BI 5 Continous recording inconsistancies - Its probably me...

[pochrist]

I installed a few systems a few years back using BI 4, so I have some experience with the software but those systems are Motions Trigger only. The system in my home is a BI 5 system and while for the most part they work fine, I find that I need to set the system to perform continuous recording over night. So the problem I have run into is that some cameras are just still running motion detection and other don't even trigger. I have setup Day and Night Profiles and Schedules Day is Motion triggered from 7:30am -10:00pm and Night is (supposed to be Continuous Recording) 10:00pm - 7:30am.

I have attached screen shots of what I assume are the dialog boxes that control the problems area I am having - Also I have confirmed that my Clip Storage is not the culprit

Maybe some one will see a red flag I mis-configured

Thanks in advance

 

[sebastiantombs]

For starters, there is no need for limiting files by size and a number of days. Leave it at size only.

If you want your night profile to record continuously and on alerts, or on triggers (note that there is a difference), just select that. You have your night profile set to continuous only. Keep in min that with continuous recording alerts and triggers are nothing more than markers in the database to those events and not discrete files.

 

[pochrist]

Thanks I applied your suggestions I'll verify in the A.M.

 

[pochrist]

Wow just checked to verify that all the cam were just straight up recording and All of them (with the exception of a single wifi Amcrest I have in the house) say no signal from the start of the profile.

The only changes I made was from "Continuous" to Continuous + Triggered" and Setting the files for Size only, Not days.

Any ideas would be great I feel like I can only Motion detect, I tried this a few ago and it did the same thing so i set it back to Motion only till yesterday.

 

[The Automation Guy]

Since you are recording the "No Signal", can you determine when the cameras go off line? Are they going off all together, or just one at a time over a prolonged period of time?

 

[sebastiantombs]

Can you view the cameras individually using the GUI of each camera via its IP address?

 

[pochrist]

cams
Since you are recording the "No Signal", can you determine when the cameras go off line? Are they going off all together, or just one at a time over a prolonged period of time?

I have large gaps where the schedule for Night is told to start at 10 pm

10:00pm	10:45pm	No activity from all cams
10:45pm	11:39pm	only 2 out of 9 show activity
11:39pm	5:30am	No activity from all cams
5:30am	5:45am	only 2 out of 9 show activity - same cams as row 2
5:45am	6:15am	No activity from all cams
6:15am	7:30am	only 3 out of 9 show activity
7:30am		Schedule sets cam back to Motion only

 

[pochrist]

Can you view the cameras individually using the GUI of each camera via its IP address?

Yes they All show up via a browser with the individual IP Address as well as the Vendor App

 

[sebastiantombs]

How did you bring the cameras into BI,? Did you use find/inspect? What brands and models are the cameras?

 

[pochrist]

How did you bring the cameras into BI,? Did you use find/inspect? What brands and models are the cameras?

I put the IP Address in to the filed and did find/inspect all were found no problem.

Reolink RLC 520

 

[sebastiantombs]

I have a Reolink that routinely drops out as well. In my case I'm using it just to monitor the habits of a problematic ground hog so it's not important at all. Reolink and Blue Iris do not play well together and I suspect that's where the problem is coming from. Their encoding is non-standard. You may improve things by trying different models in the drop down list for Reolink cameras in BI.

 

[Flintstone61]

You didn't post your Trigger pages. How is your Make time set? Try the Simple Algorithm . maybe turn off Object Detection selection.
I have never set up my day and night to different recording Profile types ( no experience) using that BI scheduler. If you have enough disk space maybe leave everything on Profile 1 with Continous + Triggers, and get 1 profile working on Continous + whatever, Alerts or triggers. and see if eliminating the scheduler does anything.

 

[Flintstone61]

@sebastiantombs...Dude you give me shit about my Jivetech? LOL you got a Reo? HAHAHAh!

 

[sebastiantombs]

I bought that Reolink way before you bought your JiveTech and way, way, before I found IPCT.

 

[The Automation Guy]

Are the Reolink cameras on the latest firmware version? Reolink recently updated it to allow flexible i-frames. This is one change (and there may be others) that have allowed the Reolink to be more stable with BI.

 

[pochrist]

You didn't post your Trigger pages. How is your Make time set? Try the Simple Algorithm . maybe turn off Object Detection selection.
I have never set up my day and night to different recording Profile types ( no experience) using that BI scheduler. If you have enough disk space maybe leave everything on Profile 1 with Continous + Triggers, and get 1 profile working on Continous + whatever, Alerts or triggers. and see if eliminating the scheduler does anything.

So I just applied the setting to all the camera on the Night profile one by one.
I also earlier made sure every camera was pointed to the correct port, and set all of them to use RTSP H.64 with a trigger on ONVIF events.
I'll have to see the results in the AM.

Thanks

 

[pochrist]

Well that was a dud... starting to wonder if it can be even done so I am going to scrap the schedules and try to have the system continuously record....
The question came up the cam are on the latest firmware.

 

[wittaj]

Reolink bug bites again

 

[pochrist]

Ok so at around 9:30am I killed the Night schedule and set all the cams to the same profile all recording continuous + trigger.

So far as of now 8:51 pm they are all on and recording. Seems like I have crack the code as to how to mix the a Dual schedule setup. I'm sure the developers put it there for a reason.

After all regardless of the Manufacturer at the end of the day its just "dumb" video stream traveling over network cable. Unless a company actively locks down a unit or severely restricts modification network setting and protocols you could record off an old webcam.