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I have been playing with Blue Iris v5 CCTV software, trying to learn how it's doing what it does. It's a somewhat decent alternative to buying an NVR, but they are still refining it and aren't the best programmers either. I'm still testing with it, but seems like it has potential. Someone did work on an earlier version of this program, but kind of surprised there hasn't been newer updates released with the newer version. And if anyone who runs it did find any pinholes they aren't bragging in any forums or just boomer normies I think.
Anyway, once installed you're given a trial version for 15 days. This comes with an overlay on the recorded video of a watermark as well. I traced the trial part to the registry, key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Registration]
Delete key "Data40" and done, resets the 15 days. It's some long convoluted code which I can't make any sense of, but that's the idea I'm sure. Anyway, not very secure way of enforcing a trial period.
The harder part seems to be the overlay/registration. I'm going to assume from the reset hack I found that the rest is also dependent on the registry rather than something like a downloaded update. Recently I read on the TurboTax thread about using dnSpy to check and edit .DLL files. I played with that a bit, got my copy of TT working, and seemed pretty straight forward - assuming you know what to look for. My issue is there are only 5 .DLLs in iris, and the biggest is 21.1 megs. The overlay isn't horrible but does use some CPU time to reencode the video before saving, and I suspect does cause some frame delays besides using resources.
Anyone have any advice or what to check, or where, or what to look out for? I'd really like to see if I can remove the watermark. And of course I'll post my findings here as I go along so anyone else in the future can follow along. Thanks.
Anyway, once installed you're given a trial version for 15 days. This comes with an overlay on the recorded video of a watermark as well. I traced the trial part to the registry, key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Registration]
Delete key "Data40" and done, resets the 15 days. It's some long convoluted code which I can't make any sense of, but that's the idea I'm sure. Anyway, not very secure way of enforcing a trial period.
The harder part seems to be the overlay/registration. I'm going to assume from the reset hack I found that the rest is also dependent on the registry rather than something like a downloaded update. Recently I read on the TurboTax thread about using dnSpy to check and edit .DLL files. I played with that a bit, got my copy of TT working, and seemed pretty straight forward - assuming you know what to look for. My issue is there are only 5 .DLLs in iris, and the biggest is 21.1 megs. The overlay isn't horrible but does use some CPU time to reencode the video before saving, and I suspect does cause some frame delays besides using resources.
Anyone have any advice or what to check, or where, or what to look out for? I'd really like to see if I can remove the watermark. And of course I'll post my findings here as I go along so anyone else in the future can follow along. Thanks.
