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  1. TheWaterbug

    Can I move Alerts from C: to V: without losing data?

    I have BI storing everything on my giant V:\ drive except for db (about 4 GB) and Alerts (quota-ed at 80 GB), which I have on C:\, my comparatively tiny SSD boot drive. It's getting full, and BI is having to prune my Alerts, which also contain the .dat files for LPR. Can I move the contents of...
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    View More Log by Default?

    When I open the Blue Iris log from the local console, it display the log entries since the last BI restart. I have it set to log and store the last 30 days, which it dutifully does in a text file. If I click Open File, then it opens the saved log in NotePad, which is not as useful as the...
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    Dwarf Cavendish Banana Fruiting Time Lapse, 06/26/26 - 03/02/26

    This is the second crop ever from this Dwarf Cavendish banana plant in my back yard. The first crop, a few years ago, was damaged by the stalk folding under the weight of the fruit, because I'd supported it incorrectly, and the bananas never fully ripened. This time I have a much better...
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    Hit and Run in front of my parents' house

    Driver hit a parked car (empty at 3:46 in the wee hours), then limped away with significant damage to their car. Highest resolution version for submission to LE: and my typical 2-up for funsies:
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    How Many Cameras Do You Actively Manage?

    I'll leave it to the viewer to decide what constitutes "active" and "manage." I manage 3 different BI sites (home, work, and my parents' house), and in total there are 65 cameras. I think that's a little nuts, but I'm already planning for several more, because more is better, right?
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    Wood-like Enclosure for LPR Camera?

    In addition to the three eyeball cameras that I have mounted to my mailbox post, I'm also considering trying a pair of my $35 Vigilant cameras for LPR. Given their ginormous size, I'd like to hide them in this tree, perhaps where I've put this red cylinder, but recessed even more than that...
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    Blue Iris on 85" TCL TV!

    I put a big TV in our office conference room. 85" is pretty big! That's my new BeeCam running behind me, but I wanted to get Blue Iris on it, so I installed the BrowseHere app through the Google app store, and here we are! Navigating a browser through a D-Pad is incredibly frustrating...
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    Finally Got A Useful LPR Capture!

    This jerk backed his Lexus into my office neighbor's Camry: and then parked 30' away in the same lot for a few hours!! Later they drove away, and I caught a plate! Does that look like an E or an F? I don't have any other captures of plates ending with 259, so this is the first time we've...
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    Pickleball/Tennis "Line Judge" CPAI?

    I was wondering whether this would be possible with low-cost IP cameras and BI, and I found this project from 2014: https://github.com/andreynech/linejudge That was done with Intel Edison boards and their associated camera modules. Cameras and compute have come so far since then, so it seems...
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    Mounting Hik DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 sideways against fence?

    I am replacing my ancient RLC-423 as my streaming BeeCam: with a DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3: But how to mount it against a fence, outdoors? I think I actually want to mount it sideways, against the face of the fence, like this: because it will be quite close to at least one of my hives, and I...
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    Get Web Client to Solo Doorbell Cam on Button Push?

    I have two Reolink POE Doorbell cameras set up and working in BlueIris, and I'm receiving ONVIF events on button presses: I also have a RaspberryPi-based BI viewer that has no user controls, e.g. the touchscreen is disconnected, so that it just displays both doorbell cameras, full-screen, all...
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    Does CPAI do anything if not specifically configured on a camera?

    I'm having a weird experience with CPAI. In all my previous history I'd been just triggering on motion detection, and my Alerts had been "When this camera is triggered," on all my cameras. I had attempted fiddling with CPAI on my Home BI box perhaps a year ago, or perhaps it was DeepStack...
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    Replace POE Cable Assembly on IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2?

    I done fumbled. I had deployed an IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2 AndyCam for LPR purposes, on my office neighbor's balcony, but this was a "temporary" installation, to be fixed RSN. I had the POE cable going into the camera's POE jack without the cable gland, and it was sitting on the balcony floor. Then it...
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    My New Roof, in 2 Minutes!

