Recent content by jshimota01

It's been a while since I checked mine - I was a stout user of Wunderground - ultimately I centralized - My smarthome is Hubitat - I connected to openweathermap - then I take the variables I'm tracking (Lux and a few others and store them into Hubitat variables, write them to a text file, then...

Not to be a downer - but since gen 3 echo show's I've not been able. I went back to 5, 8 and 10" for my needs. I did a short writeup of the finding of the new OS (gen 3 and up) and Amazon changed the security and other things - I was never capable of getting it to work, even with Amazon's...

Love to share - and nothing so complicated - Since the driver exists in Hubitat as a Device - it's simple to look at the current device and see all the value key pairs - thats were I created the screen cap above in white. Then, using a Rule written in Hubitat I push the values I want into a text...

My experience with WU was picking a solid station was important. Regardless, I also 'import' data from OpenWeatherMap service to supplement needed data. Here you can see the last 2 values are from OWM : I need the Luminosity as it defines the on/off for lights in my smart home. I display it...

wow - this seems like you're going down a hole to me. My gut says turn everything off - start a sniffer like Dude and check every IP. the PTZ is ssdp only? never heard of that. it's got an IP. Isolate and verify. Is it possible you've TWO dhcp servers? your ISP router and an server or...

"Using fixed cams as spotters"... wow interesting. So BI trigger events? hmmm.... have to think about that. In the meantime, does anyone here actually use motion following? Still too pricey for non-commerical/residential? I saw one at Sec conference last year and it was ...uuumazing...

And a 'why I outta' to the the guy who posted PTZ's are never looking the right way. um... While checking for intruders in my neighbors bedroom with my 30x digital... I can count hairs. I love having pTZ my friend! Now if we could just get UV light to work > 100m... my quarter mile vision...

Getting in line to flame the poster - besides all the optimization- I've always found the build IN vs build OUT paradigm to work better for this kind of thing. Knowing the stream rates, compression types and data volume sets a number of factors - how much data to manage, how fast the storage...

Bored, I was flipping through postings and saw this - I can't tell if the OP got resolved, and I see the thread go off on a couple tangents :) That said - one problem I've seen over the years is the default of many cameras coming from China etc are on the 192.168.0.x subnet. If you...

I'll take a shot at this - there was previous discussion in this thread about 'RunAsService' - during setup you need to specify an Admin account. Thats one way. Another way is to use Task Schedule and set an Admin account - that too should bypass the security check. Finally...

Just a suggestion - I did read a manual that says the default is admin/123. (Sketchy but try that first!) The manufacturer says V380 app is your best bet. Then try the obvious (admin/admin, admin/[empty], Admin/admin, admin/password, root/root, admin/1234) - try using the Onvif tool as an...

LOL! I once considered doing FB marketplace to get rid of some of my cameras - I still have 30-50 in boxes, I took one look at the rack and decided it wasn't worth it - trying to sell one off cameras to non camera people ... so my rack full just sits and gathers dust.

I knew the company president well - when he brought me in he explained what i was building was going to be a model that was going to replace 13 other mens prisons and 8 womens prisons in the state. The dollar amounts being thrown around, with all the service contracts, maint etc... it was...

omg. the fallout was horrendous. I was lucky I was a contractor - so I got free of that mess. honestly, I dont' know what happened to the environment. I wanted to get my hands on the 10g switches and the 10G PCie cards for the servers. But that was 2 years ago. In the end I escaped with my...

fun question - don't get to brag very often. One installation I built was running 346 cameras. :) Most are 1080p but some are 4k. about 10% are ptz. I built a prison system - technically I got called in after the initial installer botched it. Throughput problems. Got to implement a 10G...