Blue Iris UI3

[TheWaterbug]

Maybe so. I ran a small micro system and external USB drive for a while after my main server died waiting to find a deal on another. Worked fine mostly but now and then when doing various things I'd get the same. Server itself never seemed taxed much. Eventually "shucked" and swapped the drive into my new server and I don't think that I've seen the same since. But the new system is quite a bit better overall too.

Does anyone else here store their video in a Storage Space? JBOD or otherwise? How's your performance?

From what I've read over the last couple of days, SS can suffer from performance issues, but generally in write performance, and especially in a parity-stripe configuration. Random Read performance is generally on par with a true RAID 0 or RAID 10.

My V: volume is formatted at NTSF with 64K cluster size. Disk loading doesn't seem to show any issues. Here's the Task Manager on my BI box while I'm watching UI3 from another machine, Live, with 16 cameras showing. As expected, there is no Read activity. Write speed varies a little bit, but tends to peak around ~16 - 18 MB/sec. I have not observed it going higher than 20 MB/sec:


When I switch to Timeline, with 4 cameras playing, I see:



When I'm scrubbing and skipping through those 4 cameras in Timeline, and it stalls, I see pretty much the same thing:


I'm not sure what queue length tells us, but it never even gets up to 1.0. Here it is when stalled:

 

[42corsair]

Awesome! Thank you!

Just an added note - worked PERFECTLY! Thank you so much, again!

 

[42corsair]

@42corsair nope, UI3 doesn't support hotkeys to go to specific cameras. You'd need to write that yourself using the local overrides system. Here is a starting point: Local Overrides Sample: Add Hotkeys for Switching Cameras · bp2008/ui3 Wiki

Is there a command to open a group rather than an individual camera?

 

[bp2008]

Just provide the group name in place of a camera short name in the script. "All cameras" is a special case as its group is named "Index".

 

[42corsair]

Just provide the group name in place of a camera short name in the script. "All cameras" is a special case as its group is named "Index".

Ahh... that was tripping me up - thanks again!

 

[ncpilot]

Ok, back with more details on the issue of error in screen shot... "Unable to contact Blue Iris server." when trying to view system log.

I can confirm that it happens on my Android devices using Chrome, and on a laptop running Linux Mint with Firefox.

Went into the direct BI interface on my BI computer, opened log file, cleared, and then I could view log on all devices.

every single other selection in the UI3 menu will display on all devices, it's only when the log file gets large that it won't display.

Just an interesting anomaly, I don't really expect a solution, just something I noticed in case you're interested in trouble shooting...

 

[bp2008]

The big log must be crashing something in Blue Iris

 

[bp2008]

"Use Hi-res JPEG for alert mouseover" in UI3 is working again as of Blue Iris 5.6.7.2 released today.

 

[jeremypsl]

Do you have the same problem as me : when i looked at a stream, it reach 15fps without any problem but when a motion is detected, fps drop for a few seconds.

 

[bp2008]

Do you have the same problem as me : when i looked at a stream, it reach 15fps without any problem but when a motion is detected, fps drop for a few seconds.

I've seen that happen sometimes, but not very often. Probably related to a hard drive taking longer than expected to complete some operation.

 

[jeremypsl]

It happens every time for me.
But i have a strong pc : i7-10700, 64go of ram, rtx3070, ssd nvme.
I record on a NAS so maybe it's that.

 

[bp2008]

I don't record to a NAS, but it doesn't get much worse for latency than that (especially with mechanical HDDs being used).

 

[gwithers]

I recently switched over to recording video to my Synology NAS and I have been a bit surprised at how seamlessly it all works. No issues with live video fps, thumbnail popup speed, timeline video scrubbing or video playback. I know I am doing all the bad things here as I am even running my BI server in a VM on a Proxmox box (which also runs my CPAI instances with GPU passthrough). In spite of all of that, it all works like it did when the entire BI infrastructure was installed on a dedicated stand alone PC. There is more to it when you do it this way of course but it can work if there are no weak links in the chain. The NAS is not intrinsically the problem but the HDD you have in the NAS could be. The NVR specific HDDs do work well for their intended application.

Perhaps I should add that I run 15 2K cameras on my setup

 

[Daniel15]

@bp2008 Is it worth setting up a HTTPS reverse proxy to use WebCodecs? Does it have advantages over the HTML5 player?

Let's Encrypt can be used to automatically issue and renew certificates for internal systems (just use a DNS challenge instead of a HTTP challenge), so getting the certificate isn't an issue.

 

[bp2008]

@bp2008 Is it worth setting up a HTTPS reverse proxy to use WebCodecs? Does it have advantages over the HTML5 player?

Let's Encrypt can be used to automatically issue and renew certificates for internal systems (just use a DNS challenge instead of a HTTP challenge), so getting the certificate isn't an issue.

HTML5 and Webcodecs both can have bugs which will vary between platforms and browser updates. Otherwise they are similar in their efficiency. No real benefit to either over the other unless you have bugs.

 

[jeremypsl]

So i don't understand why i get lags on a stream only when the camera is triggered... i should try without CP.AI to see.

 

[prsmith777]

I have many of my cameras organized such that they cover adjacent contiguous viewing areas . When I’m viewing a camera full screen and the person or animal moves to the left or right out of view I have to move out of full screen and the open the next camera in full screen. It would be a nice feature to have an arrow pop up that would open the next adjacent camera in full screen directly.

Not sure if this has been asked before or you are interested in considering adding it, but it would be helpful in my use case.

 

[bp2008]

I have many of my cameras organized such that they cover adjacent contiguous viewing areas . When I’m viewing a camera full screen and the person or animal moves to the left or right out of view I have to move out of full screen and the open the next camera in full screen. It would be a nice feature to have an arrow pop up that would open the next adjacent camera in full screen directly.

Not sure if this has been asked before or you are interested in considering adding it, but it would be helpful in my use case.

If you have a keyboard, you can use comma and period keys for Previous Camera and Next Camera or you can remap those hotkeys in UI Settings > Hotkeys.



There are no on-screen buttons for it at this time.

 

[prsmith777]

That works pefectly. Thanks

 

[TonyR]

If you have a keyboard, you can use comma and period keys for Previous Camera and Next Camera or you can remap those hotkeys in UI Settings > Hotkeys.

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There are no on-screen buttons for it at this time.

Yep, right there under "UI Settings" under "Hot Keys".