Alfred Camera VS Blue Iris

Alfred Camera Reviews

Blue Iris Reviews

1. Mike Johnson    

   over 1 year ago
   Terrible Experience

   I have tried this software and it was the worst experience I have had. First, I had so much trouble connecting up my IP Cameras. I would error messages multiple times and the application kept crashing. Once I finally got everything up and running, I would periodically loose connection to my cameras. I had contacted customer support regarding my issues and they would never respond. There are many other better products than Blue Iris.

Alfred Camera mentions (11)

• Automated screen interaction for Alfred Camera App sequence

  I have an old Smartphone using the Alfred Camera app (https://alfred.camera). This detects motion and can trigger notifications on other devices. My SM530-T tablet receives these notification which I am using to start the flow below. Effectively, I trying to make free Ring / Nest Doorbell system that gets a live Camera feed from the phone and displays the live camera feed in Alfred Camera app on the tablet,. Source: 10 months ago

• Is there a way to signal to the driver their car has been turned on?

  You're gonna have to get something like a bouncie bouncie.com/device $77 to buy, $8 /mo for LTE, for notification that car has been turned on. I actually don't have a bouncie, since I have a DIY system: To watch live stream of the inside of my car, I mounted on my dash, an old galaxy s4 with Alfred security camera app alfred.camera/ , the video showing the inside of my car. It’s also set to record if detecting a... Source: about 1 year ago

• Best Dash Cam for parking

  I mounted on my dash, an old galaxy s4 with Alfred security camera app https://alfred.camera/ , set to record on Motion, on Low-Light, and notifies my carry phone. Working well for years now. Source: about 1 year ago

• DIY birdfeeder window-camera with smartphone - Experiences?

  I'm looking for a simple holder for a smartphone so that it lies flush against a window. That way I can use the smartphone with the Alfredcamera app on it (https://alfred.camera/) as motion-activated camera for taking pictures of the birds at a feeder that is placed just outside a window. The smartphone would remain on the "inside" side of the window. Source: about 1 year ago

• Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution

  I had a two old smartphone sitting in a drawer for a few years, an old iPhone5 and an old Android phone. A few months ago I looked into using them for security cams and did a search and found https://alfred.camera/ Alfred is pretty cool. They have a free version that does what I wanted and a premium version that's got quite a few nice additional features. I'm still using an old iPhone 10. Apple has obsoleted it... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Blue Iris mentions (55)

• Security cams

  Frigate https://frigate.video/ and ZoneMinder https://zoneminder.com/ come to mind. Blue Iris https://blueirissoftware.com/ is not open source but is what I prefer to use for my PoE systems ($80/yr). Source: 6 months ago

• unable to activate-- blueirissoftware.com down?

  I've had BI running for years-- something went haywire with my setup this morning and now I need to re-activate my license. However, I'm unable to do so within BI, and it appears that blueirissoftware.com is down. Anyone else having issues or know what's going on? Source: 10 months ago

• Trying to get a Blue Iris license - no response from IPcam-central

  Blue Iris' official site is blueirissoftware.com and the company is Perspective Software. Source: 11 months ago

• Looking for an alternative

  Could look into a diy solution like https://blueirissoftware.com/ See what cameras are compatible. Might be some Ethernet based or wifi based cameras out there that would do what you need. Keeps it all local no clouds. Source: about 1 year ago

• Alternative "Reolink cameras" clients

  Blue Iris is said to work well. https://blueirissoftware.com/. Source: about 1 year ago