Blue Iris License

[drhiii]

How long does the Blue Iris license last for? I have seen everything from lifetime to... well...

If I were purchasing the 64 cam license, will I need to pay a yearly fee to keep it going?

Of note, I went to the BI site and the main page is extraordinarily too busy. I gave up trying to find an answer on the site and came here.

As a sidenote... have run Zoneminder for years but am tired of it breaking apart now and then. Need to change.

 

[wittaj]

You can do any updates up to the expiration date on your order (1 year). After that expiration date, you can remain on latest version available to you and it will continue to work.

BI has always said that but it wasn't until around May 2020 or so that they started to enforce it.

I wouldn't call it a subscription because you can choose to not pay the $30 and stay on the latest version available to you (based on when your one year is up) or pay the $30 and get updates as they happen for the next year. Many people here are still running version 4 with no trouble and haven't paid in years other than the original purchase.

From the help file (page 216):

A license includes basic support and maintenance which means access to email software support and same-version updates for one year from first activation.

BTW most here do not run the latest version. Once we find a stable version, we stay on it until something is added in an update that makes it worth someone's time to upgrade.

I was on an older BI5 version until the substreams option was introduced - that was a game changer so I updated to that update. Then I sat on that update version until DeepStack came out.

 

[sebastiantombs]

The $30 per year update/support fee is peanuts even to a cheap old codger like me when compared to what you get for it. The constant updates mean constant improvements, added features, that expand the capabilities of Blue Iris even further.