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  1. IAmATeaf

    Pre-trigger buffer not being recorded

    Was playing around with BI on my eval rig, not played around with the latest versions of BI for quite a while but I’ve noticed that the pre-trigger buffer settings when triggered externally via ONVIF isn’t being used, so the recording starts when the external trigger was sent by the cam whereas...
  2. IAmATeaf

    Alerts only for the past 12 hours

    Has anybody noticed that alerts on the mobile app, iOS, only shows the past 12 hours? Used to show around 3-5 days before, no idea when this changed or if I’ve missed a setting somewhere where this can be configured? I tend to looks at the days alerts in the evening to see if there was any...
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    Is this a stuck IR filter problem

    One of 5442-ASE cams started showing this today, seemed to working fine in the morning and just noticed this afternoon the ping tinge. Checked within the cam itself and it was running correctly in day mode. Tried flicking between day and night mode but the ping tinge remained. In the end a...
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    Delete thread

    I never realised that this site allowed you to delete threads? Have never tried it but over the last 2 days I’ve replied to some posts only to come back later and find no trace of the post!
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    Alerts only going back 2 days

    Noticed recently the when using the mobile app I can only see alerts for the past 2 days whereas before I could go all the way back to what I presume was the last alert? I I logon to the PC then I can go all the way back to the last alert. Anybody else have or noticed a similar issue?
  6. IAmATeaf

    Group trigger alerts

    Using the latest version of BI and I’ve recently noticed that one of my camera which uses IVS and ONVIF is failing to trigger an alert. What’s even stranger is that the camera is set as part of a group trigger and although the other camera has triggered it’s failing to do the group trigger so...
  7. IAmATeaf

    Improve night time captures on 5442 cam

    Been pretty happy with my pair of 5442 cams, have set them up for day and night time as per the posts by @wittaj but am wondering if there’s anyway to improve them any further for night time? Specifically I want to try and also get number plates, currently all I see is a white rectangle for the...
  8. IAmATeaf

    Searching for camera alerts

    In the BI IOS app I used to click the Alert lightning symbol, scroll to the to get the search bar then type Drive1 and that used to list all the alerts for Drive1 but recently it also now lists my clone cams which have the name Drive1_C. Anybody know a way to just list the alerts for a specific...
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    5442-ase and 5231-ze IVS rules

    I have IVS enabled on both my 5442-ase and 5231-ze cams which trigger Alerts in BI. Is there a way in cams GUI to view all the IVS rules that have been drawn all at the same time so that they all display? Reason I want to do this is that I currently have Intrusion rules to cover 2 areas but...
  10. IAmATeaf

    Door checker and how to improve the 5442-ase night time captures

    Recently put up a pair of 5442-ase 3.6mm turrets and captured this car door checker, wondering how I can improve the capture as well so any advice would be welcome. Both cams are on default settings at the moment. Didn't know how to upload so have shared from my Dropbox...
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    Which focal length to go for? Went for 5442 3.6mm cams from Andy

    Want to order a pair of 5442 fixed cams from Andy to upgrade a pair of 5231-ze cams but am really unsure of the focal length I need so am looking for help and advice. I know the obvious answer is to get the ze variant but am hoping to save some money by going fixed plus all of my ze I’ve set and...
  12. IAmATeaf

    Can this be done, if so how?

    Didn’t know what to put for the title so apologies. I currently have 2 cams which I’ve cloned, the clones record my front driveway all the time with no alerts. The masters of each cam I’ve setup with IVS to externally trigger, alert and record on BI on movement within a specific area. When one...
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    5231-ze time drift

    I have a total of 6 5231-ze cams which I got from Andy but on one the time always drifts. All are setup exactly the same to sync the time from my BI PC but this cam always drifts. Incidentally, the microphone on this cam has also never worked since I got it but as it’s covering the rear garage...
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    IVS and 5231-ze

    Anybody using the built in IVS on these cams with BI? I’ve seen posts regarding the 5442 cams and BI but not a lot about using the IVS feature on these cams to trigger BI.
  15. IAmATeaf

    Can’t click back to review older clips

    Anybody else seeing this. Started happening recently, in the morning I always review clips but for the last few weeks I’ve noticed that I can only go back using the back button 2-3 clips before it then starts to just replay the same clip and sort of gets stuck. I can use the slider to go further...
  16. IAmATeaf

    All clips gone!

