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FWIW, I terminated all my lines with RJ45's and they plug into the patch panels. I have not had any issues with the setup in over 3 years when I first set up my system. The beauty is that I can remove them at will, if they were punched down I couldn't, well, not easily anyway.

For space reasons, you could consider a vertical wall mounted patch panel rack system. Example here.

I'm setting up a system for my daughter's house, so this is my first time working with dual LAN cards. I've got to say, I followed the instructions at the start of this thread and it all just worked. I can throw a brand new camera on the switch, initialise it, change the IP and more or less...

Don't worry, I've got that in hand. :)

I did get Blue Iris alerts something to the effect of duplicate file names, so yes, I just checked, I've got a missing hour.

I've been using Blue Iris coupled with Dahua (Empire Tech) cameras for the last 3 - 4 years, with the Blue Iris computer being the time server for the cameras. I use NetTime program to update the computer every hour, each camera checks in on the Blue Iris computer every 10 minutes. All I...

Thanks all, finally got the camera off. The camera is dead, I couldn't revive it, so I had no other option but to ............you'll see.

I appreciate the links to Home Depot, but as an aside, Home Depot block Australian visitors to their site. Firing up the vpn server gets me there, but regardless, I can figure out the products that you're posting.

It's the right tool, as I used it for another camera, same model. Having said that, the first one I tried the end of the tool came off, lodged in the thread. Had to use a magnet to get it out.

Sorry, I've mixed up the terminology, not the tools. I should have said, the supplied 'thingy bob' (torx if that's what it's called) does not grip the thread.

I need to replace a camera that has died. Does anyone have a hack in how to unscrew a screw when the supplied allan key doesn't grip.

Could it be that your Blue Iris computer is out of whack, time wise?

I ended up doing nothing. I originally was using a HP Prodesk with an 8TB harddrive and getting around 8 days of 24/7 recording for 13 cameras. There was no second 3.5" drive available. I purchased a HP Elitedesk that has space for two 3.5" harddrives, inserted one 18TB drive and the other...

Ok, I've checked my Web Server tab. It's been about three years when I set this up. I have checked "Refresh external IP at Startup and again every 30 mins", but unchecked the "Use an HTTPS port (Stunnel). I use Unifi VPN to gain access and I have to remember to turn it on before accessing...

In my humble opinion, a better approach is to use your Blue Iris computer as the time server. There are many threads related to NTP, and the utility program of choice, and what I use, is NetTime. I'm not sure of the innards of Blue Iris, and I could be wrong, even though the BI time stamp...

In live view, at your computer (not the mobile app) is your computer time the same as the imprinted camera time? (to the second) At what frequency are you updating/checking your computer time? At what frequency are you updating/checking your camera time?

I'm not aware of that type of setting available. If your cameras are working as expected, as regards an accurate date/time stamp, then just do the same to your computer. EDIT: I believe the date/time displayed at the top of the screen, is the date/time of the computer and not your mobile...

I'd say that simply your computer time and camera times were not in sync. I've just checked one of my recordings via the mobile app and both times are in sync to the second. My setup: Each camera every 10 mins checks the Blue Iris computer for the correct time and the camera time is updated...

Daylight savings in Victoria, Australia, kicked in a month ago, and all my cameras changed time accordingly. I also use the Network Time utility and that is working as it should. The log file clearly shows all responses to my cameras every 10 mins.

Which ever switch you end up with just make sure it supplies more wattage than the total wattage required by your cameras, as it's the switch providing the power. I can't recall the watts used by the 5442 series of cameras, I have 13 of them, and my Ubiquiti 250W 24 port switch does the job...

I read a thread in relation to issues with the exported image recorded in low resolution when it should be in high resolution, or the best possible resolution. In one of the comments was this: How true that comment is. I've also retrieved CCTV snippets from victims of crime or neighbouring...

13 Cams, 24/7 mainstream & sub-stream recording, about 18-19 days on an 18 TB drive, but only use 16.9 TB of the drive for recordings using Blue Iris. If police were to ask me about a car driving past 16 or 17 days earlier, first I'd scroll through the alerts, if not found or no alerts for the...

Yes, great tool, I even referenced it in another post just last week.

I have a weekly Windows task schedule to shutdown and restart Windows. That is set to go off every Monday at 7.34 am. I run 13 cameras on a HP Elitedesk (i7 6600) and haven't run into your issue. I've turned off the Anti-virus thing, defragmentation of the drives and plus ran a de-bloater...

Will they also record? It's a cost that is not necessary if your only purpose is to view a group of cameras.

You keep referencing having numerous satellite NVRs. I'm not following precisely what you mean. Does your main NVR record all cameras? Do the satellite NVRs also record a group of cameras that the main NVR records anyway? Is the primary purpose of the satellite NVRs in order to connect...

This is a blessing in disguise, the home owner can now purchase and install a proper camera. :)

So the skills you learned, you transferred to another project and the benefit of those skills is that you were up and running quicker than your first project, that's normal. Granted, it's not rocket science, but still from zero knowledge to some knowledge takes time.

Just throwing it out there, but how much power is the NVR throwing down the line? How much power does the PTZ and the other camera require?

If you have trouble loading or running the old Internet Explorer, copy the next line, paste into a text file and name it with an extension of .vbs. In my case I named it "IE-Exporer.vbs". Then run the file, it will open up the old IE. CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application").Visible=true