Recent content by vulpes

You should check the hardware requirements for 100mbps VPN. I'm not so sure an ordinary router can cut it. For the last couple of years, I've had an OpenVPN server running on a Raspberry pi(v1!) at a summer house on a 4G link, 6GB monthly limit. It served its purpose, allowing me to download...

Edit: My sources have told me that the canine unit caught the guy. Hopefully, he won't come around again. A camera win! I had just finished tinkering with a Raspberry Pi, and was contemplating going to bed, when the motion alert for the driveway vent off. It had gone off earlier that evening...

*Edit: Nevermind, didn't lookup the French IP. My mistake *

Have you remembered to select Video Type -> Video&Audio under the Video/Audio settings in the camera? I've forgotten it a couple of times, resulting in no audio, and much frustration.

I have the exact same problem, and it appeared after the latest update. After I tried a full re-install of Blue Iris, the cloned continuous recordings refused to start, before the trigger cameras were disabled. When I turned the triggers on again, everything seemed to be ok for about 1-2 hours...

My guy had this technique as his trademark. There had been incidents in the neighbourhood, where people's wallets went missing in the middle of the day, the previous months. Norway is a pretty safe country, so keeping the door unlocked during the day isn't at all that unusual, in most towns...

That's some scary stuff. It's similar to my experience last year. It can make you a little jumpy for a while. He should get a better fitting belt for his pants, and enjoy it for as long as he can. Where he's going to end up, if he continues this way of life, belts aren't allowed.

Some time ago, an update to Blue Iris made it so that, if you ran Blue Iris as a service, it automatically created a user called "Cameras". This user had no password. It's detailed in this thread. https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/5540-User-Cameras-with-no-password-do-you-have-one

Nice video! Around here they come in the autumn to eat the apples that lazy home owners have left on the ground. The apples have often fermented, so the moose can get quite drunk and unruly. It usually ends with the animal control shooting them, and they become moose steak at the nursing home.

You're totally right. I block all the devices on my internal network I don't want to be reached or reach the rest of the world in my hardware firewall. This summer, I regularly checked the logs to see what was poking around, and in addition to several Chinese IPs, Shodan was snooping about. If...

I used the cheapest PoE camera I could find on ebay. Ended up with a camera with awful firmware, firmware version dictated exposure, and it had a "hidden" streaming service. I noticed it due to unknown traffic going out to China on my firewall. It wasn't possible to turn off, so I blocked it...

The criminals around here have knives at worst, and I'm not too concerned about my own safety. In the video below of a garage door checker, I'm not that casual. He went behind the house, where it's pitch black, and was about to climb the fence to the neighbour. I could only see a silhouette, but...

This is my first catch from last year. It's from before I took home surveillance seriously. I got into it after installing cameras in bird nesting boxes. For fun I put one of the test cameras at the front door, one in the back(both Vivotek IP8331 640x480), and later in addition a Vivotek...

@fenderman I might be wrong, but isn't there an ethernet port staring us in the face on one of the pictures? You can see the copper pins going in the rj-45 shaped hole. Edit: One minute late

This is a guy who've been frequenting the garden for years(and probably his parents too). One time he even brought his girlfriend(boyfriend?), running through the garden. Sometimes weeks pass by without any sightings, and I start to worry for him, but so far he has always shown up again. I think...