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!

[@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!

[@MatSmithLondon]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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...

[@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

[@martyb3783]

Thanks!

[@sartoaj]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@kensko]

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

[@AIONizandoCR]

Finally got my first Blue Iris server working with DeepStack GPU, thanks to your excellent course, thank you!

[@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!

[@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!

[@bertmonkey8457]

Thanks AGAIN for the great video. I have been running Blue Iris for 6 months and it works great... Now I need to spend the time to get the most from DeepStack... Love your work!

[@hunterlovvorn5587]

Got my blue iris license just last night. Perfect timing! Thank you for this wonderful video

[@ssss-df5qz]

Great video - got myself an optiplex i7 6700k, 2Tb WD purple and blue iris, all connected over a Netgear ProSafe 8 switch :) Very happy.

[@Nar1117]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@RicardoMaranhaoMD]

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

[@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.)

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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?

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@wakieboy8]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@filippusdahlin6403]

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

[@patraff1280]

Rob, I keep recommending your videos to my tech friends. Gotta say though - you look like a criminal in your camera footage tests. Keep up the good work and honesty.

[@mlutteral]

I would have never been able to configure my -just received- annke cameras and blue iris without this video. Thank you so much. I just used your affiliate link to buy the licence for BlueIris. Greetings from Montreal

[@TheHookUp]

Glad it was helpful Martin, Cheers!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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?

[@austinfromaustin320]

I did the project. So glad I did. Wired up 9 cameras :)

[@TheHookUp]

Nice!

[@elesjuan]

Holy crap. I'm new to using BI for a DVR after trying like 7 or 8 different products over the last several years, all of which are pure crap.. I decided to settle for BI. Somehow, this video appeared in my recommended list on youtube the day before I was to install BI and setup my cams. Did I say... holy crap! Deepstack client integrated with BI, along with deepstack even existing... This stuff is a game changer!!! Thanks for the very detailed guide on how to set this up. Was really straight forward and appears to be working like a champ! I do need to tune on the deepstack settings a bit... sometimes it thinks the mailbox at the end of my driveway is a person lol.

[@TheHookUp]

I agree, blue iris is super high value compared to all other NVR solutions.

[@elesjuan]

@@TheHookUp After playing with this for about a day, I do have two questions: 1. Could you do a video on adding MQTT posts to notify HA of motion events? I tried to set some up and somehow that stopped deepstack from identifying objects in the video streams, interestingly. 2. Do you have any idea if something like Signal messenger could be integrated into BI for notifications? That'd be really useful!

[@Jannick-mp7bf]

Great video! Just bought a dedicated NVR windows machine today and already got object detection working and integrated to MQTT. Without your help this wouldn’t be possible. Really nice!!

[@TheHookUp]

Nice! Hope it works well for you, definitely fun to tinker with too.

[@BobBostwick1]

Thank you sir! I'm upgrading my BI instance today. Awesome timing!

[@ianjohnson3546]

Great detailed walk through video! I would love to see an 'update' to this with a N100 mini PC (@2:55) that supports hardware encoding and decoding h.265 HEVC and an update on the software (@11:37) to see how those new features are working out.

[@TheHookUp]

Are you thinking just from a power consumption standpoint? With something like the N100 you'd also need to use a CoralTPU to do the computer vision stuff, and at that point it's quite a bit more expensive than using an older gen6 and a cheap video card.

[@ianjohnson3546]

@@TheHookUp Thanks for the speedy reply! I wasn't aware that I'd need the CoralTPU, that's a good point. A little bit power - where I live electricity is extremely expensive but noise too, my preferred placement is in a bedroom and I'd prefer to buy new with warranty & support.

[@ruinedeco3526]

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

[@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 ?

[@wartlme]

I am using a B450 elite mother board. 32 Gigs of DDR 4, Ryzen 2700. RTX 1070. 240 Gig SSD and a 1 TB spinning rust drive. Just old computer parts i had laying around. Works well. I like it, running windows 10 connected to a 55", 4k tv. Not a bad setup.

[@sdfhjklhsfdjdsflhkds]

Thanks Rob! I've been waiting for this one.

[@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.

[@FreshfrogmarketingUk]

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

[@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

[@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

[@karilehtimaki5455]

Thanks for all the valuable and relevant information here. Just set up my own BI+DS here following these instructions.

