billie

APFS purgeable space
I'm on 5.2.2 and it says there is no update available. Again, this seemed to be working fine with Mac OS 10.15.4, so I suspect something went awry in the update. I went ahead and reformatted the RAID volume (still APFS) and will monitor the s…

Comment by billie June 2020 permalink
unable to set the ddns name
Yes, it is working today. I notice that it only publishes an ipv4 address, even though it is theoretically reachable through ipv6. I don't see SecuritySpy listening on tcp6 however. It listed on tcp4 and tcp46, which presumably is an ipv4 ove…

Comment by billie February 2020 permalink
unable to set the ddns name
I am seeing the same thing. Recent change to my internet connection was to enable IPv6. Various IPV6 test sites show ipv6 connectivity is working, and ipv4 connectivity continues to work as well. However, the Test button for DDNS fails as above. …

Comment by billie February 2020 permalink
Would an eGPU improve S/Spy performance?
The eGPU does not seem to be used by SecuritySpy. The internal Intel UHD Graphics 630 continues to be maxed out. I have marked SecuritySpy to prefer eGPU, but it had no effect.

Comment by billie December 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy -> HomeKit iCloud camera recording
I explicitly disable backing up my capture files. I simply don't have the broadband internet upload speed to even attempt such a thing. I'm very jealous of those that have high speed uplinks and have the option of recording in the cloud!…

Comment by billie December 2019 permalink
ONVIF discovery not working on vlan after network reconfiguration
Ok, I think I see the issue. My EERO-mesh system is too simplistic to handle internally routed traffic. So requests go out to the internet, but the EERO doesn't know how to route the responses back. There are no static route configuration op…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
ONVIF discovery not working on vlan after network reconfiguration
Running tcpdump on each of the interfaces shows the discovery request going out on each vlan, and responses are received for all the cameras. However, SS drop-down box only shows those from a single vlan, and not from both vlans. The difference in…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy and Catalina
These are all Lorex 4K IP cameras, 3 different models I believe. The configuration options are as previously provided. I was under the impression that VBR might cause some fuzziness when transitioning from no-motion to motion, thus was just keepin…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
ONVIF discovery not working on vlan after network reconfiguration
The NetGear configuration is simply port based, not protocol based. It is tagging all traffic from a given port with a designated vlan tag, and then stripping that tag when sending data to devices on the port. Only my Mac is configured to keep the…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy and Catalina
After reconfiguring the network, I have only been getting an error from the one camera remaining on the intranet vlan. So I think there is simply something going on there that I need to figure out. It is perhaps only coincidental with the Catalina…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy and Catalina
I finally was able to configure the NetGear switches to isolate camera traffic. the trick, apparently, is to move intranet traffic off the management vlan (1) and onto its own vlan. this did provide broadcast domain separation between the new intr…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
Captured files disappearing
Sounds like you are using the startup disk as your capture destination. Is it possible that there was a temporary large space usage by other applications? OS upgrade, patch set, music/video downloads, etc. something temporary in nature, but still…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
Captured files disappearing
I have not run into this problem (fingers crossed!). Files seem to get deleted according to my configuration. In my case, I have "Delete old files by age" unchecked, and I have "Delete old files by disk space" checked, with set…

Comment by billie November 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy and Catalina
Hmm, I wish I could say the same. I am indeed seeing a much higher frequency of SecuritySpy errors with Catalina, all regarding the key frame interval being too high. I don't recall seeing these (or perhaps seeing them so often) previously. …

Comment by billie October 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy and Catalina
I have seen more of those than usual, however I chalked it up to additional network bandwidth taken by BackBlaze after the update, as well as downloads by the new music and movies apps. I unfortunately do not have anywhere close to a gigabyte fibe…

Comment by billie October 2019 permalink
SecuritySpy and Catalina
I am running v5.0.2b11 without any noticeable difference on Catalina (Mac Mini 2018). There are a lot more permissions checks in Catalina. Are they enabled for SecuritySpy? Under Security&Privacy (Privacy tab), I can see see an entry for Secu…

Comment by billie October 2019 permalink
Missing Dashboard in Catalina
Ah, I misunderstood you then. I thought you meant the SecuritySpy->Window->Dashboard, which graphs various statistics!

Comment by billie October 2019 permalink
Missing Dashboard in Catalina
The dashboard window seems to work fine for me in SecuritySpy 5.0.2b11 with Catalina. Are you talking about something else? I most frequently look at recording rate versus disk pressure, and that graph seems to be working as before the upgrade.

Comment by billie October 2019 permalink
Is SecuritySpy 5 64 bit?
I am running SecuritySpy v5.0.2b11 successfully on Catalina. I haven't noticed any new issues with SecuritySpy.

Comment by billie October 2019 permalink
GPU performance
I have added more cameras, yet the CPU usage did not go up demonstrably. The Intel UHD Graphics 630 remains saturated (and in fact video display seems to have gotten worse with the addition of more cameras. I have now connected an AMD Radeon RX Ve…

Comment by billie September 2019 permalink
Would an eGPU improve S/Spy performance?
I have connected an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 to my Mac mini. I've marked SecuritySpy as "Prefer External GPU". However, I don't see any effect according to Activity Monitor. My "Intel UHD Graphics 630" continues to be c…

Comment by billie September 2019 permalink
Error - Disks too slow reported but not the case...??
For my own setup, which uses 8 x 16TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro NAS drives within a Drobo 8D (direct connect via TB3), I discovered that disk I/O to the Drobo would simply stop (independent of SecuritySpy). For example, music playing off a volume on the…

Comment by billie September 2019 permalink
Error - Disks too slow reported but not the case...??
Well it happened again. But this time, I did capture some additional data via fs_usage. I'm not sure how to interpret it though. I'll try to send some info via email.

Comment by billie September 2019 permalink
Error - Disks too slow reported but not the case...??
With both BackBlaze and Spotlight disabled on the capture volume, the problem has not recurred for me. Incoming data rate (sum) peaks at 10490 KB/s; Recording data rate (sum) peaks at 11520 KB/s; disk pressure (sum) 0; memory pressure 0; cpu usage …

Comment by billie September 2019 permalink
Error - Disks too slow reported but not the case...??
@ben it is also curious that everybody reports the same frame number (1556,98002 ) in their error log. is there an incorrect format specifier? I've disabled Backblaze from backing up the capture volume and we'll see how it goes. I also …

Comment by billie August 2019 permalink
Error - Disks too slow reported but not the case...??
@ben - yes, temporary data drive is set to Macintosh HD, which is a 2 TB internal SSD. Backblaze is constantly running, as I don't think it is possible to catch up due to my relatively low upload bandwidth (only 20Mbps). So I think the first …

Comment by billie August 2019 permalink
Error - Disks too slow reported but not the case...??
I will also add a "me too". For me, it is sporadic. dashboard can show 0 (or close to it) disk back pressure for hours before the problematic spike, and then there is a spike to 90% which corresponds to the error log. Recording data rat…

Comment by billie August 2019 permalink
camera bandwidth and home network
My advice would be to use smart non-blocking switches, and avoid using a possibly underpowered, and possibly dumb, bridge that may be built into a broadband modem. with smart non-blocking switches, only shared paths would share bandwidth. so for e…

Comment by billie August 2019 permalink

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