Cloning a camera is just adding a new camera and choosing the copy from existing camera option. If the clone has identical streams to the original, it doesn't use extra bandwidth or resources. You then would modify the trigger section of the clone, identical to Rob's method, but chosing never record and only using it to take snapshots.
Ahhh ty! I think it finally clicked. So, since it has to be the same resolution to be a clone, were people adding the low res substream to the main camera, and THEN cloning in BI to record 24/7 and take snapshots? The answer to this question actually leads me to the next part of your followup post:
Deepstack uses less CPU time and processes a lot quicker with the smaller images compared to the time
Blue Iris uses to resize the image.
Big time saving if you can send Deepstack the resized image and it works out okay for your situation
Would it then make sense to turn the substream of my camera (like IN the cameras settings, e.g.
Amcrest) into a 720p stream (it's SD right now) and enact the method above (but without 24/7 recording)? That way BI isn't converting anything, and AI/DS isn't being fed a JPEG greater than 720p and I can record 4k on confirmed alerts still?
In any event, thanks so much for everything. I'm still (very slowly) plowing through this thread, I'm at like 70/150 and i'd say the last 3 pages worth of info is worth 10-15 pages in the 60s/70s....