Recording every 30 minutes

[Mikentosh2017]

Today I checked my BI and noticed it’s recording every 30 minutes.

Should I uncheck this box?

What would be the reason to refresh the external IP?

 

[wittaj]

What do you mean by it is recording every 30 minutes? Do you mean you have the clips set to 30 minutes?

You would want to refresh the external IP periodically if you are using stunnel or port forwarding (not recommended) to view BI remotely and did not set up DDNS to account for a changing external IP address.

 

[Flintstone61]

Because your ISP did not give you a Static IP address, and your IP address could change every 24 hours or so....
it keeps your Webserver Ip address real....But you have to go into your BI app and sync it if your going that way....

 

[Mikentosh2017]

What do you mean by it is recording every 30 minutes? Do you mean you have the clips set to 30 minutes?

Yes. Clips are being recorded every 30 minutes.

 

[Mikentosh2017]

to view BI remotely

I’ve not gotten to remote viewing yet.

 

[Flintstone61]

The setting your showing us isn't controlling the recording functions.
thats on another tab in settings

 

[Mikentosh2017]

Do you mean you have the clips set to 30 minutes?

I’m not sure. BI seems to record nothing every 30 minutes. I deleted >450 clips from about 2 weeks ago.

 

[Mikentosh2017]

The setting your showing us isn't controlling the recording functions.
thats on another tab in settings

Hmmm. I’ll leave it be.

 

[Broachoski]

Record length is set in each cameras record tab like in this photo.

 

[Mikentosh2017]

But you have to go into your BI app and sync it if your going that way....

Do you mean go into BI and sync the app to DHCP?

 

[Broachoski]

You should not have to delete any clips if you have your storage space set under setup, Clips and Storage tab.

 

[Flintstone61]

whatever changes happen to that Webserver when it refreshes the IP address....would have to also be changed in the BI Mobile App. Namely the Ipaddress where your phone will now find the BI server.

 

[Mikentosh2017]

Record length is set in each cameras record tab like in this photo.View attachment 142342

I’ve seen that selection before but my issue is not the length of clip but BI appears to record every 30 minutes regardless of triggers, if any. At least that’s what I observed. I may be wrong. I’ll recheck in a few days.

 

[Mikentosh2017]

whatever changes happen to that Webserver when it refreshes the IP address....would have to also be changed in the BI Mobile App. Namely the Ipaddress where your phone will now find the BI server.

I’ve not gotten to that level yet. Nor email notifications. I’m such a noob.

 

[Mikentosh2017]

You should not have to delete any clips if you have your storage space set under setup, Clips and Storage tab.

You are right. I believe BI will delete based on my settings. I’ll refrain in the future.

 

[samplenhold]

BI seems to record nothing every 30 minutes.

Not sure what you mean here...records nothing? Are you saying that there are alerts for each cam every 30 minutes? If so, that could be taking a JPG shot every 30 min. That is on the Record tab of the cam settings.

Or are you saying that every 30 minutes there are video files that have no size? Nothing on them?

Are you recording continuous or just on triggers?

 

[Mikentosh2017]

Not sure what you mean here...records nothing? Are you saying that there are alerts for each cam every 30 minutes? If so, that could be taking a JPG shot every 30 min. That is on the Record tab of the cam settings.

Or are you saying that every 30 minutes there are video files that have no size? Nothing on them?

Are you recording continuous or just on triggers?

I checked closer today and it appears to have been a spider web on the camera. I brushed it with a broom.