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  1. TheWaterbug

    URL to get Image from Empire Camera

    This works for my Amcrest, Empire, Dahua, and Lorex cameras: cat AmcrestSnapshot.sh #!/bin/bash IPAddress=$1 OutPath=$2 cd /usr/local/bin outfile=$OutPath outfile+=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S) outfile+=.jpg echo $outfile curl -o $outfile --digest --user username:password...
  2. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    Migration nearly complete! This i7-12700 box idles at about the same ~20%-ish, but doesn't redline when I scrub. Took me awhile to get all the little settings and utilities replicated on the new box, and I'm 95% there, except for getting my Docker Wyze Bridge to launch automatically at boot. I...
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    Few simple Q's about Dahua install junction box

    Actually, while looking at that last item, amazon prompted this item, which looks more promising, as it's made of silicone, and presumably pliable and trimmable: 4 pieces for $10, delivered tomorrow. So I ordered, and we'll see.
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    Few simple Q's about Dahua install junction box

    Does anyone know where to buy smaller split grommets for the hole at the bottom of the junction box? It was suggested in an earlier thread that I should look for a "cable gland," but I have dozens of cable glands in my toolbox, and they're typically for running an unterminated cable through a...
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    BI Finding Amcrest Cams, but not EmpireTech

    I fiddle with my cameras at my 3 sites over RDP all the time, and have never had a problem. But yes, anything that changes your computer's IP over RDP has the potential to lock you out and require a road trip to fix! This is one case where having a VM spun up in HyperV, with the host having 2...
  6. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Yes! The camera unit and the chime unit come paired from the factory, and one will ring the other, OOTB!
  7. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris over a VPN.

    Two cameras should be fine. They'd pull <<<<20 Mbps, and any decent hardware VPN should be capable of many times that. I have two Protectli FW4C boxes ($249/each) running a Site-to-Site IPSec tunnel between them, over 1000/1000 links, and I'm getting >> 500 Mbps, sustained. Your Ubiquiti boxes...
  8. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    I've got Bridge C deployed, along with a camera pointing at the northern driveway off of Western. Distance is only 124' per DaftLogic, but there's a balcony in between, which puts a bunch of metal railings in the way: Does that matter at all? I suppose this is all academic, because I'm...
  9. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Possible, but the cameras need to be high enough that vagrants can't reach them by standing on the bollards or the electrical panel :facepalm:: They haven't brought a ladder. Yet.
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    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    That also looks weird because my front plates were all bent up. Here's my first natural night-time entry, at a normal angle: Maybe I have the focus point correct, where the cars need to complete their turn before running into the curb that runs parallel to the driveway. If I focus further out...
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    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Good news! After I got all the wireless bridges configured and tested in my kitchen, I rigged everything up with a tripod, jumpstarter, and an inverter for a real-world test in front of 301: The tenant in 301 came out, and we talked, and he's actually negotiating with the landlord to move his...
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    True, but that's not the same thing as a true, standardized benchmark. I did email Ken, and he replied that this type of scriptability would be "frosting," and he's currently working on the cake. I told him we all want the cake! and that I'd ping him again after 6.0.1 is released.
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    I just ordered this, because I have a need for another low-end machine at work anyway, so I'm going to replace the i7-6700 box with this new-to-me i7-12700 box, and the i7-6700 will get handed down to the non-demanding application.
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    That's interesting, but it's really noisy data. Here's a sort of records with my CPU model, between 450 - 600 MP/s, which is what my BI reports: BI CPU utilization varies from 11% - 63%. Even if we remove those two suspect min/max numbers, there's still a range from 16% - 35%. Most are with...
  15. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    That would be interesting to review, but everyone's cameras and configurations are different, so it's really hard to know what's apples to apples. A standard, scripted benchmark would ensure that we're comparing like for like. But it would depend on how scriptable BI is. Maybe I'll ask Ken.
  16. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    Interesting! Searching Amazon for "renewed PC i7-12700" reveals this Lenovo Thinkcentre Neo 50S G4 SFF PC Core i7-12700 16GB RAM 256GB SSD W11P (Renewed) for $355 after coupon. I don't need internal storage, since all my video is stored on an external box, so the only thing I even might need...
  17. TheWaterbug

    My New Roof, in 2 Minutes!

    Camera: Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI, 5 MP (2960 × 1668) First 1/2 of video recorded continuously in Blue Iris 5.9.9.14, then decimated to 1 frame per minute and re-encoded to 30 fps in ffmpeg. Second 1/2 of video recorded 1 frame per minute through cron/curl "$IPAddress/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi" and...
  18. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    I'm still running an ancient i7-6700 in a renewed Optiplex 7040. With 28 cameras (on sub streams! ) plus a Wyze Docker Bridge VM, it idles at ~50%, but often redlines when I scrub through footage. What would be a reasonable upgrade amongst renewed PCs with Win11 Pro for less than $500? I...
  19. TheWaterbug

    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I strongly prefer DHCP reservations for just about anything other than a router or domain controller or other core infrastructure. Reservations allow me to: Preconfigure my DHCP server based on the MAC address on the product box, so it comes up from first power-up with a known address that I...
  20. TheWaterbug

    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I haven't seen the problem since, so I'm checking that box for all of my cameras, now!!
  21. TheWaterbug

    SOLVED: Dahua IPC-HDW2231R-ZS loosing the plot!

    Is it 192.168.1.108? Or 192.168.1.251?
  22. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 12/20/24 It's been 5 weeks since this injured coyote initially crossed my cameras, and for the first time s/he seems to be putting a little bit of weight on it. I cut ~30 seconds of dead time between the two animals, but these two are definitely traveling...
  23. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    So, just for fun, I did get the 2nd bridge up and running, with the camera in the upper-right powered via the POE Pass-through. So yes, this configuration works, even though I will most probably not use it this way: I think the bridge are happier with greater distance, as currently this is...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Ground squirrel?
  25. TheWaterbug

    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    If I do that, and then repair the database, will all my old Alerts still be there?
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    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    Performance will not be a problem. I have only 15 cameras that push less than 10 MB/sec to the server: The Synology will read/write >>> 80 MBps, sustained:
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    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    I currently have a single internal HDD inside my Optiplex as the V:\ drive, e.g. for Video, so BI stores everything at V:\BlueIris\New\, V:\BlueIris\Stored\, etc. I just bought a 4-bay Synology DS423 and set up a Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) volume with three 8 TB spinners to give me 16 TB of...
  28. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris 6.0 coming?

    From the notification email: Emphasis mine. Kudos to BI for this policy. So many other companies use a major version as an excuse to charge extra.
  29. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    The issue with this application is that it's almost 150' from that POE+ switch to the cameras, and I pulled the two strings of outdoor Cat5e thinking that I'd never need more than 2, so it's screw-clipped to the underside of a fence rail for about 100' of that distance, e.g. no easy way to pull...
  30. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    And yes, the internal IR on both cameras is turned off.
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