[@efglassart]

Hey Rob, after struggling for close to a year with BI, AITools, DeepStack, etc... I followed your instructions here to the letter and it works perfectly. On one camera (I have six RLC-410-5M's) I had to enable "Zones and Hotspots" so I could define a detection zone and mask off the street in front of my house - it worked perfectly!! Now - please teach us how to send a different message to home assistant for each type of detection! Person, or car and truck, etc. That way I can have Home Assistant use Google to tell me "there's a person walking in your driveway" or "A vehicle is coming down your driveway". I'm using the Blue Iris HACS addon, but no idea how to achieve this.

[@TheHookUp]

That part is easy, just define multiple MQTT alerts for the camera and use different AI objects (person, truck) and the different payloads (person, truck).

[@efglassart]

@@TheHookUp So as long as use the same name (person, truck) as the payload (person, truck) it will work? And to do multiple, I can use two (or more) payloads and separate by a comma, no space? I'm NOT a frequent MQTT user, I'm still fairly new at all this. Thanks!!

[@TheHookUp]

​@@efglassart Sure, in home assistant you'd set it up as an MQTT sensor, then the value of that sensor will be the payload. Here's how I did it in my last video that you can use as a jumping off point: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKjSoKGiaq9-ndE

[@efglassart]

@@TheHookUp I'm sorry. I need just a bit of hand holding here - some of these things are just beyond me right now (I'm learning!) So I'd set up, under the Alerts Tab, Action button, a Configure MQTT Request. I'd do the MQTT topic (BlueIris/&CAM/Status) and the Post/Payload: ({ "type": "&TYPE", "trigger": "ON" }) the same, but I'd change "Required AI objects" to ONLY the one I want. Then I'd do another Configure MQTT Request exactly the same, just with a different "Required AI object(s)"?

[@caffeinatedfunctionality]

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

[@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.

[@mattcero1]

Phenomanally great video guy. Thanks for making and sharing this!

[@Bobtb]

And another superb video! Thanks for this high quality content!

[@MrLentomannen3]

Thanks, I now feel much more safe trying out my settings.

[@dablet]

this is crazy good. thank you!

[@mattbrumelow9303]

Thank you so much. Your videos are a huge help setting up my smart home.

[@25B5VF7]

Rob, your background as an Educator clearly shows in your presentation and I do appreciate all the hard work you're doing to make it easier for the rest of us! I am having a real problem with the implementation of this and hope that you can lead me back onto the right path. Scrupulously following your directions, my DeepStack completely fails. Once the camera detects motion, the very next log entry is "DeepStack: Not running or unreachable", followed by "DeepStack has been restarted". This results in alerting and capturing EVERYTHING. Is there a forum you'd recommend or other off-line channel that I could seek help at? Cheers, keep up the good work, and "Bravo!" on the excellent videos!!

[@TheHookUp]

If you still have active blue iris sport I’d recommend that, they’ve probably seen way more issues than me. Otherwise you can join until the hook up face book group (link in the description) and see if anyone can help you out there.

[@vfast007]

Great video and I've referenced it many time. Thanks for compiling.

[@joerodriguez8938]

I have really appreciated you videos they are very well composed and very well delivered. Today, 10-19-2024 is Your Blue Iris Codeproject working like it did with deepstack. I have just about given up. Issues started about Dec 2023 when we upgraded to the latest version of Codeproject. I stopped getting animal alerts and triggers. When I tried the solutions I got from BI. I would get triggers but there would not be a subject(person, car) in the video the jpg would show the subject. Again thanks for your great work. I just wanted to know if you were having issues.

[@sailingwithmikey]

Awesome video mate, thanks very much - helped me loads, as a noob, in getting it all set up

[@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!

[@EMPELZIP]

Great video on BI! Would love a video on BI remote/mobile access that goes deep into the mobile and browser app and into available options for setting up a remote connection (pf, vpn, ngrok, etc.) It seems to be the only information missing about BI on youtube :)

[@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.

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

Very tempted to try this on my sister's Blue Iris setup.

[@by4249]

Question Please: At minute 12:03~ you mention BI does not work with reolink ro???? it is too fast to pick up on the camera name. I'm considering BI but all my cameras are Reolink. Please give me the camera name.

[@TheHookUp]

Those issues are fixed, see this video: Reolink and Blue Iris Updates: Fixed RTSP, ONVIF, FPS, and iFrame! kzbin.info/www/bejne/maavoXelYrmJgZo

[@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!

[@deekid30]

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

[@zf4120]

Great video! Though I came to learn about AI, it tipped me off to the fact that my cameras weren't configured right. By specifying the exact brand, BI picked up the correct substream and dropped my cpu usage from 30-40% to 5%-15%.

