Blue Iris + Deepstack BUILT IN! Full Walk Through - Go from beginner to expert in one video.

[@metarichard]

Videos like this are why your channel is one of the best on KZbin! You move so fast it never gets boring and when I am going through the steps I just stop and start as needed, keep it up Rob you are killing it!

[@martyb3783]

I just commissioned my Blue Iris NVR with 6 cameras. I plan on adding 8 more. I had to buy a new PC for the added horsepower requirements but it works very VERY well. I could not have done it without your videos. You are very well spoken, to the point and make things easy to understand. VERY well done!

[@timpmcfadden]

These recommendations are really great. I was missing a lot of alerts with the out of the box setup and these seem to fix it. One thing I would add. Under Alerts, Notifications, Push Notification. Change from Alert Image to 10-second GIF. This will give you a quick video in the notifications instead of having to open the app every time.

[@TonyYoung808]

I didn't even know this was there. Flipped it on! Cheers!

[@SFrioux]

I found your earlier video from a year ago about using AITool, and just got it all setup last week. I saw the settings in the newest Blue Iris software for Deepstack, but wanting to get a working solution, I ignored those until I could get around to playing with it. I'm glad to see you rethought this with the newest Blue Iris software and can't wait to change my config over to what you suggested here. Stellar job!! Keep up the great work!

[@sartoaj]

Blue Iris should be paying you for this video. Its above and beyond any of their tutorials.

[@ChuckClaunch]

I know it's not much but I've been a subscriber for a while and love your videos. I've run Blue Iris for years and recently redid it with a different machine, your guide here was way better than the way I had it previously set up and it works awesome now! Six cameras and less than 10% CPU with full up object detection is awesome! Thanks!

[@TheHookUp]

Love to hear that Chuck, glad you are back up and running!

[@kensko]

Can't believe you're not getting more views. Thank you for your content!

[@carltonwbrooks]

Just set up BI yesterday based on your last video. Now I think that I will just start from scratch since there seems to be a lot of changes. Thanks

[@babylonfive]

You are really good at this. I don't have any cameras or motion systems, and don't have a need for one, yet I watched the whole thing. Great work.

[@TheHookUp]

Haha, thanks David.

[@RicardoMaranhaoMD]

Perfect! Can't wait for the face analysis with deepstack ai in blue iris!! :)

[@stevez182]

Again perfect timing Rob! Two Reolinks RLC-820A are arriving today and will be installed during the weekend. Thankfully I haven't purchased Blue Iris yet so I will make sure I will use the affiliate link. Thanks again for another extremely useful video. This will save several hours of my time and a lot of frustration as a new Blue Iris user.

[@memogles5763]

You’ll be frustrated, just google what Iframe interval means, Reolink doesn’t have I-frames support so you’ll miss a lot of motion events with blueiris.. :(

[@stevez182]

@@memogles5763 wow thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of that. This is why Rob added a separate article for Reolink cameras setup? Any 4k alternative to be used with Blue Iris?

[@memogles5763]

@@stevez182 stick with hikvision or dahua, you NEED Interval settings to be able to record motion without missing a single event, otherwise no matter what you do, deepstack won’t work correctly.

[@stevez182]

@@memogles5763 I was afraid that you will mention those two. Unfortunately both are not widely available in the UK (especially dahua). An option will be Ankke which is somehow related to hikvision but I am not sure if it has similar issues

[@plumros]

For Reolink DUO 2 poe 4k turn off "Send RTSP keep-alives" or you'll get tons of cut outs with no signal error.

[@filippusdahlin6403]

Thank you Rob! Setting this up was on my todo list, you’ve made it so much easier now!

[@mosth8ed]

Just an FYI, I have been running BlueIris in a docker container on Unraid for about a month now without a single issue. Just got a Jetson Nano, and am running Deepstack on it currently, which is what lead me here. I can definitely vouch for the docker container working well on my setup. (Unraid box is R5 2600, 32gb ram, I have blueiris saving to the array to save on writes to the cache and have had no problems with it.)

