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  1. MrSurly

    Amazon truck ran over flower garden

    www.vimeo.com is a viable alternative to YT. I also despise YT ever since google took over.
  2. MrSurly

    Good sale for BlueIris machines Dell Vostros with an i5-10400 and Windows 10 Pro

    Looks like a good deal. I'd want to verify how many 3.5" bays and SATA ports just to see if it will support two surveillance drives. I'd bet it will.
  3. MrSurly

    So I roughly have installed a 5442 6mm birdhouse camera on lamp post 50' from my front door....with tire slashing incursion discussion

    Seriously, consider law enforcement. She is clearly unstable, fixated on you as her target, clearly willing to perform premeditated acts of property damage, repeatedly. Erecting a new barrier is NOT going suddenly make her timid. It's not likely to elicit "oh, a fence! OK, I'll leave him alone...
  4. MrSurly

    So I roughly have installed a 5442 6mm birdhouse camera on lamp post 50' from my front door....with tire slashing incursion discussion

    Restraining order makes all the perfect sense, at least in the realm of unsolicited internet advice. How long before she 'steps up' to arson or bodily harm? She seriously needs incarceration. Could be the 'turning point' before a better life. Maybe something can be filed regarding "spousal...
  5. MrSurly

    Anyone seen this error before? "FORCE quitting CGadSocket thread"

    I don't want to cause more confusion (that usually follows in my wake) so I won't link the thread here, but I ran into a large amount of problems a few months ago as I began my BI adventure. Now, understand that I had a LOT of difficulties and MOST of them I initially blamed on buying the wrong...
  6. MrSurly

    New PC for BI - HDD size limit

    I can't prove this, but I strongly expect that you'd have better NIC performance with a dual-NIC PCI-card compared to using USB3 for networking. Also, as I recently found, doing playback with all the cameras on the screen is greatly improved when running two HDDs and having six or seven cams...
  7. MrSurly

    Burglars run after getting fright on their life

    "Please Leave the Area!" cracked me up totally. I immediately thought about it saying "you are being assimilated" or "All your base are belong to us". Despite the humor, I get the effect was real. What i would replace it with: (speaking directly into the mic) Hey YOU! STOP! (turn away slightly...
  8. MrSurly

    New PC for BI - HDD size limit

    The HP linked above has a single 3.5" HDD bay. In the offered configuration there is a 2.5" SSD (laptop format) mounted in a caddy, occupying that 3.5" bay (based on the info that I have found and assume to be accurate; I haven't actually seen the machine). If using this machine, you would need...
  9. MrSurly

    New PC for BI - HDD size limit

    As with so many other things, especially guy things there is a high likelihood that you will want to make it bigger/faster/stronger (more capable) later. It's a good idea to get a box with at LEAST two available drive bays. Keep in mind that it's a simple step to swap to an M.2 boot drive, if...
  10. MrSurly

    How to view camera feeds via BI app when not on my network

    Because "Windows 10 Home Edition does not support RDP.... click here to pay 100 dollars to enjoy this feature".
  11. MrSurly

    New PC for BI - HDD size limit

    To second the above, get a machine that supports "M.2" cards and use an M.2 SSD as your "C" drive to boot Windows and run BI. M.2 SSDs are cheap, super fast, and they are perfect for serving as your windows boot drive. By using the M.2 (instead of a spinning disk HDD) for your boot disk, the...
  12. MrSurly

    So I roughly have installed a 5442 6mm birdhouse camera on lamp post 50' from my front door....with tire slashing incursion discussion

    You might do well to simply drill say, a 3/4" hole in line with the IR lens, rather than make the slot way bigger.
  13. MrSurly

    So I roughly have installed a 5442 6mm birdhouse camera on lamp post 50' from my front door....with tire slashing incursion discussion

    The IR lens, I believe on the 5442, is below the rectangular cutout of the lens opening, therefore it is also below the rectangular cutout in the birdhouse so it's lighting the back of the wood.
  14. MrSurly

    So I roughly have installed a 5442 6mm birdhouse camera on lamp post 50' from my front door....with tire slashing incursion discussion

    Love it! I'd probably put some black screen to block the entry of birds....just to avoid whatever contamination of the box that would result. Clearly, if you did want let them in, you'd need to add a 'floor' over the cam and there wouldn't be much room anyway. I find that having a cam actually...
  15. MrSurly

    Why I Like Redundant Views/Multiple Cam Views

    Very impressive. I did note that given the light, the very best ID was from the low-mounted door cam. Cool idea.
  16. MrSurly

    How to Implement Dual Purples?

