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I am running Blue Iris 5.8.4.5. This issue popped up in the last couple weeks at one of my 2 installations. I am mostly using the exact same cameras in both locations, but at this location most of the cameras will not trigger or record on motion. When I look at the status the cameras are showing...

That lesson is don't forget to peel off the protective film on the front when you are done. Let that bake in the sun for a year and a half and you will be out there with a plastic tool trying to scrape it off in 1mm size bits. This is especially not fun standing on a ladder hanging over the...

On my 100 yard range, it is somewhat difficult to get my "target cameras" dialed in. I am using 5mm - 50mm (one 60mm) cameras that are about 85 yards down range, and then zoomed into the targets at 100 yards. I am trying to center the target in the monitor and zoom in so that it mostly fills the...

This is a long shot, but since so many here are into surveillance systems and buying cameras from China, I thought it would be worth a try. We are interested in buying am EAS systems for our retail store. In the US they sell for around $1800 each, but I many systems on AliExpress for under...

I noticed this morning on my home BlueIris system that the time on my cameras was off by 30 minutes. I am using the camera OSD only so I went to look at the time settings. It was configured to use time.windows.com. Since I am having success running the W32Time service on my BlueIris servers at...

I need to setup a VPN server to access BlueIris at my home remotely. I have setup Pritunl at work but that is Ubuntu Linux and was actually pretty simple to setup as a VM. At home, I need to setup VPN on a Windows box. What are most using and is there a good tutorial out there that I can use to...

Cannot get UI3 to work this morning. The service is running and restarts just fine, but if I try to run the BlueIrisAdmin.exe I get "C:\Program Files\Blue Iris 5\BlueIrisAdmin.exe, The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". If I chose to re-install the application will I lose all my...

I now have 2 Blue Iris servers - first one is in TX and the 2nd in CA. The two locations are on different subnets, connected by VPN in the routers. I also have an OpenVPN server in my network for remote access. From my wired LAN connection at home using OpenVPN I can connect to any server in...

I have a shooting range with a camera on every single lane. When looking at live feeds, everything looks just fine, but when we review video clips sometimes a lot of the action is skipped. For instance we have had a few guys have a negligent discharge (gun fires by "accident") and this is...

I would like to stick with Dahua cameras as that is what I currently use (I have 50 cameras online so far). I am looking for a camera I can mount on a parapet mount on my roof that will hang over the tilt wall. I bought a Dahua Parapet mount I found on sale (PFB303S ), but these seem to be made...

About a week ago I restarted the smart switches in my network after performing a firmware upgrade. Since then, we cannot access the UI3 webpage from specific computers in the office. These are computers that monitored the cameras prior with no issues. I can't find any rhyme or reason to it...

My BI server has a 256GB SSD configured as C: for OS and BI software, and 2 10TB WD Purples configured as drives D: and E: Initially I setup my Clips and Archiving like this: DB is at c:\BlueIris\db New is c:\BlueIris\New - limit 10GB, 7 days - Move to Stored Stored is...

I am still fairly new to BI and learning it's capabilities, which are super impressive given it's unbelievably low price. So far I have 44 cameras installed on my site, with plans to install more for a total of around 57 cameras. With this many cameras I have configured the video settings of the...

I have been configuring a large number of Dahua cameras for my new building over the past several days. Today I started working with the IPC-T2231T-ZS-S2 cameras, which are 2MP varifocal cameras I bought from Empire Andy. Unlike all the previous cameras I configured, once I get past the initial...

What is the best practice for Date/Time overlay on cameras? I have 2 right now and they differ by a few seconds. Is it best to disable the camera overlay and just use the Blue Iris date/time, or the other way around?

I am trying to test running an RTSP stream through the BI web server to VLC. Ultimately I will be sending the stream to a Raspberry Pi but VLC is easier to test the stream with. The software I am using on RPi only supports an H264 RTSP stream. Is this possible to get through the BI web server...

What sort of base, conduit, and combination of parts do people use to drop down a turret camera into something like a retail space? Or is there a decent commercial product available at a good price?

This is weird. I can't seem to login to the forum using Google Chrome version 77.0.3865.90, but can login on MS Edge just fine. Even after being logged in on edge, if I refresh the Chrome browser it still shows me as not logged in. Chrome is my main browser so this is bugging me. It could be not...

I have a spare dual Xeon Dell R320 rackserver that I foolishly thought may be adequate for a BI system with 24 cameras. After some additional planning with my co-owner, that 24 cameras could now grow to 48. After learning that I really need a Core iX based system, I am now wanting to gather...

Hi, I'm new here and joined to forum to help me design and spec out a 32-camera system for an indoor shooting range that is currently under construction. We own a firearms retail store and we are finally adding a range and will be moving the entire operation to the new building next summer. One...

I am planning a 32 camera system for my business. I plan to run all the cameras in 1080p, 15 fps, and all will be RTSP capable H.265 cameras. If I wanted a large live-view monitor on the office wall showing a 4x4 grid of 16 cameras with NO input devices (no mouse or keyboard), what would be the...

I have a spare Dell R320 with dual Intel Xeon X5650 CPU's, 128GB of RAM, and 8 bays for RAID. Would this be a good system for a 32 camera system? I intend to run all cameras at 1080p, 15fps. Blue Iris recommends a CPU with QuickSync support, which these do not have, but it IS a dual CPU system...