[@JohnKiniston]

Great video! I just removed all the old deepstack docker containers from your previous video on the topic, updated my HD cameras, and deleted my SD cameras and everything is working great.

[@MatSmithLondon]

The vid I've been waiting for! Look forward to watching this later

[@FreshfrogmarketingUk]

Awesome video. Never played with any of this software before, but I followed along, and have everything working perfectly. Thank you.

[@ruinedeco3526]

This video finally made me feel confident I can do this all myself 😂

[@RelentlessHomesteading]

Like drinking from a firehose -- lots of information. Saved that for when I start setting it up. Kinda doing a restart on all this - 18 months ago was setting up security cams on blue Iris on an older i7 (1st gen) PC (converted to a Xeon). Then Covid came - and we were off doing other stuff and now just coming back to this project. Will get at least a 6th gen i7 though before continuing as I'll have at least 10-12 cameras to cover our acreage here. Thanks for the wonderful tips on this - I subscribed and will be checking out your other videos.

[@ilyavolodin7414]

I used your older video to setup up my Blue Iris instance (which was great, thanks!), and I could never really figure out why you were using software motion detection. Any ONVIF compatible camera will have motion detection on camera chip and ONVIF will report it to Blue Iris. As long as you turn on "Camera's digital input or motion alarm" on the "Trigger" tab of the camera config, BI will be notified when camera detects motion and can trigger AI or MQTT events, or whatever else you want. Biggest advantage of doing that is that since motion is detected on the camera itself, BI doesn't need to decode the stream at all, and can write it to the disk directly (as long as you don't do overlays). Which means you can run it on any type of processor, even if it doesn't have hardware decoding. For example, I'm running 4 2k cameras with 2 substreams each on a very very old 2-nd generation I7. My CPU usage is at 2%, unless I'm actually watching a clip (constant recording on 480p substream and NodeRed triggered recording on 2k substream).

[@TheHookUp]

I've been successful in making this work for about half the cameras I've tested. Dahua ONVIF motion works great, everything else is hit and miss.

[@ilyavolodin7414]

@@TheHookUp Interesting. All my cameras are Reolink and all of them seems to be working fine. I've only tried it on a Reolink and Wyze cameras with custom firmware. So maybe others have issues with ONVIF implementation?

[@nyasha1530]

Great video, got it setup on the weekend and the detections are working great. Now to integrate the detections with MQTT and Home Assistant

[@SkillshineMatt]

Hey Rob, great video, but I am stuck on confirming what option you chose on the Record tab for the individual camera settings, you mention to set as "Continuous + Triggered" but in the video it shows you have selected "Continuous + Alerts". Can you clarify what option you are using ?

[@mejgj]

Helping the others users: 6th Generation; Skylake 7th Generation; Kaby Lake 8th Generation, released 2017 to 2019; Coffee Lake 9th Generation, released 2018 to 2019; Coffee Lake Refresh 10th Generation, released 2019 to 2020; Comet Lake 11th Generation, released 2020 to 2021; Rocket Lake 12th Generation, TBA; Alder Lake

[@caffeinatedfunctionality]

Crap, going to have to make time for this today! Thanks man looking forward to this one.

[@ryansmith2418]

I just followed along with this and you have gotten me further in 30 min than I have on my own in a month. Thanks!

[@adamfritzsche]

I know this was a while ago, but to clarify, at 22:53 you said to use "Continuous +Triggered" but show Continuous + Alerts. Which one is it supposed to be and what is the difference?

[@HarryPritchett]

Love all your videos. I’ve watch a ton of them and am way more educated on security cameras and setting up my new blue iris system as I write this. Just wanted to mention here that the links to the 7040 optiplex go to the i5 version which only includes a 180W PSU and can’t run a GTX 1650 LP video card without also buying a $20-$40 240W PSU. If using the small form factor version, the GPU can only fit in the 4x PCIe slot. Also the sata power splitter link is wrong. Needs to be specificallly a 6 pin power to sata connectors. All that being said, if size isn’t a huge concern. The 7040 mini tower with the i7, 512 NVMe, 2 TB HDD + GTX 1650 ends up being a slightly better computer for the price. TL;DR update your links a bit so the new folks can avoid returns like myself. Keep up the great videos!