    Camera: Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI, 5 MP (2960 × 1668) First 1/2 of video recorded continuously in Blue Iris 5.9.9.14, then decimated to 1 frame per minute and re-encoded to 30 fps in ffmpeg. Second 1/2 of video recorded 1 frame per minute through cron/curl "$IPAddress/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi" and...
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    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    I currently have a single internal HDD inside my Optiplex as the V:\ drive, e.g. for Video, so BI stores everything at V:\BlueIris\New\, V:\BlueIris\Stored\, etc. I just bought a 4-bay Synology DS423 and set up a Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) volume with three 8 TB spinners to give me 16 TB of...
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    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    Has anyone opened up one of these and figured out which diode needs to be bypassed to bring 12 V out on the barrel jack when the camera is powered over POE, e.g. so that we can power an external illuminator from the camera? Here's what I did with the older, cheaper, IP5M-B1186EW-28MM:
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    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    I want to mount two IP5M-T1277EW-AI units at my parents house, under the eaves where there is a reasonably-protected AC socket, but where running Ethernet is not feasible. Whilst looking for Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters, someone pointed me towards the $90 Nexuslink GPL-2000PoE that provides...
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    Road Rage Dumba$$

    The intersection at the top of the frame has only ONE left turn lane from 223rd to Western Ave. The BMW attempts a jet sweep around the SUV, but gets pushed out of bounds: 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
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    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I have a Blue Iris server box behind a port forward (port 81 only) from my pfsense 2.60 appliance, on a "things" subnet of my segmented network, along with my IP cameras, smart TVs, etc. All cameras have DHCP reservations: One camera in particular, TrailDown (MAC 9c:8e:cd:2a:5f:4c, reserved...
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    Corrupt Files induce 90+% BI CPU Usage?

    I had an interesting problem over the last 2 weeks. BI was consuming 90+ CPU any time I was viewing in Chrome, and playback was poor. Scrubbing resulted in 100% CPU and timeouts. I RDPed into the box, and was reporting similar usage, whether or not the BI console was running. So I disabled...
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    Corrupted Files Induce 90+% BI CPU Usage?

    I had an interesting problem over the last 2 weeks. BI was consuming 90+ CPU any time I was viewing in Chrome, and playback was poor. I RDPed into the box, and was reporting similar usage, whether or not the BI console was running. So I disabled every single camera from the console, and the BI...
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    Disk Full/Over-Allocated after power failure

    BI 5.9.48/x64. OS and db on an internal SSD. New stored to 8500 GB of a 4-disk, 9.08 TB external Storage Space/JBOD over USB with daily compact/reindex: Normally this works fine, and my storage is nearly "full" (as reported by BI) with a buffer of ~400 GB of real empty disk space (as...
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    5.9.4.0 Triggers Webroot Malware Alert for NGROK.EXE

    I just installed 5.9.4.0 on two of my BI servers, and my security software, WebRoot, immediately flagged NGROK.EXE at %temp%\pft7d4b.tmp\ as W32.Malware.Gen. I immediateliy rolled back to 5.9.3.4 and scanned both machines, to be safe. Is this a false positive? Does a perfectly safe NGROK.EXE...
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    Planting Corn Time-Lapse for 2024:

    77 days until fresh corn!
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    Non-admin login to IP5M-B1186EW-28MM: "Authority:check failure"

    I have an Amcrest IP5M-B1186EW-28MM staring at my garden, and I have a computer calling cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi every 10 minutes: crontab -l */10 * * * * cd /usr/local/bin && ./AmcrestSnapshot.sh 192.168.1.54 ~/CornLapse/ cat AmcrestSnapshot.sh #!/bin/bash IPAddress=$1 OutPath=$2 cd...
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    It can't possibly be the coupler . . . .

    One of my POE trail cameras went offline, two days ago. As I was thinking of all the possible points of failure, I mentally ruled out the "waterproof" coupler that I have in the middle of the long run, where I changed my mind on camera wiring 2 years ago. Well, after 3 hours of troubleshooting...
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    Reolink RLC-423 Doesn't Like Bogus Gateway for Scripts

    This is interesting. I've been running this as my live BeeCam for years, including a custom "rotator" script I wrote based on this thread from IPCamTalk. The script starts with a curl request to login and request a token: ReolinkToken=`curl -s GET...
  28. TheWaterbug

    BI Computer, POE Switch, and Router at Remote Location?

    I own a rental triplex, and I'm thinking of installing some security cameras and a small computer to run BI. I will get AC power and a separate ISP account for all of this, but I won't have a separate indoor space to house the equipment. So I'm thinking about hanging some sort of outdoor...
  29. TheWaterbug

    Enough Lens/Camera for LPR?

    My neighborhood has a single entrance/exit that every car must pass through, so it's a natural place for an LPR camera. The HOA has been dragging its feet for years, but the new owner of the house closest to the intersection is game to work with me on this. She has a big tree that might be a...
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    Dummy RJ45 Sockets/IP Camera Pigtails?

    I'm trying to prep a property so that the new resident can install cameras without any networking knowledge or tools. I've run Cat5e to 4 different outdoor camera sites, and I want to terminate them with RJ45 plugs and the corresponding cable glands, so they can just buy a camera and plug it in...
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