Wired & Wireless System info
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looney2ns
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Lots of issues, always use network cable if you want it to be reliable.
srglassw
Getting the hang of it
If you're wondering if wireless and wired cameras can coexist with Blue Iris, yes they can. Apart from the stability of a wired camera stream versus a wireless camera stream Blue Iris doesn't really care or act any differently regardless of how the cameras are connected to the network.
I have 4 wired and 2 wireless cameras. I have no more issues with wireless than wired. Overall both have been very reliable. Pretty much every issue I've experienced has been either configuration settings (my fault) or Blue Iris bugs (mostly my fault for not waiting on release to be community tested).
I do have my 2 WiFi cameras on 2.4ghz wavelength that I don't have any heavy users on (those are on 5ghz). Blue Iris is awesome, especially considering the reasonable cost
I do have my 2 WiFi cameras on 2.4ghz wavelength that I don't have any heavy users on (those are on 5ghz). Blue Iris is awesome, especially considering the reasonable cost
I have several wireless cameras. The problems they have are mostly due to the zillions of times the cameras try to hack their way through the router to connect to their origin country. I don't know if any wired cameras do the same thing.
If you do use wireless... your wireless setup will be critical. I've had lot's of headaches with my setup before finally getting it stable and not all of it was related to the devices themselves. In any event I've learned my lesson and will be going PoE going forward with maybe a couple of wireless cameras as stopgaps where I can't wire easily.
looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
This is due to:
A-Cheap no name cam with crappy firmware.
B-A Chinese region cam, with hacked to english firmware.
C-Router is not setup properly, UPNP turned off, blocking the cams access to internet, etc.
D-Cams not setup correctly, UPNP turned off, etc.
Your cams will most likely be hacked, if they haven't been already.
I have a neighbor that has in his words "A high Tech wifi Camera system". He has 4 cams on it so far.
An incident happened, and he showed the video he captured of it to me, cough, well umm, it may have been 1 frame every 2 secs or so. Mighty high tech. I finally dug out of him, that was the only way he could get it to work reliably, to throttle the frame rate way down. Small house, all cams no more than 15-20ft from NVR/router.
You have to power the cam anyway, run a network cable to it.
This is becoming a religious debate. Wired is better, but WiFi can work. I've had it in use for 10 years and never had an issue related to that. Just upgraded one wireless outdoor cam to 3m Amcrest and it's beautiful video, no blips
fenderman
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It should never be used... You have no idea what the op's layout or structure is.... Something that could be knocked out by a microwave it's not reliable for surveillance.... Most importantly it's easy to run cable and since you have to run power anyways makes no sense to use Wifi... You can't run it yourself hiring somebody to run it will end up being cheaper in the long run...