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    A good, free mail server to send BI notifications from?

    I use google and Yahoo email. Over the years I've set up BI to alert me via email on Yahoo and Gmail but occasionally both email services seems to 'forget' that I've turned on the "use less secure apps". It works for while then I start getting the message indicating Gmail has stopped a sign-in...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    I think my plan will be to use the middle Hikvision camera as a "zone trigger" of sorts to trigger the other two cameras to move position & record the zone that was triggered on my middle camera. My thinking is that if someone comes from the sidewalk into my front yard or driveway that they...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    I think my biggest challenge will be to set up 3 zones on my middle camera, left, middle area, and right without false triggers. The trick (during daytime profile) will be to not trigger on the tree shade shadows so I imagine a lot of tweaking will be needed for that. The night profile should...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    Thanks Wittaj, I've always known about cloning but never found a practical use for them until you described your scenario above, so many thanks for that. I will definitely look into cloning but couldn't I just set, say 2-3 zones up (on my middle of the house fixed Hikvision) and when something...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    I wouldn't actually consider a fisheye for this, but that is probably what I was confusing my original post with. I'm not actually using a digital zoom on the 4mm I have, it's just fixed at no zoom. I've not done anything with cloning cameras yet but I'm not quite following what you are saying...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    I believe I was confusing what I'm looking for with a fisheye type camera with dewarping capability. I just saw a Hikvision video demo of one where you can "zoom" into the part of the video for a closeup of something. I guess I was thinking I saw this on a standard fixed turret camera with a...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    It's not really auto tracking I'm after... I want a turret that has a larger FOV, like 2.8mm camera, maybe 6-8MP. If the camera triggers then the resolution would be good enough to zoom into the video without sacrificing quality so I could better see details of the triggered event. I'm sure...
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    Hik? or Dahua 4MP turret, wide field of view with some type of e-zoom?

    I was mindlessly searching for different outdoor cameras a few months ago and thought I remembered seeing a Dahua or Hikvision (fixed) turret camera that had a wide FOV that 'zoomed' in on movement triggers. I don't recall the details and I'm sure there is a term for this type of technology and...
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    triggered clips no longer showing on clip list in BI android app

    I think I spoke too soon thinking turning on the "this camer is triggered" would work, it didn't. I still have clips being recorded on those cameras but they still aren't showing up in the triggered clips list on my phone. when I click on the blank space (where the clips should be) it just shows...
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    triggered clips no longer showing on clip list in BI android app

    Yes, the increment box is ticked on all cameras, but, I just noticed that the cameras that don't show triggered clips have the "fire when" set to "Never". The cameras that have triggered clips have that setting set to "this camera is triggered". I remember doing this a couple weeks ago because...
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    triggered clips no longer showing on clip list in BI android app

    Lately, 7 of my 15 cameras, are not showing triggered clips in my BI android app like they used to. I can launch UI3 (or the BI console) on my Windows pc and there are indeed triggered clips there for those cameras. What would cause me not to be able to see the triggered on the right?
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    UI3 blank screen on play clip - related to my Nvidia GEForce GT1030 card?

    Ahh, I think I got it all sorted now. Thanks for your help BP2008
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    UI3 blank screen on play clip - related to my Nvidia GEForce GT1030 card?

    I was able to download the driver file, launch it, and copy the driver folder to another location (for safekeeping). I then used device manager and successfully updated the drivers from that folder. Now my driver version is 20.0.15.1179 with a 02/10/2022 driver date. I'll report back if the...
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    UI3 blank screen on play clip - related to my Nvidia GEForce GT1030 card?

    I did another pass on the Nvidia website. Only downloads I see related to my GT1030 is a 511mb download, which must be another control panel and current drivers, I'm guessing. Wonder if I can extract just the drivers from that and use that small piece or if it will cause any problems to install...
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    UI3 blank screen on play clip - related to my Nvidia GEForce GT1030 card?

    I was kind of hoping someone would say that :) After I rebuilt I checked the ver of Nvidia installed with Windows 11 against Nvidia's current site and the version of the control panel was the same. My current Nvidia drivers show v. 27.21.14.5671 with a date of 09/30/2020 I didn't see an obvious...
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    UI3 blank screen on play clip - related to my Nvidia GEForce GT1030 card?

    I have a fresh 2 week build of Windows 11, i7-4730 machine with a fresh install of BI (registry restore) and an Nvidia GT1030 card. When I built this box I expected to install Nvidia driver/software but Windows 11 included the Nvidia control panel (v 8.1.962.) All in all everything worked great...
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    Trigger configuration per PTZ preset possible?

    Thanks for the detailed response
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    Trigger configuration per PTZ preset possible?

    A question occurred to me while I was adjusting a PTZ preset. If you choose a ptz preset in the BI console and go to trigger tab, then configure. You will see the Active zone map below with something like "\PTZ\Presets\8" (in my case for this particular preset). Does that mean that whatever I...
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    Blue Iris - locally remote in - best practice or preferred method

    Windows 11 remote desktop connection here. It works exceedingly well, fast, no lag and so darn simple. I even have it set up for external use with a free ddns from google (with my domain sub) and open a port on my router remotely when I am out of town and want to use it. Then I close the port...
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    Should I deactivate BI for a computer wipe/rebuild?

    Well I have to rebuild this pc due to issues with it running (my fault) but I have my other PC's up on Windows 11 and like a few of the features in Win 11 for my other apps and use. Thanks.
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    Should I deactivate BI for a computer wipe/rebuild?

    Need to wipe a computer and re-build with Windows 11. Should I deactivate BI first then export my BI reg file? Then after installing a new copy of Blue Iris, import the registry file and activate my license (all in that order), or does it matter?
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    BI android app not updating all camera triggered clips

    Will I then uninstall the android app/re-install? It looks like I'll have to do the phone deletion when I'm home at the end of the week unless I can find a way to do it via UI3.
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    BI android app not updating all camera triggered clips

    I tried uninstalling the BI android app and reinstalling it but it seems to have kept the login info, etc., so I force stopped it, cleared memory/cache, uninstalled it, then re-installed it but, again, the login info was already populated. How can I uninstall this app completely with all of the...
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    BI android app not updating all camera triggered clips

    Admittedly I was playing around a bit with some settings related to BI push notifications to my android phone last week. Now, for some of my cameras on the BI android app, the clips are not updating with current trigger clips and some cameras are. If I view the camera clips on BI console or...
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    Blue Iris registry file contain all camera settings?

    Guess I'll ask Ken.
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    Blue Iris registry file contain all camera settings?

    I recently had to do a system restore on my Blue Iris workstation so I exported the registry file from BI to a safe location. I also normally export each camera to it's own registry file and 90% of my 15 cameras had recent exports, only 2 didn't. When I finished with the system restore I...
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    Unique name when adding a camera error

    OK, I know I've had this problem before and 'fixed' it but for the life of me I can't remember the fix... I used to have a Cam36 camera in BI (Short name) I deleted it because I wasn't using it anymore but exported the reg for the camera for the day I would use it again. Today I reconnected the...
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    Blue Iris webinars, are they gone?

    I've been out of the loop for about 3 months but can't find any new(er) webinars they did on Fridays. Are they still doing them anymore? Thanks
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    Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

    Still, regardless of the time, your work is appreciated and I'm sure you have a life outside of this.
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    Solution for portable power (battery) for small camera

    Wondering if anyone here has attempted some type solution to power a small camera with some type of external/portable power source (ie: portable USB battery). I have an owl box that I'd like to put into a tree where there is no power but within close range to my outdoor access point. The camera...
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