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FPS/key Sometimes Drops
I have a Dahua camera as an LPR. When I was scrolling frame by frame (scroll wheel) through recordings I realized that every 4-6s there would be a 0.8 - 1.2s jump from one frame to the next. As a result I missed license plates. I double checked my camera settings which are 15fps, every 15th... -
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Indoor Camera With BI and App Access
When we are away I usually use OpenVPN to get into our network and look at the cameras via BlueIris. My wife doesn't like that and she wants an app to access multiple indoor cameras and that allows her to PTZ the cams and have 2-way audio "communication" (with the dog). What might complicate...- rfj
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- Forum: IP Cameras
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VLAN & NICs & Switch "Sharing"
@mikeynags Thanks. Ideally, I would also set it up this way but I try to keep the switches down to 2, hence one of them has to 'host' both the cams and some other devices. -
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VLAN & NICs & Switch "Sharing"
So you are saying I can put devices that belong into different subnets on the same switch and not configure any VLAN. The switch then will figure out itself that something coming from a device that is in subnet #1 needs to be switched to the port that connects to switch #1. And if a camera that... -
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VLAN & NICs & Switch "Sharing"
I currently have a managed (don't use the managed part) 48-port non-PoE switch (Switch #1) and a 16 port unmanaged PoE switch which is connected to the 48-port switch. All devices including the cameras are on the same subnet. I used to have issues with the cameras being hacked which I was able... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
@digger11 I have set Day & Night to Auto for Day and B/W for Night. @wittaj I ended up doing a factory reset and then reapplying the changes one by one. There was one setting that also introduced noise, i.e. Backlight WDR = 50. I reduced it to 20. This got rid of most of the extra noise... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
Based on all this input I did a bit more tweaking. I got pretty noisy pictures for my day setting unless I reduced the sharpness to something like 5 (default is 50). It appears the camera didn't get enough light. Initially, I had the shutter fixed at 0.25ms (1/4000s). With sharpness set at 40... -
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Blue Iris Camera Compatibility.
Thanks for the detailed settings. As for your reminder, when you record to BI does the stream indeed first go to the TP-Link cloud and then back to your network? In your BI setting you have a local IP so I was assuming it gets the stream directly from the camera. If that is not the case, then I...- rfj
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- Forum: IP Cameras
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
@IReallyLikePizza2 that's some seriously clean image. I must be doing something wrong. I took the measuring tape out and from the camera to about the center of the frame it is around 60'. The camera is about 1.5' above ground and not at a very steep angle to the road. As for the other questions... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
I now tried Edge (which is basically Chrome) and the old Internet Explorer. For both I did what I listed in post #9 with the same result, i.e. it doesn't store the focus per profile but only globally. I start wondering if it has to do with my FW or SW as when looking for the latest FW for my... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
I am using Chrome. For switching profiles I initially used DahuaSunriseSunset but then switched to BI (described in the same forum post you linked to). However, isn't that independent of my issue in setting a different focal point for the day and night profile? DahuaSunriseSunset and BI are just... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
That is what doesn't work for me. I must be doing something wrong. Here are my steps: 1a) Go to Profile Management, select Full Time (which I already have) and set "Always Enable" = Day. Click Save. 1b) Go to Zoom and Focus. Adjust the focus. I just put it way out of focus so I can easily... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
Regarding focus, I will try to set it to the point where it's most likely for me to see the license plate of a moving car going either direction. I guess my point regarding the big difference between +/-20 (out of 1800) is that the depth of field seem rather narrow. I will try to play with it... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
I was indeed running it at 1/10,000s at night. At least to me the license plates look pretty good. See Night1.png. The left plate is from a parked car and the right one is from a moving car. In any case, as recommended I made some adjustments for the exposure settings. See attachment... -
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LPR: Blurry Images During Day Time
I have an IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E specifically for reading license plates. I can read most license plates easily during night time. However, during day time they seem more blurry and in some cases unreadable. See attachment which shows the top left quarter of what the camera records. I am using some... -
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IPC-B5442E-Z4E: What is the current focal length
