I'm currently running BI with four hardwired cameras, three of which are cheap Chinese units. They work fairly well, except that they occasionally lock up and have to be power cycled. When they lock up, BI understandably shows that the stream has been lost.
Is there any way for BI to 'annunciate' an extended no-signal condition? I use a Raspberry Pi 3 for a number of other things, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to communicate with it in some way for this extended no-signal condition. I would then use the Pi to trigger an external relay that would power cycle the PoE switch that ties in the cameras.
Is something like this possible? I'm not sure where to start on the BI side for monitoring the streams and to get it to annunciate and talk to the Pi. Once the Pi has the signal, the rest would be easy.
I see that there are a lot of watchdog options. Maybe I'll look into the possibility of running a windows putty session with a premade script to trigger the pi's relay when there's a watchdog trigger. Anyone else's input would be great, though.
Is there any way for BI to 'annunciate' an extended no-signal condition? I use a Raspberry Pi 3 for a number of other things, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to communicate with it in some way for this extended no-signal condition. I would then use the Pi to trigger an external relay that would power cycle the PoE switch that ties in the cameras.
Is something like this possible? I'm not sure where to start on the BI side for monitoring the streams and to get it to annunciate and talk to the Pi. Once the Pi has the signal, the rest would be easy.
I see that there are a lot of watchdog options. Maybe I'll look into the possibility of running a windows putty session with a premade script to trigger the pi's relay when there's a watchdog trigger. Anyone else's input would be great, though.
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