Blue Iris Dahua NVR

NVR is wayyy easier and faster to setup

I have a brand new NVR sitting here. Wanna race in setup from scratch with a brand new PC and BI?
 
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bigredfish said:
Not sure how it gets faster or easier to view live video than this?
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With BI's UI3, the mouse wheel is always enabled for zoom and the zoomed image can be dragged (panned) with the mouse. Unless there's something I haven't found, in smartPSS, doing this first requires pressing the "+" button and drawing a rectangle, all of which gets reset when crossing a trigger point.
 
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With BI's UI3, the mouse wheel is always enabled for zoom and the zoomed image can be dragged (panned) with the mouse. Unless there's something I haven't found, in smartPSS, doing this first requires pressing the "+" button and drawing a rectangle, all of which gets reset when crossing a trigger point.
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Correct for digital zoom, which I rarely if ever use. ? Is that something you normally do when looking at playback? I mean if I wanted to read the letters on the car becasue the recorded resolution wasnt high enough I guess, but not very often. If I need digital zoom, I just tried becasue I cant recall ever needing to do it, I just start at or 1 step after the trigger
 
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I use the digital zoom a lot, mostly for keeping track of various animals. I guess a gator would be filling the whole frame anyway :). Use it also occasionally to look at passing vehicles. With the 5442 series, digital zoom is actually useful. We're in a secluded spot and 95% of my triggers are animals.
 
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Ok I suppose that makes sense.

But I don’t think most common users will use digital zoom all that much . With a normal lot going what, 60-80x 150’ ? I can’t imagine needing to use it a lot.

But if I had wide open spaces 200+ft it would be used more if I didn’t have PTZs or zoomed in cameras to watch out that far.

Still we’re talking about a task that takes 5 seconds
 
The beauty of downloading and reviewing footage using a Dahua NVR is the number of ways you can do it, all very easy once you know how

In addition to using SmartPSS Lite (2 option methods shown in video) ,
You can also use the NVR timeline interface,(video)
Or the NVR AI Search interface (video)

*Oh yeah. And you can do the same on your phone using the DMSS app

Of course with all of these you can define the day, hours, human/vehicle, or show only IVS or Motion events on the timeline if you so choose

It’s faster and easier

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I wish someone would post some BI videos showing similar functions so we could compare. I never see those.. ;)
 
How do you make those videos? Is there something like a screenshot video recorder?
Anyway, there's one killer feature in BI'S UI3 that the NVR/smartPSS can't come close to matching. The trigger thumbnails are stacked vertically on the left edge of the screen, and just by hovering over one it runs thumbnail-sized video in fast forward. In just about every case, I can decide whether want to look at a clip or not in 2 seconds flat with no keyboard or mouse presses.

Since you mentioned saving videos, I do that also with smartPSS. I'll be happy to make a BI video if I can figure out to do it and it's not too, too much work for my lazy brain. Not for a couple of weeks however. Today is the first day of a break on the Oregon coast. I'm sitting here now looking out over the ocean about 150' away, roughing it. I'm doing remote camera access with the NVR and smartPSS. I already had that set up before trying BI, and setting up a different remote access doesn't go along with the lazy brain.
 
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In Windows I just use the built in snipping tool.

One you figure it out it’s quite simple.

Use Snipping Tool to capture screenshots - Microsoft Support

Learn how to use Snipping Tool to capture a screenshot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image.
support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com

Let me find a good video on it. Most over complicate it.
 
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