Recent content by Gimmons

I have the Dahua 4kt as my street camera. It isn’t terribly distorted when aimed slightly below horizontal. I like it very much because it gives excellent low light color footage, and the motion detection is very good, with few false positives when set correctly. I don’t know the other cameras.

Wonderful, if that's all you need. But if you get a second camera, you may want to switch between them. You may want to add in audio from a separate mic. You may want to use color correction that isn't built into your camera. Even if you don't want to do these things, someone else reading...

OBS is one of those amazing programs that is good for a lot more than any individual user employs it. That it is also free is hard to believe. OBS runs on sources and scenes. A camera is a type of source. A simple scene might have a single source. Once you have a scene, you can set up a...

OBS https://obsproject.com/download

I like light better than IR. I think it lets them know you're watching.

I'm not an electrician, but I believe they discourage multiple grounds, and want all the grounded loads to go to a single earth ground, often the cold water main, or a copper grounding rod. Apparently there is enough difference in the resistance of soil (especially if one area is wetter than...

Blue Iris on a ten year old Windows workstation is about as cheap as it gets.

Excellent discussion.

Welcome to the pond, GilFrog.

That's where building a solar light from components has an advantage. You can size the panel and battery to keep the light on through a Winter night.

Nice. That adds some curb appeal. I think 120v a/c is the way to go for most things. 12v is fiddly, but sometimes if something is remote or has to be independent from the grid, it's the best solution. It's also good from a permitting perspective sometimes.

Hi Fred, welcome. Sorry you're obliged to do the cameras, but you've done well to start with research and not just throwing money at a box-o-cameras from the local warehouse store. Don't be put off by the networking. You'll pick it up as you go, as most of us have. Just keep repeating...

Yes, quite right. They're a mix of 4k-t to 720p door stations. Most running around 2k resolution. The processor is an i5 6500. Still, I think a g4 should have no trouble with what he's doing.

Sorry Tony, I didn't read closely enough about the LoRa gateway cost. I think they run around $80? But I really have no experience here, although I keep thinking about experimenting. I flagged the article because the topic comes up periodically, not because I actually know anything.

I can see the LoRa being good for long driveways. I've read they have a couple miles of reception.