Blue Iris with Hikvision NVR - Connectivity

[Ipcamnewbie]

Hey Guys

I decided to start a new thread as I am hoping this may help other people in the same situation. First my network detail:

- HikVision NVR - DS-7616NI:
- LAN IP 192.168.1.*
- Internal NVR Camera Subnet 192.168.254.*
- Hikvision NVR doing standard port forwarding between the two subnets

In trying to connect BI using the port forwarding that the NVR is doing, although it works but I get random i/o errors. However in moving one of my cameras to sit on the 192.168.1.* subnet, connecting BI to that IP address is perfect and super stable. Then connecting the same Camera to the NVR via the 192.168.1.* subnet also works perfectly.

Light Bulb Moment - instead of changing IPs of all my Cameras why not get BI to sit on the same subnet as the internal NVR i.e 192.168.254.*. This was a no go as I discovered that pinging between IPs doesn't work so BI cannot see any cameras. I am sure that there is a way around that, perhaps through the Linux backend but I am not great with Linux.

Now I will have to change the IPs of all my Cameras so BI can pick them up. Ill update this thread with my findings once done.

 

[TonyR]

Streaming directly from cams to BI is better anyway...and it doesn't have anything to do with "the Linux backend".

 

[Ipcamnewbie]

Thanks Tony. Are there any best practises that I should do when I put the Cameras on my LAN subnet? I am thinking of putting them on their own VLAN and limiting internet access within that VLAN. Thoughts?

 

[TonyR]

Thanks Tony. Are there any best practises that I should do when I put the Cameras on my LAN subnet? I am thinking of putting them on their own VLAN and limiting internet access within that VLAN. Thoughts?

I do use BI (Blue Iris) but not with a NVR (I use a POE switch with cams) but I think if your NVR is POE then the cams are pretty much on their on private LAN and you can plug your into a spare POE port on the NVR and access the cams with BI that way.

I'm not up on VLANs with BI so I'll defer to the expertise of @SouthernYankee , @crw030 , @mat200 , @fenderman or many, many others here.

 

[Ipcamnewbie]

Update - your absolutely right TonyR, I simply put PI on one of the NVR ports and bingo. I had a weird moment there where I presumed it didn't work. Well that was easy, now that I have my 6 cameras working in BI I need to figure out motion settings plus how to lessen CPU usage. Any tips in particular to the CPU?

Thanks

 

[Edcfish]

start with the wiki
Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage | IP Cam Talk

 

[TonyR]

Update - your absolutely right TonyR, I simply put PI on one of the NVR ports and bingo. I had a weird moment there where I presumed it didn't work. Well that was easy, now that I have my 6 cameras working in BI I need to figure out motion settings plus how to lessen CPU usage. Any tips in particular to the CPU?

Thanks

1) Glad I could help.
2) What @Edcfish said.

 

[Ipcamnewbie]

Thanks Guys, the article was awesome took my CPU from 100% down to a mere 35. Is there a way to copy profile settings from one to another? in BI4 this was possible but I cannot see any easy way in BI5

 

[TonyR]

Is there a way to copy profile settings from one to another? in BI4 this was possible but I cannot see any easy way in BI5

Copy Profiles in BI5

 

[Ipcamnewbie]

Thank you - I must be going blind though - - "Set the sync to clone from camera/profiles you want to copy"

I can only find mention of profile in Camera settings--->Trigger

 

[TonyR]

Thank you - I must be going blind though - - "Set the sync to clone from camera/profiles you want to copy"

I can only find mention of profile in Camera settings--->Trigger

Even post #9 is of no help?

 

[Ipcamnewbie]

That was from post 9 - sorry

 

[TonyR]

That was from post 9 - sorry

Ah...me too.
I have BI5 and BI4 at 2 different remote location, got BI4 here at the house, so I'm about as useful to this thread as Nancy Pelosi is at a NRA event.

 

[Ipcamnewbie]

So does anyone have any ideas on how to copy settings from one profile to another?

 

[TonyR]

So does anyone have any ideas on how to copy settings from one profile to another?

I found this below on page 55 of Blue Iris 5 "Help" (the new term for copying from one profile to the other is "synchronization"). For now, that's all I got, as I have BI4 at the house and BI5 is at a client's house 20 miles away and he NEVER seems to be at home.....probably why he's got the cams. Anyway, hope this helps: