Recent content by soyrunner

The other day, turned off the car, took off my hat, and glasses, put on my mask, glasses, hat, exited and locked the car - later realized the keys and fob were in the ignition but had my second set.

Thanks yes. Years in electronic prototype labs, we used Dale metal 1% 25w 0.1 ohm resistors to measure current given digital meter voltage accuracy. Personally using ammeter selection on multimeters lead to all too many burned fuses due to my own carelessness in not putting the leads back...

Given this century's manufacturing philosophy I think it best to give it want it needs and limit it to that. I see posts about dead IR LEDs. Too high and LEDs might see too much current, use one of those splitters advertised, e.g. 4-way DC Power Y Splitter with 5.5x2.1mm Plugs might burn out...

Thanks. The connector, which likely is designed for some common IP camera power lead if one had a Y splitter, has a very narrow center pin (closer inspection shows it isn't that narrow) that at a glance looks like that which power my IP cameras. I looked at it last night and it appeared to be...

I'll eventually put an IP camera out on the chicken coop but for now I have a nearby trailcam trained on its doors. Recently a couple of birds were mauled in the coop after the hatch opened in the AM and after fixing the chickenwire bird run I found on the trailcam a large raccoon returning at...

Another minor problem with this NVR. It's recording the Series A stream when an alarm is tripped. Its scheduling is from midnight to midnight. I might retrieve the files from the ftp server anytime in the morning or early afternoon. I zip the files then condition them to play on the WDTV...

My reducing sensitivity to reduce video of spiders weaving webs or a moving leaf on a web tendril resulted in the German Shepherd appearing first well into the inner yard behind the truck and mobile home. He's at half point then bolts out of camera range. Then a year old cat I call Chaps flies...

So, I'm reading email and getting ready to condition the videos when I hear the main roo making noises that sound strange. I pop up the 4 screen monitor and see a huge German Shepherd trotting in the inner yard. I run out. I know the dog. He belongs to a neighbor who's beagle years ago...

Okay, good news. I have the SV3C Series A camera's video playing on the WDTV. I thought the problem was that the EvTevision would only record in VBR. I have two other cameras, Series HX, recording to the the RPI ftp server at a Maximum Frame Rate of 10 FPS with a Key Frame Rate of 40 and CBR...

This EvTevsion NVR is disappointing me again. The one camera it's recording, SV3C Series A which has no sdcard nor ftp capability, which I have recording with CBR in order to view with a WDTV Live box to my TV, this after conditioning with ffmpeg, won't set its recording to CBR and it VBR fails...

My 4 cameras stream but only 3 can store to an sd card or ftp the alarms and recordings out. I'm told that NVRs can't accept ftp's files from cameras unless the NVR is modified? The NVR would override settings in the cameras. Accessing the files on the NVR is a problem so for now I ftp from...

Keeping out bad actors but still having access by phone? Even if one uses a wireless router without an uplink so the NVR and cameras can communicate, if you have wireless enabled how to keep bad actors from getting in that way? Especially with the revelation of all those back doors that bad...

So, looking at the EvTevision ftp of alarms I have it set up to send to the RPI. What I'm getting on the RPI are files buried 4 directories deep with a file name ending in ].h264' Problem is that when I go to zip the contents the linux zip fails to a > prompt. Also there's an @ symbol in...

Thank you Alastair. I saved the link and files. I've wanted to get into one of these cameras and look around at their operating system. Perhaps the next rainy day.

Perhaps no ftp import is a security feature. So, this NVR isn't filling my needs. Going to retire a computer later this year. The Evtevision DVR has a rather small board, larger than an RPI but then the RPI needs a power supply. Haven't tried the codec to play h265 videos on Win10. Rolling...