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  1. Swampledge

    Motion and object detection: Blue Iris vs Deepstack vs Camera Features

    I have a situation like you describe. I set a zone that includes my driveway, but not the road in the background. Remember that with motion detection, Blue Iris is triggering on motion, not recognizing whether that motion is a person, vehicle, animal, or piece of trash blowing in the wind...
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    Upgrading question for best night vision outcome

    Can you put 1 or 2 IR illuminations next to that statue, then shut off the IR in your camera?
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    Continuous + Triggered: Sub stream vs. Mainstream

    Six of my 7 cameras (6 are 4 or 5 mp,, one is 2 mp) are set to record continuous. They are also set to 15 fps, and that gives me about 6 days‘ of storage on my 2TB drive.I ‘ve never needed to go back further in time. I’m also recording the sub streams from these cameras, for use in multi view...
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    Camera suggestion for dance studio live feed?

    Why does it need to be 4k?
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    Camera suggestion for dance studio live feed?

    If all you want to do is have a monitor display what’s happening in the studio without recording, why not simply use an analog camera connected directly to the display via HDMI?
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    Blue Iris with AI but which one though?

    As a relative NOOB, who started with Blue Iris one year ago, and with DS about 2 months ago, I was pleased with how easy it was to get DS running to eliminate false triggers on my problematic scenes. I‘ve been watching the SenseAI news carefully, and expect to switch once it appears more stable...
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    Let's get ready to rumble

    It's an iOS thing. I watched it in Safari on my MacBook Pro.
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    The price of storage has really come down.

    Fortunately, my wife is far more receptive to me adding cameras today than she was when I bought that Commodore 64 back in the 80’s somtime.
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    Poor IR contrast in new Tennessee license plates

    It appears to me that the reason that plate was so visible is that it is well lit by the vehicle’s (likely bright LED) license plate lights. If it had been an unlit front license plate, where IR illumination mattered, maybe not so good.
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    5442 impossible to correct color balance

    Because my camera network is distributed between three buildings, and our house is long and narrow, my 7 cameras are powered by 4 separate POE switches.
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    Overall Thoughts on Suspicious Truck

    We always tend to view the dark side of events like this. Ask yourself if there’s anything that might have been visible from where he stopped that might have interested him: maybe a unique color or trim scheme on your house, landscaping, or even a visible PTZ mounting scheme. About a year ago...
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    5442 impossible to correct color balance

    Just for chuckles, double check the bit rate on that camera. I had one I was using to test camera locations that had a funny color balance, too. Then I found it wasn’t providing a sharp picture on faces. The problem was the bit rate was too low. I think the camera‘s GUI/firmware changed it when...
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    New to BI

    I think the BI app on iOS is well worth the $10, but everyone’s perception is different. I have an instance of Chrome that automatically opens UI3 showing all my cams maximized which is nice for a quick check of “right now,” but I find the iOS app preferable if I want to see what happened what...
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    Adding an ONVIF/IVS camera to Blue Iris

    Thanks so much for this. I have a Dahua camera since last fall that I had used only for testing purposes, without setting up the IVS. Just yesterday, I installed it ”permanently” and was having difficulty getting the ONVIF trigger to fire in BI. I picked up my iPad and searched ipcamtalk and...
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    Junction box / spacer for PFB203W (5442TM-AS)

    I don‘t know if you plan to finish the installation with some type of vinyl or other material, but since you plan to mount the PFB203W to the exposed rafter, couldn’t you just attach a short piece of 2x6 to the rafter and then attach the Dahua mount to it? If you plan to trim it out later, use a...
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    IP Cam Talk Custom Community DeepStack Model

    Thanks, @MikeLud1 and @105437. The little stinker comes by most nights, so I should be able to get a real world test quickly. I figured I was likely close on my settings because the same cam identifies me as a person under that profile. Now, if it identifies me as a skunk after I make those...
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    IP Cam Talk Custom Community DeepStack Model

    Thanks for all you've done, @MikeLud1
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    IP Cam Talk Custom Community DeepStack Model

    Any thoughts as to why the Animal model isn‘t recognizing this skunk?
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    Starting my learning curve... at least I have a Little head start

    I’ll be installing a camera this week based on a security “intrusion“ that happened 2 weeks ago. Like you, our property is fairly rural, and I have two detached garage/shops on the property, plus a small barn that houses farm machinery. I started out years ago with just one camera watching the...
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    Falsetriggers due to tree shadow...

    The AI was repeatedly identifying a particular tree on my property as a person. This happened at the same time of day when the sunlight struck it at a particular angle. I remedied it by taking that small portion of tree out of the motion Detection zone.
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    Falsetriggers due to tree shadow...

    The tree shadow problem is the reason I implemented Deepstack. My CPU works harder, but I now only get alerts for vehicles and people despite moving shadows in the wind.
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    Amcrest IP5M-T1179E freezing after 3 days using 2020-12-30 firmware

    I have one of these cameras with the 7-12-21 firmware and have not experienced the problem. It only has a few weeks of runtime on it, though. Glad to hear there is a firmware version that fixed it for the OP.
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    Can BI do 24/7 recording but still give separate alerts for motion?

    Some things to consider: (Especially with 60 cameras) -You may not want motion alerts on every camera at all times. For instance, the camera that watches our back door does not have motion alerts during daylight hours, since wife and I go in and out that door all day long. It does alert after...
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    Any Cord Cutters Here?

    Somehow it seems to me that dropping cable TV for streaming isn’t “cord-cutting.” It’s more like cord-swapping. But, the rest of our language is so f’d up anyway, I guess it doesn’t really matter.:idk:
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    IP Cam Talk Custom Community DeepStack Model

    I thought pretty much this, too, until I installed it, set it up one camera, and it was working on my first try. No “command line” stuff.
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    FOV and camera config

    There’s no right or wrong answer. What are you trying to accomplish with your camera(s)? If that’s your neighbor’s driveway on the left, why do you care about it being in your FOV?
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    Need help understanding SenseAI.

    Blue Iris will send Deepstack (and I presume, SenseAI) images starting with your pretrigger buffer start. So, if you have a long pretrigger, it could easily be looking at images where the target hasn’t yet appeared, and there’s nothing for it to find. I record continuous, so I‘m thinking of...
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    Need help understanding SenseAI.

    Sorry, I haven’t experimented with that. I‘m only using Deepstack on 2 cameras, one during daylight, and the other at night.
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    Need help understanding SenseAI.

    @wantafastz28 (I didn’t know there were any slow ones, but…), IIRC, this is your first venture into AI integration with Blue Iris, so you have no experience with Deepstack. I just started with Deepstack, and have no SenseAI experience- I’m waiting for it to get a bit more mature. But I’ll...
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    Intersting Deepstack Challenge

    I really don’t think there can be a “definitive” answer without specifically defining the usage. Although I have 6 cameras, I‘m only running AI on two of them, one during daylight and one at nighttime on a different camera that is prone to spider webs. If I had a scenario where the second camera...
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