[@TayschrennSedai]

7:07 if you have large files, note that uploading to a NAS can impact the system and streaming if using the same NIC; for this reason a USB drive would be a good solution, or a more advanced option is to install a 2nd Network card and dedicate a subnet to one on your NAS (much easier to setup 2nd IPs on a NAS these days). Again, external large HDDs are the better route for most people - and they're relatively inexpensive (often less expensive than buying the same size/type HDD that is inside them)

[@TheHookUp]

I've recently started experimenting with dual NIC in my blue iris machine. I'm using it to be able to put all my cameras on their own VLAN with nothing else but the 2nd blue iris NIC on that VLAN.

[@GearshiftsandGrins]

Thank you for posting this!

[@ChuckClaunch]

Great tutorial! I'll pass on that DeepStack has documentation for running it via Docker on a Jetson Nano. You can then point Blue Iris at that. Works great so far for me! 300-400ms response times. Not bad for a little $100 SBC.

[@TheHookUp]

I've been pretty disappointed in my Nano, not only was the performance increase not as much as just adding a cheap graphics card, but I've had to do a lot of troubleshooting as to it going into "low power mode". I've used 5 different power supplies and after 2-3 days it always complains it's not getting enough wattage and goes into low power mode.

[@ChuckClaunch]

I had shelved mine for the same reason but got it out again recently and the power issues seem to be resolved with the most recent jetpack release.

[@cal3751]

Reolink posted a firmware (yes, their second try) for the RLC-8X0A on Aug 24. It claims to support settings of 1 second. Rob, if you think this is significant, would you please update either this video or your web page instructions for the Reolink kludge? Much appreciated!

[@black87c4]

reolink cameras are just not worth the hassle, everything has worked so much better after I dumped them. Amcrest is still affordable and work so much better now.

[@CK-rg2ku]

Wow. 0.06 $/KWh. You guys are lucky in the US. In Germany this is 0.30 $/KWh...

[@jpmiguel]

They have nuclear reactors we have wind mills and gas from Russia that has a huge cost. We are paying 0.20 $/KWh in Portugal. France has similar prices then the US. They kept there nuclear reactors also.

[@markwhitlock2427]

It's probably more. There are other fixed costs that are added on to the bill. Some areas have demand billing such as Arizona. This accounts for everyone turning on their air conditioning in the afternoon in the summer.

[@thenextgen1able]

He is far off with his estimate. The average in the US is around $0.11/kWh, Florida is roughly $0.13/kWh. Not sure why he used a straw man argument of 6 cents, $30 a year still isn't a lot to run 24/7 security cameras with AI.

[@thenextgen1able]

That's just for the PC though, add in cameras and it's probably around 50-100 a year depending on cameras..Still not bad.

[@mustang8258]

One of the things I do not miss about Germany. Houses are much cheaper though!

[@bokenrosie]

Thanks Rob. Awesome video. Now I have to think about upgrading my i7 computer to something newer because I really want DeepStack to work better.

[@wakieboy8]

Thanks for this video, super helpful. Would love to see a video on your BlueIris / Home Assistant / Node RED integration!

[@gasconader1150]

At 5:47 you talk about CPU or GPU setup in Blue Iris. Wouldn't it be better to use GPU to take some of the load off the CPU? If the GPU in the Dell Optiplex isn't sufficient to handle the load, which GPU would you recommend?

[@MeTaMaNvR]

Hey dude.. sorry to trouble you.. this AI ordeal - I'm confused a bit, you've got deepstack and now there is something called CodeProject ? What are you views on the latter? Is it better? To be honest, I use blue iris with a zone just to get alerted if someone approaches my house. But the trouble is, I get lots of false alerts, lights, cars, animals etc can trigger, so was thinking of implementing AI to limit false flags.. I was looking for a tutorial and found your videos, but now BI keeps referring to CodeProject in it's software update.. so was wondering what are your thoughts man ? Thanks for the great content too!

[@iandowwright]

Thanks Rob! I'm not sure which one of the many settings I just changed fixed it but my five RLC-810A's and my EZVIZ DB1 are now all recording flawlessly in Blue Iris on the Windows VM on my unRAID server.

[@TheHookUp]

Glad to hear it, cheers!

[@Luuuu793]

Could you maybe post your current settings? I still have Problems with the reolink

[@TheHookUp]

@@Luuuu793 have you tried this setup? www.thesmarthomehookup.com/alternate-blue-iris-deepstack-configuration-for-reolink-rlc-810-compatibility/

[@Luuuu793]

@@TheHookUp No, not yet. Thanks not for the link. I did not know that there is a template for alternative settings :O I hope that Reolink will soon fix the problem with the I-frame interval. But I read today in a forum that the feature was already requested in 2016, which does not give me much hope :(

[@TheHookUp]

@@Luuuu793 I think the problem is something other than the iFrame. To me it seems like a non-conforming H265 codec. If I change my other cameras to have the same iFrame as the reolink they do not experience the same issues.

[@joelzhl]

Great video! I follow the original video a year ago but gave up on Deepstack because the i5-7400/AI-Tool setup can only process an image every 800-1000ms. When several cameras are active, the CPU jumps to 100% and the stock cooler transforms into a jet engine. Now that Blue Iris and Deepstack both updated their software, I've managed to get the GPU version running on my 1070. The processing time came down to 20-35ms and the GPU utilization is less than 1% even when processing several cameras per second.

[@TheHookUp]

Sounds like a win to me!

[@Joseph-ko2kl]

Rob I know this is a year old but just curious do you feel the Deepstack integration has improved over the last year and while easier does it do as good of a job as when you were using AI-Tool (which I still am) Thanks

[@antronx7]

In Florida with FPL we pay 12 - 13 cents per kWh with fees and taxes included. But that's still only $30 per year for AcePC.

[@javagyn1]

Congratulations, excellent video. I would like some help, I built the whole system with 40 cameras using DeepStack and it is working very well. I'm using a 16GB Xeon E5-2680 V2 server, which is handling 80-90% CPU and processing around 1200 ms of the images. But I want to improve more, would you know how to tell me if I put a QUADRO T400 video card to process on the GPU I will free my processor and get better results? Do you have any experience with GPU processing?

[@adisaksukul8088]

Great content as usual. Thank you!

[@jeremytodd1]

I have a few RLC-410-5MP cameras, so hopefully it'll work with this. But man. I was not excited to see this video in my activity feed. I followed your previous Blue Iris / Deepstack video when it released and my instance has been working great. This new video means I'll want to basically start over new so there goes my Saturday afternoon lol.

[@TheHookUp]

Haha, I mean, if it's working great, why change?

[@jeremytodd1]

@@TheHookUp You think the techie in me is going to let me just keep it the way it is? Not a chance lol

[@memogles5763]

This won’t work with blue iris because those cameras won’t support I-frames and because of that they miss a lot of motion events.

[@AlexManMe]

would love a Frigate tutorial😀

[@deekid30]

Do you have a video on what POE cameras and POE Switch you recommend to use with the Blue Iris+ Deepstack?

[@tekjoey]

Absolutely Fantastic. Now I just need a money for all of this 😅

[@caparker1974]

Just to confirm. In the video from about a year ago you set up a lower quality stream and high quality streams as separate cameras in order to record lower quality 24x7 and high quality for alerts..... in this video in looks like you just used the sub stream parameters. True?

[@TheHookUp]

Yep, a lot has changed in a year!

