I have a six-camera system with five cameras set to 1080p @ 15 fps and one camera set to 1440p @ 25 fps. The cameras are all Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z. Encoding mode on the cameras is H.264H. If I view the camera FPS stats in Blue Iris Admin > Status > Cameras, I see the five 15 fps cameras running at about 5 fps and the one 25 fps camera at about 10 fps. Viewing the camera list in the iPhone app also shows the same, reduced fps. It might be important to note that there are times when the fps values show the full fps set on the cameras. But then a few seconds later they all drop back down to reduced fps.
I'm confused as to why I'm not getting the full fps. In Blue Iris, I have each camera set to 1 fps higher than the camera fps setting.
This is a sufficiently-strong system with i5-8500 with 8 gb of memory. CPU utilization hovers between 5% and 10%.
The router is an Orbi RBR50. One LAN port of the Orbi connects to a 16-port Netgear GS116. One of the FS116NA ports connects to a Netgear GS108PEv3, which provides power to four cameras. One of the non-PoE ports of the GS108PEv3 connects to another GS108PEv3 (about 100' away) which powers the other two cameras.
I'd blame the long connection between switches IF the two cameras on the far switch were behaving differently, but that's not the case. Also, all the fps rates on all six cameras drop and recover together... so I'm having a hard time blaming the cameras (vs. the network or software).
Any ideas on what I can check?
EDIT: Is there a way to check the camera fps without using Blue Iris? If the camera itself were running at the full fps setting, then I'd know it had something to do with the Blue Iris config.
I'm confused as to why I'm not getting the full fps. In Blue Iris, I have each camera set to 1 fps higher than the camera fps setting.
This is a sufficiently-strong system with i5-8500 with 8 gb of memory. CPU utilization hovers between 5% and 10%.
The router is an Orbi RBR50. One LAN port of the Orbi connects to a 16-port Netgear GS116. One of the FS116NA ports connects to a Netgear GS108PEv3, which provides power to four cameras. One of the non-PoE ports of the GS108PEv3 connects to another GS108PEv3 (about 100' away) which powers the other two cameras.
I'd blame the long connection between switches IF the two cameras on the far switch were behaving differently, but that's not the case. Also, all the fps rates on all six cameras drop and recover together... so I'm having a hard time blaming the cameras (vs. the network or software).
Any ideas on what I can check?
EDIT: Is there a way to check the camera fps without using Blue Iris? If the camera itself were running at the full fps setting, then I'd know it had something to do with the Blue Iris config.
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