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  1. TheWaterbug

    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Thanks! Can you tell me which firmware you have on your v3 cameras? My cameras that have stopped working with the Bridge are: v3/4.61.0.3 v3/garage door controller/4.36.14.3289 (3 of these in various locations) v3 Pro/4.58.13.3289 I have two other v3 cams running the old RTSP firmware, and I...
  2. TheWaterbug

    Good IP Cameras That Don't Need IR Lights

    Most mid-wave and long-wave IR cameras detect emitted light, e.g. based on the temperature of the object emitting the light instead of external light reflecting off the object, but those are not going to show up in consumer-grade IP cameras for awhile, because the detectors and lenses are...
  3. TheWaterbug

    Good IP Cameras That Don't Need IR Lights

    Do you mean "without any IR illumination at all, including without the camera's built-in IR LEDs?" Or do you mean "with only the camera's built-in IR LEDs, but without adding external illuminators"? Because those are two completely different questions.
  4. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Nice! That would be the best solution, if possible. I'd use this on nearly half of my cameras. I know how to bypass the power diode on some models, but not on the newest model that I've been buying. Great find! I've been looking for something like this for awhile, but couldn't find one. $30 is...
  5. TheWaterbug

    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    . . . and now the Docker Wyze Bridge solution doesn't really work any more. Or at least it's not working for me. Wyze changed something in the authentication or API or ???, and now my v3 cameras don't transit through the Bridge to BI. Does anyone have a workaround?
  6. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Yeah. I'm thinking they could have charged a lot more than $30 - $35 for these, and still sold a whole bunch of them. Because a $35 list price suggests that they might be junk, and they're certainly not junk. Maybe once all the $35 inventory has been depleted I'll try to sell one for $100 and...
  7. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    If you could figure out which diode to bypass, you could bring the 12 V from the POE circuit back out on the 12 V supply lines, and then we could use that to power a mic or an external illuminator.
  8. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Hmmm. A long time ago I bought one of these: for use with my RLC-423S BeeCam, because YouTube Stream Now requires an audio track*, but I never hooked it up because it was too much trouble to extract my BeeCam wiring from the box I crammed it into, so it's sitting in a box somewhere in my junk...
  9. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    I am unfamiliar with with analog audio at the electrical level--does a line-in audio circuit know if anything is connected? Or is it just sampling a voltage on a wire, regardless of what's happening? If I were to solder an RCA jack onto brown/brown-white pair, and then pipe in some music at...
  10. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    If you can figure out how to enable audio, these would be worth at least $40 apiece!!!
  11. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Actually there's another listing for another bunch of these. As low as $21.31/each, but there's $10 shipping, but that's still less than the $33.24 I paid last time. I just ordered a few more. I have no need for these, but I can't resist! Once I've set them for DHCP and updated their firmware...
  12. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    $35 camera looks good! Too bad y'all bought the rest of those eBay units; otherwise I would have picked up a bunch of them, just to have some inventory.
  13. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Hmmm. There's an Audio setting in the setup: but I think you're right--the output seems to have no actual audio content. ffprobe reports: Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/steven/Downloads/Vigilant1.20250511_202835-202847.979.mp4': Metadata: major_brand : isom...
  14. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    PeteJ, which one is the $35 camera?
  15. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    On QIPC-R1201.30.42.220623: MacOS: Safari: Can log in again, and it attempts to display live video, but it doesn't work. Chrome: Can log in and display live video! FF: Can log in one of my two cameras, but not the other :banghead: . But live video works on the one camera. Edge: Can't log in...
  16. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Yes! The new firmware now includes a volume control on the Live view:
  17. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Actually, clicking Cloud Upgrade: Detect once doesn't actually execute anything. I just checks. Once it displays the above message, clicking Cloud Upgrade a second time results in: I clicked OK, and after 5-10 minutes, I now have firmware version QIPC-R1201.30.42.220623 and a slightly...
  18. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    More interesting-er: I clicked Cloud Upgrade: Detect, and now: I didn't get a chance to confirm/cancel; it just said, "The upgrade will take a while. Please do not disconnect power." :wow: I'll let it simmer for an hour and see if anything changes. When I click Cloud Upgrade on my other...
  19. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Interesting. I have 2 of the Vigilant units, so I installed IPC_Q1201-B5029P12D1907 on one of them. Mixed bag: Firmware updated successfully, and the updated unit reports version IPC_Q1201-B5029P12D1907. The camera did prompt me to enter a new password upon first boot. I can now use a...
  20. TheWaterbug

    5.3.1 - July 16, 2020 Your Blue Iris web server now is also an RTSP server.

    I just stumbled upon this. Great hidden feature! I have it working in VLC right now. I may attempt to stream it to YouTube to work around a problem I'm having whereby ffmpeg's composition of 2 streams into a side-by-side 2-up view stopped working for reasons unknown.
  21. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    LOL! This is my own car, with its temporary plates, so there's no privacy concern with posting, but 78% confidence!!
  22. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Bzzzz: For some reason the bumblebees like to investigate my cameras. They certainly don't look or smell like flowers, so maybe they're attracted to some noise or electromagnetic field. ???
  23. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    ^^ I had to tear down my installation a few weeks ago, and I found that it wasn't enough just docker-compose down, which deletes the Container(s). I also had to go into Docker Desktop and delete all the Images and Volumes, manually. Then docker-compose pull and docker-compose up -d worked. n=1...
  24. TheWaterbug

    Mounting Hik DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 sideways against fence?

    I've done this many times! Swarm capture: Comb building time lapse: With 50 frame rolling average:
  25. TheWaterbug

    Mounting Hik DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 sideways against fence?

    I am replacing my ancient RLC-423 as my streaming BeeCam: with a DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3: But how to mount it against a fence, outdoors? I think I actually want to mount it sideways, against the face of the fence, like this: because it will be quite close to at least one of my hives, and I...
  26. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    I don't know (yet) how good it is at ALPR, but I dumped the config XML in my earlier post, and its contents show that it was definitely intended to be an ALPR cam. I'm guessing that some company thought they were going to make it big selling ALPR services to 10,000 different cities, and...
  27. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris OS Options

    TPM 2.0 just adds a tiny bit more protection against very specific types of malware, and there's really no downside to installing it, so if I can, I install it. That said, this decision is entirely orthogonal to the Win11 upgrade, from a technical point of view, e.g. TPM 2.0 is more secure than...
  28. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris OS Options

    Rufus fixes all!!!
  29. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris OS Options

    You may not have to buy it. Try running ShowKeyPlus on your PC. Since your PC was manufactured by a tier 1 OEM, it probably has the Windows OEM key embedded in the BIOS, which means Win11 will just install and activate just fine. Here's a run before Win11 upgrade: ShowKeyPlus - Windows Product...
  30. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris OS Options

    What make/model do you have? I bought 4 used Optiplex 7040 SFF computers that originally came with TPM 1.2, and I discovered in late 2024 that Dell had released a TPM 2.0 update utility for this model, despite it was originally released nearly a decade ago. Prior to doing that I'd also...
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