[@GregUzelac]

Great info. Wonderful presentation.

[@michaelpoczynek]

Thank you. I will be buying Blue Iris through your link. New to the channel and subbed. Any suggestions for the best quality video camera? I am looking at the Axis Communications P3248-LV 4K UHD Network Dome Camera with Night Vision. Looking for the best quality video. Cheers! 😀

[@TheHookUp]

The AXIS 3248LVE is a great camera. It is in my review here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4KsdX6ffsp7e5o

[@michaelpoczynek]

@@TheHookUpThank you for your help and all the excellent videos. Have a nice day!

[@kreaweb-be]

Superb video. But at 22:54 you say "Continuous + Triggered" but select "Continuous + Alerts". Which one do you mean?

[@kreaweb-be]

I figured it out. "Continuous + Alerts" is the option you need.

[@dragoonadept]

I'm in central Florida and average about $0.12/KWh.

[@ericpowelson1991]

Hey Rob, great video as always, as this project is now going to consume my entire weekend. Question, is there a way that a successful deep stack analysis can trigger an Alexa alert? e.g. Deepstack identifies a vehicle coming up the driveway and Alexa announces “A vehicle is approaching.” Or someone cutting through our property announces, “A person is in the backyard”. (Although I’ll admit, a late night false positive could be frightening!)

[@TheHookUp]

Absolutely. Alexa media player can handle that easily (via home assistant). Without home assistant I'm not sure it's possible.

[@ericpowelson1991]

@@TheHookUp HOME ASSISTANT! (Sorry wrong channel) Well, looks like my next project is Home Assistant. My wife will be so excited...said no guy, ever.

[@ericpowelson1991]

Also, I’d love to see an in depth video on this. 😉

[@mogman888]

At 17:50 you recommend to select the brand new option to record continuous+triggered but show continuous+alerts selected in the video...I don't understand the difference between the two and I also wasn't sure which you were truly suggesting we set ours to...I love all the content, keep up the great work

[@diceman3616]

With the latest Blue Iris release and reolink 820a (dome version of 810a) you don't need to do the alternate setup. I just set my pretrigger for 10 seconds and it switches to the 4k stream about 5 seconds before the trigger. I have my main stream at 25fps, substream at 15fps.

[@TheHookUp]

Holy cow, just fired it up to test and you are right. Ken is an absolute wizard. I'm going to let it run for a day or so, then I'll update the video description and post.

[@cw-gp7jy]

@@TheHookUp Just an update that this method seems to work well for the Reolink if you wanted to update the description :)

[@tedc6694]

Does this mean that reolink should not be thought of as having issues with blue iris and deepstack anymore? Or are there other issues? Or issues with other 4k cameras like 810a is fine but 811a pumpkin?

[@light-master]

What's the best way to take an AI triggered alert and send a HA notification to a phone with either the Alerts folder image or the little preview that UI3 uses? I've got it so BlueIris is sending MQTT messages and HA with Node-RED can send a notification to a phone with the companion app, just not sure about the image or animated preview part.

[@daviddemaree2988]

Are you familiar with google coral? I just learned about it, but I wonder if it would be useful to deepstack ai? If a $60 usb device would significantly improve performance it seems like something that should be explored.

[@rankinstudio]

I had the same issues with the pre trigger buffer not working. I fixed it on every camera I have by unchecking "Combine or cut.." and checking "Cut video when triggered". Great video

[@callofgeorge]

i love tutorials like this, but hate when the software company constantly changes the AI.. "analyze image with deepstack isn't an option anymore.. recently had someone run up to my front door with a shirt over their head. it didn't trigger motion/ai and no alert image captured in the alerts folder.. what gives? i left the confidence at 50% as there wasn't anything to analyze, 5 real-time images, changed analyze one each from 1sec to 500ms. lowered motion settings to 200 obj size, 20 min contrast, and min duration .3 sec (make time).. guess i'll see how that works..

