First off, its not the FTP file deleting bug when the camera reboots thats already been talked about.
I got THREE of the IP8M-T2499EW cameras with the 2.8mm lens about a month ago. They came with V2.622R190415 firmware so I upgraded to latest V2.622R191024 firmware and that went fine. The cameras are working well and are set to upload the video to a local PC running Filezilla (0.9.53beta if that matters) when a video detection event occurs. This FTP upload is working fine for these 3 cameras, no problems at all. The FTP upload process creates a folder for the camera Device Name (Setup>System>General>Device Name) and then sub folders for each day with a format of YYYY-MM-DD. Within each of those folders it makes a sub folder named 001 and within that sub folder another sub folder named dav. Now in that dav folder, it creates a sub folder for each hour and finally in each of those hourly folders the MP4 video files are stored based on the hour the video occurred. This is all done between with camera and Filezilla automatically, no user intervention is required. I am 100% happy with how this is working.
So the complete path name to a video file would be
e:\camera videos\CAM01\2020-04-14\001\dav\13\xxxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.mp4
Now the bizarre part. I decided to buy another IP8M-T2499EW camera with the 4.0mm lens. It came with the latest V2.622R191024 firmware already installed. The camera has been setup to be identical to the others (I triple checked everything) and it works normally except for the FTP. The videos are being uploaded to FTP but the file structure is now different only for this camera. Under each YYYY-MM-DD folder it now makes a sub folder named video_001. It then places all the mp4 videos of that day in that one folder. There can be 200-500 videos there in that one folder at the end of the day. It no longer creates a sub folder for each hour like the older cameras did, which kept the number of files in each folder to a more manageable number of 10-30. This is the same model camera, running the same firmware, uploading to the same FTP server yet the folder and file organization is different. BIZARRE !!!!
So for only this new camera the complete path to a video file would be
e:\camera videos\CAM04\2020-04-14\video_001\xxxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.mp4
I have rebooted the 4.0mm camera numerous times, no change. I have performed a factory reset from the GIU and then reconfigured the camera, no change. I have deleted the folder from Filezilla so after a camera reboot it has to create an new folder with the camera Device Name. This one camera insists on still doing the FTP folder structure this bizarre different way.
Anyone ever seen this and know how to fix this?
I know Blue Iris is far superior to FTP but like I said, 3 of these IP2M-T2499EW cameras work one way with FTP (and I like that way just fine) but 1 camera behaves differently with FTP for no reason that is obvious (like a user config error). Totally bizarre!
I got THREE of the IP8M-T2499EW cameras with the 2.8mm lens about a month ago. They came with V2.622R190415 firmware so I upgraded to latest V2.622R191024 firmware and that went fine. The cameras are working well and are set to upload the video to a local PC running Filezilla (0.9.53beta if that matters) when a video detection event occurs. This FTP upload is working fine for these 3 cameras, no problems at all. The FTP upload process creates a folder for the camera Device Name (Setup>System>General>Device Name) and then sub folders for each day with a format of YYYY-MM-DD. Within each of those folders it makes a sub folder named 001 and within that sub folder another sub folder named dav. Now in that dav folder, it creates a sub folder for each hour and finally in each of those hourly folders the MP4 video files are stored based on the hour the video occurred. This is all done between with camera and Filezilla automatically, no user intervention is required. I am 100% happy with how this is working.
So the complete path name to a video file would be
e:\camera videos\CAM01\2020-04-14\001\dav\13\xxxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.mp4
Now the bizarre part. I decided to buy another IP8M-T2499EW camera with the 4.0mm lens. It came with the latest V2.622R191024 firmware already installed. The camera has been setup to be identical to the others (I triple checked everything) and it works normally except for the FTP. The videos are being uploaded to FTP but the file structure is now different only for this camera. Under each YYYY-MM-DD folder it now makes a sub folder named video_001. It then places all the mp4 videos of that day in that one folder. There can be 200-500 videos there in that one folder at the end of the day. It no longer creates a sub folder for each hour like the older cameras did, which kept the number of files in each folder to a more manageable number of 10-30. This is the same model camera, running the same firmware, uploading to the same FTP server yet the folder and file organization is different. BIZARRE !!!!
So for only this new camera the complete path to a video file would be
e:\camera videos\CAM04\2020-04-14\video_001\xxxxxxyyyyyzzzzz.mp4
I have rebooted the 4.0mm camera numerous times, no change. I have performed a factory reset from the GIU and then reconfigured the camera, no change. I have deleted the folder from Filezilla so after a camera reboot it has to create an new folder with the camera Device Name. This one camera insists on still doing the FTP folder structure this bizarre different way.
Anyone ever seen this and know how to fix this?
I know Blue Iris is far superior to FTP but like I said, 3 of these IP2M-T2499EW cameras work one way with FTP (and I like that way just fine) but 1 camera behaves differently with FTP for no reason that is obvious (like a user config error). Totally bizarre!