I Am Starting to Regret "Upgrading" to Blue Iris 5

[justinbowser]

Disable all hardware acceleration would be my first port of call.

I went in and set "Hardware Decode" to "No" on all cameras so we'll see what that does. I have had BI4 running without a hitch for several days.

[justinbowser]

No joy. Software shut down overnight after the change. Have not had the time to rename the cameras and re-add yet...

[TimG]

I can only suggest the the OP reads the info on this forum from Sam Varghese on how to sort out issues like this.

They are invariably difficult to figure out, but I think BI5 has moved on a long way from BI4, so it is worth it.

My last major issues were caused by Acronis True Image, which has an anti-ransomware function. I was tipped off by a fellow forum member that it could bring your pc to its knees, and he was right. Good luck with your fault finding.

[YrbkMgr]

My last major issues were caused by Acronis True Image, which has an anti-ransomware function. I was tipped off by a fellow forum member that it could bring your pc to its knees, and he was right. Good luck with your fault finding.

Same experience for me with ATI - I switched to Macrium Reflect and haven't looked back.

[MarvinMod]

I set BI 5 to run as a service because of the shutdowns. Although the service is shut down and restarted Blue Iris continues to run without interrupting my recordings so until this bug is fixed which is most definitely a bug with blue iris 5 try running as a service.

[IAmATeaf]

Ok next thing to try is doing a find/inspect on all your cams including any clones, also check the cams status page to confirm that hardware acceleration is disabled in all the cams.

[IAmATeaf]

Having re-read your original post, it does look like you’ve got 2 problems, 1st being that the Wi-Fi cams drop offline which BI won’t like and secondly that Bi crashes.

Do you run BI as a service, if not then do so as at least when it does crash the service will auto-restart so you’ll miss a few minutes of clips but it will carry on recording until the next crash.

[MikeBwca]

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[IAmATeaf]

A typical Wi-Fi access point will probably support 2 maybe 3 if you’re lucky wireless cams before you start to see issues which might be adding to the issue.

If you really want to keep running wireless cams then you should install additional access points so that you only have a couple of cams connecting to each access point. Also make sure that the access points are hard wired rather than being a simple wireless repeater.

[swilliams68]

I have this same issue and after the latest update it is much worse. The cameras having the issues are Reolink model RLC-410 build 19032101 hardware IPC_3816M firmware v2.0.0.1441_19032101. All my other Relolink models work fine. These are all hardwire 1GB connections. Any ideas?