    Thanks to both of you. It looks like the renaming of the Aux folders as I did was effectively the way to do it. I was (of course) hoping for a simpler more intuitive way to direct them but clearly this can work. I intend, as well, to get another Purple once I determine what my MB will support...
  17. MrSurly

    How to Implement Dual Purples?

    I guess I'll look at it this weekend because I'm too dense to do this remotely, apparently. I'm looking at the various settings panels and can't see how to 'point' cameras to separate drives. In the individual cam settings in BI, each has the choice of choosing the NEW or the Stored folder and...
  18. MrSurly

    How to Implement Dual Purples?

    Ok, wow. I had not even thought of the approach of splitting the cameras into two groups. I LIKE SIMPLE, so thanks for that. For some reason I have been thinking of the camera's outputs as an aggregate that all had to go to the same destination but now I need more info. It appears that the BI...
  19. MrSurly

    How to view camera feeds via BI app when not on my network

    I am running OpenVPN as provided by my TPLink AC4000 wifi router. I, too, had a lot of frustration with my part as there seems to be a lack of simple instructions out there as to how to set it up. First: Know that I am not able to provide simple instructions because, to be frank, I am still not...
  20. MrSurly

    How to Implement Dual Purples?

    I now have my BI mini-tower running on an SSD for boot and storing to an 8TB Purple. I get about ten days with my twelve substreamed cams. I now have a second Purple, a new 10TB, in the second bay. What I want to do is to somehow use BOTH discs to store the clips and have them work as if they...
  21. MrSurly

    Hacking a wifi home cam

    sounds like one of those floating facebook ads
  22. MrSurly

    Sorting Out How to Fix This Network

    Thanks so much for this. You've illustrated were my largest fail-of-thought was occurring; I will need to ADD a managed switch in the computer room in order to implement a VLan properly. That makes more sense. I would also need to swap out the current 'dumb' switch in the shop for a managed...
  23. MrSurly

    Sorting Out How to Fix This Network

    Yes, I figured I could run more cable out to the shop and through the crawlspace; what I’m trying to learn is what alternatives might work without pulling more cable. 1. Is there any benefit to using the V7 switch as a “managed” switch? I’m thinking I could run one cable through the crawlspace...
  24. MrSurly

    Sorting Out How to Fix This Network

    Ok, brief background: started on the BI trip a few months back and got it working well enough for a trip I had coming. I set up Open VPN in the router, worked super. I put in Dual NICs and reconfigured the physical network such that the cam net is completely isolated from the world except...
  25. MrSurly

    LPR HFW5241E-Z12E enclosure ideas?

    I really like what you did here. I do feel the urge to add a suggestion... (especially since it is at ground level) the warmth of the cams is going to pretty much guarantee that you'll have critters making this a nest box really soon. I would suggest doing everything possible to seal the box up...
  26. MrSurly

    5442TM-AS Day Image Quality Issues

    Understood. I have overlap of five cams on this spot. They don't all have the same job. One is a Night Color with no IR, the others are all IR, various angles, shutter speeds and Focal lengths. This particular cam is not trying to ID cars or capture plates. It is for pedestrian troublemakers. I...
  27. MrSurly

    5442TM-AS Day Image Quality Issues

    In terms of exposure/WDR/AWB I have many cams, some are set for LPR, at least one os set up for True color/Night color. Feel free to show me what must be changed.
  28. MrSurly

    5442TM-AS Day Image Quality Issues

    I have two of these in use; no image or focus complaints. pretty much everything is default/auto
  29. MrSurly

    The Dreaded GAP. Very Frustrated New User

    I had it hooked up eSATA in the external case, then USB in the same case, then a replacement case, eventually, after moving it into the entirely different machine, direct mounted in the SATA bay I finally established that yes, it was the drive. The separate lagging issue with the portable USB...
  30. MrSurly

    The Dreaded GAP. Very Frustrated New User

    I need to flesh this out for the record in case a search leads someone to this thread and all of its confusion. This is a quick summary of my road to Blue Iris. My experience was fraught with peril, some of it chance (faulty drive) some of it my choice of the wrong machine selection...which I...
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