Here is the configuration that works for the TP-Link TAPO C520WS

Right click any camera and pick the disable menu item!

Re-enable from the BI status screen on the camera tab!

I would strongly suggest that you turn off the auto updates, as they are essentially beta versions, stick with updating to the stable versions, when you have time to investigate any changes and deal with any issues that may arise! Or perhaps you enjoy a little drama in your life.

Just to clarify, is your entire BI system virtualized or is it running directly on a Windows PC!

I am wondering how you know for sure that the camera is still working when you can not view it on it's web interface! A 20 second flash of picture may just as well have indicated the camera dying, I have had to replace 2 very old cameras that I could no longer get to the web interface due to out of ...

see my reply on IPCAM Talk

Click on the BI status icon (The little graph symbol upper left end above the alerts box), then select the Cameras tab, you should be able to see the disabled cameras and re-enable it from there.

Before you start cutting off connectors; have you checked if the cameras settings in BI has audio enabled, if so then disable it if the cameras are not able to send audio.

Set it to run as a service!

You most likely will have to contact support to get this issue resolved. Not something that can be resolved here on this user forum.