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    Blue Iris controlling home automation

    Looks like Blue Iris is sending a MQTT message successfully to HomeSeer. It is topic: BlueIris and payload: "DRIVEWAY" That is probably not what you were looking for. You will have to adjust the BlueIris settings in MQTT and get the correct formatting etc. The user manual is your friend...
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    Blue Iris controlling home automation

    Post your HomeSeer msMQTT settings. I had trouble using password authentication so I left it out.
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    Review: IPC-LPR237B-IR / Equivalent of Dahua ITC237-PW6M-IRLZF1050-B - ANPR, Traffic & Access Control Camera

    I just bought a PFA162 from Andy yesterday. Hopefully it will get here soon. I plan on mounting to the side of a stone column. I’m pretty sure this will do the trick
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    Bouncing Bullets off Water in Ultra Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys

    In case anyone was wondering: https://www.phantomhighspeed.com/products/cameras/tmx/7510 cost 60,000-80,000$
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    Roku Cable TV Box

    I just heard on the radio today that Roku is teaming up with Door Dash. You can order food from your TV and have it delivered. As if Americans aren't obese enough. I'm sure this will be a smashing success...
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    Blue Iris controlling home automation

    I have HomeSeer HS3 running on a dedicated computer, IntelNuc. Some people have homeseer and blueiris running on the same computer, so that is an option. I prefer to keep them separate. BI with lots of cameras and AI tends to stress the hardware.
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    Show off your camera collection :)

    Not the greatest pic, but there are 6 of 7 cams shown on our pergola. Started with one and then... well you know
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    Blue Iris controlling home automation

    Using HS3 with free mcsMQTT plugin. Here are a couple of events that control my balcony PTZ to preset 1 and preset 2. I also use HomeSeer to adjust the timeplan settings for the PTZ. This is way more complicated but works well. I might start a new thread to go over that if anyone is...
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    Blue Iris controlling home automation

    I do things the opposite way. I have about a dozen outdoor PIR connected to HomeSeer. When there is motion on one of the PIRs, HomeSeer changes PTZ preset to that area of motion. Works very well.
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    Review: IPC-LPR237B-IR / Equivalent of Dahua ITC237-PW6M-IRLZF1050-B - ANPR, Traffic & Access Control Camera

    That is good news Andy. I picked up one from you from AliExpress a few weeks back but have been swamped with work and have not got it out and operational yet. Also need to get that universal mount from you soon.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    That works pefectly. Thanks
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I have many of my cameras organized such that they cover adjacent contiguous viewing areas . When I’m viewing a camera full screen and the person or animal moves to the left or right out of view I have to move out of full screen and the open the next camera in full screen. It would be a nice...
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    Classic car buffs...can you name this car?

    Just looked that up... they go for up to a million dollars !!!!
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    Classic car buffs...can you name this car?

    Not sure what this is. Dad didn't know either.
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    Why you might consider adding a LPR camera

    Mine just arrived a few days ago from Andy. Have to figure out how to mount it on a vertical stone column. Definitely want it on the back looking out and not on the top.
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    PeeVomDrunk

    Thought he was going to take a dump at the tree thank god it was only puke
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    SD8C845FG-HNF 8MP 45x 1/1.2'' CMOS Dual Light Fusion Electronic Defog Network PTZ Camera

    Not sure about those cameras. This PTZ has IR and two types of white light: full and soft. You can adjust how you want to use the white light at night. So far I have the white light turned off. The soft light was fairly bright when looking at the cam from the street. I havent tried the full...
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    Crazy guy hops my fence!

    This entire thread is why I love this site
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Just bought one. Will be installing under soffit next to front door and garage doors about 8 ft high. Lots of light at night. Will eventually have four spotter cams covering about 270 degrees of interest
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    SD8C845FG-HNF 8MP 45x 1/1.2'' CMOS Dual Light Fusion Electronic Defog Network PTZ Camera

    Yes I want to thank everyone also. I'm usually fairly busy so it takes me some time to implement changes and report back.
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    Crazy guy hops my fence!

    Looks like you left the door open there. Yikes could have been bad.
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    SD8C845FG-HNF 8MP 45x 1/1.2'' CMOS Dual Light Fusion Electronic Defog Network PTZ Camera

    I have a couple of night clips for review. It took a while to figure out how to get night and day profiles to change correctly (more on that later) I have the following settings for night: In the clip with the teens walking down the street in the middle of the night, seems like...
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    SD8C845FG-HNF 8MP 45x 1/1.2'' CMOS Dual Light Fusion Electronic Defog Network PTZ Camera

    I'm working on getting them. I believe we are getting more snow tonight, so that won't work. I'm also having trouble getting the correct night settings for this cam. I tried doing manual exposure with shutter 0-8 ms and gain at 50 and image is black. I dont see hardly anything at all until I...
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    Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

    I am having no luck setting profiles in my new SD8C845FG PTZ. It is a new model running on 5.0 webserver. I've tried the default http command and the new one discovered by @wittaj for the 4K. Also tried https as well. I am using the BI preset method. This cam has several profiles including...
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    SD8C845FG-HNF 8MP 45x 1/1.2'' CMOS Dual Light Fusion Electronic Defog Network PTZ Camera

    I changed the daytime setting to those outlined by @wittaj in various posts. I have manual exposure with shutter 0-4 ms and gain 0-50. I knocked down NR both 2D and 3D to 25. Results are improved. Above pic is on auto settings. Below pic is on manual. I can almost read the license plate...
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    Outdoor POE switch install

    Nice to see another install using this box. I stumbled on it on my own didn't know about @looney2ns link. I pulled out that coax connecter thing on the hasp. I have a bolt to lock it down instead.
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    Looks like we all will need home generators.

    Makes sense. I know he got a lot of calls as soon as the power went out. For whatever reason the generators weren't working.
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    Looks like we all will need home generators.

    Since I work from home, I was lucky enough to get my employer pay for a generator. I went with a Generac 22Kw guardian. It has saved us several times, mostly from snow storms knocking out power. I have found that the Generac is fairly painless to keep up. It has programmable excersize to...
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    Outdoor POE switch install

    That would work but then I lose two potential cameras...not a fair trade
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    Outdoor POE switch install

    UPDATE: Apparently I am stupid and can't read. This switch has 8 ports but only 4 are POE. UGH. I searched around for a better solution and the best and cheapest I came up with was installing a second switch. A little work and I got everything to fit. Lesson learned: READ THE Fing MANUAL.
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