The "not a license" license that I got with my maintenance worked just fine and upgraded to 5.8.x.y

Thanks for the help

I was running 5.3.1.6, if I get an active support license, can I upgrade to the latest from BI or only within the 5.3 release track?

Confused

I agree as my old 5.3.1.6 build did everything I needed, except for the occasional web server binding issue. I don't need all the new enhancements, which is why I didn't upgrade.

Hopefully someone at BI can give this a thought. Or maybe the number of people migrating servers is small ?

Indeed it does. The process of migration was pretty straight forward. I'll figure out what to do with this part. Love the software, great value for a long term usage. Prboably will just pay to get the latest and avoid downgrades to current install.

Thanks for the reply TimG. Just want to confirm. I can pay $35 for support, which then means I can upgrade to 5.8 ? Hopefully fixing some bugs that I occasionally get (like the web server binding IP changing) -- Although I don't need any of the AI or other features past 5.3 -- Is this possible for a...

I've was running BI 5.3.1.6 on my old server and tried to migrate the license to a new server running 5.8.7.8. I followed the instructions in a BI forum post about the registry, re-activate, activate, etc. My question is The new server shows activated, but because my license was for an older version...

Thanks Mike. This helps a lot.

Curious why the DB folder needs migrating (creating) - Is it so BI thinks it's the same machine?

Thanks Mike.

Yes, i'm building a new PC and plan to migrate my set up to that new system.

The number of camera's and a docker requirement for another app. has the current system of 3 years being overworked.

Thanks for all of the interesting discussion. I'm not using CPAI although just reading about it, I may buy a Google TPU and try My question is this If I get a AMD Ryzen 7 with 16 core / 32 thread, will BI be able to properly leverage the multi cores? if I have 15 camera's set up at 1080p/2k. but at ...

HeneryH wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:36 pm In my aged experience there is practically zero use for GPU if you used a modern intel cpu. \

Must it be Intel? Would an AMD CPU and a dedicated GPU help?