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    Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE constantly switching from B&W to Color and Back

    Ok fellas I have an update and solution on this one after waiting a few nights to make sure it stuck. After changing the sensitivity as suggested, there was no change. However, what did do it was changing the Profile Management from Day/Night to Normal. My other cameras are set to Day/Night...
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    Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE constantly switching from B&W to Color and Back

    Yes, the first thing I did when this started was clean the camera's face which unfortunately made no difference. As for age of things, if she's breaking in, I guess that could explain it as time is really the only factor that has changed here that I can think of. We'll see how turning down the...
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    Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE constantly switching from B&W to Color and Back

    Thanks, all. The LED on the truck has been there for the past year and I never had this issue. Nothing in this scene is different at all from the last year, which is what perplexes me. Plus car headlights head on into this cam don't cause any issues... As for the sunrise sunset utility...
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    Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE constantly switching from B&W to Color and Back

    Morning, fellas. I've had my HDW5231R-ZE up for over a year now, and it developed this new behavior out of nowhere. Under certain lighting conditions (front house light on), the cam goes into Color mode, then back to B&W, then back to color. I don't use IR in B&W mode. It's a cycle that...
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    Cyberpower never got back to me. Newegg stepped in and took care of the issue and refunded me. The APC unit I replaced it with has been flawless.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Awesome new addition! I'm excited about this one and how it will improve my usage case, which is a 9-camera stream at my office I use to keep an eye on the house while at work. To ease my allotted bandwidth of doing this 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, I was set down to 950 as the cap. Let's...
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    Auto Export of Flagged Alerts to 2nd Drive

    I hate asking this question because I'm sure it's been discussed before but I can't seem to find the setup in the help file of BI nor on the forum after searching. I'd like flagged alerts to be saved and offloaded to a second standard 1tb drive installed in my BI PC. That way they aren't using...
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    This is discouraging. My LPR cam is next in the plans and not sure what to get now. Needs to be a long zoom for sure.
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    Some drone videos from the Florida Keys

    Nice vids! Just got back from a camping trip at Bahia Honda last weekend. They have a sign in front that drone usage is against state law at the park so don't fly over any of those! Hah. Beautiful place, cant' wait to go back.
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    OP here... As an update to my problem: I opened a ticket with Cyberpower and never got a response. I had registered the warranty on the unit on their site and everything. I never heard back from them as they completely ignored me. So as far as I'm concerned, Cyberpower and eat a fat one...
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    Good data... I think I will use my Tripp-Lite surge protector power strip downstream (maybe upstream is better?) of the replacement UPS no matter the brand. Another surge protector inline is cheap insurance if anything makes it thru. I also have one of those meter base whole house surge...
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    Man but when that ball blows, it's violent. Haha that will blow the doors off any closet. :D Guess that's better than the fire. Imagine you sleeping in that room when it goes off.
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    I also came across this, which is a fire extinguisher with a heat sensing head. Just place it at the top of your gear. At 135 degrees it fires...
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    I saw this on Amazon and was questioning it's effectiveness. Easily placed on top of the PC and done.
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    My UPS Caught Fire Last Night

    Looking thru the vents, it seems the fire was at two very large transistors on heat sinks. So we seem to have the same failure. However, there was no power outage nor high drain (I'm at around 50 watts). It was just idling there as usual and poof, it was off. Once I touched it, BANG...
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