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    Looking for an affordable outdoor PoE PTZ camera, optical zoom a plus

    Thanks for the suggestions. Pros/cons for each?
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    Looking for an affordable outdoor PoE PTZ camera, optical zoom a plus

    Looking for an affordable (<$200) outdoor PoE PTZ camera. I will normally have this pointing at my back gate for security reasons, but when the kids are in the pool, I'd like to be able to pivot to them to watch while I'm working (just to keep me sane during the workday, not as a replacement to...
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    Accessing image stream by passing username and pw in URL not working

    Thanks for the feedback. I only have my blue iris server available behind my LAN firewall, and use a VPN to connect remotely.
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    Accessing image stream by passing username and pw in URL not working

    Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but is this a "bad practice" from a security point of view?
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    Accessing image stream by passing username and pw in URL not working

    I'm trying to access the image stream via URL by passing the username and password as query string params but it is still kicking me to the UI3 login screen. Here are the steps: 1. Created a non admin user 2. Enter the following url in browser...
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    Direct-to-Drive enabled but still have overlay

    makes sense to me, thanks.
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    Direct-to-Drive enabled but still have overlay

    Hm. I was just confused that maybe I was not doing D2D correctly since I was still seeing time stamps but it looks like this is normal for BVR formatted videos. This brings up another question though. I just have everything staying at BVR format. Is it better to only have the current recording...
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    Direct-to-Drive enabled but still have overlay

    This is a screenshot from reviewing clips, not live.
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    Direct-to-Drive enabled but still have overlay

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    Direct-to-Drive enabled but still have overlay

    I followed the guide on here about how to reduce CPU usage and tweak BI including enabling Direct To Drive recording. But I see that my videos still have the overlay/timestamp. I thought D2D disabled this feature?
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    Where do you generally purchase your cameras? (USA)

    Hey! Yea, I already have a server that BI is running on that is loaded with pooled storage so I don't need a dedicated NVR appliance.
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    Is a VPN as critical if you only access cameras via Blue Iris Web View?

    Can you point me to a tutorial that you used? The only thing clearly apparent in the GUI is PPTP...
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    How "fast" should the "New" folder storage medium be?

    Given the comments above, you'd probably be fine provided your network, switch, etc aren't overloaded with other traffic. You could always run some speed tests like the ones I did in the first post to verify your transfer rate.
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    Where do you generally purchase your cameras? (USA)

    Gotcha, makes sense. That is not a cheap camera (IPC-HDW5231R-Z), but I guess you get what you pay for.
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    Where do you generally purchase your cameras? (USA)

    So by mix and match are you saying buy a la carte, or that the kits usually mix and match for you?
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