Thanks. The calculator gave me the same result as what I calculated in my first post. I was first a bit confused what Z is but it's just the values that is shown in the web interface. So in my case Zmax is 630 because that is what the web interface tell me when I zoom all the way in. Then Zsp is... -
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IPC-B5442E-Z4E: What is the current focal length
I have a IPC-B5442E-Z4E whose focal length can be adjusted between 8mm to 32mm. Is there a way for me to see at what focal length the camera is currently set at. I looked at the web interface and in the live view I can adjust the zoom from value 0 to 630 but it doesn't say anywhere anything... -
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Which HDD for 12 Cams
I purchased an 8TB Barracuda a while ago as a dedicated drive for BI to record video. It was a disaster. I went back to my 2TB drive but it's only enough for 2 days of recording which isn't enough. Hence, I am looking for a new drive. I know WD has the Surveillance type of drives and Seagate the... -
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100% HDD Usage
For now I switched back to my old 2TB Hitachi drive. No problems... I think that Seagate drive just can't handle 10x 1MByte/s streams for a total of 10MBytes/s I also did a quick test copying a 3GB file from the Hitachi Drive to the Seagate drive and from the Seagate drive to the Hitachi drive... -
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100% HDD Usage
I contacted Seagate support and they offered to replace my drive. I got it today and put it in the system. At this point it is filled 1.5%. I stepped out of the house for an hour and when I got back to my computer websites wouldn't pull up and the system was sluggish. Turns out the new disc has... -
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100% HDD Usage
I am running more of the extended tests but I am not confident it will find anything. I was planning to use this drive for some other purposes/data but now I am not sure that's a wise thing to do.... -
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100% HDD Usage
I deleted 512GB of data from my new 8TB drive (filled 90% before deleting 512GB) and then started to copy 512GB of BI data (each file 3GB) from the old 2TB drive. I did this with BI shut down so it doesn't write to the old drive while I am copying data. Initially the speed was fluctuating... -
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100% HDD Usage
The "Long Self Test" finished and it says it passed. I have to say it's kind of strange that the HD goes to 100% and slows down my entire system with BI writing less than 10MBytes/s. But since switching to my 2TB HDD everything works fine. Just for testing I switched back to the 8TB drive and... -
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100% HDD Usage
The one I bought exclusively for surveillance is the Seagate ST8000DM004 (8TB). That's the one that is causing me issues. I switched to a Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 (2TB) which causes no problems but is pretty small (it's the only empty drive I had). @IAmATeaf I did run the Windows 10 diagnostics... -
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100% HDD Usage
I think you are right that it's the drive that I specifically bought for BI. I redirected recording to an old and empty 2TB drive that I had in the system. I waited until it filled up to 90% to see if maybe the 90% was an issue. The computer still works fine and doesn't slow down. The active... -
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100% HDD Usage
I read about the SMR issue but from memory this was related to using such drives in a RAID system (actually when mixing SMR and CMR drives). I will definitely look into this, though. That would be a bummer having a "bad" drive and having to buy a new one. HDDs aren't exactly cheap these days. -
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100% HDD Usage
I did shut down BI and then started it again. Attached is the activity I see on the HDD after starting BI. When I checked later on it was back to 100%. The computer is CPU: i7-9700K @3.6GHz RAM: 32GB Windows: Win10 Pro 21H1 build 19043.2130 Other comments/answers: I checked all cams and they... -
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100% HDD Usage
I only have 10 cameras and each one is set to direct to disc recording. I have a dedicated HDD just for footage of the security cameras. When I look at Task Manager the disc is always at 100%. Average response time various from 0ms to 10,000ms. Write speed various from 0MB/s to 15MB/s. In BI I... -
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Two POE Cams Over One Ethernet Cable
This splitter is pretty much impossible to fit into the PFA130-E. So I ended up modifying that box. The piece that mounts to the wall has a thread in the middle that sticks out about 1/8". I used a hole saw to cut that away. See PFA130-E-1.jpg. The biggest issue however was the cap that goes on...- rfj
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- Forum: Networking
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BI Slows Down Computer After 1 Hour
After trying a bunch of other things incl. reinstalling BI I got an "approximate" source of the issue. I disconnected my LPR camera from the switch and the issue disappeared. I made my own connector at the camera so I suspected that. I connected the cam to the switch again and then changed the...- rfj
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- Forum: Troubleshooting