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  1. DLONG2

    Access UI3 or BI App externally?

    There's the Pushover.net service, where notifications come to the phone from BI. There's a one-time purchase fee for the phone app, and as I recall 10,000 free notifications per month. The notifications are set up in the Alerts tab of each camera. This would not require a VPN or proxy manager or...
  2. DLONG2

    How practical is it to connect my parents IP cam from their house to my BI server remotely?

    For locations within 5 miles of your BI server, consider using UniFi LAN radios, for extending your home network over the air.
  3. DLONG2

    IR for ALPR

    I, too, have HS4. Curious to learn more about the collection to HomeSeer. Can you share some details on this? For example, if my camera sees my plate arriving then I could open up the garage door with automation.
  4. DLONG2

    IR for ALPR

    The 15 degrees at 132' should be fine.
  5. DLONG2

    Drives overallocated even after rebuilding DB

    I've had the same issue a few times in the past 6 months or so. Delete the DB folder, lose all the alerts, and it will work for a while until the problem returns. I keep updating the version, and deleting the DB. It has been stable for the past month or so, so there's hope.
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    Looking for opinions on my options for LPR install locations.

    Or a plate saying "UHAUL" or "FEDEX"
  7. DLONG2

    Easiest ways to view BI on remote monitors inside home?

    Fire OS is always a mystery to me. Luckily after much effort I can usually locate the icon for the Silk browser to get the UI3 to open. The Fire OS is not very intuitive.
  8. DLONG2

    Easiest ways to view BI on remote monitors inside home?

    Thanks for the link! Hope that this will resolve the sleepiness on the tablet.
  9. DLONG2

    Easiest ways to view BI on remote monitors inside home?

    My AMZN tablet occasionally drops the UI3 connection and then goes to sleep, or else goes to sleep and then drops the UI3.. What are you running for a keep-alive program?
  10. DLONG2

    IR for ALPR

    My old 900nm IR helped a bit to illuminate plates for the 5241z12, but I recently opted for an 850nm to get cleaner images, albeit at Axton prices.
  11. DLONG2

    OpenALPR Tool - Save and Query CSV Exports

    Doesn't the viewer allow for editing of a plate? Maybe pick a commonly-seen plate and edit just the one occurrence. Once the target plate is in the database then can it be tagged for special alerts?
  12. DLONG2

    LPR for 160m/540f

    The plates are much sharper with the 11e emitter and 1/2,000 shutter on the Dahua 5241Z12. Here's a look at a capture at about 170 feet.
  13. DLONG2

    LPR for 160m/540f

    My Dahua 5241 camera was using a large IR emitter of invisible light, but the line of site to the plates on the street crosses a neighbor's property, and I didn't like how the old IR emitter was widely radiating the neighbor's property with IR, as well as the fact that invisible IR does not...
  14. DLONG2

    Database Repair - Seeing Red Again and Again

    Blue Iris used to be very stable, but for the past 6 months or so, I've had to delete the DB folder and rebuild the database. This has happened at least 4 times now. I'll upgrade to the latest stable version, thinking there was a repair somewhere in the version, and a month later the database is...
  15. DLONG2

    OpenALPR Tool - Save and Query CSV Exports

    Considering the PlateRecognizer (PR), as I understand, it only inserts an entry into the BI log file. It would be an easy task to open the log file and parse for these plates, and enter them into the database. Or if the need was just to collect unique plates then to look up for the plate and...
  16. DLONG2

    OpenALPR Tool - Save and Query CSV Exports

    What I like about the Rekor ALPR is that it works really well capturing plates and identifying different state license plates. The PlateRecognizer misses almost half of the plates on my street, and I understand that to improve the capture rate it would require some adjustments on the BI camera's...
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    LPR for 160m/540f

    Thanks for the link. The Linovision splitter should work well, as one port allows for 8W and the other for 16W. The IR emitter is rated at 11W. I do have a 120V AC outlet not too far from where the camera and old emitter are under the eaves, so your PoE injector would work okay if it were...
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    LPR for 160m/540f

    Sorry I don't follow the suggestion on going premium, CCTVCam. Is the concern that a splitter would be used? Or the model of splitter? I hope the wattage will be okay, as I have a PTZ camera drawing 12.5 to 16W on another port.
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    LPR for 160m/540f

    Thanks Robert, I went ahead and ordered the 11e model with this PoE splitter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HSN5YSK
  20. DLONG2

    LPR for 160m/540f

    I am thinking of getting this Axton model 11e using 10 degrees for 540 feet, which uses PoE, but am wondering if an AC adapter can be used in lieu of getting a splitter for PoE? My camera now draws less than 3W, so this 11W IR emitter should be okay with my Ubiquiti PoE port...
  21. DLONG2

    Poor IR contrast in new Tennessee license plates

    Me, too. I am waiting for the strobe LPR lamp review and purchase link!
  22. DLONG2

    Upgraded 5.5.8.2 to 5.7.0.4 - Issues with Compact/Repair DB and Clip List

    Seems like the 4th time I've had to delete the db folder in the past few months . . .
  23. DLONG2

    New to LPR? Considerations Before You Begin

    You have a great view of the street. I would suggest zooming as much as possible so as to still capture both lanes. Go out to 200-250 feet, and don't worry about the gutters. You just need the plates, and the two plates ought not be more than 15' apart from each other.
  24. DLONG2

    New to LPR? Considerations Before You Begin

    97JeepXJ, did you integrate the pulse mode with your Z12? The 850nm light reaching 540 feet, and ideally the camera shutter would allow a quick pulse from a trigger event, so as to not disturb the neighbors, seeing a big red eye all the time.
  25. DLONG2

    New to LPR? Considerations Before You Begin

    The product says "Pulsed mode allows syncing with a camera shutter for industrial, machine vision, and ANPR/LPR applications. " I wonder how that would work? Also, would this product allow for a local 120v power source? Guess I'm still hoping for the white light strobe which is supposed to be...
  26. DLONG2

    Digital License Plates

    .Or better yet, a device which clones other passing plates, maybe every 10 minutes.
  27. DLONG2

    Digital License Plates

    Okay, so I guess when digital plates become required and are ubiquitous, some people will try to scrape off their reflective coating. ;-)
  28. DLONG2

    How to record location data on mobile LPR?

    Please check out this article from OpenALPR, where they describe how to include mobile GPS coordinates: https://help.rekor.ai/how-to-add-gps-coordinates
  29. DLONG2

    repair/regenerate database

    So the DB was repaired yesterday, and today there's no clips or alerts listed. I just now reverted back to version 5.6.5.9, and will try again at repair.
  30. DLONG2

    repair/regenerate database

    Not sure why, but the alerts and clips disappeared again and had to be restored by repairing the database. There was no update since 5.6.6.1, or any changes, so it's a mystery why the database gets lost.