V5 Green Screen
Upgrading to version 5 has been the worst experience so far. To upgrade version 5 I had to upgrade my Hackintosh from 10.12 to 10.13, so I did. I'm pretty sure the problem lies in the OS update more than the app update because I tested SecSpy 4 on macOS 10.13 years ago and noticed the same increase in CPU usage and poor behavior.
I don't really know what to make of it. Security Spy on macOS 10.13.6 is just not usable. I'm probably going to downgrade my rig and keep rolling with v4 until I can't anymore.
Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/z8u5e4be
If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.
Thanks!
I don't really know what to make of it. Security Spy on macOS 10.13.6 is just not usable. I'm probably going to downgrade my rig and keep rolling with v4 until I can't anymore.
Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/z8u5e4be
If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.
Thanks!
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It is possible it is your rig.
I have V5 running on an upgraded old 2012 macmini and it is purring at 10-15% cpu usage with 10hd cameras @15fps continuous capturing.
Your CPU usage is high, but not critically so. I do notice that you are getting green screens only on some cameras, but not others. Are the affected cameras a particular make/model, or are they connected in a different way to the other non-affected cameras?
This is what I just upgraded to: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PMQ6LRB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 - IPC-HDW4631C-A 2.8mm
Green screens. Running 1080p @ 30fps. The Mac SecuritySpy Server is running at 45-55% cpu. I turned off motion detection on this camera and it didn't help. Other cameras (all 7) are fine, all with many more pixels. I really wanted it to work. This is running the latest firmware (I could find) released 2019-01-19. Tried H.264/H.264B/H.264H. Anything over 20fps is basically useless (green). I'd like to be running at 60 fps, but that's entirely impossible.
The camera interface itself, in Internet Explorer or the NACL browser on a Mac, works fine. No problems what-so-ever. Seems H265 on this cam "works" in SecuritySpy, but produces gray screens instead of green. I can't use H265 though because I have another process using the video stream that only supports H.264. The other process has no green data at all... (I'll share a link once I have it all setup externally)
Not real sure why this thing has such problems. I'm sad. Any suggestions are welcomed.
I have about about 6 VivotekVivotek FD8169 cameras and 10 Foscam HD 1080P cameras. I haven't had this issue before going to version 5.
I'm streaming it here:
The auto tracking is really a pain to get right and it's constantly spinning in circles or looking at a wall a few inches away. (see the clips) And that's if it decides to track at all.
In any case, this is running on the same computer as SecuritySpy, now at 80-85% cpu. Because it's re-encoding the high frame rate into something twitch can handle, as well as some music from pretzel rocks. The other 7 cameras in SecuritySpy are still working flawlessly, 5 of them with motion detection on; all of them 4-6MP.
I'm now convinced the green screens (and disconnections at high frame rates) have little to do with anything but the way security spy is handling the data feed. Something buggy is happening here. If you need any more information to help debug, please let me know. Happy to provide packet captures, test beta/debug versions, or anything else needed.
Thanks!
I presume the problem is with MacOS 10.14.6. My previous experience with Security Spy version 4 is that it would run for months with no problems.