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  1. saltwater

    BlueIris is amazing! Why bother with NVR today?

    Surely, you would have some static IP devices such as router, switches, access points, printers and cameras. I'm in the Unifi world, so I may be missing something when you refer to 'reserving every device'. In my mind I believe that means reserving an IP address range where DHCP cannot use...
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    Is this the best set out for my current needs?

    From one Aussie to another, welcome to the forum. I can vouch for @EMPIRETECANDY, I have purchased all my cams from him, mostly 5442's (excellent cameras, very expensive in Australia). I'm not a big fan of a local, or Australian based, Facebook group related to CCTV, as most are installers...
  3. saltwater

    BlueIris is amazing! Why bother with NVR today?

    I really can't comment on the pros and cons of Blue Iris versus and NVR. I've been a Blue Iris user for 3 years now, and no complaints. I have never personally owned an NVR but in my occupation, I do have reason to check CCTV footage and my biggest peeve with NVR's is not the NVR itself but...
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    Divulging to much info on here

    I've also noticed from time to time when images (usually from a phone) are posted to this site GPS data is present in the metadata. For the threads that I'm interested in, if I've come across this, I've PM'd the poster, just in case he/she not aware. I wouldn't post back to the thread as...
  5. saltwater

    Close call today....texting or ????

    From my perspective you are driving on the wrong side of the road :)
  6. saltwater

    Chat GPT - What is the most important feature of a CCTV camera

    Agree. If you take each point individually, then will can all argue until the cows come home, but the first paragraph puts the points into context.
  7. saltwater

    Chat GPT - What is the most important feature of a CCTV camera

    Alright, I'm late to the party but this morning I finally had a look at Chat GPT, my first question was: What is the most important feature of a CCTV camera? The answer that came back, I'm thinking I could run all my future responses by the AI machine for confirmation and/or grammar.
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    Have i maxed out my BI system?

    I've got a HP Prodesk i7-7700 cpu, 8 gig of ram, 13 cameras (12 x 5442's) and my cpu hovers between 7 & 10%, ram currently showing 5%. I'm running Windows 10 de-bloated and hasn't been windows updated for nearly 3 years. There must be something else going on with your system.
  9. saltwater

    Install pipe under concrete driveway for less than 6 bucks!

    All this fancy equipment; all I used to get under my 1.2m footpath was a sledgehammer, long crowbar, and elbow grease (a lot of it). Granted, I don't want to do that again any time soon.
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    Missed Motion on BI

    It's trial and error. Try reducing the Make time to 0.5 or 0.3. I don't think your zones will work until you put something in the 'Object crosses zone' box. For testing though I would first turn off the advanced settings and just mess around with the basic settings, which includes the Make...
  11. saltwater

    Narrow side of house Bobbie cam or 5442?

    While you're are frame-up stage, run your cables to all locations where you think you could put cameras ie. all corners. So, each corner area would have two cables (two potential cameras) and some would say add an extra for the 'just in case' scenario. Cable is cheap and if you can do it...
  12. saltwater

    Narrow side of house Bobbie cam or 5442?

    Thanks for the tip, don't know why I didn't do it earlier. From camera to rear fence is 17.5 m. Width is 1.8 m. I reckon this fixed 6 mm 5442 lens is about right for the job.
  13. saltwater

    Hi from Canada!

    And some banter along the way. Welcome aboard.
  14. saltwater

    264 vs 264B vs 264H ?

    Damn, I never picked up on that, I wouldn't have commented otherwise.
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    264 vs 264B vs 264H ?

    I know I'm not adding anything of value to this thread, but I do have to laugh at the fact that after 10 minutes it all became too hard. I'm sure that is a generation y or x or z (or whatever the newer lot are called these days) thing.
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    Narrow side of house Bobbie cam or 5442?

    I reckon you could get away with a 6mm 5442, that's what I have for my narrow side. In the image attached the width of the side is about 1.8m and from the camera position to the fence at the end it's about 15m. I have a lot of my brick wall and neighbours' trees in the field of view. In...
  17. saltwater

    IPCAMTALK Technical Terms

    RTFM - Read the effing manual :) (though I am guilty of this, at times)
  18. saltwater

    Links to new set-up from scratch?

    I'm more interested in your TP-Link Omada system. I'm in the Ubiquity eco-system but from all my research on Omada, the software and hardware setup is similar to the Unifi way. I'm researching Omada because I'm setting up a system for my daughter and the Omada is more attractively priced...
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    Dahua cameras (Andy's) - Settings / System / Safety / System Service - which to turn off

    You are absolutely right but the curiosity got the better of me. Before I posted these threads, I did hit the web and the Dahua wiki to try and get an understanding of what each component does or doesn't do. FWIW, PSP and UPnP were already disabled. My curiosity was piqued because I could...
  20. saltwater

    Dahua cameras (Andy's) - Settings / System / Safety / System Service - which to turn off

    That's a yes and a yes.
  21. saltwater

    Important!!IVS failed and Triangle warnning issue Solutions for 4MP AI models

    Yep, I had my Google Translate going on the phone; somehow I got there. I nearly called in reinforcements, my Mandarin speaking neighbour.
  22. saltwater

    Important!!IVS failed and Triangle warnning issue Solutions for 4MP AI models

    Today, I've spent most of the day checking all settings in my 13 cameras and I came across the red triangle issue for one of my cameras. I hadn't come across this thread first, but a quick direct email to Andy and he pointed me here. Anyway, navigated the Chinese version of the config tool...
  23. saltwater

    Dahua camera setting - Network/QoS

    I have a UDM Pro (router), and a Unifi 500w 24 port poe switch. The cameras all emanate from the switch, don't reach the router. I can't recall the precise throughput details, but I know I paid a premium for it.
  24. saltwater

    Dahua cameras (Andy's) - Settings / System / Safety / System Service - which to turn off

    As per a previous post I'm going through all my settings on Andy's cameras and now I've got to the menu: Settings / System / Safety / System Service, image as follows: I run Blue Iris for all my cameras, only access the web interface for making changes. What services could I disable that...
  25. saltwater

    Dahua camera setting - Network/QoS

    I run 13 cameras, all Dahua (EmpireTech). I'm slowly going through each network setting just to make sure things are in order. Anyway, in relation to Network/QoS the settings are the default setting of 0 out of 64. With these settings I have no issue with monitoring live feeds or...
  26. saltwater

    How to get better shots?

    Are you sure that's not a Reolink camera :) There are many settings but in the first instance I would set a faster shutter speed. What we are seeing is motion blur, the only way to fix that is with a faster shutter speed. The faster the shutter speed then more light is required which...
  27. saltwater

    Camera time doesn't stay consistent

    I'm with Tony, have your cameras get their time from the BI computer; I have mine set to update every 10 minutes (I think, it's been a while since I last checked). Check your firewall rule ordering. I have my cameras blocked from going outbound EXCEPT to get to my BI computer, obviously to...
  28. saltwater

    Support

    I'm sure that this can be resolved albeit not as quickly as you'd like. Yes, it can be a little frustrating, but it was explained to you that it is a one-man operation, why can't you accept that. Your tone changed to suddenly BI is amateurish and yet you must be confident in the program that...
  29. saltwater

    Unsubscribe from the email notifications

    Is this a 'taking the piss' thread? "Is it lawful" :smash: So it does work.
  30. saltwater

    is this PC substitution worth it?

    Can you off-load those image files to another computer or an external harddrive, thus freeing up you BI harddrive. That will at least give you some extra space on the BI harddrive, not sure if you get an extra day of recording, but I would think having an extra day of recording is more...
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