thomasrayw

I have been fighting this camera disconnect problem on LNR380 for months. You guys sound lucky who get 20+ days before a disconnect. The cold reboot has been about 50% successful for me. Sometimes, a cold boot results in a different camera being offline than the one that caused me to cold boot. It sometimes takes 2-4 successive cold boots before all cameras are online again. I've seen cameras drop off again in as little as a few minutes after a fresh cold boot. Unplugging the cameras doesn't seem to ever help. However, after reading through this thread, it made me do some thinking and so I started playing around with my camera settings a bit. At the time, I had two cameras offline. After making a couple of changes BOOM all cameras were active again WITHOUT rebooting. " title="Applause" /> I changed some settings back and had one camera go back offline. Changed settings again and they were all online again. Now we're getting somewhere. After playing around, I have narrowed it down to two settings that seem to be at issue, Bitrate Type and Max Bitrate. I'm still working out which of these are specifically at fault (I suspect its the Bitrate Type), but since adjusting these and getting my camera feeds back automatically, I think the source of the issue may lie here. Bitrate Type - I have always had this set to Variable. When I changed this to Constant, my feeds returned. This could have just forced a sync and my problem may return over time, or it may have been the fix. I suspect that possibly the NVR has trouble adapting to the variable bit rate as it changes on the camera. In fixing it constant, then the NVR and cameras should always be in sync. I feel this may be the root of the problem, but only time will tell. Max Bitrate - I lowered my values here, though I feel it is less likely these were the problem. I had had all my settings set to 8192kbps, but lowered my Substream to 512kbps, Main Continuous to 2048kbps, and Main Motion to 6144kbps. So now I wait and see if anything goes offline or not.