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frontpage Posted by dymutaos • Dec 1, 2024
frontpage Posted by dymutaos • Dec 1, 2024

Amcrest Blue Iris Professional Surveillance Software (V5, Windows Download)

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Amcrest has their Amcrest Blue Iris Professional Surveillance Software (Version 5, Windows Download) for $54.99 - $8.25 w/ coupon code BFDEALS2024 = $46.74.

Thanks to community member dymutaos for finding this deal.

Note: Compatible with Windows OS only. You will be sent a license key in your order receipt and the download link to the software.

Features:
  • Use motion or audio sensing to trigger recording, or record continuously or periodically.
  • Overlay the current date/time as well as a logo or other information
  • Optionally record audio
  • Use a timer to determine when the system is armed
  • Images may be captured as either JPEG images, MPEG movies or Windows Media movies (full version)
  • Receive alerts via loudspeaker, email, instant message, voice phone call (with automatic redial), or external program/script
  • Run Blue Iris as a Windows service so that only you have control over its operation on a shared PC
  • All passwords are stored encrypted
  • 64 channel recording
  • H.265/H.264 video compression
  • Receive alerts via e-mail, text message, or phone
  • Motion and audio triggered recording
  • Audio recording options available
  • Built-in web-server for web-casting all cameras simultaneously, digital zoom and pan/tilt
  • All passwords are stored encrypted

Editor's Notes

Written by johnny_miller | Staff
  • Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars based on over 180 customer reviews.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Written by dymutaos
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Amcrest has their Amcrest Blue Iris Professional Surveillance Software (Version 5, Windows Download) for $54.99 - $8.25 w/ coupon code BFDEALS2024 = $46.74.

Thanks to community member dymutaos for finding this deal.

Note: Compatible with Windows OS only. You will be sent a license key in your order receipt and the download link to the software.

Features:
  • Use motion or audio sensing to trigger recording, or record continuously or periodically.
  • Overlay the current date/time as well as a logo or other information
  • Optionally record audio
  • Use a timer to determine when the system is armed
  • Images may be captured as either JPEG images, MPEG movies or Windows Media movies (full version)
  • Receive alerts via loudspeaker, email, instant message, voice phone call (with automatic redial), or external program/script
  • Run Blue Iris as a Windows service so that only you have control over its operation on a shared PC
  • All passwords are stored encrypted
  • 64 channel recording
  • H.265/H.264 video compression
  • Receive alerts via e-mail, text message, or phone
  • Motion and audio triggered recording
  • Audio recording options available
  • Built-in web-server for web-casting all cameras simultaneously, digital zoom and pan/tilt
  • All passwords are stored encrypted

Editor's Notes

Written by johnny_miller | Staff
  • Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars based on over 180 customer reviews.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

Original Post

Written by dymutaos

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Left Blue Iris for Scrypted six months ago and holy smokes do I not miss the abysmal mess of a program that is Blue Iris.
I hadn't heard of Scrypted before. I'm just beginning my setup of blue iris in a proxmox vm. What makes you like scrypted instead?

Looking it up, it seems that scrypted costs $10/year/camera. That's more than it's worth for me, if I want to have several cameras locally. I'll plan to store recordings on a local nas, as I'd prefer to avoid recurring subscription fees when possible.
Tell me more.

I have 8 4k (wide angled/double lens) cameras locally, which is like having 16 feeds with a dedicated PC that is only consuming 37 watts recording them all to WD purples.

The remote viewing is horrible and my FPS is only 3-5, so whenever I want to see something in 4k, I have to go into my server closet and fire up the monitors in there.

Are you running scrypted on a dedicated PC? How is that AI? False detections? I have a bunch of trees and in the summer shadows give out a ton of false hits.


Edit: Ahh, scrypted is a per camera annual license, f that.

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Left Blue Iris for Scrypted six months ago and holy smokes do I not miss the abysmal mess of a program that is Blue Iris.
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Quote from worldwave :
Left Blue Iris for Scrypted six months ago and holy smokes do I not miss the abysmal mess of a program that is Blue Iris.
So THAT'S what Koush has been up to...
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Quote from worldwave :
Left Blue Iris for Scrypted six months ago and holy smokes do I not miss the abysmal mess of a program that is Blue Iris.
I hadn't heard of Scrypted before. I'm just beginning my setup of blue iris in a proxmox vm. What makes you like scrypted instead?

Looking it up, it seems that scrypted costs $10/year/camera. That's more than it's worth for me, if I want to have several cameras locally. I'll plan to store recordings on a local nas, as I'd prefer to avoid recurring subscription fees when possible.
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Quote from worldwave :
Left Blue Iris for Scrypted six months ago and holy smokes do I not miss the abysmal mess of a program that is Blue Iris.
woah, what? been using bi for maybe 7 years -- have always been on the lookout for a decent replacement.

22 cameras, local storage, BI running on bare metal xeon 48-core system.

think Scrypted is a viable replacement?
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I've been using bi for years and canceled my subscription this time

Support has become abysmal. There have been bugs introduced and gone unfixed since February
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I have a Lorex system, and I know it says compatible with the software. My question is HOW? I disconnected the Lorex internet connection, but I still want to use the internet with different software if possible. And NO! I don't have the budget to start over
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Quote from tofu. :
I've been using bi for years and canceled my subscription this time

Support has become abysmal. There have been bugs introduced and gone unfixed since February
like any time BI can't interact with storage it pisses itself (six months of stored events gone permanently cause a USB drive was disconnected). support (obv overworked / understaffed) prefers to berate rather than help.. they're working in a silo and it's become unmanageable.

Don't mean to discount the deal, but if anyone here is looking for NVR software, and there are potentially viable alternatives, do yourself a favor and please research those first.
Last edited by activ8 November 30, 2024 at 09:03 PM.
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Blue Iris is capable of anything I've ever dreamed up. I think that's the value, even if it could be better in other ways.
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Quote from activ8 :
woah, what? been using bi for maybe 7 years -- have always been on the lookout for a decent replacement.

22 cameras, local storage, BI running on bare metal xeon 48-core system.

think Scrypted is a viable replacement?
Xeon for BI?! Ugh.
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Now I just need some cheap 4MP interior domes.
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Xeon for BI?! Ugh.
i mean, its been 7 years. yeah I could replace with more modern tech if I were to invest, but it works.
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Quote from activ8 :
woah, what? been using bi for maybe 7 years -- have always been on the lookout for a decent replacement. 22 cameras, local storage, BI running on bare metal xeon 48-core system. think Scrypted is a viable replacement?
There's also Frigate if you have a Coral TPU
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slickdealgb
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I use to be a BI customer. Always had little issues to fix. Don't miss it.
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Quote from activ8 :
i mean, its been 7 years. yeah I could replace with more modern tech if I were to invest, but it works.
When you live in a ripoff electricity state like CA that charges over $0.50+ per kWh, a xeon without a quicksync igpu running BI is a huge waste of electricity.
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so when v6 comes out you have to buy again to upgrade
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