Blue Iris

As near as I can tell, this began when I started running BI as a service (which appears to be working correctly, I think)

In the Web Server tab, the "Local, internal (LAN) access" setting has always been 198.162.1.2.

After running BI as a service, after rebooting the PC it ends up on some weird IP like 169.255.x.x or something like that. This (obviously) crashes the connection to the webserver that's always been on 198.162.1.2:99.

Stepping through the Remote access wizard seems to correct it, at least temporarily, but I don't understand why it's changing in the first place. After rebooting it again goes back to some oddball IP.

Also, clicking the "Listen/bind to one selected LAN IP only" checkbox doesn't seem to make it 'stick' to that IP. I'll need to test a little more, but I believe I had that checked initially and it still changed.

Any idea as to what's going on here?

Hmm, does the BI pc have a static IP address ? Does the available NIC (on right of ip) also change to the strange address ?
I tried running BI as a service, but it kept crashing. Haven't tried it in months

> Hmm, does the BI pc have a static IP address ? Does the available NIC (on right of ip) also change to the strange address ?

Yes, and yes. And after it changes, I can't edit it in the "Local, internal (LAN) access" box.

It's weird, I have no idea where it's getting this oddball IP from, or why.

Is the static IP for the BI pc set up in the NIC, or in the modem/router ?

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Could this be due to an interaction with your Ngrok set up

1) The static IP is set in the router.

2) Yes, it's certainly possible it has something to do with ngrok, but I'd be a little surprised if it did. I got ngrok working before setting BI to run as a service and everything seemed to be stable.

More importantly, nrgrok isn't supposed to do anything but look for incoming requests on the IP specified in the run string- the 192.168.1.2 IP.

I'm also a little concerned that the "Listen/bind to one selected LAN IP only" checkbox doesn't seem to make it stay on that IP.

Finally, I looked in the manual and I didn't see any serious advantage for running BI as a service. It mentions that it'll automatically restart in the event of a PC, OS, or software crash or restart, but you could do that by running it as a scheduled start-up task.

So besides the auto-restart, what's the advantage?

TimG wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:24 pm Is the static IP for the BI pc set up in the NIC, or in the modem/router ?
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Could this be due to an interaction with your Ngrok set up

Can you try setting the same proper IP address in the BI pc NIC ? It won't do any harm, and it should prevent it being changed.

TimG wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:17 pm Can you try setting the same proper IP address in the BI pc NIC ? It won't do any harm, and it should prevent it being changed.

I'll admit that I have no idea how to do that, lol.

Is that something I'd configure from within Windows or the router or a utility for the NIC? Or in the PC BIOS setup?

I drilled down into the network settings and got to here:
Select the Network Address and fill in a value of 192.168.1.2 ? Would I need to reboot the PC after this?

Network & Internet Settings - Change Adaptor Options ( or Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections )
Right click on Ethernet, click Properties
Click IPV4 to highlight it, click properties and then change as required
I think that is all that i did.

Thanks, loopyloop. I can't quite see all the fields in the image you posted...here's what mine looks like right now.
. If the BI PC is supposed to be on 192.168.1.2, which field(s) do I enter that in, and what if anything gets put in the other fields? Feel free to mark up my image to show what goes where if you like.

LOOPYLOOP wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 10:19 pm Network & Internet Settings - Change Adaptor Options ( or Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections )
Right click on Ethernet, click Properties
Click IPV4 to highlight it, click properties and then change as required
I think that is all that i did.

assuming i can post links here this should help
https://portforward.com/networking/stat ... ows-10.htm