Hi. I've been using blue iris for a number of years with very cheap IP cameras and it has been working well for what I need. Recently one of my cheap Foscams began to act flaky and I replaced it with a cheap Hik DS-2CD2442FWD-IW camera. I found that I had to configure the Hik for 1920x1080 but it was still much clearer than the Foscam and had much better night time vision.
I decided I'd replace a couple of the cheap cameras I still had with 2 new Hik cameras. I was able to set up the two additional cameras ok and could watch video by directly logging into the cameras with IE browser. I also set these up for 1920x1080 video.
I was able to add the second camera to blue iris with no problems. However when I tried to add the third camera it would not connect with a no signal error. I could still see the video in the IE browser. Eventually I found that if I disabled one of the other two cameras, the third camera would show video once I restarted it. Playing around I found that I could have any combination of the two Hik cameras - along with the other 3 cheap IP cameras I still had connected. Video on all 3 Hik was always visible thru IE browser.
Any ideas on what to try to overcome the limitation I seem to have with the Hiks? All cameras are connected via wifi as is the Blue Iris server PC.
Thanks
I decided I'd replace a couple of the cheap cameras I still had with 2 new Hik cameras. I was able to set up the two additional cameras ok and could watch video by directly logging into the cameras with IE browser. I also set these up for 1920x1080 video.
I was able to add the second camera to blue iris with no problems. However when I tried to add the third camera it would not connect with a no signal error. I could still see the video in the IE browser. Eventually I found that if I disabled one of the other two cameras, the third camera would show video once I restarted it. Playing around I found that I could have any combination of the two Hik cameras - along with the other 3 cheap IP cameras I still had connected. Video on all 3 Hik was always visible thru IE browser.
Any ideas on what to try to overcome the limitation I seem to have with the Hiks? All cameras are connected via wifi as is the Blue Iris server PC.
Thanks