Hi community,
I've installed my first security camera yesterday and naturally I've been researching quite some internet pages as to what recorder to use. I installed the BI5 evaluation yesterday and I've got some random questions I can't really find an answer to or need someone to confirm if possible.
Some background info:
- I am using home assistant and eventually looking for integration (not my first concern).
- From the home assistant community everyone recommends BI.
- Futuristic is my thing, my house is close to fully autonomous using latest and experimental tech level hardware and software.
What I have now for testing:
A single Dahua 4K/12MP 360degree IP camera (IPC-EBW81230) running H.265 + audio
My server running:
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
- 2x Xeon E5-2630L (12 physical cores / 24 logical)
- 200GB memory
- SSD RAID 10 set, 2100 MByte/s read and 1000MByte/s write measured speeds (~1TB space)
- SAS RAID 5 set + Intel DC cache SSD, short term 600+MByte/s read/write, continuous around 200MByte/s (18TB space, cache disk is 120GB)
- Dual 10Gbit/s SFP+ fiber network
Right so I am just testing with one camera now and I get some results I didn't expect.
1. BI doesn't seem to do "enough" to work through the buffer of the single camera. My FPS comes in at 5 to 10 FPS looking at the information window. Why do I mention buffer? When the camera buffer was at 10M it just stopped receiving network traffic from the camera after a few seconds. Increasing this to 40M will keep the camera stream coming for much longer but cut out eventually anyway.
So right now it's not even possible for me to get a single camera running the way it should. Hardware is not stressing at all and is using 10% CPU, 1.5GB MEM. What's going on here?
2. BI seems to be de/re-coding the stream, what can I do to prevent this? I don't have any overlays set.
3. Direct to Disk, the first thing I read was to enable save directly to disk, but I don't notice any difference in performance disabling, enabling or disabling recording all together. Is it correct that during evaluation this option doesn't work as intended?
Now some questions not related to performance:
4. How can I zoom in to certain parts of the 360 degree view? Right now I just get the circle or some split view. The split view is not really what I'm looking for as it seems to keep the quality of the zoomed out 360 view instead of actually getting the raw data and being able to see all details clearly. The camera is 4000x3000 pixels and gives crystal clear output.
5. How can I select multiple views from the 360degree view to record independently or somehow link so it's viewable in a specific view configuration?
6. I can't seem to find a privacy mask, is that still a non-existent feature? I have 5 windows/doors from neighbors in different places of the camera view that need to be covered and never recorded
Those are my main concerns for now.
Please if I'm asking a question that's been asked a million times and I missed it feel free to link it.
If you require more info from my side please let me know.
I've installed my first security camera yesterday and naturally I've been researching quite some internet pages as to what recorder to use. I installed the BI5 evaluation yesterday and I've got some random questions I can't really find an answer to or need someone to confirm if possible.
Some background info:
- I am using home assistant and eventually looking for integration (not my first concern).
- From the home assistant community everyone recommends BI.
- Futuristic is my thing, my house is close to fully autonomous using latest and experimental tech level hardware and software.
What I have now for testing:
A single Dahua 4K/12MP 360degree IP camera (IPC-EBW81230) running H.265 + audio
My server running:
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
- 2x Xeon E5-2630L (12 physical cores / 24 logical)
- 200GB memory
- SSD RAID 10 set, 2100 MByte/s read and 1000MByte/s write measured speeds (~1TB space)
- SAS RAID 5 set + Intel DC cache SSD, short term 600+MByte/s read/write, continuous around 200MByte/s (18TB space, cache disk is 120GB)
- Dual 10Gbit/s SFP+ fiber network
Right so I am just testing with one camera now and I get some results I didn't expect.
1. BI doesn't seem to do "enough" to work through the buffer of the single camera. My FPS comes in at 5 to 10 FPS looking at the information window. Why do I mention buffer? When the camera buffer was at 10M it just stopped receiving network traffic from the camera after a few seconds. Increasing this to 40M will keep the camera stream coming for much longer but cut out eventually anyway.
So right now it's not even possible for me to get a single camera running the way it should. Hardware is not stressing at all and is using 10% CPU, 1.5GB MEM. What's going on here?
2. BI seems to be de/re-coding the stream, what can I do to prevent this? I don't have any overlays set.
3. Direct to Disk, the first thing I read was to enable save directly to disk, but I don't notice any difference in performance disabling, enabling or disabling recording all together. Is it correct that during evaluation this option doesn't work as intended?
Now some questions not related to performance:
4. How can I zoom in to certain parts of the 360 degree view? Right now I just get the circle or some split view. The split view is not really what I'm looking for as it seems to keep the quality of the zoomed out 360 view instead of actually getting the raw data and being able to see all details clearly. The camera is 4000x3000 pixels and gives crystal clear output.
5. How can I select multiple views from the 360degree view to record independently or somehow link so it's viewable in a specific view configuration?
6. I can't seem to find a privacy mask, is that still a non-existent feature? I have 5 windows/doors from neighbors in different places of the camera view that need to be covered and never recorded
Those are my main concerns for now.
Please if I'm asking a question that's been asked a million times and I missed it feel free to link it.
If you require more info from my side please let me know.