Blue Iris Description
You can keep an eye on your family members, home, business, cars, and valuables. Remotely access your recorded and live cameras. Alerts for cameras and other conditions are robust. V5 features a brand new user interface. Every element has been redesigned! You can use up to 64 cameras (webcams or network IP cams, analog card, or your Windows desktop). You can capture JPEG snapshots and movies in standard MP4, AVI or advanced DVR formats. You can use motion or audio sensing for recording, or record continuously and periodically. You can overlay the current date/time, as well as a logo and other information. Record audio. You can use a timer for determining when the system is arm. Images can be captured in JPEG images or MPEG movies. You can receive alerts via email, loudspeaker, instant message, voice call (with automatic dialing), or an external program/script. Blue Iris can be run as a Windows service to give you complete control over its operation on a shared computer.
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Powerful and flexible but often unstable, poorly supported Date: Sep 07 2022
Summary: The software is extremely powerful and configurable, which I generally like. I have gotten six cameras working pretty well. However, if you need reliable object detection and alerts, it takes a lot of work to get it set up right, and this is where things fall down. Not because the software can't do it but because the documentation is not sufficiently clear and detailed. Despite paying for a full license - which is supposed to include priority support - it takes days to get a response to an email and it's rarely complete. And if you have a follow up question it takes a few more days. Given the lack of clarity in responses it can be weeks to get a problem fixed - if at all. Basically you're dependent on various user forums. I would not bother paying extra for premium support.
If you like tinkering and playing it's a good and inexpensive choice. If you want reliable and seamless, look for something else.Positive: Very powerful, many features for the cost. Can do almost anything. Appropriate for a home user as long as you enjoy tweaking and messing with the software.
Negative: Software is less than stable. The database often gets corrupted, alerts disappear. The documentation is detailed but not clear. Same for tutorial videos. Lots of them but they're still confusing.
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