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  1. Pete6

    Amcrest NV4116E-A2 keeps losing Reolink Duo 2 stream

    Yes, you are correct. Close up like that car it is easy to discern more detail. You can see my Mercedes in my garage on the pic I uploaded but that is weel lit in my garage. I get why you dislike Reolink. I would say though that maybe you sent yours back a while back and since then they may...
  2. Pete6

    Amcrest NV4116E-A2 keeps losing Reolink Duo 2 stream

    If I remember correctly the Reolink retained its correct aspect ratio. The AMcrest NVR, which I initially had and sent back when I move to BI supported Amcrest cameras with differing aspect ratios. Thus i was equally able to display the Duo2 correctly. I have to say that the Amcrest NVR did...
  3. Pete6

    Amcrest NV4116E-A2 keeps losing Reolink Duo 2 stream

    Here's a BI pic of my whole system at night. The Reolink Duo2 is providing a comparable image to the othe makes.
  4. Pete6

    Amcrest NV4116E-A2 keeps losing Reolink Duo 2 stream

    @wittaj, Here's a couple of pics for ya. They seem fine to me but I am just a retired physicist and amateur astronomer who worked in IT for 50 years, so what do I know? I know that results work and that nothing that works is silly. Reolink may be a bit strange and they may try hard to lock...
  5. Pete6

    Amcrest NV4116E-A2 keeps losing Reolink Duo 2 stream

    I hope that your Dou2 works with your NVR. I gave up on the NVR and moved to Blue Iris. I then went through soem home networking changes and I ended up with all my cameras including a Duo2 that now work perfectly for just under a year. I have all my cameras wired and on PoE which is backed up...
  6. Pete6

    Best NVR to use, open to all brands?

    Dahua is a good choice. They are a major manufacturer of cameras and NVRs. Many other branded cameras are made by Dahua and rebadged and/or have modified functionality. Going homogenously Dahua is one of the safe ways to go. Had I stayed entirely with Amcrest I would have been buying...
  7. Pete6

    Best NVR to use, open to all brands?

    I used various brands of DVR since 2009 until, a few weeks ago I decided to buy an Amcrest NV4116E-A2 16 channel NVR. It had (note the tense) 8 PoE ports. It worked weel enough and I bought a majority of Amcrest cameras to work with it. I also had 3 generic ONVIF cameras. I got them all...
  8. Pete6

    Unhide Camera

    Thanks @Mike A. A good tip. Android works the same way. Remove all the items and the Desktop folder goes away.
  9. Pete6

    Unhide Camera

    Right here there are three ways to o this. Nice. I'd try but I no longer have an NVR. I got the refund though.
  10. Pete6

    Unhide Camera

    Could do that. Only one camera though. I now have three ways to achive what I was after. Thank you.
  11. Pete6

    Unhide Camera

    That is what the manual talks about on page 64. It is obvious now you say it that this is a layout edit function. Thanks.
  12. Pete6

    Unhide Camera

    Thanks guys. That worked perfectly. @wittaj, I have been screwed SO many times it is a miracle I ain't pregnant.
  13. Pete6

    Unhide Camera

    So here is another dumb question from me. I have one camera inside my house. I use it when we travel. Mostly I want to have this hidden from the main window UI and ui3 webview. I set the camera up and made sure it worked. Then, I unEnabled it but it still showed the camera windows and it's...
  14. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Oh how right you are. I still have my Duo 2 and I have it working. I had to drop both video streams down to 15fps to make it produce consistent and stable output. The audio stream still produces random bursts of digital noise that I just cannot clear. The Duo 2 is screwed to my house now and...
  15. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Of course just crashing around with little or no idea of what you are doing is a formula for disaster so some caution is initially called for. This is why most countries have some sort of driving test (although that may, at times see a bad example...) Playing with our environment is how we...
  16. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    In my experience, people only learn when they are motivated to solve their own problem. Mostly they crash about until they have learned enough to ask meaningful questions. At that point it is time to start gathering knowledge. Putting this another way, fiddling with stuff is great once you...
  17. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Yeah, I get that. Yup, I am geek. I spent my life in telecom and IT all over the world. Now in retirement I can allow my inner geekness to shine thru'. I have just given up astronomy as it was physically too much for me. I built my own observatory and two telescopes. Right now I am...
  18. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Copying the pdf to the KIndle is the plan here.
  19. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Thanks. Once you play with the UI a bit stuff like this becomes obvious but I could not initially see a match.
  20. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Thanks TonyR. The key was "Camera Window UI" a simple search and I found it even though you kindly posted it. I have to say I hate asking questions that I know will be in the docs. I'm new at the BI game and I have not yet done more than glance at the docs. I also do not have all the...
  21. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    Thank you. Been there, done that but, no T-shirt. The ? mark did not reveal the answers I was looking for. I don't mind reading. In fact I claim partial ownership of the anachronism RTFM from the very early days of home computers. Of course, I may have missed the salient points in the...
  22. Pete6

    Off NVR onto Blue Iris

    I shipped the Amcrest NVR back to Amazon for a refund today. I took the 4TB hard disk out first and reformatted it in my i5 / 16GB Dell PC dedicated to Blue Iris. It works. I have 12 cameras which are mostly Amcrest 5 or 8 MP devices and 3 5MP PTZ devices. I can web view cameras now on other...
  23. Pete6

    What has gone wrong with my camera?

    Thank you all. I have been juggling lots of balls lately. I am coming off a DVR with 8 analog cameras. I thought I'd just replace that with a decent NVR. It turned out that unlike analog baseband video and RS485, differing manufacturers products do not play nice with one another in the IP...
  24. Pete6

    What has gone wrong with my camera?

    Looks like you were right. That fixed it. Thanks. Pete
  25. Pete6

    What has gone wrong with my camera?

    A couple of weeks ago I bought 3 x Amcrest IP8M-T2499EW28MM cameras. These are PoE 8MP turret devices. They are currently connected to both Blue Iris and an Amcrest NV4116E-A2. Blue Iris is for final destination but it is currently running on my desktop PC until a dedicated server is...
  26. Pete6

    My DIY Alternative to Reolink's 180 Degree Camera

    Uh-huh. Thank you. I was wondering if someone might advise me thus. I can stick with Windows 10 easily. I shall do that. I shall not have all the parts delivered until at least Wednesday next week and I have other stuff going on too. so I may not have a working PC until the end of next...
  27. Pete6

    My DIY Alternative to Reolink's 180 Degree Camera

    It will be run on essentially a new PC. I had one lying around that was minus CPU, memory and boot disk. So at Windows install time, it will be a new installation. I will most likely run Windows 11 since the PC is able to do so. This PC will be dedicated to Blue Iris and probably headless...
  28. Pete6

    My DIY Alternative to Reolink's 180 Degree Camera

    I finally bit the bullet and bought Blue Iris yesterday. I need to wait for part to arrive for the PC it will run on but I am giving up on the DVR. It was just too limiting in what it would do. The Reolink camera is now working fine on BI. No surprise there...
  29. Pete6

    My DIY Alternative to Reolink's 180 Degree Camera

    What you say does not surprise me in the least. Reolink does some fun stuff with cameras be their approach seems to be, "Make it work any way we can.", and, "Keep it Reolink only." Just this morning I am playing with iSpy on my i7 PC and whilst I only have 6 cameras up (the other are still...
  30. Pete6

    My DIY Alternative to Reolink's 180 Degree Camera

    Thanks. I am sure I shall need some help. My son is already up and running with BI and using most of the AI features too. He'll give me help as well.
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