Blue Iris Chewing Through Bandwidth

Setup openvpn on a router or PC.
Turn off upnp everwhever you find it.
Don't forward ports.
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lifeatredline said:
If I'm understanding what you said correctly, your cameras are streaming when blue iris is not running? If you close blue iris (console if not running as a service, or terminate in task manager if running as service) then your cameras should not be streaming any data across the switch. It is normal for network traffic to increase by the data stream size of your cameras when you run blue iris, as it requests the video streams from the cameras and that data will move across your network through your switch, but not your router unless you are remote viewing are remote viewing with the bi app or ui3 interface and the data will be much less than what moves on the local network. Your description of what's happening makes me think your cameras are streaming video to somewhere aside from blue iris, and then you see additional local network traffic when you start blue iris and it requests video streams. If you have not set up for streaming aside from blue iris you need to check your camera config in the camera admins. And possibly ban the cameras from internet access in the router if they are in fact streaming direct somewhere outside your network.
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I did check the admin interface of the cameras and they appear to be setup legit. Unifi video isn't running, but I'll have to check if there's still data being received on ports 13-16 on the switch for the 4 cameras when BI is shut down. I didn't think to check that. Thanks for the perspective. I'll post back and let everyone know for sure what I find.
 
I just scanned through the user manual for your cams. Are you running them in standalone mode (no cloud), and did you change the passwords from default?
 
Indeed. They are running standalone and the defaults have been changed. I'll look into it more tomorrow since I have to be to work in 6 hours. I'll keep y'all posted with what I find for sure. Thanks again.
 
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