Low bandwidth monitoring high bandwidth recording - Axis P1435-LE

[paulcsf]

I need to be able to keep the runtime/monitoring bandwidth low, but record at high resolution/frame rate, and thus high bandwidth. I'm targeting 1080p @ 1-2fps for low bandwidth, and 1080p @ 30fps for high bandwidth. So far, I can't figure out how to accomplish this.

The cameras are Axis P1435-LE (firmware 8.40.3). I've configured two stream profiles in the cameras, one low bandwidth, one high bandwidth, and can set the Axis motion detector to trigger, use their event system to record using the high bandwidth stream profile, and have various options like local storage, network storage, etc for the file. In this scenario, how do I get the recording into Blue Iris? I've read in other places that there are no options for this, and I understand Blue Iris typically generates the video clips not receives them, but is there a way?

Sharing the Blue Iris "New" folder, and the camera storing the files there doesn't work, I suspect Blue Iris wouldn't pick them up by default anyway, and Axis has a disaster of a folder structure they use with no apparent options to change that.

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The second notion is to get Blue Iris to do this natively. However, I can't get Blue Iris to connect to the cameras via Generic/Onvif - RTSP H.264/H.265/MJPG/MPEG4, even though that is the option selected after a Find/Inspect. The Find/Inspect can talk to the camera, appears to get Onvif GetSystemDateAndTime, tries several camera types, finishes with "RTSP port open?" and "RTSP port detected!". So leave the rest of the settings alone and Blue Iris says it can't connect, "Check Port/User/Password". I actually finally figured out a way around that, requires two things, first setup an Onvif user in the Axis camera, and second set the path in Blue Iris to "/onvif-media/media.amp".

So now I have a Onvif connection, but camera triggers still don't trigger Blue Iris. In the messages list I get "events: subscription 00002efd", which else where the suggestion is to turn off PullPointSubscription, but that doesn't exist in Blue Iris that I can find. I assume it is an old name for the new "Get Onvif Trigger Events"? Curiously the help manual references it too (Blue Iris 5.2.5.8 x64). Even if triggers were working, I still don't see a pathway to change the stream profile, and I suspect there would be excessive latency anyway.

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So, any ideas?

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Hopefully helpful additional information for posterity: In either Make:Axis and Model:M/P/Q series H.264, or Make:Generic/Onvif and Model:RTSP H.264/H.265/MJPG/MPEG4, append "&streamprofile=<name_of_stream_profile>" to the path or add it to params. The leading & is required if other params are present/needed.

[fossmarkluni]

Hi Paul,

Sorry for reviving an old post, but I have acquired several Axis 1435-LE cameras and I'm testing them with Blue Iris right now.
Have you been able to activate the cameras optical zoom or other features via Blue Iris?