My dude! this is just insanely helpful, thank you so much. Two questions:
- I've never seen the "Record Dual-Streams if Available" option before. Is that checked by default and I just never noticed it? or is that a necessary configuration for something in your setup?
- Where are you defining the 60 second clip on AI Tool confirmation? That's longer than most people record, right?
Also: Are you concerned that the 24x7 recording clone will automatically record the high def stream if present?
If you do not have the "Record Dual-Streams if Available" option it's possible that your BI software is in need of updating, 5.3.9.6 is the version I am currently running date 10th Feb 2021. My setup is as you know based on using a cloned camera, the main camera is used to generate the high quality JPEG for analysis by aitool. This camera monitors for movement in SD and then when triggered automatically switches to HD to take the high quality JPEG image. Hence the need to utilise both streams on this camera. The second logical unit of this camera is only used to capture video when it receives a command from aitool.
The 60 second period for the 8K recording is IMHO the minimum that makes sense to avoid missing something and also avoids lots of smaller files of video. My theory is that within 60 seconds the camera will trigger again if anything interesting is going on and ultimately will provide a complete record of what happened without recording 24 x 7 which I consider overkill for my application. If I were providing security for the queens jewels I would most definitely use 24 x 7 recording. By way of example, when my gardener is working in the garden I usually end up with a video lasting for about an hour because the camera is re-triggered within 60 seconds while he is working.
In respect to your last point, you can avoid the camera that generates triggered images from recording in HD by only listing the SD stream in the configuration if you do find that your recording are in HD. To achieve automatic stream switching you will need to be running a reasonably recent version of BI.