Issues recording

[Prinler]

I was having issues with the motion activation. So I turned on recording all the time on all cameras.
It seemed to be working fine but now this is happening. The app was open the whole time. I attached my storage settings.

 

[sebastiantombs]

It looks like you have a half dozen cameras recording. The sizes you have configured are quite small. Terabytes is more appropriate for continuous recording.

Post a screen shot of the record tab for one of your cameras. That may help further.

 

[Prinler]

It looks like you have a half dozen cameras recording. The sizes you have configured are quite small. Terabytes is more appropriate for continuous recording.

Post a screen shoot of the record tab for one of your cameras. That may help further.

 

[sebastiantombs]

I'd suggest setting combine or cut at 1 hour to make the clip sizes more manageable and easier to review. Given the small amount of disk space you've allocated I'm betting you run out of space in under an hour or two at best. Increase the size of New to a couple of terabytes. In reality, Stored doesn't need much at all. If you need a specific clip you can export and save the video in various formats that aren't .bvr and can be easily viewed on any machine.

Another question for you. Are you using sub streams? If you use them you can record the sub stream an switch to main stream on alerts. That saves a lot of disk space as well as reduces CPU utilization significantly.

 

[Prinler]

Yes, i swapped them all over to sub streams now.
how do i change it to " record the sub stream an switch to main stream on alerts"?

 

[sebastiantombs]

Where you have the checkmark for Video > Continuous just click the arrow next to Continuous. A dropdown menu will let you select Continuous + Alerts or Continuous + Triggered. Both will record the sub stream normally but switch to the main stream for an alert or trigger. Worst case, click on the Help button and read what comes up.

 

[SouthernYankee]

You need a minimum of 2 TB for the new folder. You need zero for the stored folder.

provide a screen shot of Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph) clip storage tab.

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My Standard allocation post.

1) Do not use time (limit clip age)to determine when BI video files are moved or deleted, only use space. Using time wastes disk space.
2) If New and stored are on the same disk drive do not used stored, set the stored size to zero, set the new folder to delete, not move. All it does is waste CPU time and increase the number of disk writes. You can leave the stored folder on the drive just do not use it.
3) Never allocate over 90% of the total disk drive to BI.
4) if using continuous recording on the BI camera settings, record tab, set the combine and cut video to 1 hour or 3 GB. Really big files are difficult to transfer.
5) it is recommend to NOT store video on an SSD (the C: drive).
6) Do not run the disk defragmenter on the video storage disk drives.
7) Do not run virus scanners on BI folders
8) an alternate way to allocate space on multiple drives is to assign different cameras to different drives, so there is no file movement between new and stored.
9) Never use an External USB drive for the NEW folder. Never use a network drive for the NEW folder.
10) for performance do not put more than about 10,000 files in a folder, the search and adding files will eat CPU and disk performance. Look at using a sub folder per camera (see &CAM in bi help)


Advanced storage:
If you are using a complete disk for large video file storage (BVR) continuous recording, I recommend formatting the disk, with a windows cluster size of 1024K (1 Megabyte). This is a increase from the 4K default. This will reduce the physical number of disk write, decrease the disk fragmentation, speed up access.
Hint:
On the Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph) clip storage tab, if there is any red on the bars you have a allocation problem. If there is no Green, you have no free space, this is bad.
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