Recent content by NielK

More camera-based retro-investigations ... Found a pile of feathers by the side of the pond this morning. It was a sparrowhawk. Impact just off camera but you can see the Sparrowhawk streaking after a blackbird and then returning with its prey to dine in front of the camera. (Video trimmed...

We lost all of the 20-year old Koi carp that we inherited with the house. Turns out it was an otter - caught red-handed by a 5442. Here's the evidence from a previous post: Any suggestions for night exposure settings to improve this fox capture?

Worth noting that Ubiquiti claims many of the newer Ubiquiti devices do now support 802.3af power as well as the legacy 24V passive POE, although there are still plenty that don't. 24V passive only includes ... NanoStation M NanoStation Loco M NanoBeam M NanonBeam AC 802.3af includes ...

I am doing just that. My Blue Iris machine didn't have room for a third internal drive so I plugged in an external 3TB Seagate USB3 drive as an experiment. Internal SSD - boot disk Internal WD Purple 4TB disk - Blue Iris "New" folder External Seagate USB3 4TB disk - Blue Iris "Saved" folder...

It really depends what you want the cameras for. My parents have a set of Reolink cameras and they are very happy with them but their use case is very different to most that you will read about in the forum. They are mainly interested in looking at / spotting wildlife around the house in the...

If you do want to clone a drive, I've found Macrium Reflect to be a rock solid backup/restore program that also does drive cloning. There is even a free version of it (link: Reflect Free Edition).

Same. I switch the object filter off on some of my cameras because I do want them to trigger on animals. But it doesn't do so reliably.

The 5442 with 20211203 firmware gives you the opportunity to switch the IVS object filter off completely. When the object filter is on, you have to select at least one of the two options (human and motor vehicle). The AI is great at ignoring steam, leaves and spiders, while still picking out...

I have previously struggled with wireless meshes when they get to 5+ APs and have a mix of wirelss mesh and ethernet backhaul. The result has been network storms every now and then. I currently have 5 Ubiquiti APs, all ethernet connected to the same network and with wireless meshing disabled...

Yes indeed. I was just noting that the ONVIF alerts continued to work even with multiple clone masters. I could usefuly have also noted that having multiple clone masters isn't a smart thing to do, for the very reason that you have highlighted.

I have been using the built-in IVS on my 5442 cameras - it's really helpful at this time of year when leaves, spiders and the central heating exhaust can generate a lot of BI motion alerts. To test out IVS, I cloned a camera and configured one of the cameras to use BI motion detection...

I did an experiment about a year ago using rpisurv (GitHub - SvenVD/rpisurv: Raspberry Pi surveillance) to view RTSP streams. It can comfortably dispay 4 cameras in a grid as long as you're displaying substreams (which makes sense unless you have a huge 8k monitor). Setup RPi 4B, 2GB RAM, GPU...

TP-Link: TL-SG108PE & TL-SG1008P Ubiquiti: USW-Lite-8-POE, USW-Lite-16-POE I started with a set of TP-Link POE switches and Netgear non-POE switches. Worked well apart from the fortnightly network storm that required a restart. I changed to an all Ubiquit Unifi managed setup for router...

I'm also in the UK. I bought 7 x Dahua 5442 from @EMPIRETECANDY via this forum. He was helpful (eg chosing the right models and associated mounting boxes), offered decent prices and delivery from Hong Kong was within a fortnight. The cameras have been great too. If (ok, when) I get the urge to...

It does seem an extreme punishment. If you look at the stats for CCTV in the UK, we had 5-6 million at the end of 2020. Interestingly, only small fraction of them (under 5%) are run by the state/local authorities. The rest are run by private businesses and homeowners. London has a lot of...