BI won't start after latest update!

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Dec 10, 2025
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After updating my BI instance to 6.0.0.1 (I believe,) Blue Iris is no longer launching, and I can't set up my infrastructure. I already tried restarting the service, or anything basic. Please help!Screenshot_20251210_211259.png
 
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Do you have the user and password set correctly for the service, it must be a local account with administrator privileges? Is this on Windows 11, are you using a Microsoft PIN to login to your PC if so then that is possibly your problem! What do you mean by your infrastructure, are you referring to your cameras ???
 
The Blue Iris service is correctly configures with a local administrator account, and was working fine before the update. By infrastructure I mean I am unable to use my server infrastructure that relies on BI.

Thanks!
 
Did you reconfigure the new BI service with the user and password, it needs to be setup again after the upgrade to BI 6, the old service for BI 5 would have been removed; sorry for the possibly redundant questions!
 
Did you reconfigure the new BI service with the user and password, it needs to be setup again after the upgrade to BI 6, the old service for BI 5 would have been removed; sorry for the possibly redundant questions!
I'm not sure how I can do that without access to BI, apart from what I've done in services.msc. I set the account password again and even tried with the local system account. Starting the service directly gives the Error 1053, the same as what I have shared a screenshot of before. Thanks!
 
I'm not sure how I can do that without access to BI, apart from what I've done in services.msc. I set the account password again and even tried with the local system account. Starting the service directly gives the Error 1053, the same as what I have shared a screenshot of before. Thanks!
If you are familiar with the registry, just go here and change the value to 0 . Then stop the blueiris service. Then start BI without using it as a service. I would then retry to select it to run as a service and it will prompt you for the credentials. If it does not accept, then you got the wrong password.

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What error do you get when you launch Blueiris.exe (e.g. from the shortcut on your desktop)?

Did you do a fresh install to get BI 6?

Did 6.0.0.0 work? If 6.0.0.0 worked, you should be able to download the update file for it which I shared a few posts up from here, run that, and then you'll have 6.0.0.0 again. You can try to update again later.

What you're supposed to do when Blue Iris is crashing is open Event Viewer, find the Blueiris.exe error logs, and share then with Blue Iris support.

It also should not hurt to install the latest visual c++ redistributable for your system architecture (probably X64) from here although if you did the BI 6 full installation, that would have already come with it.
 
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What error do you get when you launch Blueiris.exe (e.g. from the shortcut on your desktop)?

Did you do a fresh install to get BI 6?

Did 6.0.0.0 work? If 6.0.0.0 worked, you should be able to download the update file for it which I shared a few posts up from here, run that, and then you'll have 6.0.0.0 again. You can try to update again later.

What you're supposed to do when Blue Iris is crashing is open Event Viewer, find the Blueiris.exe error logs, and share then with Blue Iris support.

It also should not hurt to install the latest visual c++ redistributable for your system architecture (probably X64) from here although if you did the BI 6 full installation, that would have already come with it.
Downgrading it worked for me, thanks a lot for the link and the help!