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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj Thank you for your fast reply. Yes. I have POE+. I got it working on 192.168.1.108. I think it just took some more time that my other cameras to power up. This camera is amazing!
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @Parley and @bigredfish -- How did you activate your PTZ1A225-HNR-XA camera? I tried connecting to it at 192.168.1.108 and nothing is there.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @Parley -- I'll order the PTZ camera later this evening. Thank you for showing me proof of concept.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj and @Parley -- I have a good amount of street light at night, more than what @bigredfish appears to have. So I am hopefully that this would work, particularly, given Parley's tests. I would only have one present position that the camera would return to for LPZ when I am not manually...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @Parley -- Is it the same exact one as the model I linked to above? If you can manually adjust the focus, then I should be able to use this model for my use case, right?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Interesting. So daisy-chaining two of these devices would essentially split one cable into three. Good to know. I need to think about it. I would love to have the PTZ capability but after the drive-by shooting in front of my house (aimed at the bums who live across the street), I feel like I...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    I hear you.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    That would be the best solution, but it requires running additional cables to that location. At the moment, I can split the cat6 I have running out to one of my front cameras that monitors my ground floor windows and run a cable up the front side of my house to the location where I intend to put...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Exactly. My plan is to try to use Home Assistant to change those setting when take control manually and also when I return it to PTZ mode.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @bigredfish Your videos are super impressive. I'm on a one-way street so I will have one preset position. So I don't think I need a spotter cam to trigger the LPR function on the PTZ.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Thank you. I understand the issue now. If I am going to get a PTZ and try it, which PTZ should I buy? The one I linked to earlier a relatively less expensive one and would be easier for me to install because I would be putting it on the side of my brick house about 25 feet above the ground, or...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @CaptainCrunch I follow your analogy, but if I understand @wittaj and the other comments, if there is enough light then it would be able to focus on the pavement. Right?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Thanks. @bidredfish's test results are impressive. I have a lot of street light because I'm in an urban setting. I think I probably have more than the ambient light in @bigredfish's tests because it never gets dark enough for the cameras in the front of my house to use IR at night. I wouldn't...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj -- But if I return it its preset position, as @bigredfish and @Parley describe, then I would be okay, right? Even at night?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @bigredfish Sorry I am having trouble understanding. Would it work in the following context? Most of the time, the PTZ camera would stay in a fixed orientation looking at the street at an angle where I can see the passing cars' license plates. But sometimes, I would manually take control of this...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj So am I correct in understanding that the PTZ camera's firmware does not allow the user to manually set the focus?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    I am still working on getting a camera to read license plates. I've been thinking it would be nice if I could use this PTZ camera to capture license plates. Because it is a PTZ, it would give me added ability to use it scan the street when there is trouble. Then when I am not actively using it...
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    EmpireTech Model PTZ1A225-HNR-XA

    Sometimes late at night, people hangout in front of the vacant house across the street from mine. I think this camera would allow me to get a good recording of them.
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    EmpireTech Model PTZ1A225-HNR-XA

    Anyone have a PTZ1A255-HNR-XA form EmpireTech? If so, how do you like it?
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    Is there a Blue Iris equivalent for Linux?

    My point is that they need to invest in that equipment.
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    Is there a Blue Iris equivalent for Linux?

    Yes. That's why I run Wireguard server on my router that uses dd-wrt. But I believe ASUS also makes routers with Wireguard server.
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    Is there a Blue Iris equivalent for Linux?

    @mrvelous01 Try Frigate and run Wireguard server so you can see your cameras when you're away from home. It's amazing. I completely recommend it. There is no need to open holes in your firewall.
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    Divulging to much info on here

    @antus and @Perimeter -- If you want to connect to your cameras remotely (i.e., when you are away from home using your smart phone or laptop), using a set up like the one @CanCuba describes, then you need to run a VPN server on your home network. This is what @wittaj is recommending. For...
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    Is there a Blue Iris equivalent for Linux?

    I use Frigate ver. 0.12 on a little Minisforum GK41 with a Celeron J4125 running Ubuntu server 22.04. Frigate handles motion masks, zones, etc. and has very good object detection if you add a Google Coral to your set up. However, I don't think Frigate supports PTZ cameras yet. I believe the...
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    Best VPN to use? Asus appear to have added many more to their routers vi firmware

    @CCTVCam Which Asus router are you using? I have Netgear r7000 that I installed ddwrt on and have been using Wireguard. Wireguard is excellent. It allows me to connect my laptop and iphone to my home network when I am away. That's how I look at my cameras and access Home Assistant.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj I bought the cat6 combiner/splitter that you recommended. Thank you for suggesting it. I tested it out on one of the cables running to the rear of my house. I used it to add a new camera to my system--the new addition zooms into the area where I park my car. If anyone is looking for the...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Unfortunately, I completed the renovation of my rowhouse and have no stomach for opening up any walls and floors to run more cat6 at this point. I wish I had run two sets of cat6 to each location but that ship sailed ages ago. I am going to try the splitter and see how it goes.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Okay. This is exactly how I hoped it worked. Thank you @wittaj
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @samplenhold I read the threads you created to guide folks on LPR cameras. Thank you for those. Pardon my ignorance. I am still trying to understand how license plate reading works. I purchased a IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E camera. BTW, the zoom on this thing is incredible. Here's my question. I...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Unfortunately, my side of this block is all attached row houses--no driveways.
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