Thanks, but I've always used D2D, no change to encoding, both streams, etc etc for recordings. That doesn't help with the rtsp streams provided by the BI web server, which area the issue here.

Hi folks, I'm struggling a bit with pulling camera streams into Home Assistant via BI. What seems to be happening, is that the BI integration is using the main stream and I suspect is also re-encoding it. My cameras are mostly h.265 and high-res and the usual display devices are a tablet and mobile ...

That's a thought; i thought the camera was dropping out completely (it's a wi-fi thing, so prone to do that), but perhaps it's just getting low bandwidth for a moment and can't get the main stream through. You're right, that probably would cause the thumbnails (sub-stream, I guess) to be there and t...

Interesting; please do post back if you get anything from BI support (not that it's very likely in my experience of them!). I like to be able to assign a camera to a disk/folder, to spread the work across spindles based on how the cameras are used. I used to use ACTi's NVR and could do that easily. ...

Hi All, I've seen two strange things happen with my BI system recently and I'm stumped; hopefully someone can help me to work out what's causing these! (1) The 'Alerts' folder is full of JPG files all of ZERO BYTES! I don't have high-res JPEG specified in the 'Triggers' tab for any of the cameras; t...