[@EricHicks]

Great video, and funny enough today is the the expiration of my BI subscription so it's a good thing I logged into the server so now I can renew.

[@plutinicus]

Amazing review and insights. Learnt tons. Thank you so much.

[@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.

[@willg4625]

Thank you! I've been waiting for this video! 😃

[@Errr717]

13:45 Axis cameras used to required a separate ONVIF users. That didn't make sense cause we ended up creating the same user accounts as the native camera protocol users.

[@EsotericArctos]

I thought I would write this as a new comment instead of the old one as this is something I found during more recent testing, and also I missed some silly things. Firstly: Pre-trigger buffer only currently works when the "When Triggered" option is selected according to the Blue Iris Manual. This is likely why it didn't appear to work when Continuous + Alerts was selected. Secondly: The issues with Reolink are because the iFrame is dynamic on Reolink. The Keyframe can drop down to 0.1 sometimes at night. The Keyframe is critical when recording as Blue Iris only starts the MainStream recording at a keyframe point. That is why it takes a second to switch from sub to main, and why Reolinks take longer to switch. Thridly: Blue Iris does not use direct to disc recording in Evaluation mode. This will skew the results of the Celeron a little. I totally forgot that when I made my last comment. Just some additional stuff I found in more recent testing and this likely wont change so the Reolinks will always be problematic in that regard. I wouldn't recommend people to use Reolink with Blue Iris. Reolink is great with it's own NVR that can handle things, but not great with NVR's that use keyframe as a reference point for recording, such as Blue Iris

[@TheHookUp]

Hey Brendan, I did plenty of testing on the Celeron not in evaluation mode (switching my license from one computer to another). Same issues either way, so that wasn't the issue. I'm VERY skeptical of the reolink argument. I've seen it time and time again, but the truth is that if you set a hikvision or dahua to the same interval it will perform just fine (other than taking a split second longer to switch from sub to main). I believe the issue with the Reolink RLC810A is two fold: 1) The main stream is h265 and sub is h264 which causes issues for the way BI processes the feeds. 2) I believe reolink's h265 codec doesn't conform completely to the standard and as a result there are some failed attempts to decode it. Sometimes this results in BI switching to software decoding, other times it just stops the stream completely. I agree that the RLC810A isn't the best choice for blue iris right now (and I've updated the descriptions of all of my videos to reflect that), but their sub 8mp cameras are still great and I've had no problems using them with BI for years now.

[@EsotericArctos]

@@TheHookUp The Blue Iris Manual does have very specific recommendations when using Direct to Disc and iFrame rate. I actually did notice that even my Dahua was slower switching when I had the keyframe lower. Have you tried having the Substream and Main at different keyframes on the Hikvision or Dahua? That is one thing I didn't do . I set both the same, so I haven't checked if they are different. Also, I have found multiple reports that if the stream is H265 on main and H264 on sub it causes issues. Unfortunately we can't select this on the Reolinks. I did have HUGE argument with Fenderman on IPCAMTALK regarding the iFrame issue and he deleted it because he couldn't answer why iFrame was classed as the biggest issue. I personally do not believe iFrame is the biggest issue with Reolink compatibility Edit: I found the issue with CPU pegging on detection. It was directly related to the Reolink using H264 on sub and H265 on main. I removed the Reolink 4K and replaced wit ha Dahua and the pegging vanished.

[@TheHookUp]

Again, I find the argument to be counterproductive. The morons at ipcamtalk are constantly regurgitating that issue over and over again because fenderman said it once, but a little bit of testing shows that it isn't the root of the problem. I have a Lorex camera (dahua OEM) that I'm testing right now that has locked (at .5 main, .25 sub) and it has none of the issues that the Reolink presents with. Yes, the feed switching is lower (which makes sense since it can only switch at an ), but it's not the root of the problem, and the longer we keep insisting that it is the longer it will take to find and fix the real issue.

[@TheHookUp]

Also, sorry for calling you Brandon before, lol.

[@EsotericArctos]

@@TheHookUp All good. On a Blue Iris note. With the Continuous plus Alert recording, how did you find that with it dumping everything just in one recorded file and just switching resolution for the alert period? I am having a few issues where if I delete the alert from the Alert tab, then it deletes the pointer in the file also, sometimes even restarting the recording as a new file.

[@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?

[@marcusasteborg7762]

Following this great guide, it's amazing. Reolink has added support to change I frame interval in their latest update for 820A.

