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  1. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    Thanks and thanks for the reply! (i was wondering if i had silent turned on) :haha:
  2. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    Hopefully the info or ideas in here will inspire some other stealth camera set ups!
  3. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    Grabbed a daylight pic
  4. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    Every pic is rotated 90* to the left, except for the last pic. They are ALL correctly oriented on my phone. Could someone show me how to fix their rotation, please?
  5. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    By the time I got inside it was already on the screen! (the camera had already been set up and running elsewhere) In the view of this camera you can see the original Mailbox Hide, still running, three cams on board. And, yes, I hastily clipped a bunch the stalks out of the view. This will need...
  6. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    Now that the feeder is resting on top on the conduit and the wire is fed thru, I need to crimp a connector on and hook ‘er up!
  7. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    Next, I cut the conduit piece to length. since the top of the conduit would serve as the support and pivot point for the feeder, I had to somehow secure the conduit rigidly and hopefully centrally within the post pipe. The post I.D. is 2.25 and the conduit OD is 7/8”. I used a hole saw to almost...
  8. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    ( I need help rotating the pics, please) It’s done! Back when I ran the pipe,I left it jutting out of the ground by a bush… no regard for it looking goofy. I doubled the Cat6 over and fed it back in and slipped a cap on top to wait for another day. There’s a joint above grade that I didn’t...
  9. MrSurly

    Bird Feeder Hide

    For a long time I have been planning to set up a full-color cam to watch over the street to cover the same general area as my previously chronicled Mailbox hide. The cans in the mailbox are set to work as ersatz LPRs but of course that means they are effectively blind to everything else at...
  10. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    To provide some wrap-up of this thread... Following the advice of several here, instead of getting another 24Ppoe switch, I ended up with three switches, staying with TPlink and with the Omada capability (which I have yet to actually employ but the capability is there). I was trying to go...
  11. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Earlier I looked at the IPCT switch because i assume it’s good because it’s in the store, right? The 16 and 24 are b/o. and apparently they’re all unmanaged. I’m trying to find a 12 or 16 port similar to the beefy little 4-port that was posted. Fanless/managed/Hi-Power is a tall order if you...
  12. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Looking at what TP-Link has, if i want to retain the Omada compatibility, have a fanless PoE+ and redundancy, they have only one model, this 8+2 port. And, it's not high powered. Still looking. Now at the Netgear line.
  13. MrSurly

    Cheap PC Upgrade Path for Blue Iris

    And I WAS hard headed about it. I was convinced that i could make the silly thing work, but in the end physics won, as it ALWAYS wins. If anyone needs detail about the efficacy of external drives for primary storage, I could ‘splain a thing or two. Even using eSATA cables was a fail. The real...
  14. MrSurly

    Cheap PC Upgrade Path for Blue Iris

    If it may help others just easing into the ip cam world on a budget, this is the path I went along, after some wrong turns. There are a ton of cheap, old PCs out there. Some are great starting points for a Blue Iris build, but there are also many that do not really support what we need for ip...
  15. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Well, I cancelled the order on the 24p. I'm still leaning toward the OMADA SDN feature (only because I have some of the pieces now), But that little NetGear above,is tempting IF it was on sale. To replace my failing switch would take a BUNCH of them. The good news is that my failing switch is...
  16. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    That's an impressive little switch, right there. Added to my list for future expansion in the shop which has a 4poe/4non switch right now. My comment re: fanless vs power was prompted by searching 16~24 port switches, it looked like all the poe versions and especially the high wattage units were...
  17. MrSurly

    PoE Voltage Tester

    A question about testing PoE: Yes, I have DVMs and of course I can make a quick connector to try to read voltage at an injector or switch, but since the voltage and current (depending on the particular PoE standard) relies on a software negotiation between devices, I'm certain that the DVM...
  18. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Good points; For the record, I should add that the V7 switch, the 8-port switch in the shop as well as the computer room (CamPC/modem/router) each have dedicated UPSes/ surge protectors. This gives a little bit of run time during an outage and most importantly isolates everything from most...
  19. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Despite the appearance of my switch evidently becoming aware that its replacement is being arranged and now making a yeoman's effort to prove its mettle :haha: , I'm glad I did the testing. I was able to establish that the switch was NOT providing power to the cams and that this was the direct...
  20. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    It just keeps getting weirder; it was down to seven cams working this morning (one remains externally powered) and when I got back tonight,, … ALL FOURTEEN cams are working. Without my having dicked with any settings.
  21. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Good points on redundancy, a few small vs one large. I'm giving that some investigation to compare cost, power budgets etc. Good call on the SDN compatibilty as I hadn't thought of the outdating possibility. It turns out that my Omada controller and both APs are "SDN Integrated" and fully...
  22. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    I'm looking REALLY hard at this one right now... high power, gigabit everywhere, i already have TPlink access points and an Omada controller (just a widget that could be useful) Take a quick look and tell me what I'm overlooking? there is a low-power version (SG2428P)
  23. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Thats a good set of specs. That unit looks almost identical to the V7 I have. I'll check into warranty info on it. A co-worker tells me of the Zyxel switches he has, five year warranty that they do honor; he's impressed with their support so I'm including Zyxel in my search
  24. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    There is a lingering "but what about...' ONE of the 'bench' cams was the first to fail and it actually was running on the other (8port) switch in the shop....hmmmmm. The other two cams on that switch and the PTZ that replaced this cam are working fine. The PTZ is externally powered. Looks like...
  25. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    BOOM!! Mystery solved! Not resolved but at least I now know why my cameras acted like they shared a virus. All of your helpful ideas and actions eventually led me to the proof. The PSU in my V7 24PoE switch is dying. doing the arp cmd showed the ips of some non-op cams including those on the...
  26. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Yes, one of them (noname PTZ) is detected by Dahua's Configtool as .22.26 but picked up by BI as 22.78. When weird behavior happens, it happens to me first.
  27. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Thanks, a good reference to have. I'm familiar with command line usage for pings, directory list, ipconfig... but not familiar with the 'arp' command.
  28. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    I haven't thought through this methodically enough. When I get home I will try another approach. since I can't see the camera with the web gui after using the web gui to change its IP, i need to first concentrate on that, Not Blue Iris. As spelled out in post #6 above, the process using the web...
  29. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    Haven’t done that, not familiar. are you speaking in cisco? what is the actual command line entry?
  30. MrSurly

    Three Dahua Bricks... Is There a Trick to UNBrick?

    I just noticed an other bit of weird, that probably means absolutely nothing.... Of the working cams, one of them is not a Dahua, it's some no name PTZ that I've had on the shelf and only recently deployed after the aforementioned 'bench cams' went out. The cam works fine, no issue its just that...
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