- Feb 2, 2018
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I've been playing around with a Blue Iris install for about a month. Still learning the software.
Right now my setup is 10 Amcrest 841B cameras with 9 of them on Wifi. My Wifi network is rather robust, using Unifi gear and lots of access points. I don't tend to have more than 2 cameras connected to any one access point and the AP's are very well spaced out.
The problem I'm having is that after running for some time, I come back to find one or more cameras have gotten themselves into some kind of bandwidth trap. They're set to stream at 4000kbps, and tend to read in at a little over 500kB/s in the Blue Iris status window when working properly. When they're failing, they'll read ~200kB/s and the fps will drop from either 30 or 15 (depending on the camera) to anywhere below that. Live view and recording suffers to the point of being worthless. Resetting the cameras either manually or reconnecting them to the network through my Unifi network controller usually fixes them.
Some of the cameras seem to never exhibit this problem, and some have it daily. Since I can simply reconnect the camera to Wifi and the problem goes away, I don't think it is an issue of interference or Wifi congestion. So I think it is a problem with my network or the cameras or Blue Iris or the way they interact.
Any suggestions?
Right now my setup is 10 Amcrest 841B cameras with 9 of them on Wifi. My Wifi network is rather robust, using Unifi gear and lots of access points. I don't tend to have more than 2 cameras connected to any one access point and the AP's are very well spaced out.
The problem I'm having is that after running for some time, I come back to find one or more cameras have gotten themselves into some kind of bandwidth trap. They're set to stream at 4000kbps, and tend to read in at a little over 500kB/s in the Blue Iris status window when working properly. When they're failing, they'll read ~200kB/s and the fps will drop from either 30 or 15 (depending on the camera) to anywhere below that. Live view and recording suffers to the point of being worthless. Resetting the cameras either manually or reconnecting them to the network through my Unifi network controller usually fixes them.
Some of the cameras seem to never exhibit this problem, and some have it daily. Since I can simply reconnect the camera to Wifi and the problem goes away, I don't think it is an issue of interference or Wifi congestion. So I think it is a problem with my network or the cameras or Blue Iris or the way they interact.
Any suggestions?