[@robhurley5258]

Thanks for your great videos. I have 5 Reolink 811A cameras running to 5 ports on my Netgear switch. I then run an Ethernet cable about 150 ft to my Internet and then to the NVR. I can view all 5 cams through my Reolink software but can only view one camera through BI. Is this a limitation because I combine them through the switch to the NVR? Thanks!

[@PatrickGuerrisi]

I'm still running a third gen i5-3570k lol It's been great running BI 4 or about 3 years But recently for some reason when I run BI it slows my system to an unusable state I've reinstalled BI5 and it's running ok with one camera If it had the same performance issues after installing the remaining 4 cameras I have I might have to get a better CPU

[@zalllon]

Sorry for not subscribing earlier, this has so much content and information it that it takes off takes a while for me to unpack… I’m barely text savvy when it comes to this type of stuff.

[@S.C.A.M.B.E.R.]

OMG you just explain my problem with pre-triggering. Please do an update

[@TheHookUp]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKLGYqihp9CAo6s

[@S.C.A.M.B.E.R.]

@@TheHookUp Did you change or modify anything in Camera setting > Video > Image format > Size ? I set mine same or at least close to the main stream resolution because when I export the recording it only report the reslution of sub stream.

[@S.C.A.M.B.E.R.]

@@TheHookUp Also have you heard Icsee security cameras? They are cheap and useful but very undocumented settings and configuration.

[@bigdaddy7741]

Finally, I was able to get AI working in BI. Been weeks trying. You are truly an asset to the BI community. Great job and thank you...

[@Py7hon]

Just wanted to say thank you for this! Was honestly thinking about going the Ubiquity route until watching your video last month. Love the results from BI + DeepStack!

[@ChrisRider]

Very cool. I followed along and now have Deepstack set up on my system. I bought the same Dell system - I'm using Amcrest cameras, but what you have done seems to be working out pretty good. Now, wondering if Deepstack can support Google Tensors? I have one I bought for use with Frigate, but have not set up yet. Investigating...

[@remmahadepoopI]

Hey Chris, curious about your experiences with Frigate, and if you found out if Deepstack supports Tensors?

[@mitju7]

Hey Rob, I love your channel and I'm finally getting around to building my home network to the way i want it. I have just found a second hand USW POE switch gen2 so I'm about to build a unifi network and do away with my Netgear setup. Next investment will be the dream machine to control it all but I'm wondering which one to get as I'm also keen to set up a computer with Blue Iris and a Plex server. I'm wondering if you could weigh in on the best option between unifi protect vs Blue Iris? I also have 2 Dahua cameras (waiting to install) and I'm leaning towards getting the Hikvision Gen2 IP Intercom for my front door.

[@soubhikkhan6239]

i'm wondering if we can run the deepstack on a docker container and use the IP port on blue iris since blue Iris windows gpu download link is not working any more!

[@jonasdktube]

Amazing tutorial. Much inspiration has been implemented both with Ubiquiti and now Blue Iris /AI! Thanks so much! What if I want to get my alerts on Telegram? Is there a simple setup? I see I can use AI Tool by VorlonCD, but I really want to keep the CPU and power consumption in the low end, so wondering if any know of a simple but effective solution. I'm still new to Blue Iris, but maybe a web request action in an alert could do the trick?

[@keithmycek2768]

This is SO AWESOME. Tight integration of DeepStack in Blue Iris is amazing, and you did a great job explaining how to set it up. Since it took me so long to get my stuff together, I enjoyed your previous setup with AI Tool for about one week before setting this up... LOL!

[@ivanfermon5865]

Great video. Thanks for this. Question, what format for the files? bvr or mp4?

[@hockeyrog]

In the record tab, you SAY select the Continuous + Triggered, but show Continous + Alerts on the video. Which do you mean for us to select?

[@Ach7ven]

waiting on this answer too. Every time I use Continuous + Triggered, it switches from 640p to 4k when I walk in front of my camera, but never switches back to 640p. However, when I use Continuous + Alerts, it never switches from 640p to 4k.

