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  1. iwanttosee

    Battery recommendations and/or portable hotspot ideas for wifi camera... ideas?

    If all possible, avoid it. Even if you send the camera to motion only, one big storm can max our your data limit on your hotspot in one or two days.
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    ASUS Router? - You may need an update, like NOW

    ASUS Product Security Advisory | ASUS Global
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    No more DST!

    Since 1968, Arizona has no DST.
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    Opinions on Cloud based video surveillance systems ?

    You need T-Mobile to get you a public IP address.
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    Deepstack Times to high?

    400ms sounds about right for a P400. It only has 256 cuda cores
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    OpenVPN woes

    I don't use mobile app, I enable my OpenVPN on my phone then open the browser and go to http://bi_server:81 to view my cameras
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    Does this make sense??! camera WIFI HIKVISION

    Maybe is your firewall.
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    NVR or DVR with slow Internet

    What speed do you actually have? My internet is advertised as 40mbps download and 3mbps upload speed but I actually get 55mbps download and 5.6mbps upload. 5.6mbps is plenty for me to have use OpenVPN on my phone to view my BlueIris server at home. Satellite connection usually have high...
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    NVR and Cameras that connect by WiFi

    64 cameras?
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    Biting the bullet on BI.....

    I bought a used $30 Lenovo M93p computer that has an i5 4570 cpu with 8GB of ram to run BlueIris and CPU DeepStack AND two virtual Linux OS (Home Assistant and Raspberry OS) to monitor nine cameras, five 5MP and four 2MP. It was great, except for the occasional 100% CPU cycles due to DeepStack...
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    NVR and Cameras that connect by WiFi

    I had a 8 channel Hikvision NVR. Review footage was difficult as it only works in IE and mobile app, mobile app is slow, no motion detection with my onvif cameras, motion alert is impossible to use as there is just too many false alert, and etc. So I tried out BlueIris for free and I liked it so...
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    Need advice, New NVR or Rip and replace

    I had a 8 channel Hikvision NVR. Review footage was difficult as it only works in IE and mobile app, mobile app is slow, no motion detection with my onvif cameras, motion alert is impossible to use as there is just too many false alert, and etc. So I tried out BlueIris for free and I liked it so...
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    Need advice, New NVR or Rip and replace

    Got a Windows PC? Install BlueIris and try it out for free.
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    DeepStack and CPU processor question

    Add a Nvidia GPU. The more cuda cores the better. I choose a P620 for low wattage and low proflie size, it has 512 cuda cores.
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    New Home Wiring: Cat6 or Cat5 premade cables

    My 5mp cameras connects at 100mbps. Cat5e is plenty even for a 50mp camera.
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    what is your RAM use with cameras disabled? with all cameras active? with cameras unplugged?

    Do you have virtual machines running?
  17. iwanttosee

    Refurbished PC (CPU), return or not?

    With my i5 4570, I saw very little difference if any with quicksync enable or disable with my 9 cameras and with the optimal setup listed here. Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage
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    BI is now part of my active alarm system.

    I set my BlueIris to communicate via HACS BlueIris plugin and MQTT to my Home Assistant. If Home Assistant get a MQTT message of a person detected from the camera I specified between 9pm and 4am, Home Assistant will turn on all my backyard exterior lights via smart switches, flash my interior...
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    Refurbished PC (CPU), return or not?

    I had my lenovo M93p with an i5-4570 cpu with quicksync and 8GB of ram running five 5mp cameras with dual stream, one 2 mp camera with dual stream, and three 3 mp cameras with single stream. CPU usage was 15-25%, keep in mind the same PC also hosted two linux virtual machines. I was using the...
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    Considering moving to PC blue iris, versus current lorex nvr. Questions, comments invited.

    Judging from what you just said, you don't understanding the role of firewall/router. Come back after you read them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)
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