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  1. Tygunn

    EmpireTech 8th Anniverasay Sales July.18th-23rd

    Are the sales prices listed somewhere particular?
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    Vacant home: cameras or security system?

    I think you'll be happy with that combo of equipment. It IS possible to get false triggers from motion sensors (rare, but it happens). When I was overseas on a vacation recently my Abode alarm triggered for motion in the living room -- I was able to quickly VPN in to my BI server and check all...
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    Dahua WIZMIND X SERIES

    From the specs PDF this intrigues me. I wonder how reliably you'd be able to pick out a plate on a moving car with this camera. The IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E we seem to use commonly for DIY would need to be exposed at night such that all you'd see if the car...
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    BI Suddenly not recording continually

    I was seeing these errors in my logs. I definitely had the clip disk full error as well. I didn't realize I had the "stored" storage set up to the same as the new clips, so the entire setup was technically double allocated even though I don't ever use the "stored" clips. I changed that so...
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    BI Suddenly not recording continually

    Yup, that's the way I've got it set up; but it does the compact/db at 2:00am.
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    BI Suddenly not recording continually

    Well, apparently rebuilding the DB and cleaning up some orphaned video files fixed the problem. :shrug: This is why I have a Dahua NVR as a backup.
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    BI Suddenly not recording continually

    The picture says it all; I just noticed that BI is no longer recording continually. I've got loads of little 2-3 minute 90MB clips with gaps between them. Any ideas what's going on here?
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 LEDs

    Good to know, thanks. As much as I like the idea of it, I think I'll stick with IR cams.. Half tempted to pick one of these up: FCD600 - Panoramic Outdoor PoE Dual Lens Security Camera, 6MP Resolution, 180° Ultra Wide Angle, f/1.2 Super Aperture, BSI Sensor, Color Night Vision & Infrared...
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 LEDs

    That is a good point. Although plates are required on the front and back of cars, there are quite a few without front plates. Two cams would also increase the chance that something gets caught and that one is unblocked even if the other is. With the spot to the right I can likely hide it...
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 LEDs

    Makes sense. Maybe my first step is to relocate one of my HDW5231R-ZE temporarily to the spot where I'd envision mounting the camera for LPR use. This will get me a better idea of how much zoom I'll need. I've got a couple spots in mind that should give clear views of the street. I need to...
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 LEDs

    I'm considering one of these as a street-side overview cam to give context to some LPR cams. My concern is that I don't want to run visible light (huge christmas display in December, so can't run with visible light. Lol). There is a street light a few houses down, but I'm not sure that there...
  12. Tygunn

    Improving street coverage

    That is my concern; someone parked in front of my house could easily obscure a camera on the tree. I guess I'll just have to experiment with temporary camera placement and see what works best. :)
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    Improving street coverage

    Distance from house to street is not very far; 20-30ft.
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    Improving street coverage

    As you can see in my house pic above; outdoor illumination has become another hobby which has consumed much time. :) Ha ha. Street view got me in the middle of setup. I originally thought just to cover what was happening AT my house, but I get asked a fair amount by neighbors for footage...
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    Improving street coverage

    I've got a couple 12 LED illuminators pointing out at the street from the house to try and provide general illumination. These ones: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G6EDOO2 One is on a tree in the left side of the lot (marked green in pic), the other is above the front door shining down...
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    Improving street coverage

    I've got a number of cameras set around my house; they are mainly the venerable Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-Z. My placement philosophy has always been to position them so that they get a clear right view of people who come ON to my property. So tight views around windows, the side gate, the car, people...
  17. Tygunn

    Showing Zone B alerts in BI Android app?

    Good point, yes, that's how it is configured. I can see the Motion B alerts in the BI app, as well as the UI3 web interface. They just don't show up in the Android mobile app.
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    Showing Zone B alerts in BI Android app?

    I've got BI all dialed in with zone A alerts (areas near to house) getting ai confirmation. In short... It's amazing. In the BI mobile app I can show only confirmed alerts and see the very few important alerts. I did, however, configure zone B motion alerts for the cameras that have some...
  19. Tygunn

    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    How come you turned off the IR and forced into color mode? I used a dedicated Hikvision camera last year and forced it into night mode and used IR illuminators for the road with decent success. My Dahua cameras kept going between night and day mode from the lights flashing though. :) I should...
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    Ultimately cameras like my Dahua starlight's would work well for my application as well since I can just use ir illuminators by the street. I'll have to see if I can mount something up on the roof and get a decent view of the road. The trees likely obscure things though. This looks like a...
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    Out of curiosity, is it pretty dark at your place at midnight? Or is the camera just pulling that much out of the ambient lighting? It seems to have an incredible dynamic range -- the streetlights aren't blowing out the entire scene. Something like this might be a good fit for my case. I'm...
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    If I'm reading the specs on this correctly, the camera operates in full-color mode only? I'm curious how well this would pick up things with no illuminator and just ambient city light/streetlights. Background: I'm looking for a camera that I can mount higher up, pointing down at the road in...
  23. Tygunn

    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    Yeah, it's really strange I use MQTT for some other stuff and the PI has never caused any troubles. It always "just works". I'm not sure why it failed in this case.... In any case I consider BI to be a "mission critical" app, where my home automation stuff isn't. So I will ensure I don't mix...
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    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    So I did hear back from Ken at Blue Iris regarding my Blue Iris configuration. I had configured an MQTT server in my BI configuration. The MQTT server apparently was not responding and this is the cause of the crash when I was trying to start Blue Iris. Ken mentioned if the MQTT server is on...
  25. Tygunn

    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    Yes, that's true, good point. I guess in this case I'd have been out of luck since my last BI settings backup was broken..... I will have to retain a backup of that from once I get everything set up again.
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    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    In an effort to make this discussion thread helpful to people who may experience this problem in the future. It appears the root cause of the problem is a corrupted registry entry for Blue Iris related to my previous installation. I had restored from a BI backup file to get things going and the...
  27. Tygunn

    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    Sure, great; I just reformatted the PC and re-installed Windows 10. Both BI 5.3.0.2 (old copy I had kicking around) and 5.3.3.13 (downloaded off internet) fail in the EXACT same manner.
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    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    It's nothing to do with OCD, it's a matter of running into a routine issue and trying to resolve it. BI was flaking and reporting cameras were losing signal. Restarted the computer and the cameras with no effect. Tried updating with the hopes of fixing; no dice. So I tried re-installing...
  29. Tygunn

    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    Doesn't help that both WIndows and BI both are set up assuming you're going to update things, so it seems both parties need to put more effort into supporting the model they extol. Nowhere in the BlueIris documentation does it say you should leave the OS and Blueiris executable in a static...
  30. Tygunn

    BI will no longer start - exception 0xc0000005

    So, yesterday BI started acting up. All my cameras were going offline at random. When I went to check what was up, I noticed BI had an update pending to 5.3.3.13, so I installed it. At that point BI would run and then I've get a dialog indicating that the BI service had stopped. At this...
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