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    Lots of (hopefully interesting) setup questions

    Can you see what speed that wifi2 is connected to clients at? Is it using the same frequency as wifi 1? Is there more interference on the wifi2 frequency? If it worked before, you should be able to get it working again. The recorder would do better connected to the wifi2 network. Powerline...
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    ZWave Controller Question

    Don't forget OpenHAB. It was my first HA system, and I have no plans on changing anytime soon. I have it running on a battery-backup'd raspberrypi, and I display BI cameras from the openHAB UI, along with use the BI camera events to trigger rules in OpenHAB. I gave a stripped down config of...
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    Home Automation, Lights and Locks.

    Schlage's z-wave lockset cylinders are also easy to open. The lock is only one small part of a secure system. I don't trust it alone for anything. I use a Schlage with their typical Type C, 5 Pin cylinder, with replacement pins and two springs. Still possible for me to unlock it without the...
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    Help Finding New High Res + Invisible IR Cameras

    No time right now, but maybe one day ;)
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    Designing a Home Security system

    Would motion-triggered lights potentially ward them off? What about a camera placed inside by a window, with exterior lighting? Anything mounted outside could be observed during installation or placement. Cameras can easily be overcome with any mask. Years back when I installed analog systems...
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    Help Finding New High Res + Invisible IR Cameras

    On the cheap, I'd recommend some of those "4in 18W LED Work Lights" housings with the LEDs replaced with some 940nm emitters. The last few I ordered on Amazon came out to $6/ea for the housing, $1.50 for each of the 940nm 2.2W (1.5V 1.5A) LEDs. Total with electronics comes to under $20 for a 12W...
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    Help with building a system for a business

    All LEDs are wide angle floods ;) No, the housings aren't deep reflector or any other type of optics that would cause hotspots/throw. His shot simply looks like a big flood light to me, and that area looks like the type of property where floodlights would make sense, and not annoy neighbors...
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    Motion Detection zone sensitivity

    I hid the second camera - that wasn't the issue. I may have to try this again. I've been waiting for a feature update that I've been told is coming, rather than clone the cameras due to my past experience.
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    Help with building a system for a business

    Why would you think that? My front cameras don't pick up anywhere near that detail with two 16W LEDs. He's also covering a much larger area than I am - it's a very nice night shot, that's for sure.
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    Motion Detection zone sensitivity

    Is this true now days? When I did this years ago for the front door area (one camera to send e-mail alert on person at porch, cloned camera to handle recording for rest of scene), the CPU usage difference was the same as adding another camera.
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    Help with building a system for a business

    Great example. I wonder what output that lighting is. I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least a 8,000 lumen lamp (100W LED flood). Summer daylight has about 10,000 lumens of light per square foot. IMO you start to get a decent image out of cameras at 20 lumens/sqft. My current in-process...
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    Help with building a system for a business

    I have two 100w-equiv 1600 lumen non-directional lights aimed at my driveway. Hikvision 3MP turrets. It's a pretty grainy image at night. I wouldn't want worse performance. I expect my lighting issues will only go away once I finish my 2.5kW LED lighting project. I wouldn't want worse...
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    Dell Optiplex 9010 desktop as BI server

    Quite likely, yes. The Core2 system more than likely didn't support the AHCI,or defaulted to IDE mode. Intel to Intel likely works fine. You can also switch AMD to Intel, but that takes a bit more work. I've had to migrate many OS images to different environments, from workstations to servers...
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    Need help to get right IP cams for a small surveillance at my house.

    This is why I demanded our new house be 1-story - much easier to DIY, even with the attic only being roof trusses/vaulted ceilings. Ideally, you'd run pull strings with some fiberglass rods, then attach and pull the cables through the walls. Depending on what your access is like though, other...
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    Need help to get right IP cams for a small surveillance at my house.

