I ran 5.9.9.14 for a while, and it seemed Ok. But I started noticing slowdowns in the FPS of several cameras, especially the Panasonics that send a 1080p substream, but also two of the Dahuas. I rebooted the PC, the cameras more than once and nothing helped: the substreams stayed at 2-3 FPS. Downgra...

Virtual machines may be another option.

Thank you, this is very interesting! I have been having lag issues with Reolink TrackMix forever, and it didn't occur to me to try to enable the switch multicast snooping. I enabled it now and will see what happens.

I don't think 13 cameras at 2k plus duplicates at D2 is an overload for BI, although it seems to me as over-optimizing: I have 1080p substreams, and D2 substreams, and triggers switch to 4K on 13 cameras, and BI doesn't skip a beat on an old i7-4790k. So you probably have something else going on. I ...

Thank you for the detailed write-up. It is super helpful. I too found that BI is not using the available resources well. My CPU (viewed in Task Man as admin, not in BI) never goes above 50%, while BI is struggling to re-encode. I wonder if that is an I/O issue, but the disk throughput in BI never re...

Which of the two originally used cams did the AI work on, substream or main stream? This may be caused by a change in which exact frames CPAI analyzes in the new setup. I recommend enabling the DAT files and reviewing the exact calls BI makes to CPAI. When I troubleshooted my CPAI failure to confirm...

I just set up three wireless Tapo cams in BI. The steps are as follows. Set up the Tapo camera in the Tapo app by following the instructions. 1. In the Tapo app, Advanced options, enable Camera Account. 2. Create a simple user name and password (these can be anything and should be different from the...

Ok, I see. First off, let's distinguish between triggers and alerts. If you enabled and set up motion detection, and it used to work with DS, then you should be getting triggers, and clips should be recorded (you may even have continuous recording enabled). Alerts on the other hands are triggered ev...

For what its worth, ipcam-animal does not distinguish between a fox and a dog. Foxes visiting my yard, 5 ft from the camera, are all 90% dogs. I have a squirrel that is 75% person, and rabbits that are 75% dogs, but never a rabbit.

Dual cameras on other models (at least on my TrackMix) show up as different streams from the same IP address. You can make one camera in BI, then make a duplicate of it, then just select that different stream URL in the Main / Sub stream fields.