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Reducing CPU Usage
The only thing I can think of that BI may be doing with all cameras disabled is sending streams through its web sever (e.g. to mobile apps or UI3). Video encoding still takes CPU cycles even if it is all just a bunch of static "no signal" images. Check BI status window, connections tab for... -
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Permanent "Holiday" Lights discussion
Nice. I would consider doing it DIY for $5 to $10 per foot, but with as little experience as I have with those things I would probably mess it up. The only holiday lighting I do is: Low-effort Halloween lighting on my porch (only on Halloween and only until we run out of candy) Christmas... -
Permanent "Holiday" Lights discussion
Several of my neighbors started getting them a year or two back. I haven't talked to them about it but I think they all were professionally installed by Trimlight (Permanent LED Holiday Lighting | Trimlight) as I've seen advertisement signs in yards and a branded trailer of theirs seems to live... -
Truckers not clearing height restrictions
I can't back up a commercial semi or large tour bus either and you won't find me trying!- bp2008
- Post #12
- Forum: Camera Captures
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CPU usage after upgrading to BI 6 ?
It is also a good idea to use Task Manager to determine Blue Iris's CPU usage, because Blue Iris may be giving you the wrong number for various reasons. -
CPU usage after upgrading to BI 6 ?
The global setting only affects cameras where "Hardware decode" is still set to "Default". Then restarting the BI service is technically optional. The change would also take effect if you manually restart each of the affected cameras. That just gets unwieldy beyond a few cameras. -
Version 6.0.1
Break Time is not in the motion sensor configuration panel, it is out in the main Camera Settings > Motion/Trigger tab.- bp2008
- Post #106
- Forum: What's New
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Webserver H265 streaming
Yes. Blue Iris 6 added the ability to send H.265 video through its web server via both direct-to-wire and transcoding. Here's (hopefully) everything you might need to know about it: Compatibility As of 2026-01-03, only the web interface UI3 can consume H.265 streams. The Android and iOS...- bp2008
- Post #2
- Forum: General BI Talk
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Setting error alerts in BI 5.4.4.2
It is probably in Blue Iris's status window. Log tab. Down at the bottom there should be a button "Status alerts...". At least that is where it is in BI 6.0.1.8. -
Blue Iris UI3
You should contact Blue Iris support about this. On 2025-12-23, I was notified of an issue where database compact operations (which happen nightly by default) were causing clips and/or alerts to get assigned different "locators"/"identification numbers". This would cause alerts or links sent... -
Blue Iris UI3
That behavior is by design to prevent having a jarring layout shift in your clip list. -
Blue Iris UI3
That sounds like a browser bug honestly. Like it wakes from sleep, gets resized, and then does not fire the correct events to notify the page of the change. -
Version 6
I am managing at least 55 hard drives across several NAS and need to replace 1-2 a year it seems like. That is really not bad considering how many there are.- bp2008
- Post #192
- Forum: What's New
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BlueIris Buffer Overflow Issue
What is the symptom of this buffer overflow? What happens? I am not familiar with this issue. Can you screenshot the Record tab of an affected camera? And for good measure, a screenshot of the dialog that appears when you click "File format and compression".- bp2008
- Post #2
- Forum: NVR's, DVR's & Computers
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Blue Iris UI3
Yes, it works quite well in my opinion. Below the gamepad bindings you can turn on an experimental mode which can do variable speed control via the analog stick, but I think it only works (and barely works at that) with Dahua PTZs with "Dahua New V4" PTZ mode. Blue Iris never got it working... -
Blue Iris UI3
Go to UI3's Settings in the affected browser and see if it is detecting gamepad activity. You can turn off gamepad controls there if you find it is the culprit. I am not sure what else would do this. You can also open UI3 in an incognito window to temporarily have all default settings. If... -
Blue Iris in a VM.
Great, I'm glad that worked. Be sure to set up email sending capability in Proxmox. That is the only way it has to notify you of disk failures in ZFS other than you manually opening the host shell and typing zpool status. Assuming you use ZFS. -
Blue Iris UI3
It is fully compatible. You do need to copy over the overrides file and any others it may call upon (usually none) into the new www/ui3 folder. -
Blue Iris in a VM.
You would have to find a guide somewhere. It involves flashing new firmware onto it. -
Blue Iris in a VM.
Depends on what you want to use it for. I think a lot of SAS controller cards are in "RAID" mode by default, meaning they want to be a hardware RAID controller. If you want to use a software RAID or something like the ZFS filesystem, then you need to flash "IT mode" firmware onto the card... -
Version 6
Not true actually. You can install the 6.0.0.0 update on 5.9.9.9x and keep on updating from there without running a full installer. I doubt you'd run into problems. At the same time, I wouldn't recommend this path. Better to do the fresh install and copy over any UI3 local overrides stuff...- bp2008
- Post #134
- Forum: What's New
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Tail Scale VPN
Perhaps a poor choice of words on my part. Tailscale certainly does not require a port to be forwarded, but it does help it to achieve direct tunnels faster. Some routers let you limit UPnP to be usable by specific LAN IPs but not by everything on your LAN, which is nice.- bp2008
- Post #28
- Forum: General BI Talk
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Tail Scale VPN
Tailscale also can require a port to be forwarded for best performance/reliability. Although usually it does this by itself via UPnP (if the router owner did not turn that off) or through UDP "hole punching" through your NAT (and the ISP's NAT if you have CGNAT). But with some kinds of NATs...- bp2008
- Post #25
- Forum: General BI Talk
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Dahua SD49225T-HN PTZ repair log
When I've had to repair these connectors in the past, I used an RJ45 keystone jack available at most hardware stores. Seems a lot easier than soldering. Of course the connector is not as easy to weatherproof after that. The SD49225T-HN had/has lots of reliability problems in my experience... -
Amcrest Blue Iris 5 on eBay
That will work for Blue Iris 6. The title and picture are just out of date. The transition to Blue Iris 6 is seamless as far as licensing goes. You get to install any version released before the end of your "maintenance plan," and for a new license the maintenance plan ends 1 year after... -
Blue Iris in a VM.
Passthrough slightly improves efficiency. There is less overhead for read and write operations, which results in theoretically higher speed. And also if you need to move the disk to another machine it will just work. Whereas if you use a virtual disk it will not be readable in another machine... -
Blue Iris in a VM.
I can confirm in Proxmox passing through any physical disks does appear to prevent taking normal snapshots of the VM even if the VM's boot disk is a normal virtual disk. Supposedly you may still be able to snapshot the virtual boot disk via command line but I have not confirmed that. If you... -
Trouble accessing BI when on public or other wi-fi (using tailscale)
Since you have tailscale you should be using the tailscale address to connect to Blue Iris, and then when it doesn't work from some location it is almost certainly because Tailscale is unable to establish a tunnel for some reason. -
Trouble accessing BI when on public or other wi-fi (using tailscale)
Uncheck Bind Exclusively. That is probably your entire problem. It makes it so Blue Iris will only accept connections coming in to the address you have selected in the LAN box. I'm honestly not sure what the "Remote, external" WAN address field is for. You can ignore it. Also to help...