    Nice house and location! Nice spiderwebs also ;) Yeah, for most people that want bang for the buck, I'd recommend the Dahua turrets. 4mm or 6mm work to catch the details of someone at a choke point. Wide angle allows you to monitor exactly what they're doing. I'd normally recommend 6mm with a...
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    Smokin Deal on Hikvision DS-2cd2335-i 3MP - Mar 29th for $69.97 from a trusted vendor

    Re: Smokin Deal on Hikvision DS-2cd2335-i 3MP - Mar 29th for $69.97 from a trusted ve Agreed. Used these and the install is much easier.
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    Dell Optiplex 9010 desktop as BI server

    If you aren't scraping the bottom of the barrel with falsely-spec'd parts, they should be similar. Hard drives will fail. Power supplies can be of questionable quality. Everything else - there isn't much variation. Most peoples' issues with computers are software related, not hardware, and being...
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    Connecting Several wireless IP cameras to the PC through WIFI

    I agree with wired. Wireless IS possible, but you'll need many higher speed wireless access points, and for higher reliability, consumer models won't do. For wireless, you would need multiple AP's at each location to talk to a handful of cameras each, on separate frequencies, and then...
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    Dell Optiplex 9010 desktop as BI server

    The computer will be fine. Most desktop computers aren't any more or less stable than others. Good price - that PC would normally sell for twice that mount.
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    CPU temprature

    Are you thinking of that, or where the heatsink was removed when running a Quake 3 TimeDemo? That's the only one I remember from back in the day. The Athlon burned up, the Pentium 4 throttled down to unplayable speeds. More marketing than anything else, and I preferred the...
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    CPU temprature

    Those temperatures aren't a problem. While the CPU may idle at under 30°C, within a second, once a load is put on a CPU, it will jump up. Even if you set the fan speed to max, it will run no cooler. The issue is that CPU cores have such small surface area now that they can't dissipate heat...
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    Extending 24vAC to 65 Feet?

    I'm surprised it doesn't work. I doubt your camera takes 2-Amps - that would be nearly 50VA. More realistically, with 16awg COPPER wire, there should be 23.5-23.7V getting to the camera. A bit less with 18awg. If using copper clad aluminum wire, rather than pure copper, you're looking at 60%...
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    Hardware Req for 16-20 3MP Cams

    You set a setting in BI. I don't believe the hardware acceleration works if you have any discrete graphics card installed - you must being using integrated only. Not a limitation of the hardware - in many cases with other apps (video transcoding) you can use Quicksync from the IGP while having...
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    How do you protect losing your video recordings from a thief?

    Stuff recorder into a basement, attic space, whatever. Security companies may do things a consistent way, but when you have a DIY setup, unless you have a ton of bright red cables dangling from a ceiling, at a location that is obvious, then they likely won't know what to look for. Offsite...
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    Hardware Req for 16-20 3MP Cams

    Don't get me started! Watercooling hasn't really been as effective as back when heatsinks were smaller and watercooling didn't come in kits (instead people used eheim pumps and 1/2" tubing). The biggest benefit today is being able to take weight off the CPU or GPU (let's say you were to remove...
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    Hardware Req for 16-20 3MP Cams

    CPU runs 4.8Ghz at 1.37V. 4.9Ghz requires almost 1.45V. Temperature - upper 70's under load with Prime96 and IntelBurnTest, and lower 70's during real workloads that max out 8 cores. Skylake runs much cooler than Haswell and Ivy Bridge did. Just using my old Thermalright Ultra Extreme - standard...
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    Share your BlueIris PC specs

    Pentium G3220 at 3GHz, 16GB RAM, one SSD, Windows 8 x64. Installed as service but BI interface not running. Tested full export/import of settings from my camera system, updated the storage-drive location and verified motion detection is working. Then tested with 3 cams disabled to get an even...
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    CPU question i5 or i7

    It is possible that the electricity savings will pay for itself. Sandy Bridge (2000-series) and Ivy Bridge (3000-series) made some great improvements in efficiency over the 1st generation Nehalem chips, not to mention the capability to use the first-generation quicksync. The 2nd gen i5 should...
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    Share your BlueIris PC specs

    First meter - 16W idle, 62W with only BI service running. i7-3770 CPU usage bouncing between 5-9%. 112W if I close BI and run Prime95. IntelBurnTest peaks at 108W. Obviously not the most power efficient at low loads.
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    Hardware Req for 16-20 3MP Cams

    I've noticed that with my original settings restored (11x 3MP@10fps, 1x 2MP@15fps, 1x 1MP@15fps), the 3770 often downclocks to 2GHz for a second before shooting back up to 3.7-3.9GHz.. The load really is low. I also remembered that I have memory-compression disabled on Windows 10. Not sure if...
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