I'm still trying some troubleshooting steps on my own, but I have two questions at the moment.
1. A Logitech Alert 750 camera I have been using to cover my driveway has recently decided to not detect nearly anything in the daylight except for the shadow of a tree blowing in the wind...
I never really had any issues with this cam in the past. It did record too much shadow motion (the tree), but I'd be happy living with that if it would also go back to recording desired events. My driveway takes up a majority of the frame and I can walk my fat arse out to the foreground of the camera wearing all black and get in and drive both cars off and not a single frame of it will be recorded. This camera once caught and help prosecute a man for stealing from my garage and now someone could take everything I own right out the garage into a moving van in the center of the frame and I wouldn't have a single second of any of it, unless the wind blows and the shadow of the tree sets off the motion.
At night, BI will pick up a gnat flying by at full speed (I have the motion rectangles turned on for testing purposes). At night it will pick up a 3 foot tall child picking his nose in the far background... It often triggers from faint headlights indirectly reflecting off the side of my cars. But, in the day it won't pick me up doing jumping jacks in the foreground or the EMT giving me CPR after the 10th jumping jack...
I thought maybe it was a contrast issue, white cars, white driveway, etc, so I played with the motion size and contrast slider, setting them both to far left (most sensitive) and that didn't seem to make a difference. It never picks up anything in daylight.
Just before I started writing this I deleted and re-added the camera to BI. So, nothing is masked out and everything is back to default (except I turned on the motion rectangles and set the minimum object size to most sensitive) and a large black truck just pulled up next door and still nothing.
It's set up back to nearly default and yet it still will not perform as it once did for over a year using BI. The picture seems perfectly normal so, I have to assume it's a BI issue. BI just interprets the image as it's received, correct? I'd be willing to believe it's the Logitech camera itself, but I don't see how.
2. Now that I have deleted and re-added the camera in BI, can I re-associate the previous recordings of that camera with the newly re-added instance of that camera. If yes, how?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
*Additional info
Blue Iris Release 4.4.3.3 x 64
running on Win 10 Pro x64 with a core I5 3570k,16GB RAM Nvidia 770 GTX. BI runs at about 15% CPU with main window open and 3 cameras displayed. I can play CPU/Memory intensive games at night (when that camera works pretty well) and not even notice at all that hit to the CPU usage.
I recently migrated the entire BI setup from a really slow "media server" that wasn't handling it too well. IIRC the issue was present shortly prior to the migration, but I probably assumed it was the woefully underpowered hardware on the other PC.
All I can think of at the moment. Will answer any questions you folks come up with.
1. A Logitech Alert 750 camera I have been using to cover my driveway has recently decided to not detect nearly anything in the daylight except for the shadow of a tree blowing in the wind...
I never really had any issues with this cam in the past. It did record too much shadow motion (the tree), but I'd be happy living with that if it would also go back to recording desired events. My driveway takes up a majority of the frame and I can walk my fat arse out to the foreground of the camera wearing all black and get in and drive both cars off and not a single frame of it will be recorded. This camera once caught and help prosecute a man for stealing from my garage and now someone could take everything I own right out the garage into a moving van in the center of the frame and I wouldn't have a single second of any of it, unless the wind blows and the shadow of the tree sets off the motion.
At night, BI will pick up a gnat flying by at full speed (I have the motion rectangles turned on for testing purposes). At night it will pick up a 3 foot tall child picking his nose in the far background... It often triggers from faint headlights indirectly reflecting off the side of my cars. But, in the day it won't pick me up doing jumping jacks in the foreground or the EMT giving me CPR after the 10th jumping jack...
I thought maybe it was a contrast issue, white cars, white driveway, etc, so I played with the motion size and contrast slider, setting them both to far left (most sensitive) and that didn't seem to make a difference. It never picks up anything in daylight.
Just before I started writing this I deleted and re-added the camera to BI. So, nothing is masked out and everything is back to default (except I turned on the motion rectangles and set the minimum object size to most sensitive) and a large black truck just pulled up next door and still nothing.
It's set up back to nearly default and yet it still will not perform as it once did for over a year using BI. The picture seems perfectly normal so, I have to assume it's a BI issue. BI just interprets the image as it's received, correct? I'd be willing to believe it's the Logitech camera itself, but I don't see how.
2. Now that I have deleted and re-added the camera in BI, can I re-associate the previous recordings of that camera with the newly re-added instance of that camera. If yes, how?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
*Additional info
Blue Iris Release 4.4.3.3 x 64
running on Win 10 Pro x64 with a core I5 3570k,16GB RAM Nvidia 770 GTX. BI runs at about 15% CPU with main window open and 3 cameras displayed. I can play CPU/Memory intensive games at night (when that camera works pretty well) and not even notice at all that hit to the CPU usage.
I recently migrated the entire BI setup from a really slow "media server" that wasn't handling it too well. IIRC the issue was present shortly prior to the migration, but I probably assumed it was the woefully underpowered hardware on the other PC.
All I can think of at the moment. Will answer any questions you folks come up with.
