Well, I don't understand it, but deleting the camera from BI and adding it back seems to have resolved the FPS and bottleneck errors. Almost 3 hours and zero "no signal" errors and no timeouts or even a hint of problems, and I've been watching it the entire time.
I had previously had the camera set up using a hikvision profile, and I decided to try the generic/onvif profile this time. It initially didn't work with the default settings under that profile at all, so after a little searching I found the suggestion to use "videostreamid=1" in the video profile setting, and voila, it works. When I set it up, the p2p bridge was back up to 80 signal strength, but it's been raining hard for the last 30 minutes and the link has been down to 10-20% and everything is still streaming.
This makes zero sense considering the issues with the laptop hooked up to the switch and seeing it affected as well, but I've gone from several "no signal" errors every few minutes to none in the last 3 hours. I'll keep watching it and see if I get any no signal errors overnight and then go back with a laptop again tomorrow to see if I can make it act up again.
I've been running Mokerlink switches for years without a single failure other than losing a few lan ports to lightning/electrical spikes during storms (I used to have 150' CAT6 running exposed over the ground connecting two switches and I think it was really just a giant antenna lol, hence the switch to fiber now). I've never lost a camera on a mokerlink switch - the switches have always protected the equipment from zaps. If this issue comes back, maybe it will be the first problem I've had with Mokerlink. Oh, and most of them I have are installed in outdoor boxes or sheds running in extreme heat, sun, wind, rain, humidity, you name it.
The Cody/Cudy brand, I don't have any experience with until this POE++ injector that's been a complete failure. I was under the impression that it was quality stuff, but it seemed to be stuck at 30W output and never stepped up to higher output so the camera would power cycle anytime the IR was on and PTZ motion was commanded. Maybe I just got a bad unit, maybe the brand is junk, I dunno. But I doubt I'd give them another shot at this point. What kinda failures do you see happening with Mokerlink switches?
