All suggestions should be sent to BI Support. The more they get on a particular subject, the more likely they are to implement it. Not saying they would ot should.

WARNING: Do Not Renew/Update using MyCommerce/Digital River platform Purchase/Renew only at/after version 5.9.8 , which uses a new key-less payment system. Per the BI recent news article 'MyCommerce/DR Meltdown'. excerpt ... The very painful fact is that if you purchased any Blue Iris product throug...

If you log into the cameras web gui, can you see the cameras responding okay? Disable two cameras in BI and try with 1 camera. Do you still get the same results? It doesn't seem to me to be a BI issue. What say yee all? Many questions... - Are these 3 cameras wired, or, WiFi? - What model of cameras...

Use 'Testing & Tuning' to test Motion detection and AI separately, with an existing recording.
You can send the results to the Clipboard, or, the Alerts list.

Details are in the BI manual.

You can do this my masking out the pillar in each zone. (This also works for tree trucks) AI will not detect in a masked out portion of a zone. This is different than a blackout mask or privacy mask, and will not show in the live image or recording.

IMO... This is way too complicated than it needs to be. You do not need separate zones for each AI object type. Question: Are you wanting to be informed on packages to combat package thief's? What I would suggest... 1. Make 1 zone of the entryway up to the front door. Include about 7' of the bricks ...

Is one dog standing on the other wearing a trench coat and sun glasses?

I was thinking of testing with custom models. I'll keep this in mind.

Can you post screenshots of...
- Cameras Record 'File format & compression' Settings.
- Cameras Record Settings.
- Cameras Audio Settings.

How does the latest version 5.9.2.2 work? If this resolves it, great.

If not, you two have a lot of specifics that should help BI Support.