Before I get into my gripe, let me first say I truly love Blue Iris, I use it for my home and 8 other properties owned by myself or family, I pay for maintenance updates on 3 of those installs. However, I work as a professional integrator, I am eagerly awaiting the day I can spec this product on a professional install, but right now I can't. When I saw that V6 suported 128 cameras I was excited as many of my customers are in the 60 to 100 camera range, so I bought another license, fired up a new machine with the specs to handle the camera load (based on specs that easily run Salient, Exacq, Milestone) added every camera I could and several live cam feeds from the internet to get to 100 cameras, initially things were ok, obviously it strained a bit more that my typical installs of 8 to 20 cameras, but it was usable, surely the coming updates would incrementally make things better. sadly that has not been the case, updating to the latest stable release at every opportunity has made me feel like a beta tester, sometimes a rare bug on a single camera type gets fixed, other times all of the recording settings get wiped out and somehow set every camera to decode without requirement, forcing me to kill the internet just to get enough stability to deactivate cams and change settings. Please, help me make this into a commercial product I can recommend.
Latest highly-stable update, any chance this can mean something?
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Bruce_H
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Some thoughts as I have no idea of the specs for you computer or your internet speed! I have three systems all of them have relatively low camera counts compared to your commercial customers, my biggest has 18 cameras, it is running on an AMD Based computer and has CPU utilizations under 10, so relatively light loads, V6 is definitely going through some growing pains as they work to integrate AI, is it ready for commercial use, I would say not yet, but I am sure that it costs a fraction of what your other customers are using! The one system is located in a rural area and is connected via a VSDL internet that only provides 5Mbs download speeds and 650Kbs upload so I have a good appreciation for bandwidth requirements, I have tried streaming 1 camera directly from the site and I can tell you that with my limited bandwidth it does not work. When you mention streaming multiple cameras from the internet it makes me cringe, this is something that I personally would never consider, it is not a wonder that you had to disconnect your system from the internet to get it to respond! Just my 2 cents worth!
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I’ve been holding off installing any of the “stable” builds. They seem buggier than normal.
Im moving my home and father’s house to Frigate. After playing with it a couple weeks, I like it. I just can’t move my business to it as it lacks some of the functionality I need that BI provides.
But, yeah. I’ve been disappointed with the development and releases of BI lately. His updates are pushed waaaay to fast.
Im moving my home and father’s house to Frigate. After playing with it a couple weeks, I like it. I just can’t move my business to it as it lacks some of the functionality I need that BI provides.
But, yeah. I’ve been disappointed with the development and releases of BI lately. His updates are pushed waaaay to fast.
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At my stage of life, I am not prepared for all the ins and outs of learning Linux so that I can run Frigate and Docker, hope it works for you!
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I've been running various flavors of Linux since the late 90s and using Docker for about 10 years. Frigate is still a challenge. It's gotten easier since they have moved some stuff to a GUI but a lot of it is still hand editing a .yaml file for setup.