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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...

One of my POE trail cameras went offline, two days ago. As I was thinking of all the possible points of failure, I mentally ruled out the "waterproof" coupler that I have in the middle of the long run, where I changed my mind on camera wiring 2 years ago. Well, after 3 hours of troubleshooting...

This is interesting. I've been running this as my live BeeCam for years, including a custom "rotator" script I wrote based on this thread from IPCamTalk. The script starts with a curl request to login and request a token: ReolinkToken=`curl -s GET...

I own a rental triplex, and I'm thinking of installing some security cameras and a small computer to run BI. I will get AC power and a separate ISP account for all of this, but I won't have a separate indoor space to house the equipment. So I'm thinking about hanging some sort of outdoor...

My neighborhood has a single entrance/exit that every car must pass through, so it's a natural place for an LPR camera. The HOA has been dragging its feet for years, but the new owner of the house closest to the intersection is game to work with me on this. She has a big tree that might be a...

I'm trying to prep a property so that the new resident can install cameras without any networking knowledge or tools. I've run Cat5e to 4 different outdoor camera sites, and I want to terminate them with RJ45 plugs and the corresponding cable glands, so they can just buy a camera and plug it in...

TL;DR: Is there software out there that can track a moving face for a few frames and enhance it? Our neighbor at our office complex got their truck stolen from their roll-up garage, twice! The thieves broke a side window, went into the building, opened the roll-up, took the truck out, closed...

Well, my fake rock is good at looking like a rock: but it's also good at holding in moisture. After our wet winter, 2 of my cameras stopped working. After troubleshooting everything else ‍♂, I pulled up the rock, and it's soaking wet underneath: So I have 4 strings of Cat5e coming up out of...

My house finches are back! Last year they decided to nest on my DragonFruit vine, by the back door, where I don't have a camera, but now they're back! They moved in on 3/25, literally the day after I told someone, "I haven't had finches here since 2022." The YouTube stream is up, too, but...

LA County Public Works removed this old pine tree because it was in danger of toppling over under its own weight. I have a camera mounted to my mailbox in the perfect position to capture the whole event.

Tomato Planting at Painted Peacock Manor, 03/10/24 I should get tomatoes earlier this year, because I planted them much faster!

Reolink RLC-420 (IPC_51316M) via Blue Iris. It's just a trick of the light and of the Reolink color/exposure algorithm, but it's still interesting to watch.

Corn-U-Copia 2023!!!

This extremely bad criminal yanked the panic bar right off the door frame (being fixed and reinforced now ) and threatened my employee before walking off with a bag full of camera equipment: He then threw the very expensive camera to the ground and walked off with a $100 tablet that he later...

I just received a marketing email from Amcrest, and one of the items in the email was this: It looks like a new-ish model, because it has the NightColor feature. Who's still using analog cameras in 2023? I'm not, but I'm curious.

I have 3 cameras in a group, called EastvaleNorth (192.168.1.56), EastvaleSouth (.58), and RainbowRidge (.59): When I installed RainbowRidge a few days ago, I set it up in BI by cloning EastvaleSouth, since it's the same model, and then changing its IP assignment to .59. Since then I've...

I have a set of 3 cameras at a tee in the roadway. On camera looks "down" the tee, and the other two look left and right. Logically I'd want the "tee" camera (RainbowRidge, in the screen cap below), to be on top of the other two, which I'd want side by side. But I can't figure out how to arrange...

I just installed an Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI under my mailbox: It's the one pointing uphill, while the one pointing downhill is an older IP5M-T1179EW that I'd been buying for ~$50 - $57/ea. over the last few years (total of 20 units in 3 locations): I paid $79.99 for the new IP5M-T1277EW-AI...

My live BeeCam (Reolink RLC-423) has been working reasonably well over the last 5+ years, and it's still running fine. I use ffmpeg to pull RTSP from the camera and push it out to a YouTube streaming channel, and then I have another script that commands it to rotate through N preset positions...

At work we have a Security information and event management (SIEM) server (Wazuh) aggregating the logs from all our PCs, servers, switches, routers, etc., to try and correlate "events of interest," both for the purposes of preventing intrusions and for forensics if we ever get intruded. Think...

I have a record-keeping requirement that is different from my security needs, e.g. I need to log all entries and exits from my server room and keep the records for 90 days. The easiest way I can think of is to put a cheap IP camera in there and record anyone going in and out. I don't need to...

I'm using ffmpeg to push some RTSP streams from my crittercams to YouTube via RTMP. I'm simultaneously recording the footage in BI, but the raw RTSP lacks the custom overlay that I'm putting on the YouTube feed, e.g. the real-time weather on my BeeCam...

I've been recording events of bee swarms moving into my "swarm traps" for a few years now: 2018, using a Raspberry Pi camera module. 2019, the inside camera was a Reolink RLC-411, and the outside camera a Reolink RLC-410S. 2020, Reolink RLC-410S inside and RLC-410S outside (the RLC-411 had...

I'm working towards transitioning my network from a flat network to a segmented network with at least 3-4 zones, using pfsense as my firewall. At some point down the road I will move all of my cameras to a completely isolated network with a dedicated connection to a 2nd NIC on my BI computer...

Sped up 100x in Blue Iris:

It was there last time I checked . . . .

My Swarm Trap Cameras are both very close to the objects they're monitoring, and there's some ugly fisheye effect: Obviously that box and the board it's sitting on should be rectangular. I'm already processing the video through ffmpeg before pushing it to YouTube, so it would be easy to add...

I have an issue with my router where it shuts itself down about 1x/day. This is annoying, but it's covered under warranty, and I'll have a replacement in place in a couple of days.. Meantime, I'm seeing an unexpected side effect where, if the router is down, BI doesn't record. You can see gaps...

The front door of my office building looks like this: There is no residential doorbell wiring in that door frame, but there is 12V for the security entry keypad, and I have a string of Cat5e in the ceiling that I can run down into the door frame for POE. Recommendations for a camera? I'd...

I saw this for $109 on amazon awhile back, but haven't seen any mention of it here, yet. I asked on the amazon page ,"Does it support RTSP and ONVIF?" and a month later, Amcrest Support replied, "Yes." So now this is interesting. "Featuring the latest Sony Starvis CMOS progressive scanning...