NoSignal Count not working on most of my cameras.

Evisser4

Evisser4

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How do I ensure blue iris is keeping count of NoSignal? What setting is it? 3 of my cams it works as expect. The other 5 always show 0. Any help would be appreciated.

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Yes, but I recall disabling the tracking of no signal counts. I just can’t recall what I did. I am confident these cameras are getting no signal blue iris just isn’t reflecting it.
 
figured it out, there is a camera setting on the watchdog tab labeled Restart Camera Window After xx sec. I had this box checked. I simply unchecked this option in watchdog and I am back to seeing no signal count appropriately.

Thanks Everyone.
 
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I know this is an old Thread, but did not want to start a new one.

Somehow a few months ago I noticed my Thermal CAM getting NoSignal in the Logs. I actually saw the Thermal Lens (Live Feed) show No Signal. Then the Visual Lens did the same thing a few seconds later. This would happen within about 5 minutes intervals. Over the past few months I would periodically watch it, could not put my finger on exact times. Went to the Camera's settings and could not figure out what changed. It worked fine prior.

I did a continuous ping test a few different times to the Camera and not one drop signal, steady 1 to 2ms

Ended up adding another Camera (Doorbell POE) and noticed the same NoSignal issue. Nothing in it's setting stood out either.

Was this from a Windows update? No BI update since last year my subscription expired.

I do see the loss signal, skipped part in the recorded videos in BI.

Any suggestions be appreciated. Both CAMs are RTSP feeds and I have stay alive on them, tried unchecking and no difference...
 
David L said:
I know this is an old Thread, but did not want to start a new one.

Somehow a few months ago I noticed my Thermal CAM getting NoSignal in the Logs. I actually saw the Thermal Lens (Live Feed) show No Signal. Then the Visual Lens did the same thing a few seconds later. This would happen within about 5 minutes intervals. Over the past few months I would periodically watch it, could not put my finger on exact times. Went to the Camera's settings and could not figure out what changed. It worked fine prior.

I did a continuous ping test a few different times to the Camera and not one drop signal, steady 1 to 2ms

Ended up adding another Camera (Doorbell POE) and noticed the same NoSignal issue. Nothing in it's setting stood out either.

Was this from a Windows update? No BI update since last year my subscription expired.

I do see the loss signal, skipped part in the recorded videos in BI.

Any suggestions be appreciated. Both CAMs are RTSP feeds and I have stay alive on them, tried unchecking and no difference...
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So updated Windows, still have NoSignals errors...only on my Wired CAMs...

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David L said:
I know this is an old Thread, but did not want to start a new one.

Somehow a few months ago I noticed my Thermal CAM getting NoSignal in the Logs. I actually saw the Thermal Lens (Live Feed) show No Signal. Then the Visual Lens did the same thing a few seconds later. This would happen within about 5 minutes intervals. Over the past few months I would periodically watch it, could not put my finger on exact times. Went to the Camera's settings and could not figure out what changed. It worked fine prior.

I did a continuous ping test a few different times to the Camera and not one drop signal, steady 1 to 2ms

Ended up adding another Camera (Doorbell POE) and noticed the same NoSignal issue. Nothing in it's setting stood out either.

Was this from a Windows update? No BI update since last year my subscription expired.

I do see the loss signal, skipped part in the recorded videos in BI.

Any suggestions be appreciated. Both CAMs are RTSP feeds and I have stay alive on them, tried unchecking and no difference...
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The thermal cams will close the shutter if the heat is too hot - say a morning or evening sun, or even a riding mower. That in turn could be interpreted as a monochrome no signal issue like we see with LPR cams that are actually providing an image, it is just black for most of the night.

But that wouldn't explain your other cameras.
 
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wittaj said:
The thermal cams will close the shutter if the heat is too hot - say a morning or evening sun, or even a riding mower. That in turn could be interpreted as a monochrome no signal issue like we see with LPR cams that are actually providing an image, it is just black for most of the night.

But that wouldn't explain your other cameras.
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Thanks, yes that does happen, was surprised to see this happen when using my Zero-Turn too. But the NoSignal happens on the Visual too plus the test camera I added, the one labeled LivingRmCAM, it is a spare ReoLink Doorbell CAM.

My plan, when I get time, will be to put BI on another PC I have, a few generations newer, also go to version 6 then. Been living with these NoSignals for a few months now. Sadly, they do also stop the BI recording during it's NoSignal duration. The reason I think it is a BI issue because I get Zero ping loss when doing a continuous pinging to the cameras. But this just test the network connections which are good. This is why I put a test cam on BI, it does the same NoSignal loss.

BUT, if it is BI, why is my WiFi Doorbell not experiencing No Signal losses?

Here is where I think I went wrong in my testing. My ping testing to the cameras were from my main PC and not the BI PC. I just started a ping test. Also I need to ping my BI PC from my main and see if there is any loss there...

Just reset BI log and started a continuous ping...
 
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Well so far 4 NoSignal losses and Zero losses in the continuous pinging to the cameras IP from the BI PC...
 
WELL GUESS WHAT, Finally fixed my No Signal issue in Blue Iris. Would of never guessed this would of been the issue. About the time this started a few months back I decided I need more host addresses for the CAMERA VLAN/Subnet since I bought 4 more cameras so I went from 240 (14 hosts) to 224 (30 hosts) for the Subnet Mask. 14 IPs for that subnet would be pushing it since I plan to add 6 more cameras. So I reconfigured all my existing cameras with the new 224 subnet, changed the router/firewall settings but I just found out today when I installed another camera that I did not change Blue Iris, which also resides in the same subnet as the Cameras, still had it on 240.

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The cameras were averaging about 50-60 No Signals a day. So weird how they kept communicating but had signal losses. I noticed this about a month after changing the subnet mask. I knew it was BI since never saw it in WebGUI on the cameras but never thought of checking the PC's NIC settings. I was all in BI thinking I changed something there...haha...it is hell getting old...I would of been fired for that mistake back in my IT days...

I see a few things I need to fix, like the Thermal/Visual at H265, what did I do there?, must of been playing with settings, also I see 30 FPS so I know I was experimenting awhile back, need to go back to 15 FPS or at least for the Visual Lens.
The motion events on the Doorbell CAM was me mowing earlier this morning...

Am a Happy Camper now once again...
 
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