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  1. quest100

    Adding more storage for clips

    If you do not have room for more internal disks you can add external disks. If you have a newish computer with 5 Gbps or faster USB use an external enclosure that contains as many disks as you need. Make sure the external USB enclosure also supports 5 Gbps or faster. My setup has two...
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    Windows 11 - Powerup after Losing Power?

    I recently had a couple of CyberPower UPSes that did not restore output power after the input power was restored. Turns out if the battery is dead the UPS will not deliver power even with input power. Restart the UPS and everything is fine until the next power outage. Worse than useless. My...
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    System upgrade question

    Yes, it powers back on when power is restored. It is connected through the built in USB-C 3.1 gen 2 port. My system is recording 24/7 at around 170 Mbps. Three drives in enclosure, each running 4-6 MBps. Room to add two more. No RAID - just a bunch of disks. Bought from bhphotovideo.com...
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    System upgrade question

    I am one of those that use USB external drives with not problems. I have a 5 bay USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure (Oyen Mobius Pro 5C) with 3 WD Purple drives installed. I have had zero problems with it, including concurrently running BI with 20 cameras while copying ~5TB of video from one external...
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    Cleaning the camera lens

    I prefer Zeiss lens wipes. Bought from Costco but have not seen them there for a while. If I suspect dirt or crud on the lenses then I first blast with air from a rubber bulb dust blower that I originally got for cleaning 35 mm slides. My alternative is a lens/screen cleaner sprayed onto a...
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    EmpireTech Security Settings

    Instead of using two NICs to isolate the cameras I use firewall rules. My router is a Ubiquity UDM-B. My firewall rules are basically Allow local camera viewers to see cameras. This includes BI, NAS, my personal PC, and my iPhone/iPad. Disable camera sub net from accessing off subnet. This...
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    Backup of BI videos?

    I hid a Synology NAS in a closet under some stairs. I have BI ftp some alert images and/or video to the NAS. Just the alerts that I consider most important, i.e. front door, PZT, and LPRs. I have room for about 6 months history.
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    5.9.4 - June 20, 2024 NGROK

    This is because I pointed out to Ken that the order of evaluation was wrong. I emailed Ken: Using CopeProject.ai the order of evaluation is wrong. It appears that first the trigger image, then the pre-trigger image, and finally the post-trigger images are analyzed. Looking at the AI Status...
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    Second Dead Hard Disk in BI system

    Another update: I am half way through moving 2TB of bvr files from an internal hard disk to one of the three disks in my external USB enclosure. All while BI is busy writing to all five disks in my system. The copy speed is stable around 150 MB/s and BI seems to not have noticed. This is...
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    Construction Site Camera Setup

    This video is from the Build Show Network which is oriented towards contractors, architects, and builders. Most of their videos discuss things such as waterproofing, insulation, tools of the trade, or almost anything a builder might want to know. Here, one of their contributors shows a camera...
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    Putting faces into facial recognition

    After entering 6 names, each with 10-30 images, I find CP.ai's facial recognition to be a complete failure. Someone in the database walking up to the front door generates ip to 8 faces for identification. The returned identities are all over the map - young, old, male, female, same and...
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    Putting faces into facial recognition

    I recently upgraded my PC from one that chokes on any AI to one that has plenty of horsepower for CodeProject.ai. I am now using AI on six of my older cameras that do not reliably trigger. My PC is still humming along with typical trigger times of 250 mS. This is with no graphics card in the...
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    Second Dead Hard Disk in BI system

    Just thought I would post an update. For the last month I have been running the three external hard disks using USB with no problems. As far as I can tell absolutely no glitches recording and/or playing back video due to the USB interface. After a power failure, which exceeded my UPS’s one...
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    Second Dead Hard Disk in BI system

    After more testing and using the new disk I determined that external case failed while running with the eSATA interface. The case works fine using its USB interface. I am now running my BI system using eSATA in one enclosure and USB with the other. Looking at them in Performance Monitor they...
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    Second Dead Hard Disk in BI system

