One camera goes missing then comes back

SpacecoastBill

Getting the hang of it
Jan 10, 2015
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Central Florida
I have several of the IPC-T54IR-AS 2.8mm S3 Cameras from EmpireAndy I bought in 2022. Everything was setup and running great, BI (ver 5) did work with all cameras.

Yesterday, one camera seems to come online then drop back off.

I just checked and BI says signal loss, but going directly to the camera IP address, there is no problem with the camera.

Anyone have any idea where its going wrong?
 

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Could be a power supply going bad or corrosion you can't see impacting the connection point.
 
Could be a power supply going bad or corrosion you can't see impacting the connection point.
Its POE, I could just swap with another port and see.... but I just happened to see this before it came back.....

I just saw that the status in BI says Check FPS and key rates.
 

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I have seen it say check FPS and key rates when a power supply was failing. Apparently BI is sensitive enough to detect those changes even though you can still see the image.

BUT you could also be getting that at power up of a camera if IVS rules are being used to trigger. You will see an alert warning in the log if that is the case with a number increasing every second until it finally stops.