r/BlueIris

Our very old camera server recently died. It was running Geovisions software. DMM multiview? I don't remember exactly but it was horrible. We do not have a large budget so something like blue iris is very tempting. The cameras are older Geovision cameras. Nothing fancy but as they fail over time we might upgrade them.

The server will be running on a Dell R440 with 64GB RAM. I have a synology at the site with a rather large datastore so storage is not an issue.

Is BI something you would consider or maybe go in another direction?

New to this dual lens cameras and got this to test. I my Tapo app works well for the Top (set in one position) and the bottom is the Pan/Tilt one to follow motion around. Now when i added to Blue Iris (v6) is only showing the top one but the Pan/Tilt one does not show anywhere. Am i missing something during the setup in Bi? or there some to enable in Tapo settings for the Pan/Tilt to show up? (The C246D is Wifi)

Some people need wifi cameras, it's just a fact of life and I'm one of those. I got a Tapo C110 awhile back and it's been great, so I figured I can add a C120 and it sux big time. 1: BI doesn't see motion, probably because 2: I get the incurable 'Frame bottleneck' error. I'm running stream2 (.9mpix) and even that is not working.

So, I decided to get another C110, why not, the current one works great. Well my new $30 C110 also throws the Frame error and I think I know why.

Digging into the Tapo app settings - The old C110 is hardware version 2.0 and the new one is 3.0. It's interesting because the old one is on software 1.4.7 and the new one says the latest is 1.3.0ish.

I don't want to dump big $$ on the cameras, they sit in a window and watch for bears and coyotes so it's nothing critical.

It's just frustrating but understandable, sort of like the Wyse downhill slide.

If anyone has found a *cheap* wifi camera that actually works please let me know.

Neighbor and I share a driveway and gate. The gate is about 1000' away out of LoS from home. Neighbor has a reolink cam at the gate that he's given me permission to use if we can find a way to share it. It's on his home LAN, separate from mine if that's not obvious. He's given me a link and auth code so I can view it via the Reolink app, but it would be really great if I could have all of the cams under blue iris. Is there a way to do that?

General Blue Iris Question, I'm running 5.5.6.20 on a Win 10 LTSC Optiplex 7010 with an i5-3479 & 16gb ram. I'm using 5 cameras, all IP. I would like to upgrade to V6 and add at least two additional IP cameras, would something like an Optiplex 5050 with an i7-6700, 16gb ram be adequate?

Can someone tell me how to put spaces in the subject line of an email alert.

Here is what I have tried.

 

I have tried to put things in brackets but this does not seem to work either, although maybe Im doing something wrong.

Release 4.8.6.3 W32. Yes its old but works fine for me.

thank you

It appears the Blue Iris front-end and back-end are down today.

The website returns a "error establishing a database connection" and the software can't seem to connect to the back-end.

Edit: Back online, latest software downloads check out fine with Virus Total and Metadefender.