Dual NIC setup on your Blue Iris Machine

Net question is does your PoE switch show that it is supplying power to the camera and, if it has a network activity LED, is that LED blinking at all?
 
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Ok, the switch I am using is the BV-Tech 10 Port PoE+ Industrial DIN Rail Switch. Attached is picture of the lights. The camera has been connected to the switch for about an hour or two and I think the camera is on because it is warm when I pick it up.
 

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Move the PC over to the uplink port just for a laugh. I'm assuming the PC is the left cable and the camera is the right cable, correct?
 
Am I doing things in the correct sequence? When I am configuring the nic settings the camera should be disconnected right? Are the settings not saving because I am keeping the camera disconnected?
 
That's fine. Any change? I doubt it.

The camera can stay connected. It has no bearing on the configuration of the network interface on the machine.

Do you have a port scanner utility? I'm curious to see if your machine shows up in the 192.168.1.x subnet and also if the camera shows up. Just for a laugh, ping your machine from your machine and see what that says.
 
Here's the settings on this laptop. I do, on a rare occasion, need to access a new camera with it so I have a second IP configured.

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No changes, still cannot connect to camera. I have nmap but not sure how to do a port scan. Attached a screenshot of ping for this pc.
 

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I am so confused. I have another PC that I have followed the exact same steps and had perfect results. Everything is working fine and the additional ip address does not get removed. I don't know what could be different.
 
Would it work if I connected the camera to my real network and then went in and changed the ip address to be on the 192.168.55.x network? I know that is not the safest solution and that would be a last resort.
 
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Yes, give that a shot from that other PC.
 
Ok, I plugged it into the working setup and was able to access the camera and change the ip to 192.168.55.40. Then when I plug it into the new setup I am now able to access the camera. So for now this will work with getting up an running. But I would really like to be able to fix this so I can do new camera setup on this PC. I am boggled at this point and don't know what could be causing the problem.
 
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Ya got me. It should work, it seems to work on the other machine so it should work on any machine. Something strange is going on but I don't know what.
 
SouthernYankee said:
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The dual nic shields the cameras from the internet and the remainder of your home network. gDMSS will would on the computer with the Dual NIC, also any other computer that is on the second network. If you have team view on the computer with the dual NIC you should be able to access the cameras.
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How would DMSS work on a dual nic setup? wouldn't the cams only be accessible on the dual nic BI computer and not the app on a phone on the main lan?

Its one of the reasons I haven't moved away from my VLAN setup, that and 1 wifi cam.
 
The purpose of the dual is to prevent the cameras from accessing the internet. You will not be able to access the cameras from your phone directly. Most people are running blue iris on the dual nic pc. So they use the phone app or the web interface to access the bi interface to see the cameras.
 
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I mostly use UI3 and do not have the BI app, but DMSS is nice to have as an alternative but its main use is 2 way audio for one of the cameras which works perfectly. When using BI incoming audio from the cam is fine but sending audio from BI (not app), works buts it also eats some words which I was unable to resolve and just used DMSS.

I am considering moving the PoE cams from my IoT VLAN to the dual nic setup, just to save the network bandwidth. The 2 way audio cams is WiFi as well so makes sense to keep it on the IoT VLAN as setting up yet another AP do to its its location would be annoying.
 
I've done the dual NIC as well, but now in the process of consolidating the entire network doing VLAN segmentation, otherwise what's the point of managing a Unifi network :rofl:
 
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