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    The official "WTF" thread

    Yes, cellular. A friend uses them and his has a prepaid ATT (text only ?) sim card. It costs him $.015 per text.
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    Empire tech wall mount cable notch

    I replaced that camera with another mount. This one replaced it so you can get the idea.
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    Empire tech wall mount cable notch

    Yeah, I have. I ran some wiremold like this Legrand Wiremold 700 Series 5 ft. Metal Surface Raceway Channel, White BWH1 - The Home Depot to it. I used a deburring bit like Drill America 1/4 in. x 5/8 in. Tree Radius End Solid Carbide Burr Rotary File Bit with 1/4 in. Shank DULSF1 - The Home...
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    Trouble Reaching EmpireTech01.com

    Just came up for me.
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    Hi from (the cold parts) of Spain!

    Hello @CastleDweller if your house is indeed a castle, I for one would love to see some camera captures!
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Doh! 7:25!
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    The official "WTF" thread

    But what about the reflection off the windshield at 7:45?
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    What Are They Doing

    My guess is environmental testing well. I see them along the coast to test if salt water encroached to the freshwater aquifers. Also see them around waste sites to see if contaminates are migrating away from the source. The bridge repair behind you might be what initiated it like @c hris527...
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    Dahua Visit at Oct.12th and 13th

    Ah, except I doubt every car in that parking lot was electric! I drive a polestar and pulled into a tractor supply company parking lot behind a Tesla, we both had an oil stain below our cars!
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    Dahua Visit at Oct.12th and 13th

    ^^^^ That is the first thing my wife said. Everything is so clean! I zoomed in on the parking lot and cannot even find an oil stain.
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    Mounting Camera to Existing Lamp Holder

    WOW! Sometimes when I am hunting and pecking then hit post, somebody has beat me to it! @TonyR hit it exactly! I would then move the lights to the side holes and you still have lights and the cameras. I may very well have read Tony's post in years gone by and plagiarized it!
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    Mounting Camera to Existing Lamp Holder

    Are your light boxes surface mounted or recessed? If they are recessed, you could use a box extender like this. From there, you could remove the spotlight holders from the existing cover and route them through the side holes. You could then use a blank cover like in @Flintstone61 second post. I...
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    Mounting Camera to Existing Lamp Holder

    You do not mention what style of camera. There are dozens of different mounts but I doubt a decent sized camera would directly mount to a light fixture. Those plugs are 1/2" or 3/4" npt. Standard conduit fittings will fit in them. You could use something like this...
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    Walnut Collecting

    I see somebody fenced off the trail to the sound. That eliminates a lot of good videos!:D
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    Shrink-flation: Post your examples

    I'm sure the piece size is smaller but they finally got it right selling them in a 5 gallon bucket!
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    Amcrest PT(z) Preset Command Line

    Thanks! I didn't know I wanted to try this but it worked so turns out I did!
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    Shrink-flation: Post your examples

    I bought a two pack of wasp spray last month. When I put the cans next to the old cans on the shelf I noticed the difference.
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    Shrink-flation: Post your examples

    I chuckle when I see icecream in smaller packages. In the US, during the 70's, going to the metric system was all the rage. If we had shifted over, a half gallon of icecream would have become 2 liters or a slight increase! Now 50 years later with shrinkflation, we would be back down to a half...
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    Electrical Inspection Wall Of Shame

    Without context it tough to tell. Looks to me like 10 2 awg wires coming from a generator to bus bars. Is BOY limited to 480 or can be used on any 3 phase circuit? 10 2 awg wires could carry over 1000 amps so I guessed a 4160 generator.
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    Things that make me go Hmmm?

    I signed onto amcrestcloud.com and they have no billing information for me so that is a good thing. My account shows lifetime view only but there are no cameras listed. I got two emails said they are going to stop doing health checks until I fix my cameras configuration. They got me to sign...
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    Things that make me go Hmmm?

    Got an interesting email today from Amcrest Cloud Notification service. They said that my one camera was offline. That is fair enough except I have not had an Amcrest Cloud account since July of 2019. Everything was right on the camera like name and my username. That camera has been retired for...
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    EmpireTech 2023 Autumn Sales Sep.20th-30th

    @Rooster I bought a miniptz (PTZ425DB-AT) and was surprised that it came with a power supply. I believe they are all 12 volts. Just be sure the power requirements are met. The specs show max 10.5 watts at 12vdc, so a 1 amp power supply will work. Since you have power and cat5e available, you...
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    What’s your favourite coffee?

    A high school girlfriend's father was stationed at the Navy's coffee plantation in Columbia. He told me that after Congress decided the government should not compete with the private sector, they sold the plantation and shuttered the roasters, quality went to hell. I think he said that chase &...
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    WTS Fanless Box Intel 4-Core 8-Thread CPU with Quick Sync, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD. $70~80.

    Have you loaded blue iris one of these?
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    RV Burglary - Rant and A Few Questions

    ^^^ Doh! Got my threads crossed, by about 450 miles!
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    EmpireTech 2023 Autumn Sales Sep.20th-30th

    It might be a funny inside joke if there was a used super mario bros game posted on the empiretech01.com website and clicking on it went to a DOTD super special! (Deal of the Day)
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    The official "WTF" thread

    ^^^ WOW, I see trucks so overloaded sometimes that the tires will very nearly rub the wheel wells. It is so dry this year that any fire would set off a major disaster.
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    Scammers really Suck...

    @sdkid My prayers go out to you.
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    RV Burglary - Rant and A Few Questions

    Sometimes, the purpose of a lawsuit is to prompt them into action. If you do not use that stick they will ignore and then the video will scroll off the tape. Time is important. Imagine if all four of the units hit were to file individual lawsuits? Outgoing guys might still not care but the...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    A month ago, heading west on I-10 into Houston, an eastbound tractor-trailer made one of the many curves way too fast and wound up only on his right wheels. Did not flip because he was stopped by the barrier. He started a fire on the roadway overpass. Poor guy was out of his truck trying to...
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