Recent content by ptzguy

I'm trying to extract a clip using UI3. I've done this many times without problems, but recently no output file is being created. It goes through all of the expected steps, but there's no output file. I thought that the file might be going to some obscure folder, but I used Everthing.exe (a very...

Since there seems to be some interest in this story, here is a follow-up news report: https://www.chesterfield.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3315

To avoid possible confusion, this was in Midlothian, VA, about 12 miles west of Richmond, VA (not Midlothian, TX) ;-)

This is a sad story of a homeowner in our county who was shot and killed in his own driveway exactly a year ago last Halloween night. The perp was rummaging through a car belonging to the homeowner's girlfriend. The victim worked a very early shift and was leaving for work around 3:30 am when...

Hmmm... There may be a more pernicious aspect to this problem. I've noticed that in recent months I've been getting relatively frequent "New Version Available" messages from Chrome - where you click a button to update to the latest version. That just happened on the laptop I'm working on at...

I've just started testing but haven't noticed any issues. I've confirmed that the green screen problem in Chrome goes away when I turn off hardware acceleration and comes back if I turn HA back on. I'm wondering if HA used to be turned off by default and Google decided to turn it on by default...

This may have fixed the green screen problem: turn off hardware acceleration in Chrome . Seems to be working so far. Settings / System / Use hardware acceleration when available / off / Relaunch

I'm a little late to the party, but I can share some more data that may be useful. I use UI3 pretty much all day every day on several (8) different laptops from several manufacturers and with a wide variety of ages and specs. All of the laptops are running Windows 10 and I use Chrome almost...

I'm the OP on this topic. The problem never has been resolved, although the tech at Amcrest Support hung in there with me for over a month before I finally threw in the towel. There's a simple workaround that takes care of my needs: I just set the cameras that have the problem to reboot daily...

Thanks, and thanks for the battery tip. Next time I buy some I'll try Venom Fly. I'll have to say that I've had very good results with Turnigy over about 6 years of use but I've never done a side-by-side comparison with another brand. Running a test the other day powering a small Linksys router...

Here are some photos of Version 3.1. The base and backboard are cut from a plastic cutting board I bought at Walmart. I had started with aluminum, but it seemed to be interfering with the Wifi signal. I then tried 3/8" acrylic sheet, but it was relatively heavy and harder to work with. The...

I've upgraded the battery box. I can run a very small 3S LiPo, if that's all I need, or run two 2200 MaH LiPos in parallel. In a test last night, I got about 7 hours of run time with the red LED illuminators running full time. A nice feature of this setup is that I can "hot swap" batteries while...

Here are some photos of the "Control Box". It contains the following: Toggle switch DPDT with weatherproof cover to switch battery into the circuit (Twidec, Amazon 10 for $10.99) Push button N/O (not weatherproof, yet...) to turn on the power relay Tiny blue 12V SPST relay that turns power on...

Thanks, for the tip. I've solved the problem using a similar solution. I bought a second type of LVC module that seems to reduce the cutoff current nearly to zero. Just to be sure, I added a tiny 12V relay into the circuit. I turn on the power switch, then press a button to set the relay to ON...