Village Guy
Pulling my weight
OK Before you move forward you need to decide how you want your security camera's to operate.Again, i'm sorry for not responding to this, I really don't know how I screwed that up, this is VERY helpful!
So i must confess I don't fully understand the difference between Clone and Dual Stream. My amcrest cam allow for multiple streams, I (think) i send snapshots from the substream to AI Tool and then send a trigger url to start recording on the HD/Main stream. Just based on the name I would think this would be Dual Stream, but I added each camera twice in Blue Iris so i really don't know. Sorry for my confusion.
As for your second point, I thought I'm just triggering recording of the HD stream when an alert is recognized but looking in BlueIris ALL of my SD cameras have a red circle in the top right and none of the HD ones do (all same cameras just added twice) so i don't believe I'm experiencing the setup I was intending to, i'll need to go back over my setup.
1. The camera's record continously so you will never in theory miss anything and you wll have a full history for the period the files remain on disk. This method will rely on events being flagged. The disadvantage is that you may need significant storage space depending on how long you intend to keep your history.
2. Your camera's are setup to only record when an event happens. This has the advantage of taking considerably less storage space since it will only record to disk when an event is triggered by a camera. The disadvantage is that you will not have a full time elapsed record.
Config 1. Only needs one camera per security area being covered.
Config 2. Require's effectively two camera's, one to feed a trigger to aitool and the other for aitool to send a trigger. This only happens when the event is qualified by aitool when it will initiate a record for the desired period. To reduce cpu load this normally is accomplished by setting up BI to have a Master and a Clone feed for each camera.
Single or Dual stream has very little if any change required to the aitool configuration, it is specific to BI. It can assist aitool to capture high definition triggered images when a camera stream is monitoring in a lower resolution.