Cameras and Clones swapping

58chev

58chev

Pulling my weight
Aug 30, 2017
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Etobi, Ontario
I noticed today that my my two cloned cameras are now showing a bit rate and have taken on the name of my regular cameras and vice versa.
Clones are kept hidden. But now two regular cameras are hidden and two clones are visible.

I'm not sure if this happened today after the update or earlier in the week with the last update.

This did happen to me about 6 weeks ago and I thought it was something I had buggered up. But I have not been messing around aside from updates.

Hope someone has an easy fix to restore these the way they were, without having to blow them away and recreate.

Clones.jpg Cameras.jpg CamerasClones.jpg
 
I have not had this problem I am on the current version 4.8.6.2 x64. All my cameras have clones, that have different names, are hidden, are continuous recording to a NAS, have no triggers. my cameras are in groups.
 
@SouthernYankee @hltljohn
Rebuilt my cameras, this time created "Groups" as I did not have my cameras in any.

hltljohn said:
Make sure that you have the original cameras marked as "Designated group master" on the camera video tab.
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For this option, is it just a single camera that I make group master?
Absolutely nothing about this option in the help, even the screens for Video help are dated.
 
The word "group" is a little confusing because it is not the same group as camera groups. The "Designated group master" indicates that this camera is the only camera with the same IP that will pull a stream.
 
hltljohn said:
The word "group" is a little confusing because it is not the same group as camera groups. The "Designated group master" indicates that this camera is the only camera with the same IP that will pull a stream.
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So this would mean that I can designate the master of each cloned camera?
 
hltljohn said:
Make sure that you have the original cameras marked as "Designated group master" on the camera video tab.
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Thanks for that information. I never knew about this setting and even though I have all cameras cloned the primary ones are marked and the secondary ones are not. Happened by default.
 
Odd, I have two cloned cameras from different master cameras. One clone shows no bit rate; the other does. I marked both original cameras as the 'Designated Group Master', restarted the originals and clones, but one of the clones is still showing bit rate.
 
DLONG2 said:
Odd, I have two cloned cameras from different master cameras. One clone shows no bit rate; the other does. I marked both original cameras as the 'Designated Group Master', restarted the originals and clones, but one of the clones is still showing bit rate.
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Try disabling then re enabling the clone that has the bit rate.
 
The disable is a BI feature such as restart?
 
Open the camera properties, configuration, and check the box that says "disabled". No re-start needed.
 
Odd. I disable and re-enable, and the bit rate on the cloned camera soon returns. This cloned camera is not recording video, only taking a snapshot whenever it is triggered via home automation where it then emails out the snapshot. Should I perhaps delete the camera and try again? It didn't used to show any bit rate before.
 
@DLONG2
I had to delete and recreate my cameras.
 
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Thanks, 58chev, I did likewise last night, and the new cloned camera is working correctly.
 
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