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I am not sure whether anyone has reported this or not, but as a PSA: The Blue Iris iPad app works well on my M1 (Apple Silicon) Mac. I use the app on an ultra wide monitor. The app window can be resized but the contents don't resize so really the app runs at a fixed width... but it works well...

One thing about SSDs is that they are SILENT. I have several surveillance HDDs both WD and Seagate and they can get pretty noisy when seeking. Generally they are not seeking during normal operation because video tends to be written sequentially. But I also run SightHound on the same rig and...

3 4K cameras isn’t anywhere close to “high bit rate”. That system will require in the realm of about 40Mbps data write rate to the drive — on the order of 3% of the real-world transfer rate of SATA magnetic HDDs. I wouldn’t worry too much about hitting any bandwidth limits with the system you...

Thanks for the reply. That option wasn't checked. The reason I was seeing the sub stream during playback is because I misunderstood the difference between viewing a single-camera layout, vs. a solo'ed or full-screen camera. The former uses the sub stream; the latter uses the main stream.

Thanks for the reply. What you‘be described is exactly how I expected this to work, and the reasoning about why it’s recording the sub stream makes perfect sense. But it wasn’t what I was seeing. In any case I think I figured it out — a misunderstanding on my part. Double-clicking on a...

Firstly — I have emailed support for this, but any insights still welcome... BI version 5.3.2.11, which is the latest stable/critical release as I write this. I changed my camera configs to use 704x480 sub-streams. Main streams are 4K. I’m using continuous recording. I’m finding that when I go...

I had a problem like this with one of my cameras (Amcrest IP8M-2496). Camera would work, then seemingly randomly lose signal. Sometimes it would restore itself, sometimes if I cycled PoE off/on on the switch it would come back, sometimes I’d have to manually unplug and re-plug the Ethernet cable...

Good to know there’s a workaround (although that’s a pretty major feature to turn off in terms of efficiency etc). Ultimately I was able to use the new update mechanism that was added recently to roll back to what that mechanism characterized as a “stable” version. Sent from my iPhone using...

Got 5.2.7.4 this morning. Live view is completely non-functional, on the BI computer itself, on my iPhone/iPad, on another PC with another BI license remotely connecting to the BI computer. The cameras just show a still image from some point in the past (about an hour ago, but I'm not sure of...

So far so good on both smearing and rainbow corruption. Not seeing either of ‘em. I’m running whatever the latest version of BI5 was, released yesterday (not in front of my computer to check at the moment). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I discovered tonight that my Windows installation was stuck on an Intel driver from 2018 — probably Intel’s final pre-DCH driver. It was a little tricky to coax Windows into installing the very latest (a DCH driver from 3/25/2020) but I did it and now I’m running a driver from about two weeks...

I tried it recently (within the last month or two — admittedly, an eternity in cybertime) and had both smearing and rainbows, but will try again soon. I let Windows keep my machine up to date but will also check on the version of my video drivers. I don’t run BI headless and never have, so...

I too am quite familiar with the rainbow corruption. 15 mostly 4K Amcrest cameras using H264, 10fps, into a Core-i9, direct to disk in BI, latest Intel drivers. The only solution I ever found was to turn off hardware acceleration completely. The box steady state is still less than 10% CPU...

Does this camera support multiple video streams at different resolutions, like other Amcrest IP cameras? I take separate 4K and VGA streams from the other Amcrest cameras in my system.

This might fit the bill: Amcrest UltraHD 4K (8MP) Outdoor Bullet POE IP Camera, 3840x2160, 131ft NightVision, 2.8mm Lens, IP67 Weatherproof, MicroSD Recording, Black (IP8M-2496EB) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C7W91YR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_k5UbEbXHSBZ6J Those are $99. If the price with tax and...

I have this same problem with one of my 11 exterior cameras. I set up a schedule in the camera to force it to b&w for certain hours of the day.

I'm posting this in case someone else might find it useful. It can be used to trigger a camera in BI5 from the command line. To use, you Change "user" and "password" in the line starting with "s =" (note: do not change the colons, just the user and password parts) to match the credentials of...

I’ve seen this when I had the bit rate for the web service set too high. The streaming profiles are in behind advanced button on the web service tab in settings. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm trying to trigger a camera in BI from another computer, using BI's http interface. BI's documentation says that if the web server is configured for basic auth, I can post a URL to BI's web server e.g. http://192.168.0.200:8081/admin?user=my-user&pass=my-pw&camera=name&trigger What I...

Data point: I run my 13 camera system (1035 MP/s), on an i7-6700 with ~45% CPU usage. I have a second license of BI and tried the same on my i9-9900K with identical config. CPU was around 15%. The i9 is a beast!

I used this cable and haven't had any problems: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JAVMYLM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Personally, I pretty quickly rule out any product that doesn't have a CLEAR, STRAIGHTFORWARD statement about pricing that I can see without too many clicks on the company's website. The Digital Watchdog stuff and some of the others therefore fall off my list just about immediately because it...

As a data point, I run twelve 4K cameras plus one 4MP camera, all on H264, 10fps, one i-frame/second, on an i7-6700. I maxed out the camera bit rates to whatever the Amcrest UI would allow -- 10240Kbps VBR for the 4K cameras, and 9984Kbps VBR on the 4MP camera. I use BI's motion trigger on all...

I did get a reply today with some good suggestions that I will try. Also I did start by posting here on the BI Troubleshooting forum. I’ll update that other thread I started for my specific issue once I find a solution. (It’s about remote administration, I won’t repeat it here since there’s a...

Thanks for the reply and info. I didn’t realize it was that small of a staff. I’m generally quite satisfied with BI and respect the work that goes into it, especially for the price. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just wondering whether Blue Iris is known to ever actually respond to support@blueirissoftware.com... for people without paid support in case that matters. I have two licenses and am having a problem that I can't resolve... have emailed them but no reply yet (3 days). Any insights?

I installed Wireshark on the client to see what's going on here. 89 120.487479 192.168.0.199 192.168.0.30 HTTP 287 GET /admin/config?session=0e2a0e39587a36a44218380f7aca176c HTTP/1.1 90 120.489941 192.168.0.30 192.168.0.199 HTTP 326 HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable OK...

You're right. But I did try completely disabling the firewall on both client and server, and it didn't fix the issue. I'm wondering whether this has to do with my client machine's network configuration. I have VirtualBox installed on that machine, and it adds two virtual Ethernet adapters. I...

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried disabling Windows Defender on both sides. Same problem. Besides -- the exact same URL I gave Blue Iris for the remote connection -- and which fails on Blue Iris -- works just fine in Firefox on the same machine. I would not expect this to be a firewall issue...

Thanks for the info. I double-checked my setup and found that it is configured similarly to what you describe. Each BI installation has its own key, and I've used the same name and email details on both installations. I'm trying to connect from within my LAN so I don't think the register IP box...