Hi friends. I'm continuing to tinker with my new Blue Iris setup and have spotted something interesting. A few of my cameras on my 5 outdoor/3 indoor camera setup seem to consistently have yellow borders coming up on the feeds. I dug around this forum, Reddit, and the help file, and came up with a few possible things to look for:
1) The camera border will be yellow when the motion detection is paused, such as after a PTZ command or PTZ preset position change.
2) The yellow caution icon may be displayed on your camera window when there is a mismatch between the camera's frame rate and the maximum frame rate setting on this page. By default, the software will automatically increase the maximum frame rate (FPS) setting in order to properly handle all frames delivered by your cameras. If you need to throttle the number of FPS from a camera, the best way to do that is by using the camera's own web interface to adjust the number of frames that it generates.
I didn't see any other possible items listed beyond these, so I dug in a bit.
In regard to #1, I took a look at my camera settings. Camera Properties >> Record >> Video is set to Continuous. Camera Properties >> Triggers is set to Active. Motion detect is enabled and is identical on all cameras (despite only 2 constantly and a 3rd sometimes showing the yellow border). PTZ settings are disabled on all cameras as I only have fixed cams. I've deleted the cameras and re-added them from scratch without change. I've restarted the server, the BI service, and the cameras without change.
In regard to #2, all cameras record at 10 FPS and I had 10 FPS set for all cameras within Blue Iris. I went through the settings and adjusted them all to 12.50, and 15.00, 20.00, but nothing yielded any change in behavior.
I found the setting to disable the yellow border in the Blue Iris settings page, and while it does remove the yellow border, I got to wondering if this is just hiding a problem. I ended up dancing in front of one of the two cameras that were pretty consistently displaying the yellow border. At one point when it was yellow and I was moving, it did not switch to red to indicate it noticed motion. If I was moving when the yellow border was not there it would go red to indicate it noticed me and logged it as an alert. This made me suspicious that perhaps disabling it *was* just hiding an issue. Perhaps there were other variables involved I have yet to learn about, I'm not sure.
That left me a little unsure of what to do next. I read the help file, I looked online, I found posts here, but aside from a few folks that said "I just rebooted my camera and the issue went away" (which unfortunately didn't solve it for me) or "oh whoops I did have PTZ functions enabled on a non-PTZ camera" (which I already checked) I wasn't sure where to turn next. I emailed support so I assume I'll hear back within the next few days, but got curious enough if anybody here had seen this before to possibly weigh in with more detail as to what might be the cause.
As always, thanks for any insight!
1) The camera border will be yellow when the motion detection is paused, such as after a PTZ command or PTZ preset position change.
2) The yellow caution icon may be displayed on your camera window when there is a mismatch between the camera's frame rate and the maximum frame rate setting on this page. By default, the software will automatically increase the maximum frame rate (FPS) setting in order to properly handle all frames delivered by your cameras. If you need to throttle the number of FPS from a camera, the best way to do that is by using the camera's own web interface to adjust the number of frames that it generates.
I didn't see any other possible items listed beyond these, so I dug in a bit.
In regard to #1, I took a look at my camera settings. Camera Properties >> Record >> Video is set to Continuous. Camera Properties >> Triggers is set to Active. Motion detect is enabled and is identical on all cameras (despite only 2 constantly and a 3rd sometimes showing the yellow border). PTZ settings are disabled on all cameras as I only have fixed cams. I've deleted the cameras and re-added them from scratch without change. I've restarted the server, the BI service, and the cameras without change.
In regard to #2, all cameras record at 10 FPS and I had 10 FPS set for all cameras within Blue Iris. I went through the settings and adjusted them all to 12.50, and 15.00, 20.00, but nothing yielded any change in behavior.
I found the setting to disable the yellow border in the Blue Iris settings page, and while it does remove the yellow border, I got to wondering if this is just hiding a problem. I ended up dancing in front of one of the two cameras that were pretty consistently displaying the yellow border. At one point when it was yellow and I was moving, it did not switch to red to indicate it noticed motion. If I was moving when the yellow border was not there it would go red to indicate it noticed me and logged it as an alert. This made me suspicious that perhaps disabling it *was* just hiding an issue. Perhaps there were other variables involved I have yet to learn about, I'm not sure.
That left me a little unsure of what to do next. I read the help file, I looked online, I found posts here, but aside from a few folks that said "I just rebooted my camera and the issue went away" (which unfortunately didn't solve it for me) or "oh whoops I did have PTZ functions enabled on a non-PTZ camera" (which I already checked) I wasn't sure where to turn next. I emailed support so I assume I'll hear back within the next few days, but got curious enough if anybody here had seen this before to possibly weigh in with more detail as to what might be the cause.
As always, thanks for any insight!