[@Levian05]

It's Continuous + alert. If you check older comments, he answered that question

[@lsco13]

Anybody watching this should be aware moving clips from New to Stored on the same drive is just a wasteful use of IO bandwidth. Just skip Stored altogether, increase the size of New to max. If you move files use another drive for storage.

[@vPeteWalker]

Rob, wow. This is exactly what I need for my upcoming camera install. I cannot wait to get everything in, and set up... so I can step through this video! Wow!

[@Nathan0A]

beware blueiris is not stable software

[@joshuahaney1135]

Could I run blue iris on a Dell Optiplex 3050 3050m micro desktop intel core i3 3.4ghz 8gb RAM 500gb hdd?

[@scottparcel1221]

Thanks for your great videos! You are really lucky to have power at $.06/Kwh. My rates are more like $0.26 / Kwh, so if the dell runs at 75 watts actual usage, vs 20 watts for the Reolink RLN16-410 NVR (not including poe power draw) that is about $120 more per year for a Blue Iris system. Being that I don't know if I will feel the need for Blue Iris (vs Reolink), I could buy a Reolink NVR, and in a couple years it would pay for itself in power savings. I could then buy a Blue Iris system if I concluded I really want that without loosing money.

[@drdez]

I would not go with a reolink DVR. The reason being is I purchased my reolink DVR less than 2 years ago and they are no longer supporting it and or providing updates to it. I cannot even use the AI detection they have on the newer systems. My advice is to stay away with reolink dvr's and build a separate system. This will allow you to pick and choose which cameras without being tied to reolink. Plus blue iris is always adding new features and functionality. So while the electric cost might be cheaper you will be paying in the long run when you have to keep updating your equipment because its no longer supported.

[@webfitness1172]

I have a son that has tonic clonic seizures every day (stiffening and shaking). We would like to put cameras around the home and on his bed when he sleeps. Ideally, we would like to be alerted from a camera system when he is having a seizure. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[@Nar1117]

This is amazing! I am so glad they added native support for DeepStack! Awesome update rob!

[@KinCony]

great video

[@BennProbett]

Great video so easy to follow, wish I watched this prior to setting up all my camera's would have saved so much time!

[@tomshea9404]

Hi Rob, absolutely love your videos, have been binging them for a while. In your setup here you mention a 2TB HDD, In previous videos you’ve said 2 x 4TB, happy with different setups etc but would you normally recommend multiple HDD in a RAID config or not as you delete most footage?

[@200501012]

Omg. Yes Rob. Just ordered cameras and blue iris. Your timing is perfect! No offence to other channels but you do the best setup walk-throughs.

[@flyingwhiteindian]

What cameras did you choose?

[@MichaelMantion]

Great videos. he could use a few self deprecating jokes or random dog cameos

[@200501012]

@@flyingwhiteindian I went with reolink cameras. They seem to be a fair price for quality.

[@jahanson]

Heyyy! Newest firmware v3.0.0.494 for Reolink 810A lets you set the iFrame Interval to 1 finally! Hurray!

[@darrenbare9348]

Do a video on how to forward the alert images to your phone via text

[@adlerhut4397]

Do you know if recordings can now be configured to record the primary stream when using the "continuous + alerts" option? I did see you posted a work around reference guide: RLC-810A Friendly Alternate Configuration -- but before I dive in i'm wondering if this issue was fixed/changed. Mine appears to still be recording only substreams on alerts. Thanks!

[@tgschaef]

Perfect update! Your previous video got me going and Blue Iris’ AI update was awesome. My greatest automation is when there is camera motion in the garage (pre AI for speed), Home Assistant tells the Shelly to turn on my garage lights until there is no motion +5 minutes.

[@christopher79]

Ha. This is exactly what I want to do.

