Hello,
I am running Blue Iris on one PC, but would like to save resources and have code project run on another AI specific PC. I have tried changing the IP address in BI to the static IP of the other IP and still unable to get it to talk. Has anyone been able to have any success with this?

I don't use it like that, but can you check the ports are open between the two pc's ?

I run CPAI in a docker image on a Linux system without problems (other than self-inflicted). Make sure the CPAI is able to examine images without using BI before connecting.
Check logs on both ends.