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    What HDD is everyone using and what is your recording setting?

    Yeah, I figured between you guys and that dude's YT videos, I'd get it decently set up. Going well so far. I haven't checked yet, but it seems to be doing about 20-30gb of recording/day. CPU usage is way down too. Before I'm fairly certain that it was over 75% all day, and now it's kinda...
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    What HDD is everyone using and what is your recording setting?

    Yeah. Saw your mention about not using it, should I just skip it completely and just go right to d:\
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    What HDD is everyone using and what is your recording setting?

    Great, thank you. I'll get working on that Edit: after reading there, I -think- I've got it. You said not to use 90% or more, so I went for 75%. I have a very small c:\ drive so setting up the new was...I wasn't sure what to allocate it. I also deleted all the aux locations for now, so I think...
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    What HDD is everyone using and what is your recording setting?

    Sorry to bump this, but I figured it was better than starting a new thread. I just added a 3tb Seagate drive to my setup for stored clips. Are your allocation settings sufficient for setting up Clips and archiving, or do I need to take additional steps? I tried looking for the BI tutorial part...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    I definitely would love to, but I don't think they're going to, based on the rest of the lights around town, they look more like the sodium flavored lights, but I wasn't sure if those were also led or not. Just getting the neighbors on each street to sign the petition will be a battle enough, so...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Yeah, I probably should have prefaced that cars are my secondary goal. If I can ID them (year/make/model) if I need to talk to police again, that's great. Otherwise, people are my primary goal of detection, hence why I'm forcing color. It's already a huge improvement over what I was looking at...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    I'll say after reading this review (but not enough reviews overall), I went ahead and pulled the trigger to order the IPC-B5442E-ZE based on just the video quality alone. I've posted that I had some cheap cameras that I setup years ago to learn the basics of this all, and to see what I'd...
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    Bricked SV3C IP 1080P Firmware help

    Chiming in here after reading the last 5 pages...and it's all Greek to me. Back in Feb, I emailed the rep to say that my time and date weren't updating. She emailed me back to say that an update would release in March, so I forgot all about it. FF to Friday and I thought I had my time and date...
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    Setting up NetTime Time Sync Tool on Windows 10

    Yeah, I was obviously confused when everyone was saying put your Nettime server in, I guess it didn't click that the pc was the server. I thought it was reaching out to Nettime or something to sync the time, and I was trying to find the ip address for nettime everywhere, lol. It has been a long...
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    Setting up NetTime Time Sync Tool on Windows 10

    Because maybe I didn't do it right? After setting up the ntp to use the nettime info, it must not have liked whatever I did and reverted it to manual updating. I came back in and it wasn't updating the time and my video timestamps were all screwed up. Tried a few other things, it didn't work...
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    Setting up NetTime Time Sync Tool on Windows 10

    Thanks for this writeup. I found the Nettime program myself but was wondering how to use it. I was having trouble syncing time w/ my cameras, even though I could go into the settings and change the method to update the time. Manual wasn't working and trying to sync to another ntp wasn't working...
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    Cameras w/ decent or any sound? Looking at options/upgrades

    Will do, thanks for the heads up! As far as the zoom/varifocal goes, how you described it is how I have it set/have been using it since I set it up. Put it on the farthest camera down the driveway pointing towards the road, with a slight zoom on it so I can see plates better when they pull in...
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    Cameras w/ decent or any sound? Looking at options/upgrades

    I set up my system a while ago and am running smoothly on BI for the most part, always playing w/ a setting or two here and there. I'm running (4) SV3C 2-12mm VF 2mp cameras to an Amcrest NVR, with BI on my pc, and for the bad rap they get for being Chinese (even I admittedly had some issues w/...
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    Heaters in the Lens to Prevent Condensation?

    Yeah, it's a bullet camera, so I guess in this case we'd call it a dome. Yeah, the gasket goes around the dome and sits against the housing while the ring screws down and presses/clamps it against the housing to "seal" it. If they weren't all up now, I'd take pics of it to show you, but it...
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    Heaters in the Lens to Prevent Condensation?

    What's a good way to seal cameras? Mine have an outer ring that clamps/tightens down on the lens that goes over the camera itself. That lens has a rubber gasket around it that is supposed to create the seal once the ring clamps down. Anything I can add to that? Also, I can't get those packets...
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