Recent content by TheWaterbug

I’m actually a stark raving liberal, but In the interest of equal time, I’ll pen one for the other side: The Democrat judge was a prude Who rigged this political feud. ‘Twas Cohen spread lies, While Stormy spread thighs, But Trump is the one who got screwed!

Well, the adjacent city is funding it, so our HOA won't even pay the bill. I volunteered to be on the technical committee a couple of years ago, but the HOA staff went ahead and did their own thing. And pretty well, too, as they got us a managed system on someone else's nickel!

^^ That's a nice box! But I'd buy another switch to put in there. I'm not giving my money to someone that advertises "waterproof" and then ships me something like that.

My (and my neighbor's) procrastination has paid off, and our HOA has secured funding from the adjacent city for managed LPR cameras at the entrance to my neighborhood, at no cost to us!

And, as it turns out, I may not attempt this. My (and my neighbor's) procrastination has paid off, and our HOA has secured funding from the adjacent city for managed LPR cameras at the sole entrance to my neighborhood, at no cost to us!

Ok, this $21 "waterproof" unit is a joke. I thought perhaps the website photos were omitting some things, like perhaps some gasketing or seals or ???? But nope. It's just exposed to the elements: Back to goes to amazon!

And the documentation is silent both on what type of POE comes out the passthrough port, and what the maximum passthrough power is. One guy on the Ubiquiti forums says:

Actually the PDF you linked shows this! Are NS-5AC and NS-5AC-US the same, except for frequencies used? The Q&A and reviews for the NS-5AC-US on amazon are all over the place wrt to POE. Some say passive only; other say 802.3xx.

Whoa! Their latest diagram shows 802.3af/at switches powering both bridge units: That POE pass-through feature could be gold. Now I just need to find a U.S. retailer that carries them.

It looks like the update to 5.9.2.0 has fixed this!!!!!! Clips downloaded via UI3, without re-encoding, now play back and edit properly on my Apple Silicon Mac!! This is a huge, huge improvement for me, because re-encoding every single clip was really cramping my style, and completely...

I have an Amcrest IP5M-B1186EW-28MM staring at my garden, and I have a computer calling cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi every 10 minutes: crontab -l */10 * * * * cd /usr/local/bin && ./AmcrestSnapshot.sh 192.168.1.54 ~/CornLapse/ cat AmcrestSnapshot.sh #!/bin/bash IPAddress=$1 OutPath=$2 cd...

Coyote Pup on Eastvale, 05/27/24 Pup on the loose! I've never seen a coyote this young out on the street before. They usually stick to the trails.

I use the free version of DaVinci Resolve to assemble my 2-up and 4-up videos, and I like it a lot. It's not missing any features that I need, but YMMV. I ran it on my old Intel-based MacBook Pro, with a discrete GPU, and it too awhile to render out, but editing was fine. I now run it on my...

Interesting. The downside to that product is that it requires 2 POE ports at the source. The price on all of these types of products has really plummeted recently. The 1-to-4 POE switch I had in there previously was $68 after coupon when I bought it, and now a comparably-specced item is now...

So right now I do have all 4 cameras connected through these couplers, with some dielectric grease, but maybe not enough. When I pull up the fake rock to re-do the 12 VDC connection, I'll redo the grease on all of those.