugged in. Camera 5 is the only camera installed and has no more than about ~100 ft of CAT6 between it and...

I've got my test rig setup, am having Blue Iris record me while I pretend to be interested in breaking in our vehicles in the driveway, and as I watch the video back, each of the recordings skips ahead ~10 seconds. It happens in every video and seems to happen about 10 seconds into each video...

I currently have a Linksys WRT1900ACS v2 router with DD-WRT flashed on it for firewall rules. The router works wonderfully when it's stock but WiFi performance is lacking with DD-WRT because of the Marvel chip and lack of good third party drivers. I'm considering flashing the Linksys back to...

I've noticed my Blue Iris iPhone app has been very slow to connect recently. I only have 4 cameras connected at the moment all of which have multicast enabled (default). With regards to multicast, since they all have the same default multicast IP addresses, will this cause network latency or...

After reviewing my router logs I found my Blue Iris PC, former gaming PC, was connecting on port 8888 all over the world ... no idea what this is from as I thought I'd used Windows firewall to block everything. Needless to say, I blocked the BI PC from all outbound traffic besides through VPN...

I was running my cameras through a dedicated PoE switch which connects to one of my router ports which is on its own VLAN/Bridge. I’d created firewall rules to only allow traffic on that bridge to communicate to openvpn, gmail, and NTP server and as far as I know from watching accepted packets...

I just received this camera new and wanted to ensure everything was default so I clicked the reset button within the software. I believe it popped up a window saying it was rebooting which never went away. I watched the camera lights change colors, come back to Blue, and lens close/shut. I...

A friend is looking to buy the following kit but I don't know enough about hardware to know whether these are better spec-wise or better for the money/value ... anybody? Here's the camera's he's looking at ... 4K Ultra HD IP NVR System, 4 Outdoor 4K (8MP) IP Bullet and 4 4K Audio Dome Cameras...

I've noticed my Dahua IPC-HDW5831R-ZE is continuously attempting to connect to 184.169.249.245 (Amazon AWS?) on ports 8810-8815. I'm not aware of any settings I have for it to be doing this. Should this be happening? Is the camera trying to "phone home" and log my feed in the cloud? Ex...

I've included an satellite image of my home with neighborhood below. I plan to install Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE's and have added Red arrows for the cameras I propose to install this year and Purple arrows for the cameras I'll install next year. Are there any changes or things you would do...

I'm installing some cameras soon with 128GB SD Card. I have no issues in the neighborhood and only need to know when kids are sneaking out at night or sneaking people over when I'm away. That said, I only need to record motion, receive alerts, and able to review the video stream as needed...

I bought a Cisco ws-c3750-48ps-s managed switched several years ago in preparation for surveillance cameras and I'm finally getting around to buying the cameras; however, the switch I have will not fit inside my media panel and has a fairly loud fan running non-stop which happens to now be a...

Our oldest son has broken our trust on several occasions and we're not sure if he breaks into our bedroom when we're away so we'd like to put up cameras in our bedroom and my wood shop. Do you have any good recommendations for camera? It wouldn't be dark in the bedroom but could be in the...

I'm looking to purchase several cameras and the consensus seems to be the Dahua 231 is the "best" low light performing camera. I have motion activate LED floodlights similar to the lights in the link below above my front/rear garage doors. They seem fairly bright to me and wonder whether the...

I’m looking to buy a bunch of cameras by Black Friday and have been reading the forum for the best camera and it seems the favorite is the IPC-HDW5231R-ZE. It seems many people prefer to use Blue Iris rather than a NVR and thus you lose the IVS features. I’m not sure what Andy’s Black a Friday...