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    2025 Memorial Day Sales, Last Deal Before Tariffs Pricing

    Having painted nearly all of my cameras, I'll say that the factory does a whole lot nicer job than I do.
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    Can 1 cat5e power two ip cams?

    I'll add that this one likely does not work with an NVR POE port. (But I don't have an NVR with POE ports so I could be wrong on this.) Also, with this type of device, you're treading very close to the port power limit with a 15 watt (non-POE+) port when the camera IR lights are running full...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Here's another shocker that is hard to believe ;) Medicare insurers face lawsuit over kickback scheme
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    More Mama Fox Videos

    The fox also got the rooster (we're out on the country). The rooster, who often attacked people, was perfectly happy to let the fox get the 4 gals first while he stood away and watched. When the fox finally went for him, he tried to fly over the 3' fence but was too fat to make it.
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    More Mama Fox Videos

    Mama fox moving one of my chickens for dinner in the den.
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    Notes from the Swamp

    Not exactly what you'd conclude from the title, but it IS a genuine swamp. Trump Overshadowed by 7’9 Florida Gator During Viral Oval Office Meeting
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    Cable termination at camera end

    I don't think there's a "correct" answer for this. The single biggest failure point I've seen in electronics has been at connectors, leading to my own standard practice of minimizing connectors whenever feasible. On the other hand, I've found RJ45s to be extremely reliable. I've never had one...
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    Cable termination at camera end

    Incorrect understanding. For conductor type there are 3 types of RJ45s: solid wire, stranded wire, and both solid and stranded. Just make sure you don't use a stranded-only RJ45.
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    Blue Iris no longer respecting storage limits

    Just in case this applies, I've found that if a BI settings menu is left displayed, BI will blow right through the storage limits. I don't have a list of which menus, but know for sure if you leave the storage window open it happens for sure, on my version at least.
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    Die Young TikTok Craze

    There are lots of narrow houses on parts the Oregon coast, some as narrow as 10 feet. It's just from cramming as many beachfront lots as possible. Don't need wide FOV cameras for them!
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    Money & Economics

    The press can't seem to decide which version of the truth they want to send out.
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    Money & Economics

    And just to spin it in the anti-Trump direction:
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    Most of the bot posts are well written, to the point where I'm impressed. What makes them easy to spot is context. Usually they're the first post from a new member, combined with replying to an old thread, pushing a product, or going off with too many technical details.
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    Mama Fox Likes New Fence -- May 10, 2025

    I didn't feel that way about the one who killed our chickens a few years ago!
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    Great, this could lead to a lot more bot posts here. A much smaller forum I am a moderator for is set that the first post from a new member must be approved before appearing in the forum. If the new user looks legit, his status is changed to unmoderated.
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    WTS SOLD EmpireTech IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3

    The shipping cost also works against selling used cameras. Hard to spend less than 20 bucks for this, a significant percentage for a camera costing $100 or less. Andy likely has a contract to ship for half of this or less.
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    How do you make those videos? Is there something like a screenshot video recorder? Anyway, there's one killer feature in BI'S UI3 that the NVR/smartPSS can't come close to matching. The trigger thumbnails are stacked vertically on the left edge of the screen, and just by hovering over one it...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Realizing this will help you understand what's behind all of the disagreeable things I post. I'm also a nutcase from Chicago, although I don't think the left wing type. Notice I said "from", and I do have an impressive history of ruining cities. After Chicago I went to Houston, then Austin...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    I use the digital zoom a lot, mostly for keeping track of various animals. I guess a gator would be filling the whole frame anyway :). Use it also occasionally to look at passing vehicles. With the 5442 series, digital zoom is actually useful. We're in a secluded spot and 95% of my triggers...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    With BI's UI3, the mouse wheel is always enabled for zoom and the zoomed image can be dragged (panned) with the mouse. Unless there's something I haven't found, in smartPSS, doing this first requires pressing the "+" button and drawing a rectangle, all of which gets reset when crossing a...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    Does UI3 have single step capability? If it does, could you point me to it? smartPSS can play and single step backward. The one maddening thing that makes playback and stepping a lot more difficult is that every time the playback hits a trigger, any zoom and pan is lost. Makes for a lot of...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    Just a high-level list: BI does better: Real time camera viewing, scanning through clips, timeline playback. NVR does better: Easier initial setup, shows IVS trigger lines, works better for nitpicking clips like single stepping and saving snapshots. Important note, I do not use the native UI...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    I don't use both for redundancy, but because one does some things better, and the other does other things better.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I referenced ZH because the 2nd article that mangled the headline cited ZH as their source.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I tried to be clear that I was talking about ONLY the headlines. More people IMO read only the headline and believe that's the story. If the headline does not give a timeline, it's reasonable to assume it's current information. Neither headline reveals what it specifically says is a year old...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Evolution of false click-bait headlines by conservative media: 1. Zerohedge publishes story titled Fetterman Ex-Chief Of Staff Sounded Mental Health Alarm To Senator's Doctor Fetterman Ex-Chief Of Staff Sounded Mental Health Alarm To Senator's Doctor | ZeroHedge 2. Story contains line saying...
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    Close Call

    I appreciate you didn't copy the "crash landing" part. From what can bee seen in the video, the aircraft looks undamaged. A similar bogus headline is about a couple of goarounds at DCA (Regan) last Thursday. Some posts and stories are calling them "close calls", when the reality was that ATC...
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    How about 300bps acoustic coupler and 33ASR teletype, with the mass storage being 10 cps paper tape?
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    I remembered I had written a document to help windows users use the mac. This was my intro: At a high level, Mac OS is the same thing as Windows. It's just that some of the details are different. It could be analogous to switching to a 2nd car after using the first one for many...
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    I had to set up and use a mac for our church. There's a lot of things I don't like about the hardware and macOS. Then again, there's a lot of things I don't like about windows, it's just that they're a normal part of life to me and all of the apple weirdness was new. In the end, I see it as...
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