Cameras and Clones swapping

58chev · Mar 22, 2019

I noticed today that my my two cloned cameras are now showing a bit rate and have taken on the name of my regular cameras and vice versa.
Clones are kept hidden. But now two regular cameras are hidden and two clones are visible.

I'm not sure if this happened today after the update or earlier in the week with the last update.

This did happen to me about 6 weeks ago and I thought it was something I had buggered up. But I have not been messing around aside from updates.

Hope someone has an easy fix to restore these the way they were, without having to blow them away and recreate.

SouthernYankee · Mar 22, 2019

I have not had this problem I am on the current version 4.8.6.2 x64. All my cameras have clones, that have different names, are hidden, are continuous recording to a NAS, have no triggers. my cameras are in groups.

hltljohn · Mar 22, 2019

Make sure that you have the original cameras marked as "Designated group master" on the camera video tab.

58chev · Mar 22, 2019

@SouthernYankee @hltljohn
Rebuilt my cameras, this time created "Groups" as I did not have my cameras in any.

hltljohn said:
Make sure that you have the original cameras marked as "Designated group master" on the camera video tab.

For this option, is it just a single camera that I make group master?
Absolutely nothing about this option in the help, even the screens for Video help are dated.

andycots · Mar 23, 2019

58chev said:
cloned cameras are now showing a bit rate and have taken on the name of my regular cameras and vice versa

I had same problem not long ago, cameras seem to swap over, caused me problems then with the test video masking too, had to scrap and redo them.

hltljohn · Mar 23, 2019

The word "group" is a little confusing because it is not the same group as camera groups. The "Designated group master" indicates that this camera is the only camera with the same IP that will pull a stream.

58chev · Mar 23, 2019

hltljohn said:
The word "group" is a little confusing because it is not the same group as camera groups. The "Designated group master" indicates that this camera is the only camera with the same IP that will pull a stream.

So this would mean that I can designate the master of each cloned camera?

anijet · Mar 23, 2019

hltljohn said:
Make sure that you have the original cameras marked as "Designated group master" on the camera video tab.

Thanks for that information. I never knew about this setting and even though I have all cameras cloned the primary ones are marked and the secondary ones are not. Happened by default.

hltljohn · Mar 23, 2019

58chev said:
So this would mean that I can designate the master of each cloned camera?

Yes

DLONG2 · Mar 26, 2019

Odd, I have two cloned cameras from different master cameras. One clone shows no bit rate; the other does. I marked both original cameras as the 'Designated Group Master', restarted the originals and clones, but one of the clones is still showing bit rate.

hltljohn · Mar 26, 2019

DLONG2 said:
Odd, I have two cloned cameras from different master cameras. One clone shows no bit rate; the other does. I marked both original cameras as the 'Designated Group Master', restarted the originals and clones, but one of the clones is still showing bit rate.

Try disabling then re enabling the clone that has the bit rate.

DLONG2 · Mar 26, 2019

The disable is a BI feature such as restart?

awsum140 · Mar 26, 2019

Open the camera properties, configuration, and check the box that says "disabled". No re-start needed.

DLONG2 · Mar 26, 2019

Odd. I disable and re-enable, and the bit rate on the cloned camera soon returns. This cloned camera is not recording video, only taking a snapshot whenever it is triggered via home automation where it then emails out the snapshot. Should I perhaps delete the camera and try again? It didn't used to show any bit rate before.

58chev · Mar 27, 2019

@DLONG2
I had to delete and recreate my cameras.

DLONG2 · Mar 28, 2019

Thanks, 58chev, I did likewise last night, and the new cloned camera is working correctly.

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