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    Hikvisions in new construction

    Even better... already have a stash of that in the garage. Thanks again!
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    Hikvisions in new construction

    Interesting tips, thank you! They tend to use solid sheets of soffit around here, but I think I could adapt your ethernet to electrical wire idea... maybe just drill a small 3/16" hole, poke a 1/4" or so of the electrical wire out, bend it at 90 degrees flush against the soffit, and when...
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    Hikvisions in new construction

    Good tips, thank you!
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    Hikvisions in new construction

    Hi all, I have some Hik 2CD2342 turrets and am about to build a new home. Had these under the eaves in the soffit at the old home and would like to do the same again. I'm going to be doing my own network wiring and would like to pre-wire for these as much as possible. Wasn't HORRIBLE mounting...
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    Privacy mask won't go away

    Ugh. Along the train of thought of my second post just now, I built a new camera in BI and imported the settings from this camera that I had saved a while back. Magically fixed. Guess I do have a mask set up in BI somewhere. I'm my own worst enemy sometimes! Thanks for the assist!
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    Privacy mask won't go away

    Excellent idea which didn't pop into my own head, but tried just now and no dice. It brought back the camera name/Hik timestamps that I had previously removed, so it definitely did do something in that process... Just not what it should have. Is there some other place in Blue Iris besides...
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    Privacy mask won't go away

    Hi folks, I have a few Hik 2342's running on Blue Iris (with most recent updates). I had started getting a lot of false alerts from a pesky fast-growing tree near the one of the cameras. I "solved it" by blocking out the tree with a privacy mask on the camera itself so that Blue Iris wouldn't...
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