    About a year ago I had a ?WD Purple? hard disk fail in my system. Just had a second hard disk die in my BI system. Current system has one internal hard disk and four external hard disk, all dedicated for video storage. The external disks are split between two dual eSATA cases driven by a...
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    5.8.8 - March 4, 2024

    Same problem with 5.8.8.latest. First time the entire PC locked up and I had to force a power off and restart. Seven and nine days later the PC restarted after running out of virtual memory - somewhere around 80 GB. Both time the committed memory was less than 12 GB and holding steady the...
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    Setting up spotter camera for ptz

    I went online and searched for audio files containing memorable lines from movies or TV shows. Some good ones I like are Are you feeling lucky? Nobody touch nuttin Get out! Who are you?! What was that? How dare you! Winchester rifle cocking and firing Pick your favorite lines from any shows...
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    New Install Camera Identification conundrum

    I go one step further and place the cameras and the BI PC on a separate subnet. Everything on this subnet is static. Firewall rules allow the BI PC to have normal access off the subnet and the cameras can access a couple of specific computers and a NAS in another subnet. All other access to...
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    Overexposure with IPC-Color4K-T

    I tried brightness, contrast, and gamma. Nothing helped with the blown highlights. If only I could set gain to -5...
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    Overexposure with IPC-Color4K-T

    I have not seen these posts - will try to search for them. Do the Color4K bullets have the same problem? It's a shame because the Color4K-T is so close to being perfect for this - maybe one or two stops.
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    Overexposure with IPC-Color4K-T

    Tried highlight, WDR, and SSA. None of them helped with the blown highlights. At this point I believe the only thing that will help this camera is a neutral density filter. :( Sorta defeats the purpose of having great night vision! I may have to switch to one of my older cameras, maybe a...
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    Overexposure with IPC-Color4K-T

    I set up an IPC-Color4K-T as a sky camera. Works great except the clouds are overexposed during the daytime and I have not been able to decrease the exposure. At night: During the day: I have tried everything to reduce the cloud overexposure - 1/100,000 sec exposure time, gain range of 0-0...
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    High CPU usage running 4 cameras

    One more thing - if you are running the demo version of BI then the video is always being re-encoded to add a watermark.
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    How to setup IVS tripwire in these areas?

    If you look at the live view you can see how the camera detects motion and how the motion interacts with your triggers. Start with a single tripwire. You'll see that IVS draws a box around the detected motion. Only when the center of the box crosses your tripwire does the trigger get...
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    Best CCTV Fails

    Of course he took off. He didn't want Amazon to know - he might get fired. I wonder what happened to him after I gave my neighbor videos including from my license plate reader. I believe Amazon paid in full and then some. My neighbor sure is happy with his new Tesla.
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    Best CCTV Fails

    Another Amazon mishap. This is after he walked between the car and his truck two minutes earlier. My neighbor was happy that I had videos. Somehow that little dent was expensive enough that Amazon bought the car. He now drives a Tesla.
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    The Importance & My Recommended Usage of I-Frame, CBR vs VBR, Shutter Speed In Your Configurations

    That's what I used to use. See the long thread here at Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset. I have recently switched to using BI as suggested as an alternative update in the first post in the DahuaSunriseSunset thread.
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    Break time- Max trigger alert duration

    When I was playing with clones I had the original camera recording continuously and the clone recording only when triggered. Not ideal but it worked for me. I have since stopped needing to use clones. Hopefully someone else knows how to properly set this up without redundant recordings.
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    Break time- Max trigger alert duration

    Or use a BI clone. Original camera triggers in the street. Clone triggers in the driveway.
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    BlueIris decides to delete all of my videos (5.8.0.7, PSA)?

    I think an oldie from YouTube might be appropriate: Welcome To The Internet Helpdesk by OneDead Troll Feel free to skip forward to the one minute mark when he answers his first call. Best part is when he says we have a serious case of a twelve o'clock flasher.
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