How to view BI via HTTP with 20 devices simultaneously on LAN

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Darrell H

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Feb 15, 2023
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Baltimore, MD
Hello, I'd like all of our 20 staff to be able to view the BI interface simultaneously via their browsers. It works fine for up to about 8 people, then the grey "wait" circle indicator comes on and it basically freezes up for everyone.
I can reproduce this from a single PC by duplicating the browser window about 10 times.
This is on the same simple LAN. Network resources (NIC, switches) do not seem to be overloaded. CPU is fine.
What is the bottleneck?

Thanks!
 
You may be onto something here. I can get Blue Iris to malfunction either by freezing a camera or crashing entirely, by using many browsers at the same time.

However your single PC tests are probably flawed because a web browser will only let you have a maximum of 6 connections open to the same blue iris server at the same time. This is a precaution taken by web browsers when connecting to HTTP 1.1 servers to help prevent overloading them. To avoid this issue, you shouldn't have more than 4 or 5 blue iris connections open at once in the same web browser on the same machine. To have any hope of more than 4-5 connections working, they need to be coming from different web browsers. The incognito/private browsing mode in each browser does count as a different web browser so you could do, say, 4 connections in Chrome, 4 connections in Chrome incognito, 4 connections in Edge, and so on.

I'll send in a bug report with my crash dumps and a link to this thread.
 
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