Recent content by tigerwillow1

I recently bought some of those elbows. My guess is that they're a low volume part, with more per-piece overhead and less competition. A few years ago my Home Depot had them in stock. Now, they don't.

You should determine if you have a v1 or v2 5216-4ks2. I vaguely remember that some of the later firmware was only for v2. If you have the v4 user interface, it will display the hardware version of the NVR, v1 or v2. Also, if you have the v4 user interface, there's a good chance you'd gain...

Will it run 64 cameras on BI?

The only thing I can think of offhand is that with the newer cameras you don't need to open them up to get to the reset button. For a less helpful comment, I've been following this thread with some disbelief of what's happened to you. Over about 6 years I've brought up about 30 cameras without...

More like it needs to be exterminated. It has too much disease (RINOs) to recover.

Just another irrelevant thing the left throws against the wall to see if it will stick.

I take issue with this as a blanket statement. For some people, doing brain surgery isn't dumb. For me it would be :). For me opening the cameras and screwing around with the components was a calculated risk that has turned out beautifully. Definitely not to be blanket-recommended, but it's...

I see an opportunity for garbled terminology here. Config Tool does not see across different physical networks. It is able to access different subnets on the same physical network. Example for typical home network: Your network subnet is 192.168.100.xxx You can reach the camera at...

^^^^^^ I've often wondered how you change the smoke detector battery when they're at the very top of rooms like that.

It's not only having a .mp4 file, but a codec that understands what's in the .mp4 container. I can export .mp4 files, but my Windows version can't play them. It's possible to add codecs to windows if you find the right one. I need to save videos so seldom that I just convert from .dav to .mp4...

I could go down a similar rant with television commercials. We rarely watch anything without recording it first, but when I'm occasionally captured by a commercial I'm totally aghast at how stupid they are, and how they say little or nothing about the actual product. They're utterly offensive...

When I grow up I want to be a bot :)

I am unable to grasp the level of despicable of these libs. Lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to strike down governor's 400-year veto It's a badly worded headline, and it takes a bit of effort to digest what Evers did. In short, he line-item vetoed individual characters in a sentence to...

I'll take a crack at this one. It means some marketing person thinks it sounds really good and might impress somebody. Information-wise, it's somewhat similar to the new toilet paper roll being 60% bigger, but we won't tell you bigger than what?

Amen to that! There are other things to consider beside the electrical specs, like physical space, ease of reconfiguration, how badly you hack up your house, where the wires can be run, and other similar but different details.