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    FEMA is Worthless and the US Government is a Fucking Joke

    People are fuming around here about this CRAP going on with FEMA. This is a direct result of our so called Sec of homeland security Mayorkas! What a Joke. He needs to be strung up!! There were some articles about this on the internet this morning, but it has mysteriously DISAPPEARED...
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    MyCommerce/Digital River meltdown

    Here is the response from Paypal. When I submitted the dispute, I selected "Vendor agreed on a refund", even though they did not, but could not get a hold of them. Just what I expected. "We have received a response from the merchant and we've also reviewed all the details of your case. Based...
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    Money & Economics

    All of those gov't numbers are politically fixed. CPI, Inflation, unemployment, on and on, just a bunch of political BS. Don't forget the 0.5% drop in Fed rates right when people get their mail in ballots. Yes, they KNOW people are that dumb. What number do you want to hear?
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    MyCommerce/Digital River meltdown

    I will, but I seriously doubt it since the payment was made 3 months ago. But everyone should flood Paypal with refund requests and maybe their bot will notice something.
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    MyCommerce/Digital River meltdown

    I requested a refund from Digital River through Paypal and be sure that Ken gets it, If it is refunded. What a scam of a company!
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    FEMA is Worthless and the US Government is a Fucking Joke

    Your Damn right. Look at the Sec of Defense and Chairman of Joint Chiefs. Just a bunch of DEI dipshits running our military now. No wonder no one wants to join our armed forces. They won't even let the Sec of Defense speak on TV because he cannot even put 2 sentences together.
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    Smart Motion vs IVS Intrusion for areas without passerbys / interior areas

    But you do not know for sure? The new IVS selections in the camera GUI are not left over from MD, because they were not there in old GUI.
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    Smart Motion vs IVS Intrusion for areas without passerbys / interior areas

    That was his problem, triggering on smaller objects. Why do you think Dahua includes this function? I set all my cameras with Min target size.
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    Smart Motion vs IVS Intrusion for areas without passerbys / interior areas

    Have to set the Minimum Size of target in the Camera IVS rules?
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    Per Ken, I deleted all Mobile Devices on BI server, uninstalled the BI phone app and reinstalled, then reboot phone, then re-enable Mobile Devices on the BI server. Make sure phone has all the correct permissions for notifications. Right now all 5 of my Android Pixel phones are getting low...
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    I have 5 different Android phones all on LAN WiFi connection. All software updated rebooted and BI server pinged through BI app. All worked like clockwork for years. I still find the BI push notifications intermittent. I can walk around the property and all phone have good prompt...
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    Show me your Smart IR being Smart

    I feel that the Dahua cameras years ago had better smart IR function than the ones the last few years. I Never use smart IR, because it is not very smart. Actually I think it is pathetic, also. I set IR light to a manual setting for the location and leave it.
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    Ken stated try setting the Push notification to High priority within the BI Alert configuration. There will be an additional fix for sounds with "-" in them ... version 5.9.8 this week
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    Yes, I noticed that. All my alert tones are selected by default.
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    I have found some of the alert tones non-operational or just give a default alert tone. On some of my phones the alert does not come through until I turn phone on from sleep mode. Some of the tones work as always. I use about 11 different tones. Looks like a tone specific type problem. I...
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    Troubleshooting Push Notifications

    For some reason the new BI app update did not automatically show up on my phones. I went to google play store and updated BI phone app for the Sept 2024 update and specific alert tones work now. Yea! Thanks for Ken's support!
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    Troubleshooting Push Notifications

    Has anyone had luck with getting specific Alert Tones from each camera on the new BI update (5.9.7.4)? I now only get a typical default Alert Push Tone for all cameras the have Push Notification set to a specific tone.
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    Your account, whether active or not, has nothing to do with it.
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    I have used GoogleFi, which uses T Mobile network and I have never had problems with SMS notifications for about 4/5 years now. When I am away from LAN at home, the SMS notifications have less latency than BI push notifications and extremely reliable. Not to mention I have 20 cameras setup for...
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    How were you going to setup a notification through Google voice? Just a phone call?
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    If you want to decrease the latency of your SMS notification, set the Image Quality to around 20% in the BI Alert GUI. I did experiments a long time ago on different levels of image quality and compared the notification time. It takes a lot more data, and time for higher quality image and it...
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    It depends who your service provider is. Many people have had the cell provider block their SMS/MMS through email notifications. I have a Google Pixel phone with GoogleFi (TMobile) account and setup a Gmail account just for this reason so I can set a particular alert tone from this account. I...
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    I got a reply from Jennifer (BI support) they are looking into what the problem is, but they are unsure where the problem is at this point. I sent them the response from prosumer about the firebase issue. Just have to wait.
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    Thanks for the update. What made it worse for me was the same time notifications stopped, a lighting strike hit the cable trunk line outside, and blew out one of my ethernet switches, and tripped every GFI outlet in the house. Spent the whole day pulling my hair out on what could be wrong with...
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    Radio Information - Just the facts

    Effective power implies the output power of the radio + gain of antenna. I agree it is worded somewhat confusing. Just keep in mind the gain of the antenna could be negative also.
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    Radio Information - Just the facts

    A good rule of thumb to use: A 3dB increase or decrease will approx double the power or approx decrease power by half. So 30 dBm is 1W, so 33 dBm is 2W, and 36 dBm is approx 4W. Or use formula W=10(dBm−30)/10) Use online conversions is easiest.
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    Hum, BI version 5.9.7.0 was just released, wonder if it fixed any of this?
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    Radio Information - Just the facts

    Correct. dBm is an absolute power measurement (Watts) and dBi is just a relative power measurement compared to an isotropic antenna. So if you had a +3dBi antenna, and an output of 30dBm (1 Watt) from your router, you would have an effective radiated power of 33dBm at that antenna. Therefore...
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    Radio Information - Just the facts

    Different antennas have different gain (directional) in relation to a spherical antenna standard which radiates equal power from a sphere measured in dBi. dBi = gain from isotropic antenna. 0dBi (sphere). When you design an antenna to radiate all the power in a particular direction, you will...
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    iOS push notifications stopped working

    My BI push notifications to Android Pixel devices were intermittent for a few days, then on 9/3 they all stopped. Looked into everything that could go wrong and everything looks good. BI response shows that alert was sent to all devices. How frustrating! I do not even have Bitdefender...