Camstudio Windows 10
Jannet Nevels
Here my problem, this morning. I have a CAM PLUS account mainly to view my over night views of my security camera footage on my 23 inch monitor. I have been viewing with no problems until about a hour ago. Now It want load a LIVE view anymore, It just sets there a the wheel spins around and around but will not load live on my PC anymore? The archive footage loads with no problem. Also If I use my phone the live views works just fine on that device. Just stop working on WYZE on line PC APP stop working ?? HELP !
so i just went thru 45 mins with chat support and got disconnected at 6m pdt. Guess they auto log off when customer needs help. ANYWAY, upgrade to cam plus unlimited for the web view feature. ALL my v3 cameras can be viewed well on Google chrome via my windows PC on the web view live site. HOWEVER I cannot view my OG cameras on the web view, they freeze up. ONLY if i power cycle the OG cameras does it work for about 10 seconds then picture freezes up. I can view the live stream perfectly on the wyze app via android. ONLY when I try and view them on the web do these 2 OG cameras not work. Support had me update the software, reset the cameras all that and still nothing. Any fixes out there from the community ? I am at a loss as all other camera can be viewed on the google chrome browser via web view on the same exact network, computer etc. only the OG cameras dont work. And yes everything is updated yet still doesnt work.
I'm in the process of setting up my server (e3-1245v3 w/32GB ram). On my current home server (just a windows box) I run Blue Iris connected to some POE security cameras. So for my unRAID server, I'll need a Win10 VM for this function. I have a couple of questions:
2) I was originally planning to setup a single drive (WD Purple) in Unassigned Devices dedicated to just my security cam recordings, but it would be nice to have the protection of the array. Is there a way to add my drive to the array so it's protected, but then only allow it to be used for this singular function?
Too many variables here given what little is known about your setup. Question like this is better suited for Blue Iris message boards. All I can suggest is to take a look at what you're running Blue Iris on today, and make a determination from there what's the equivalent to try in UnRAID. With a VM it's pretty easy to add/subtract cores or memory to fine tune it.
Yes you can use UD, Yes you could also add a drive to the array so it's only used for this singular function. But IMHO both are poor choices and this question makes me even further skeptical that I couldn't assume anything about your setup, or your level of knowledge, cause honestly I'd do neither of those paths you asked about. My advice is simply to stay where you now running Blue Iris, don't migrate it to unRAID until you're far more experienced. It'll save you a lot of hassle early on, and given you a much less stressful environment to learn in.
I have lots of experience, enough to know that it's a very narrow configuration in which it makes sense to run it on unRAID I'm sure many will chime in telling me I'm wrong in response to this. If so I dare them to post their requirements and configuration and justify it. As for ZoneMinder and others, it's easy answer... if you already purchased a BlueIris license, then my advice to you is simply don't bother with the others, the grass isn't greener. If you don't own a BI license and have the time and patience to explore, then go for it.
I'll ask it over in the Blue Iris community. I was hoping to hear from other Blue Iris VM users as to what their setups looked like so I could make some better estimations, but I can also just fine tune mine as I go.
For 99% of people, cam recordings are throwaway data. Unless something happens, in which you usually know within hours or days, the recordings are worthless. The paradigm though is very heavy on i/o writes, which makes putting it on the array a poor choice. As for UD? If you don't mind keeping that WD Purple constantly spun up for writes, then go for it. Odds are your VM vdisk size can be enough, especially when paired with what should be absolutely required for your setup, a off-site sync to a cloud server. If you think you're OK getting by with emailed attachments, that's your choice but in the event something unfortunate happens, you're going to want the best data your camera's recorded at time time.
Good luck. And yeah stay with BlueIris, I've used it for years, I also thought he grass might be greener, but it's not. I just wish there was a docker container for unRAID for it so we could ditch the dedicated VM.
I guess my system isn't under enough load for this really to be an issue at the moment, but I'll be honest I hadn't really thought about it keeping that disk + parity spun up constantly or maybe I did and have forgotten! I might change things a little, but for the sake of saying it works... it works.
For reference to a couple of your questions, I am also running a Windows VM for my BI setup. 6 POE cameras, 4 always recording to a WD purple drive set outside my array. I do send my alert snapshots to an array protected share, as BI lets you configure what goes where and when.
I am running 6 cores of an e5-2670V1 with 4gigs of ram. It has been plenty of power for me so far. All in all, it has been incredibly reliable. I pull up the stream via blue iris android app from home, work, tablet, phone, on the road, etc with no problem. I also run a Homeseer home automation system on a Windows VM, and have a few tablets set with Imperihome constantly showing a few of the camera feeds. Have yet to have any real hiccups, apart from some older cameras that didn't play nice and one poor cable termination(my fault) that gave me headaches for a couple of days before root cause being discovered.
A key to managing my CPU usage was to set each camera to blue iris DVR format, and direct to disk recording. This required me to set my overlays on each camera, but other than that no big trade-offs that have affected me anyways.
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