Blue Iris v.5 first thought/impressions

chaycock said:
I was really hoping for a non-web based remote viewer (for the LAN, not across the Internet) that provided all of the functionality of viewing that the main BI UI does. I would have upgraded to get that functionality, without that, there is really nothing I see in v5 that makes it worth the hassle to upgrade.
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There is.

It requires additional licensing for each computer you want to install the remote console on. You add the remote locations via the Status icon. Works both over the internet and over the LAN.

The GUI is still not 4K ready and is still a big drain on resources, so being able to offload it on to another system is a plus. I'm going to fiddle with some spare equipment and see how under powered something can be and still do a decent job with it.

No, you cannot currently combine views of several remote systems (or even 2) into a single unified view. If you have multiple systems, you have to switch between them using a dropdown box.

It is buggy though:
If you are viewing remotely, it will not let you open the local GUI.
If the remote connection craps out, it will not let you open the local GUI. It thinks the remote connection is still active.
If the remote connection craps out, it won't reconnect, again, thinking the connection is still active.

So you won't be able to kick Splashtop/VNC/TeamViewer, etc to the curb quite yet. But it could reduce the need for them.
 
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So far so good.

Upgraded without problems.

Seems lightier, runs faster too (open and closes faster).

BUT, i really don´t like the alert/video column on the left and i can´t find a way to move it back to the left.

Anybody managed to move it ?
 
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Somehow, mine upgraded with no issue I've found yet. Win10, i7 4770.

Only think I've noticed is motion sensing seems to more sensitive now. Maybe a setting changed (nothing I noticed tho) or likely something improved within the software and I've had a lot of false alerts. But, just needed some adjustment. All good. Quite happy.
 
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th182 said:
Anyone running Win server 2012 and do the upgrade yet?
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I am running Server 2012 R2 and I upgraded yesterday with a few issues post upgrade. I was able to work through the bugs though.


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pmcross said:
I am running Server 2012 R2 and I upgraded yesterday with a few issues post upgrade. I was able to work through the bugs though.


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I see you wish you had waited. That’s the direction I think I’m going to go. Really don’t want to putz around with it too much.


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th182 said:
I see you wish you had waited. That’s the direction I think I’m going to go. Really don’t want to putz around with it too much.


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I don’t blame you there. Luckily importing the registry backup from version 4 fixed most of my issues, as well as the recent BI update. The only thing that I had to recreate by hand were my http commands to change my cameras to night/day mode from BI.


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I upgraded without a hitch but went immediately back to V4 after using it for 10 frustrating minutes.

I put BI on a secondary monitor in portrait orientation, and I couldn't figure out how to get the camera windows into the same layout I had in V4. I also couldn't find the button to minimize the clips window. Then after I dragged the BI window onto my landscape monitor, I somehow could no longer shrink the window back to a portrait size.

Definitely still feels like beta software to me, and that's not really what I signed up for. If I didn't get so much value out of V4, I'd be upset. But fortunately V4 still runs fine on my system and does everything I need, so I'm going back for a bit.
 
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fatal said:
I upgraded without a hitch but went immediately back to V4 after using it for 10 frustrating minutes.

I put BI on a secondary monitor in portrait orientation, and I couldn't figure out how to get the camera windows into the same layout I had in V4. I also couldn't find the button to minimize the clips window. Then after I dragged the BI window onto my landscape monitor, I somehow could no longer shrink the window back to a portrait size.

Definitely still feels like beta software to me, and that's not really what I signed up for. If I didn't get so much value out of V4, I'd be upset. But fortunately V4 still runs fine on my system and does everything I need, so I'm going back for a bit.
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Lol, you might want to spend at least 10 minutes and read the help file. BI5 does everything BI4 does but more.
 
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I didn't do it right, didn't do a backup, and I have lost everything.
I had to start from scratch. Now I don't have any Alert recordings. No motion recordings.
I don't know, how to get them back. Motion is enabled on each camera.
 
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I didn't do it right, didn't do a backup, and I have lost everything.
I had to start from scratch. Now I don't have any Alert recordings. No motion recordings.
I don't know, how to get them back. Motion is enabled on each camera.
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Did you not notice the flurry of BI 5 threads with mention of all the problems that others have had?
 
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It may not be a problem, maybe I don't know how to use it yet.
 
For me the upgrade was straight forward. Had some weird issues with bi tools but after reinstalling it i had no issues.
The gui is different... not bad just re-done taking some time to like it.

The biggest issue i have is that when i open BI5 my processor hits 99% . its a win10 64bit.
definitely didn't have that issue on the previous version.
Hoping there will be a new guide for BI5 for best performance settings.
Sounds like this isnt really ready for production yet from the sound of it but it seems to work well as a service.
 
batch said:
For me the upgrade was straight forward. Had some weird issues with bi tools but after reinstalling it i had no issues.
The gui is different... not bad just re-done taking some time to like it.

The biggest issue i have is that when i open BI5 my processor hits 99% . its a win10 64bit.
definitely didn't have that issue on the previous version.
Hoping there will be a new guide for BI5 for best performance settings.
Sounds like this isnt really ready for production yet from the sound of it but it seems to work well as a service.
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try adding BI5 folder to your exclusion list...my cpu spiked up like yours until I did this.
 
Tinman said:
try adding BI5 folder to your exclusion list...my cpu spiked up like yours until I did this.
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While my PC hadn't been spiking, I forgot to add the new BI5 folder to the exclusion list. Thanks for the reminder.
 
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