...I am happy that at least I can just restart the camera and still ptz around for as long as i'd normally want to, still a bummer though. like having an old car that theres a trick to starting, only this isnt a car and I unboxed it yesterday.
One more notable observation... after I "restart camera" and everything is back up and ptz is working, "Preset Invalid" is flashing on the left side of the screen once every 30-ish seconds for several minutes, and once it stops flashing, ptz no longer works on
blue iris.
here is how I fixed it, in blue iris i right clicked on the screen and went to "camera properties", then the "ptz/Control" tab, halfway down under "preset positions" i clicked the "edit presets" button, there were about 15 presets in the list and one by one i cleared them all. Also, logged in on the web interface and made sure there were no presets in there and there were not. No more flashing invalid preset and ptz works just fine. I hope you guys find similar results