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I started out doing that but then had some things happen while at home that I wished that I'd recorded. Same as for recording continuous - You don't miss it until you do. If your security is good, you're the only one who's going to see them anyway. And I don't put cameras in more private areas.

Send the kid out again... we need movement to judge. ; ) Also, do you have some sort of backlighting turned on?

Try taking sharpness down to ~30-35. That can help get rid of some of the "jags" in the detail. Also reducing saturation seems to help mine some with color at night. Seems to get a little more distortion with more colorful areas (see the stop sign and the red collar/shirt/bag for example)...

Not sure where you're getting the idea that everyone's using default settings for good LPR. Day, sure. Lots can get away with that. But night, mostly the opposite usually with quite a bit of tweaking required to optimize the images. wittaj gave you good starting points. Do that and fine...

Condition: Open Box.

Same. Was cool at the time but I had a hard time giving mine away when I got tired of it. Everything that I need is in a 6U rack now.

Yeah, I'm able to get good focus with my 5842 much closer than what they're spec'ed at. Easy within 1' or so. That should be a good one for your purposes.

That won't kill the service. What happens is that the Windows time service will grab the port (123) that NetTime also uses. So you need to disable the W32Time service. Bring up Task Manager, at the bottom click on Open Services. Scan the list for Windows Time. Right-click and select...

That I can understand. But doesn't look like what happened here. They put some work into it and looks good all the way up to that point.

^ WTF? How does that even occur to someone? :idk: :wtf:

Try this... First make two lines in an "L" shape like the axis of a graph along the longest outside edges of the area that you want to cover. Then you should be able to draw more lines freely within that extent (up to whatever the actual limit is ~10 or so I think). There's another better way...

Are your cams exposed to others in some way? If not, then not much need for complex passwords. Most all of the exploits just go around the passwords anyway. I don't recall ever seeing any way to change the fonts for BI specifically. I suppose you could change the default Windows fonts.

Remembered this post while looking at West Marine's site for other stuff... They happen to have some of the bumpers on 50%-off clearance if you have a store close. https://www.westmarine.com/search?q=dock%2520bumpers&prefn1=clearance&prefv1=Clearance

What you linked to can be directly buried fine. Better inside PVC or some other form of conduit if you can do it. In addition to better protecting it, may let you run another or replace cable easier later.

Not sure there are any licenses specific to cameras. There are for low-voltage generally and more specific requirements for alarm and fire systems. https://lowvoltagenation.com/2023/01/low-voltage-license-requirements-by-state/

That's a spec that you can't really rely on just looking at it on paper. I've seen some that go either way. A 5842 that I have I think that they list the close focus at ~6 feet but manually I could get it very good down to less than a foot. But then you still have the fairly short DOF so you...

Funny that it goes to the door like... "LET ME IN!!!"

Was going to say the same. That will largely hide it and the black makes a big difference.

Not sure what phone you have. Search for turn off photo geotagging and iPhone or Android and you'll find the steps. You can either turn it off for all photos or you can leave it on and manually delete the location data from selected photos as you want. Depends how you want it to work. Some...

Unless you have some specific reason otherwise, keep it simple - BI and database on C: (which should be your fastest drive), stored video and images on your storage drive. No need to split things up across partitions. Doesn't really buy you much of anything. If you had two physical storage...

Any important cams should be running continuous in some form. At least using substreams. If not, at some point you'll wish that you had more of what preceded/came after some event, things that happen out of range of your primary interest/triggers, views from other cams that wouldn't be...

Yeah, I looked a little more last night and tried deleting various files and seeing the effect and that's what I ended up thinking. I didn't try deleting that file (for obvious reasons), but you can delete pretty much any others associated with that cam/clip (.bvr, .dat for that cam, etc.) and...

Also should have said add more light if you can. That's really the best answer Will make it much easier to get there.

I could see a business maybe doing it if it allowed the police to view what's happening at their business. But it doesn't seem to be that. It says in case of a "nearby emergency." Seems to be intended for other sorts of events.

What's the reason for being located in the attic? Don't think I've ever seen one there.

Zoom in more if you can. Try increasing bitrate to 12,288, up FPS to 20 or 25, up shutter speed a little more as you can given the light, gain down to 50, sharpening down to 25-ish. Along with reducing DNR, that should be about as good as it gets (at the expense of using more resources)...

Ahhh... gotcha. Yes, I have .jpgs being saved for my LPR cams and a couple of others. That's what's in there. The thumbnails must be saved somewhere else or otherwise derived from the video. BI can't hide files in some way from Windows' native view.

Do you mean in Windows or talking about something else? I can see mine. I know because I have a gazillion of them and clean it out now and then.

Nice zip-tie work.