    This morning woke up to an over allocation error and all clips except those from around 2am no longer appear in the clip or alerts views. Done the standard repair/rebuild/regenerate, also stopped the BI service, made a backup of the DB folder, deleted the contents within, restarted the BI...
  17. IAmATeaf

    Idiot question time but ...

    If I want to save a clip is exporting it the only way and which option do I chose to get the best/closest to the original? I’ve always exported it to MP4 which does a re-encode but wanted the saved clip to be as near to the original as possible.
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    Audio sync is out by a few seconds

    Just noticed that on my Dahua 5231-ze cams the audio is out by a few seconds, so my wife arrives, parks on the driveway opens and close the car door and door clunk is delayed by a few seconds. Anybody else notice something similar or know how fix? Running 5.3.0.3 BI, cams are running at 15fps...
  19. IAmATeaf

    Need some views :)

    Hoping the guys and gals here can help and hope that this is allowed? My niece as part of a science project needs your help, she's made a YT video so would appreciates views and maybe even comments. It is a competition between other classmates so looking to increase her views. Given the...
  20. IAmATeaf

    Edge Vector ?

    Just noticed that Gaussian is now deprecated so will need to move over to Edge Vector I assume at some point. How is it these days? Tried it when it first came out and found that it missed a lot of events. Am planning on giving it a go but can’t right now hence the question.
  21. IAmATeaf

    Tips for minimising false alerts

    Been using BI for 10 or so months now so had the chance to get used to most of the features. The one thing I can’t seem to work out are false alerts. So for my 2 cams that monitor the front of the house, shadows and car headlights will signal an alert. I’ve tried things like contrast, pixel...
  22. IAmATeaf

    Power cut and layer 2 switch sadness :(

    I’m in the UK and over Sunday night with the storms had a power cut. End result being a fridge that beeped all night and when I woke up in the morning a dead managed layer 2 switch which is the central hub for my home network. Managed to find something to replace it with temporarily before...
  23. IAmATeaf

    Record on one motion zone but alert on another

    Is this possible without cloning a camera? What I’m trying to do is setup a camera so that it records on motion of say zone A but only alert on motion within zone b. At the moment I have the camera set to trigger and record on motion in zone A but I get loads of alerts from passing car...
  24. IAmATeaf

    How can I test the mic/audio on a 5231-ze?

    Noticed today that one of my 5231-ze cams just hums/buzzes when I enable audio, the other 5 are fine. So how can I test the mic and audio, can I hear the audio when connected directly to the cam via a browser? I have logged in to the cam and couldn’t see how I would/could do this.
  25. IAmATeaf

    Bird attack

    Was wondered why the camera covering the rear garage triggered, Blue Tit no less going for the turret? More likely picking of a camera bug [emoji3]
  26. IAmATeaf

    All cams offline

    Came home yesterday night, wife tells me that the IOS app shows a red border around all the cams. Logged onto the PC and they had gone into this state at around 4:30pm, it was now around 8pm. There was nothing in the log file to even indicate that they had gone offline and nothing I did would...
  27. IAmATeaf

    Zones and re-triggering

    I think I need some help with zones and re-triggering, been reading the help files but don't understand how I can achieve what I'm after. I've got a cam set up with 2 zones, zone A is entire picture and zone B is my driveway. Within Motion sensor -> Object detection I have A-B set, so I want to...
  28. IAmATeaf

    When is mobile 4G not 4G?

    When you are in bloody India. I know there are bigger dilemmas in the world but the service is on par with 2G in the UK. I get around 2Mbps down and 1Mbps up. If I dare sit under a mast and fry my brains then that might rise to 5Mpbs. Sad state of affairs really as the mobile providers are now...
  29. IAmATeaf

    Some cameras have an asterisk against them?

    Some of my cameras have an asterisk against their name, so for example Drive1* but Drive2 doens't. Tried searching the help files but found nothing, anybody have any ideas what it signifies?
  30. IAmATeaf

    Anybody use OpenVPN server on Windows

    Spent some time setting up an OpenVPN server on a Windows 10 desktop. Got the server configured, setup port forwarding and got a connection established on my iPhone but ..... I couldn’t find a way to have OpenVPN running all the time without logging on, starting the OpenVPN GUI and then...
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