Remote connection to another Blue Iris instance

[davidf]

Hello,

I have an licensed older version of BI (4.8.6.3) running on an old machine.

To upgrade I purchased a new machine and loaded fresh install Win 10 and then BI v 5.0.0.56 and then licensed it.

When I try to remotely connect from v5 BI to v4 BI, I get the error message:
"Trouble connecting: version 4.8.6.3 not supported"

Is this expected? Maybe due to major version change?

[hambone]

When you say connecting remotely, I assume you are referring to the new Remote Management feature. If so, I believe that feature was added in V5 and only works when both computers have V5.

[TimG]

And when both computers have their own BI5 licence too I believe. To do this, you will have to update your BI4 installation to BI5. It is new functionality for BI5, so it won't work with BI4.

[Tinman]

They also must BOTH run in service mode. You can connect to a service mode machine with a system not running as service, but when you connect it actually shuts down the system . So keep in mind in order for you to connect to a remote system AND keep your system running in the background you must have it in service mode.

[davidf]

Yep, I was referring to the remote management feature. Thanks for the reply.