I have 4 cameras running in Blue Iris without even a hiccup.
3 of them are 2 Megapixel, 1 is an 8 Megapixel.
I am running these as a hobby only to watch the wildlife here and keep them off the internet.
I view all of them simultaneously in Blue Iris live on my 65" LG TV in 2K resolution.
I use Main stream only and refuse to use Sub stream, because I don't care for the resulting degraded live view.
My CPU percentage never exceeds 5% and mostly hovers around 1%.
Ii only exceeds 1% when all cameras are recording live motion. ( Lots of wild turkeys)
Longest POE cable is 135 foot.
My Blue Iris Status page among other data, usually shows FPS/key data, with only minor changes occurring during motion activity.
Name------------------------------------FPS/key
Unfortunately, every time I try to add a 5th camera, it starts losing key frames at random times, then recovers and so on.
Within 1 hour, I average around 70 connection losses during daytime, and 5 to 8 during night time.
This is probably due to more motion during daytime.
I have tried 8Mp cams and also 5Mp cams.
Now I ordered another 2Mp, this time from Andy.
I thought I've built a pretty powerful system (12 care AMD processor).
I do not want to run an NVR and have no room for it, in case you intend to recommend that.
It seems obvious that my system has a bottleneck.
I have 2 NIC cards installed, 2.5 Gig and 1 Gig, currently using the 2.5 Gig only.
I also have 4 Samsung SSD drives.
Where is the bottleneck?
What can I do to accommodate a 5th camera?
3 of them are 2 Megapixel, 1 is an 8 Megapixel.
I am running these as a hobby only to watch the wildlife here and keep them off the internet.
I view all of them simultaneously in Blue Iris live on my 65" LG TV in 2K resolution.
I use Main stream only and refuse to use Sub stream, because I don't care for the resulting degraded live view.
My CPU percentage never exceeds 5% and mostly hovers around 1%.
Ii only exceeds 1% when all cameras are recording live motion. ( Lots of wild turkeys)
Longest POE cable is 135 foot.
My Blue Iris Status page among other data, usually shows FPS/key data, with only minor changes occurring during motion activity.
Name------------------------------------FPS/key
- My camera 1(Cam1) (2Mp) -----25.20/0.50
- My camera 2(Cam2) (2Mp) -----25.20/0.50
- My camera 3(Cam3) (2Mp) -----25.20/0.50
- My camera 4(Cam4) (8Mp) -----15.02/0.30
Unfortunately, every time I try to add a 5th camera, it starts losing key frames at random times, then recovers and so on.
Within 1 hour, I average around 70 connection losses during daytime, and 5 to 8 during night time.
This is probably due to more motion during daytime.
I have tried 8Mp cams and also 5Mp cams.
Now I ordered another 2Mp, this time from Andy.
I thought I've built a pretty powerful system (12 care AMD processor).
I do not want to run an NVR and have no room for it, in case you intend to recommend that.
It seems obvious that my system has a bottleneck.
I have 2 NIC cards installed, 2.5 Gig and 1 Gig, currently using the 2.5 Gig only.
I also have 4 Samsung SSD drives.
Where is the bottleneck?
What can I do to accommodate a 5th camera?