BI is not showing 2 pictures of Dual lens camera Dahua HDBW5441F-AS-E2

[mteky2]

First off I want to thank the community for helping each other. In BI when adding Dahua IPC-HDBW5441F-AS-E2 dual lens camera, BI is only showing one view of this camera instead of 2 in Live view. Am I missing a setting or something in BI to show pictures from both lens?

Camera System Version V2.840.15OG004.0.R, Build Date: 2021-10-27

 

[wittaj]

You need to add the camera twice in to BI.

So go to BI and add camera. Then type in username and password and hit the find/inspect. It should come up as generic.

That should then bring up dropdowns for mainstream and substream that have CHANNEL 1 and CHANNEL 2 in them. Each channel is one of the cameras.

Select Channel 1 for camera 1.

Then add-camera and repeat above, except chose CHANNEL 2. It is the same IP address for both cameras and CHANNEL distinguishes the camera.

 

[mteky2]

You need to add the camera twice in to BI.

So go to BI and add camera. Then type in username and password and hit the find/inspect. It should come up as generic.

That should then bring up dropdowns for mainstream and substream that have CHANNEL 1 and CHANNEL 2 in them. Each channel is one of the cameras.

Select Channel 1 for camera 1.

Then add-camera and repeat above, except chose CHANNEL 2. It is the same IP address for both cameras and CHANNEL distinguishes the camera.

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Thank you buddy!

 

[Virga]

Trying to install HDBW5441F-AS-E2 / boobie-cam in BI, cam purchased from Andy in March 2023.
Fortunately found this thread, which reminded me about Channel 1 and 2 respectively.
After correcting parameters as outlined by @wittaj above:

• Channel 1 showing image rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise in BI
• Channel 2 showing same image but rotated 90 degrees clockwise
• In Chrome can log into camera, but can't get past its request for a plug-in
• right now BI running on a Windows 10 PC but in a day or two BI PC will become Win 11.

Suggestions?

 

[wittaj]

Sounds like it is either rotated in BI or the camera GUI or the lens itself is rotated on Channel 2.

You need Internet Explorer, yeah we know.

But Explorer is still in Win10 and Win11.

Open up Notepad and Copy this text below in the blank space and do a save as IE.vbs and make it a shortcut on your desktop and then plain ole Internet Explorer will run again and then so will the plug-ins.

CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application").Visible=true

 

[Virga]

Thanks, your suggestions have solved the problems.
Chances are when the camera had first arrived I must have tinkered with it and rotated both lenses, and it had been in that state ever since.
The explanation for same image on both channels turned out to be similar - both lenses were pointing straight ahead, so it looked like it was the same image.
Pulled each lens off to either side, and that made the images distinct.
Will follow up on your IE suggestion.
Now back to play.