[@tgschaef]

@@christopher79 it’s never been easier. Which is an odd statement. “It’s much easier than it used to be!” That’s much better! 🤪 Honestly, it’s not terribly difficult. I also have triggers for porch lights based on detecting only dogs or people (depending on what I expect or don’t want to be there). The AI has helped to keep my house from being a disco show all night due to triggers by bugs and bats.

[@allenxd]

Hey man thanks for all the quality content! you're awesome. just a question though have you encountered a problem in reolink cameras where it is like showing in a wrong aspect ratio in blue iris? ( kinda like when the center option is clicked in reolink gui) Just readded all my cameras and now they are all showing in a square like aspect ratio unlike before. Thanks!

[@XC797]

Great. Video, is there anything you can provide or refer the complete beginner to because I’ve noticed that this is out of my wheel house and a bit too technical to understand .

[@McCuneWindandSolar]

I'm not worried about power usage. I right now have 13 cams running 2 are 8mp, 1 is a reolink, and the other is a Lorex, 5 reo link running in 5mp, and the rest 2mp. All have sub stream set up. my system is a Intel Core I5 2500k with 10gb fiber card. 32 gigs of ram with cpu running about 32 % Unless I go watch a clip then cpu jumps up to 90 for a bit then back down to about 45 50% IF I have deep stack running I'm running 100% for almost 70% of the time. Witch is not good because it locks up and causes crashes. So I had to disable to Deep Stack for now. Until I can build a new system that can handle 32 cameras Deep Stack, and anything else I wish to though at it. This software is power full for what they offer for such a very very low price. I just wish they make a linux version to make it even more powerful like the stand a lone systems. Windows really sucks for this kind of thing. But it dose work. My FreeNas system is a super micro mother board with 48gigs of ram dual 8core 16 tread CPU's 60tb hard drive space. With 20 TB iscsi for Blue iris to dump clips over to the nas for longer storage. I can store up to 2 years of footage. I have been thinking of doing the same build but instead of HBA cards. have as many GPU's in stalled. If I wanted I could put 4 GPUs in my freenas server. I'm not worried about power consumption, as I want a power full system. .

[@optometristic]

Great video! It encouraged me to upgrade my old BI4 to a new BI5-installation with DS. It all works amazing except for one usecase: Toddlers running on our driveway. Seems like running adults are a bit tricky to catch as well but not as tricky as kids. I have a 4K Hikvision running in 10 fps. Do you think an increase to 25 fps could improve the toddler detection in DS? Or do you have any other idea on how to improve classification of fast moving objects?

[@AviDarks]

Thank you for the video - Is it possible to ignore the trees?

[@cyber0077]

6ct/kwh 😂😂 You lucky ones! In Germany they rip off more than 30 ct/kwh!!!!

[@jennifernelson9763]

My head hurts. How about a video for non video-lingo-nerds? Crap i need an aspirin now. Couldn’t make it through the whole thing sorry.

[@gyulanagy5910]

Hi, Which model do you use for deepstack? I've just installed and set to the cameras as you suggested but its detection seems useless. It detetcts nearly every kind of things as person, like gas heater wall outlet, oil barrel, tree leaves. I hope there's a useful model. Thanks.

[@mak4374]

Question: I have a house in Greece where I go for the summer. I am planning on getting two solar powered wifi cameras which will be connected to my year-around internet. To record and view the footage, do I have to have the computer in Greece, or can I have it in the U.S. and remotely control the cameras there?

[@moitrapratik]

Good One!

[@numbnut5]

At 17:52 you say "continuous and when triggered" but then leave "continuous + alerts" checked. I'm guessing alerts is the correct option but can you comment on that please.

[@jankoch]

6 cent per kwh is just ridiculous. we pay like 45 cents in 2023 in germany...

[@sparkybearbomb533]

Thanks for the video, you’ve converted me from wanting unifi to blue iris Can you import non-onvif cameras? I.e rstp only streams?

[@TheHookUp]

Yep

[@Dobemandan]

Any idea how to make the camera thumbnails on the blue Iris app look better? They look super low res compared to the ring app. Thx.