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    New wedge

    Perfect for oppressive regimes everywhere!
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    Field of view calculation

    Send him an email. I'm sure he can get more stuff than he lists on the site.
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    vlan tagging at the camera

    They're tagged as far as I know. For example, switch port 23 has PVID set to 140, putting it on VLAN140, and participates in VLAN140 only. That's where my POE switch with the cameras connects in. Then switch port 24 uplinks to the router. Port 24 is tagged for VLAN140. The router has a VLAN140...
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    vlan tagging at the camera

    On my Ubiquiti switches, you can set the Port VLAN ID on each interface. It will add a VLAN tag to the packets coming in from that interface which is useful when the client doesn't understand VLANs or you want to force an interface onto a specific VLAN.
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    IPcamtalk website and older versions of firefox

    Why on Earth are you running a 3+ year old browser on the Internet? Yes, it can be NoScript. I gave up on it years ago because you get endless chains of scripts calling scripts from dozens of domains. Just run uBlock Origin on a non-EOL browser.
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    Camera snapshots obscured by bounding box and blue squares

    Camera properties, trigger, motion sensor, highlight dropdown. Whatever is set to display there will show in your snapshots.
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    internet cable - how to protect ?

    Metal conduit is nice if you have the means to work with it. I went PVC because I already own the cutters and cement from working with sprinkler pipes. The 3/4" schedule 40 is pretty thick. Someone would have to take some time to get at it since most of it is in a corner where something like...
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    internet cable - how to protect ?

    I had a similar situation. The coax came out of the ground and went up the wall to the eave. They had joined two lengths of cable just above ground level so I simply took them apart and slid it through a length of schedule 40 grey PVC. I put the PVC a bit underground and ran it up to the eave 8'...
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    Would you put a camera here? (diagram included)

    I am working my way from front to back installing cameras. The three locations left are in the back of the house, colored red, orange, and green. The orange camera under the patio cover will see a door, slider, and window. The green on the right side of the patio cover will catch a living room...
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    Living room camera settings

    Yes, using profiles. I have a "home" profile that still triggers the cameras, but doesn't alert. I only have cameras outside but I use this when we're home and the kids are playing in the garage and/or yard. BI gives you 7 profiles to play with and the recording, triggering, alerting settings...
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    Turret Cam Install Advice

    I know Dahua has some systems that claim 800 meters but I haven't looked into them. There's a million different ways to build a network, but as long as the cameras and NVR are on the same network, they'll see each other. For example, you could run all the cameras' wires to a switch in the...
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    Turret Cam Install Advice

    Mounting depends on what you're trying to cover. It looks like you'd want the camera mounted lower than the soffit. What's on the other side of the wall. Can you just punch through it? Or run the wire though the vent hole, then down the wall through conduit to a box on the wall. I don't know...
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    Tablet Choice

    Costcos has two Samsung tablets on sale now: $129 for 8" or $149 for 10.1" with a 32GB microSD card.
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    Any plans on Blue Iris coming to MacOS or Synology Diskstations?

    There's nothing wrong with the Windows version of BI. How can you tell if someone is a mac or linux user? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
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    Questions about reasonable sound from an IP camera.

    I have several Dahua starlight and have tested the mic. I'm sure it would pick up a dog barking at that distance. If I disable the noise filter, the cameras on the front of the house pick up small planes overhead, traffic behind the house, wind, etc.
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    Dahua 180 degree cam PDBW8800/2

    Also, the 3.6mm lenses provide a combined 172 degree angle of view which is pretty close to 180. If some small gap can be tolerated, probably at the far edges, they'll provide better DORI distances.
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    How do you use your dedicated PC for Blue Iris

    I have a KVM switch on my desk for working on PCs so I added the BI PC to that. I also have it accessible via TeamViewer. The BI PC sits on a little shelf under the desk, behind the canned air dusters and packing tape. I have a managed switch, VLANs, and a router/firewall regulating traffic...
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    Need a cloud based solution for my cameras / dvr

    Do you even have enough bandwidth? You'd have to upload everything in real time to be of benefit, assuming you're trying to protect against theft/destruction of the recorder. I use an SD card in each camera and email myself stills from motion events. If that's not enough, well, I tried.
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    South Carolina Homeowner Shoots Intruder

    Remember when television journalists had 30 minutes to tell you the most pressing news instead of 24x7 to stir people up with meaningless crap?
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    External cabling to camera junction box -security

    I think being out of arm's reach would be enough to deter most. But why not use metal conduit instead of plastic if you're concerned?
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    City upgraded to LED street lights

    I already have a dusk-to-dawn light on the driveway (just left of frame) and the porch light doing the same. I run those cameras in color mode 24/7. The front yard was darker since the old street lamp was so dim so I ran that camera in auto mode. I switched it to color mode after the new light...
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    Review-Dahua IPC-HDBW4231F-E2-M Dual Starlight Cam

    I think you'll have better coverage with the domes aimed toward the ground. The 2.8mm lenses have a 110 degree horizontal angle of view. You're trying to cover 270 degrees so even without overlap, you're still 50 degrees short. The link below shows my installation, but I only needed 180 degree...
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    City upgraded to LED street lights

    I tried some low-profile LED motion lights recently and by the time they clicked on, they just wound up overexposing anyone in the front yard. I do have some bigger ones in the back which have much better range, but I'm not sure I want them on the front of the house. I have these...
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    Remove Dahua Time Stamp

    Yeah I leave the time stamp on in-camera so it'll be in recordings to the SD card. Also, if I view it through another method (TinyCam, web) the incrementing time stamp confirms that I'm looking at live video.
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    Remove Dahua Time Stamp

    BI - right click camera, properties, video tab, enables overlays checkbox Camera - Setting, Video, Overlay, Time Title
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    South Carolina Homeowner Shoots Intruder

    Compare that to California where grown "men" get the vapors at the sight of a gun.
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    South Carolina Homeowner Shoots Intruder

    Same in California, but with special enhancements if the guy is a member of a protected class.
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    City upgraded to LED street lights

    I got a picture of the new light today. The marker says 30 LED but it looks like 16 to me.
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    24 port Managed PoE Switch Recommendation

    I don't think you'll find a fanless 24 port POE switch. When I was building my network, I went with a non-POE Ubiquiti Edgeswitch 24 because my stuff is all in my home office closet (no doors) and 10' from my desk. It didn't want fan noise. When I added cameras, I got a 18 port BV-Tech unmanaged...
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    City upgraded to LED street lights

    The old lights were bell-shaped with a lens in open end. The one in front of our house looked like part of the lens was masked off, possibly in an attempt to limit light hitting bedroom windows. The new light has a grid of maybe 16-20 LED which are individually visible. They each may be set in...
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