Recent content by Mike A.

I started out doing that but then had some things happen while at home that I wished that I'd recorded. Same as for recording continuous - You don't miss it until you do. If your security is good, you're the only one who's going to see them anyway. And I don't put cameras in more private areas.

Send the kid out again... we need movement to judge. ; ) Also, do you have some sort of backlighting turned on?

Try taking sharpness down to ~30-35. That can help get rid of some of the "jags" in the detail. Also reducing saturation seems to help mine some with color at night. Seems to get a little more distortion with more colorful areas (see the stop sign and the red collar/shirt/bag for example)...

Not sure where you're getting the idea that everyone's using default settings for good LPR. Day, sure. Lots can get away with that. But night, mostly the opposite usually with quite a bit of tweaking required to optimize the images. wittaj gave you good starting points. Do that and fine...

Condition: Open Box.

Same. Was cool at the time but I had a hard time giving mine away when I got tired of it. Everything that I need is in a 6U rack now.

Yeah, I'm able to get good focus with my 5842 much closer than what they're spec'ed at. Easy within 1' or so. That should be a good one for your purposes.

That won't kill the service. What happens is that the Windows time service will grab the port (123) that NetTime also uses. So you need to disable the W32Time service. Bring up Task Manager, at the bottom click on Open Services. Scan the list for Windows Time. Right-click and select...

That I can understand. But doesn't look like what happened here. They put some work into it and looks good all the way up to that point.

^ WTF? How does that even occur to someone? :idk: :wtf:

Try this... First make two lines in an "L" shape like the axis of a graph along the longest outside edges of the area that you want to cover. Then you should be able to draw more lines freely within that extent (up to whatever the actual limit is ~10 or so I think). There's another better way...

Are your cams exposed to others in some way? If not, then not much need for complex passwords. Most all of the exploits just go around the passwords anyway. I don't recall ever seeing any way to change the fonts for BI specifically. I suppose you could change the default Windows fonts.

Remembered this post while looking at West Marine's site for other stuff... They happen to have some of the bumpers on 50%-off clearance if you have a store close. https://www.westmarine.com/search?q=dock%2520bumpers&prefn1=clearance&prefv1=Clearance

What you linked to can be directly buried fine. Better inside PVC or some other form of conduit if you can do it. In addition to better protecting it, may let you run another or replace cable easier later.

Not sure there are any licenses specific to cameras. There are for low-voltage generally and more specific requirements for alarm and fire systems. https://lowvoltagenation.com/2023/01/low-voltage-license-requirements-by-state/