Blue Iris

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T16:20:35+00:00

Of course it will vary, but it should never see 80% with that processsor if substreams are approriately enabled everywhere.

And forgive the opinion, but...

I think I'd save the Unraid until you have a handle on a basic Windows i7 setup. BI can be challenging enough when used in the environment it was designed -- for which is Windows and Intel. Good, bad, or upsidedown philosophically, that's what works best and what most would recommend.

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:20 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T15:38:08+00:00

My CPU ranges depending on activity and triggers see attached for current, but I have seen it as low as 19% and as high as 68% once in a while I have seen spikes into the 80% but it's from all cameras triggering.

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:38 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T15:27:40+00:00

Again, you need to determine the purpose of your NVidea card and set it up accordingly for AI if that's what it's for. The i7 can easily handle the heavy lifting for the encoding stuff using its QuickSync GPU -- provided sub streams are enabled on all cameras with direct to disk recording also selected and 'default' is selected for individual camera configurations. The cameras need to be restarted for the selection to be applied as previously indicated.

What is your CPU utilization as indicated by Blue Iris at the bottom of the desktop window?

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:27 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T15:18:49+00:00

Looks like i have some with I and others with N

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:18 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T15:06:02+00:00

That will work for h265 as it is a 7th generation of the QuickSync hardware acceleration GPU integrated with the CPU. It's a good one. Out of curiosity, what is your current CPU % utilization?

You would ideally have the i7 QuickSync GPU handling the encoding stuff which dramatically reduces the CPU overhead. This will be automatic if Intel is selected in the cameras area of the main settings page with default selected in the individual camera configuration.

The status of this can be verified using the Status page of Blue Iris which can be accessed by clicking the icon pictured below which will take you to the next screenshot. The 'HA' column will indicate Intel hardware acceleration (QuickSync) by the letter 'I'. That said, my 4K Reolinks throw an error for hardware compatibility but I'm also relegated to a 4th generation version of QuickSync which doesn't support h265 and there's no way to change the mainstream to h264 in the current Reolink firmware -- but that's a whole other thread. The 7th gen i7 should cruise right along without error.

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:06 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T14:31:22+00:00

see attached

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:31 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T14:27:03+00:00

Have you visited the Intel CPU / NVidea settings?

What do you mean? where do I go to check?

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:27 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T14:22:31+00:00

Just Intel is usually adequate. And that entry will apply to any camera config that is set to 'default' instead of NVidea. Again, I believe the NVidea would be specified elsewhere for the AI stuff. Someone else will need to either confirm or correct me on that.

Which i7 processor do you have?

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:22 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T14:16:56+00:00

Here is the current settings in the Camera tab

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:16 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T14:14:43+00:00

Have you visited the Intel CPU / NVidea settings?

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:14 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T13:57:36+00:00

This is what it looks like after the change. Is there any other setting i should change other than adding the sub?

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:57 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T13:49:29+00:00

Yep.

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:49 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T13:46:47+00:00

Is this what im changing it to?

Statistics: Posted by artamous75 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:46 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T13:20:59+00:00

Good morning. That info helps a lot.

Won't setting my stream profiles to sub give me lower-quality recordings?

No. Your main stream will still be accounted for. There's an explanation for how all that works. First things first. Activate your substream.

I initially tried to set it to Reolink, but when I click on find/inspect it finds it and the settings go back to generic.

Ok. There's no new funny business with these cameras then. Cool. Again, activate the substream. It should show up as Profile 001_SubStream in the selections box and the URL should be /h264Preview_01_sub.

I'm running an HP desktop with I7 and 48 GB RAM, i also have a Nvidea 1030 card in the system for the AI stuff.
Yes, i am recording directly to disk.

The Intel processor should be specified as your default for the streaming / encoding stuff which is done in the main settings page under cameras. Then select default for each individual camera and restart them in Blue Iris. (No need to reboot them.) This relieves the CPU from the load -- unless the i7 is less than a gen4 which wasn't yet capable of handling h265. Which generation of i7? Direct to disk is nearly mandatory for resource conservation. More than enough RAM unless the system is doing lots of other stuff besides also being a Blue Iris server.

I have the Nvidea for the AI

This is good. I'm not experienced with the AI stuff, but understand the NVidea can be specified to only handle the AI analysis activity to pull that load from the CPU. Set it up that way so it's not fighting with the Intel over the encoding.

Try the above and let us know how it goes.

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:20 pm

Re: New camera Alerts

2024-01-31T13:15:17+00:00

Hi, the basic idea is to record the high resolution stream, but to do the motion detection on a much lower resolution stream like 640x480. It takes a massive load off of the cpu. Most IP cameras can give two or three different resolution streams at the same time, so set up BI5 to have two streams, and you lose nothing.

There are many variations on this, so you could record the sub-stream until a trigger, and then record the main stream. BI5 is very flexible.

Statistics: Posted by TimG — Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:15 pm