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    Soliciting Suggestions For A Better Or Simpler Surveillance Network Design

    You should keep the double NIC on Blue Iris and make sure the NIC with no gateway is the IPcam VLAN. That way your Dahaua cameras will not have access to your network or the internet In Unifi when you enable VLANs, you must have a default VLAN 1 that will be untagged. This can not be changed...
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    Soliciting Suggestions For A Better Or Simpler Surveillance Network Design

    I appreciate the comments thus far. I'd love some more opinions. I'm leaning towards implementing VLANs with appropriate firewall rules in the router. Is this what most security conscious ipcamtalk members do with their cameras, as opposed to trying a double NIC NVR as in my first diagram?
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    Soliciting Suggestions For A Better Or Simpler Surveillance Network Design

    But in my original diagram I couldn't access my Ubiquiti Switch on the different subnet using the cloud key. Having the original UniFi Network application on the BI computer solved that problem. Since I upgraded from the network application to the UniFi OS Server software however, I can no...
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    Soliciting Suggestions For A Better Or Simpler Surveillance Network Design

    I've been reading about using VLANs instead of my Blue Iris double NIC solution. I've never setup VLANs, but I think I understand it and could do it. I need to use both of my current switches because of the number of ports required in my home. Both of my switches are considered "smart"...
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    Soliciting Suggestions For A Better Or Simpler Surveillance Network Design

    I didn't actually setup any VLANs in the switches. I just set a static IP of 192.168.2.X for one Blue Iris NIC and 192.168.3.X for the second NIC. My cloud key could only see the WAPs that were on the 2.x subnet. That's why I installed the Network software on the Blue Iris computer. That...
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    Soliciting Suggestions For A Better Or Simpler Surveillance Network Design

    I set up a home network with multiple Dahua cameras many years ago. At the time it was emphasized that I shouldn't allow my cameras to have internet access. I've drawn a diagram of what I created. It required two POE switches and a dedicated Blue Iris computer with two ethernet connections...
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    Blue Iris Updates - Official Thread

    I'd like to upgrade to BI6 from BI5. I have a current support plan. I checked my apps section in Windows 10. It lists BI4 and BI5 as both being installed. Is this the process I should follow? 1. Install latest BI download from website. 2. Uninstall BI5 and uninstall BI4 Do I need to do...
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    CPU and OS Recommendations

    Is there a setting in BI where you choose the stream to view? Do you have to make some setting changes in the camera web interface? And am I correct, that the HDD will still record the main stream?
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    CPU and OS Recommendations

    Both computers do nothing but sit in closets and run BI. I don't remember the specifics now, but I'm pretty sure my motherboards are missing something needed for Windows 11. Off topic, but I don't really understand sub-streams and probably do not have my Dahua cameras taking advantage of them...
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    Better Camera Recommendations?

    I built my entire surveillance systems at two separate locations using the Dahua IPC-T5442T-ZE camera from EmpireTec Andy. Except for one instance of bricking a camera during a firmware update, they have been great cameras. I've never used anything but Dahua, but I don't really have a definite...
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    CPU and OS Recommendations

    I'm not building new surveillance computers yet, but I like to plan ahead. I currently have two Blue Iris installations recording 24/7, running 9 and 10 cameras each. Both of them work fine. Both computers have Windows 10. The 7 year old CPU is an Intel i7-8700K. The 5 year old CPU is an...
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    Dahua DH-DB6I Video Doorbell Has Lost Chime?

    I ultimately went through a fairly painful process of obtaining a new replacement ChimeKit under warranty. Dahua was no help and said I'd have to go through the seller I bought the video doorbell from. That seller was B&H Photo Video. After multiple back and forth emails, they insisted that I...
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    Dahua DH-DB6I Video Doorbell Has Lost Chime?

    Bump. Is the ChimeKit needed for all chimes or just a mechanical chime?
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    Dahua DH-DB6I Video Doorbell Has Lost Chime?

    I think I've narrowed the problem down to a failed "ChimeKit". Hard reset didn't help. When I remove the doorbell completely and just short the two wires from the transformer, the mechanical chime dings normally. When the doorbell is hooked up, it rings my phone and is providing a normal...
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    Dahua DH-DB6I Video Doorbell Has Lost Chime?

    DMSS app still shows the mechanical chime option selected. I guess I'll have to remove the Dahua and power kit for chime in order to just test the mechanical chime with a normal doorbell button.
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