[@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. 😉

[@DrewY213]

Great video! I set some of this up yesterday should have waited a day I guess lol. I've turned back on object detection because I have trees and shadows. The cars parked in my driveway were getting triggered as confirmed even with Detect/ignore static objects turned on. Seems the shadows moving over the cars is enough to trick DeepStack/BI that it's a moving object. While I know I could remove car from the confirm list that would mean I wouldn't know if someone else pulls their car into my driveway. Another annoying thing I have the schools parking lot in line of site of my camera because it's the angle I need to capture all the sidewalk in front of the house. While that lot is masked out for motion detection, DeepStack still scans that area of the image and correctly reports cars. Is there a way to mask the image that's sent to DeepStack like you had done for your neighbors car in your previous video? Any thoughts or suggestions on ways to do it better Rob?

[@mattmo91]

Also wondering about this. Without being able to mask out certain areas, it's pretty useless for my cameras that see the street. I only want alerts when people or cars come onto my property, not every time they go by.

[@remmahadepoopI]

Hey Drew, I'm curious if you found solutions to the shadows and tress movement issues without removing them?

[@remmahadepoopI]

@@mattmo91 any luck finding a solution?

[@DrewY213]

@@remmahadepoopI It's gotten better with updates. Rarely during the day does a parked car set off an alert. However at night if headlights sweep across a parked vehicle, in the driveway, deepstack sees that as the vehicle being in motion. There's probably a way to train it but I haven't taken the time to play with that. Too many projects to work on 😆

[@larryseibold4287]

What is the password entered at 9:27 on the popup from the selection of "Run as a Windows Service" for the Blue Iris user? Leaving it blank does not work.

[@TheHookUp]

Windows password.

[@larryseibold4287]

@@TheHookUp Yep, that was the one. the problem was that as far as i know, there was no windows password set (blank) for the "Blue Iris" user, so nothing would work. I was unfortunately using Windows Home (not Pro) for some annoying MS/install reason. I ended up resting the password in an elevated power shell, which worked for BI as a service, and then i rebooted and upgraded windows to Pro and then was able to remove the log in password requirement again. Oddly, I had to re-enter the BI license number after the windows upgrade, but now it seems stable. DeepStack is working great so far. I wonder if there is an option to detect boxes at the front door? Excellent video by the way. thank you for posting it.

[@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

[@tekjoey]

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

[@joerodriguez8938]

I converted 3 Hikvision Cameras to Reolink Smart Cameras 2 RLC-410A and I RLC 510AW. They all started working as advertized through your instruction on Blue Iris V% and Deepstack. I stopped getting false motion detection. But Yesterday, My RLC-410A for the front door stopped recording Deepstack. The BI Log Shows Cam 1 Motion Deepstack: Alert cancelled (noting found). The strange issue is I had to adjust the camera so I got up on a ladder to adjust the camera and there is a recording in Blue Iris but nothing in the log from Deepstack. I check the other cameras setup on Deepstack and they show Deepstack: Person 68%. I left a Hikvision Dome camera that is not Smart (Person capture) capable. I going to reinstall it on Blue Iris and deep stack to see that happens. Thanks for all your Help. Joe

[@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

[@RickJamesBish]

I know this video is dated but used it to set up deepstack with BI. I do not have the options show in the video for "When Triggered" nor the Artificial Intelligence Button. Deep stack shows it is running and have it selected. There is an AI dashboard link in the global settings under AI right above "stop now" but it opens a webpage that just has links to forum.

[@TheHookUp]

Updated version with codeproject here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKLGYqihp9CAo6s but the AI stuff has been moved to the Alerts tab.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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?

[@jessetorres9426]

Thanks for this - your series is always helpful. 2 questions - At 17:50, you say to "select the new continuous and triggered" but you show "continuous and alerted" selected. Which do you recommend? Also, I'm not seeing any images being added to the alerts folder. At 17:54 you do not have JPEGS check and my dropdown below that does not allow me to select the alerts folder. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

[@jessetorres9426]

Figured out the JPEGS issue - look at 16:31 and set "Add to alerts list" to "Hi-res JPG files"

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@h.r.2062]

Basically you recommend Blue Iris and not Synology Surveillance station. A comparison would be great. I am about to watch all you videos. Thank you a lot for sharing your expertise to the world. Best wishes from Germany

[@TheHookUp]

Comparison coming soon. My biggest problem with Synology SS is that it's a pretty limited program with a huge upfront cost (not only the cost of the NAS, but then $55 per camera license).