Camera error's and not recording

My ip address did change when comcrap did their hard reset but hasn't changed since.
Camera's should be fixed. Meaning they don't change. I have some wyze cams that give some issues but I know why they are being a pain.
If I force a trigger I get a Front_Of_house Clip: write error 80000013, undefined
 
I just went back and looked at your storage tab again. Why isn't the drive identified with a drive letter rather than a URL if it's actually in the machine and shows in the BIOS?
 
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Because it's on my server. BI is on my laptop that's all it does is BI nothing else. Then BI saves everything to unraid (server). The hard drive in the server is not part of the array it is it's own hard drive. Should i map the drive on the laptop and give it a letter?
 
Like I said, writing directly to an array, no matter how you define it, it is still a remote drive. That, in itself, is problematic and unreliable. You can check the credentials, again, used to access that drive and exactly how your laptop is pointed to it, IE the path in the clips and archiving tab. Also, running BI on a laptop is another plan doomed to failure. Even if BI is not constantly writing video it is constantly analyzing video. That will push the processor and in a laptop it will end up being throttled back by heat.
 
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This drive isn’t part of the array. There is a way to tell unraid that the drive I am using isn’t in the array. It is like this. Think of the array as c:\ that’s your array. The blue iris drive would be separate from the array it would be say D:\ not part of the array.
The laptop is an ASUS ROG laptop so it’s a little more then a normal laptop. Never had any heating issues ever.
Here is a picture of how the server works.
 

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I also have my desktop with a ryzen 7 that can run circles around the laptop. I can upgrade one of it’s hard drives but I use that to play games and office work.
 
Given you're only writing alerts, which you could limit to one hour rather than a few minutes to reduce the number of files for simplicity sake, you can write to the laptop and limit the files by age, say two or three days depending on how much activity, or by size allocation which is probably a better choice, and then move them to "stored" on you server. That is the type of operation an array controller is designed for. Again, a remote drive in an array box is an array drive for all intents and purposes in this kind of application.

Frankly, you'd be better off getting a refurb from Dell, HP or Lenovo and be done with it. Then you have onboard drive space and can record 24/7. Keep the laptop for gaming and office work and let BI be a standalone machine. Less aggravation and more reliability in the long run.
 
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That's kind of light for BI. I'd say 6th generation minimum, that's a 2nd generation.

Out of curiosity can you manually copy a file from the laptop into the New folder on the remote drive?
 
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Glad you found it. I should have asked that earlier but assumed you had done that. Like my wife always says, the answer is right there, behind the milk.
 
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Just FYI, I had a similar looking issue. Posting it here in case someone else comes across it.

I have a similar setup where I write to a network share. Normally I write to the share through its mapped drive path: T:\path\to\write. BI fails to write in this way and produces the same errors in the log as OP found. Use of a UNC path, \\server\path\to\write, works fine.

I have contacted BI about this issue.
 
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