Blue Iris Servers Down - Deactivated and Killed my NVR...

Sep 10, 2016
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So I run a business and we use Blue Iris for all our cameras to record the employees. Well the BI servers went down and my server will not launch BI5 because it cannot talk to their activation servers.

We have an active license. Are they seriously DRMing the boxes now so that you cannot use them when things are offline?
 
I noticed their sever is down too but my system is up and running with no issues.

Skinny
 
I cannot have this happen to us again for obvious liability reasons. Whats another good Windows option that also supports MQTT?
 
I cannot have this happen to us again for obvious liability reasons. Whats another good Windows option that also supports MQTT?
You will have a hard time finding any. The large mainstream expensive vms do not support mqtt. Once you switch over to the commercial products you will find that blue iris has many features hey dont. There is a reason its loved.
If recording is critical to you should have a backup solution like SD card or nvr or be using an enterprise level vms that has a failover server option. What would happen if your BI pc failed?
Furthermore, you should have never upgraded to BI5 as it has way to many issues. Its only be out for two weeks and there are bugs to be resolved.
 
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I was able to use mosquitto_pub and sighthound to get MQTT "support". Hopefully this software works better than BlueIris that is STILL not working....
Next time wait BEFORE upgrading ANY software. If you think sighthound doesnt have any issues see their forum. Looks like the video is not important to you anyways as you dont have any secondary recording device.
 
What NVR would you recommend for a backup?
Virtually mainstream dahua/hik. Just put a large drive in there and set to continuous recording. Or buy a second pc for 100-300 depending on your load and run two vms. You can also simply us SD cards in the camera as backup.
 
Thanks ! I will get one of those ordered. All the cameras here are ONVIF so I assume if a NVR supports ONVIF I can dump footage from any camera to it.
 
Thanks ! I will get one of those ordered. All the cameras here are ONVIF so I assume if a NVR supports ONVIF I can dump footage from any camera to it.
For basic recording, and even basic motion detection yes. It wont work for IVS triggered recordings if the cams dont match the NVR. What cameras are you using?
 
I have SD cards in the DAHUA cams, always good backup. Can also auto upload footage to a NAS\FTP drive ect..
The only issue I had while their servers were down was remote access "couldn't find the key", just unchecked the box "check address before each login" or whatever it was called and no issue, using the IP address.
I have had a de-activated issue a while ago, but just had un-registered across the cams, until fixed.