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Blue iris dvr free download5/12/2024 ![]() After literally 2 long days of trying, I've come to the conclusion that it is not possible with XProtect. Even with Blue Iris, it was a small task to get my cameras tuned to catch motion that I am interested in and not tree shadows etc. This means a lot of shadows during sunlit hours. ![]() All of my cameras are outdoors, and I have significant tree coverage over a good portion of the property. With Blue Iris, I do motion detection on the server, because it has a much better feature-set for tweaking and tuning than my cameras have (I have 5 IPC-HDW4431 of 2 variants. So, at this point, I'm looking at one camera in Cliffhanger mode (looks like people are walking up a cliff), and one camera that can no longer do face detection because it's using the wrong driver for no apparent reason, but I decide to move on to motion detection. ![]() This is not possible in XProtect unless the camera can rotate the image pre-stream (some can). In Blue Iris, I simply rotate the image, and I get a correctly oriented view of the camera. It's located in an area where my best coverage comes from using a wide angle camera and rotating the physical camera 90degrees. The next, problem that I ran in to was when I wanted to rotate the image for one of my cameras. Blue Iris identified all of my cameras correctly and assigned the appropriate driver to expose full functionality. Next to none of those exist for XProtect. There are probably thousands of pages of documentation, but it's mostly either generic "this is what this feature does," or, the all too common in the commercial world, marketing embedded "this is how XProtect can integrate with insert-corporate-system-here." Blue Iris' official documentation is significantly better, and well beyond that, the web is full of helpful user content that walks through problem solutions, setups, and modifications of about any type you're likely to run in to. I fought with the wrong driver issue for an hour or better, during which I came to the realization that documentation for XProtect was sparse where it counted. It found all 5 cameras, but it assigned a different, and less capable, driver to one of them. It's a home system, so they are all on the same subnet/vlan as my DVR server. I installed it once and let it find all of my cameras automatically. It's free for up to 8 cameras, and I made the common false assumption that, being a commercial package, it would be "better." ![]() I have already tried five or six packages back in January 2014, that is when I found Blue Iris, I am ready to try again.I recently decided to give the free version of XProtect a shot. It would be great to hear from someone who has solved this problem and has found a really functional DVR live viewer software package. The Manufacturer’s software is PSS or Smart PSS viewer and it just does not work. So I would really like a live viewer as in my Night Owl viewer that would show the sixteen analogue cameras that could run on my DVR, ten of sixteen channels presently installed with four IP cameras on my LAN. I have Blue Iris and it is excellent software and allows me to look at my DVR analogue cameras and IP cameras at the same time but with fourteen cameras running Blue iris takes a lot of juice to run. I am looking for software I can try first, that would be a live viewer that can communicate with my DVR but not an IP viewer. My DVR is a 16 channel EyeOnet 5216AH (Duah I think) and I really like its recording and setup features BUT the live viewer software is really bad.
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