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  1. Ri22o

    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    It's really there, or nowhere. Everything else is behind that point and would have poor line of site with the house or trees. The only other option is on the second story soffit, but I tried that with my mini PTZ and obviously moved it down. However, this was before I removed the tree though, so...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Relation to the road/sidewalk, for reference. That tree is no longer there.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I would be looking to replace the mini PTZ with the larger PTZ. Thoughts on having it this close to the ground? It's maybe 11'
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    For sure. No one thinks twice about cameras at stores, why can't I protect my stuff? Or any second thoughts about the FLOCK cameras tracking your every move around town. If I had a bunch of Ring cameras with solar panels, would that be ok?
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Yea, that's where I am with it. It's at a high potential of recognize, but not enough to ID, necessarily. I have some thoughts I am going to try tonight, but who knows if they will work. My street is dark. No street lights, only the coach lights next to the garage doors on the houses and not...
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    "I want 2.8mm cameras everywhere to see everything..." - This is why you need specific FOVs with purposeful focal lengths.

    I added some videos to the top of the first post from my old set up, showing how bad the captures were.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I finally found and uploaded the footage from 2018 of a kid who had been vandalizing our neighborhood for a couple weeks. I captured this with my Lorex MPX system. Needless to say, anything I have now is better than these captures, but I want to make sure going forward that anything I do will...
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    Same gallon of gas in 4 or 6 cylinder

    Not to mention, the amount of emissions you are allowed is related to the size of the vehicle (or the other way around, even). This is why trucks have gotten so much bigger. The envelope the vehicle size has to meet for the emissions has gotten bigger, so they just make the truck bigger until...
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    Same gallon of gas in 4 or 6 cylinder

    I had a 2016 Chevy Colorado with the 2.8l 4 cylinder diesel. I deleted the exhaust, DEF, etc and was getting near 700 miles to a tank. This was also with oversized tires and definitely heavier wheels, so economy could have been even better. Fuel capacity is listed at 21 gallons with a combined...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    "simply"
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    The last capture is 0-16 and gain at 0-22, I am not sure how much higher you want me to go. I am also not sure what .1333-.1666 range means. There is no smart IR, so I don't know why it would reduce the IR power.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Yea, the 25mm at 75'. No real light just whatever IR I have blasting from floods and other cameras.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Here is a dark capture at 16/22, not sure where to go with it from here. It looked much better on my phone screen than my PC screen, I am guessing because the smaller screen hides the noise better. I wonder if some of it is a focal point issue, or maybe I am just used to 4MP and seeing 2MP just...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    It's still dusk here, so not quite dark, dark yet, but this is a transition capture that just happened. I'll chime back in with more in a bit. I will need to make some adjustments, I think some lenses are still on default Image settings. I'm running the onboard Day/Night switch, so maybe it is...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I considered Z4s for this as well, but had the 3X to test and figured why not give it a shot. I don't necessarily need 3 total overviews of the driveway..., but am liking the mid view (which seems longer than 12mm) that gives me additional coverage of my sidewalk at either side of the driveway...
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Here it is with the spacer I made. It's still nowhere near dark, so it will be a bit longer before I can get some night captures. It also bothers the hell out of me that this thing will not index to 0* on the rotate adjustment. My other one is the same way.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Of all of them, that was one of the better ones, but I think I got lucky with it.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    For reference, it's 75' to the middle of the street and 100' to the other side.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    I'll grab a picture of the spacer I made. It's 65mm tall, and could possibly be shorter, but for me it allows the camera full upward tilt while also clearing my Z12E LPR near it. I may design one that's shorter, but indexed and stackable, so you just stack as many as you need.
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    Looking for advice on my install locations.

    Well, it's been a minute since I have posted in here, but some happenings over the last couple nights have made me rethink my front coverage and my neighbors' opinion of me. This is a long, all-over-the-place post, so stay with me. During my journey I have made efforts to move towards...
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    What happens to camera files when you change camera name?

    That's what I thought, but wasn't sure. I've done some renaming/organizing and didn't want DB files or folders to sit there taking space.
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    Static or DHCP for IP cams?

    I use static because when I want to access a camera, I want to be able to access it with a known IP without guessing or looking up what IP address may have been assigned to it. Similar to Tony, I have a network map spreadsheet with information for each camera with its IP, patch panel location...
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    What happens to camera files when you change camera name?

    If I rename a camera, what happens to files under the old camera name? Do I need to manually delete anything or will it figure it out on its own over time? I don't want files and folders for Camera1 lingering around, clogging things up, if I rename it to Camera2.
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    LPR setup help

    I had a new -Z12E just quit accepting POE, but would work with a 12v wall adapter. I wonder if the opposite happened with yours.
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    Teaser Info and Mini Review - Empiretech B52IR-X3 Triple Lens Camera

    So lower the exposure and increase the gain? I am trying to get more detail in the faces, which I’m sure isn’t helped by the focus being several 10s of feet behind them. It’s too bad we can’t adjust that.
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    Teaser Info and Mini Review - Empiretech B52IR-X3 Triple Lens Camera

    I had this grand plan to walk around with my laptop and Chrome Remote Desktop last night, but I was too tired and went to bed. I looked this morning and ended up with this capture, so not all was lost. Any idea if I will get any better than this? Or should I keep making some tweaks? (It looks...
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    Looking for something similar to my ip4m-1051 Amcrest PTZ camera.

    The IP4M-841 seems to get recommended frequently for similar use cases. https://a.co/d/b9OVsY5
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    Where to install cameras and what focal length

    It looks like they have added that functionality to this one. Click the House+ at the bottom and you can upload an image of your house. The 54IR models mentioned above will be under Dahua and then search for 5442. Use the Z4E, ZE, and AS models...
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    Where to install cameras and what focal length

    There used to be one a lot of people used, but they went to an overpriced subscription model. There are a couple others available, but I can't think of them off hand.
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