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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    It's not worth taking any of the statements seriously any more. Try not to expend much energy thinking about them and just wait and see what really happens in the end. It's feels like the statements are coming from a random sentence generator. I do wonder what the libs think of all of this.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Trump Administration to Wind Down mRNA Vaccine Development This is a Time magazine article posted on yahoo "news". The interesting part for me is in the comments. I read a lot of them, and every single one I read praised the shots for ending the pandemic, saving millions of lives, or this...
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    Does it matter if you use CAT5e for a long run?

    I think this will turn into an opinion poll. Mine is that for that distance, use cat6 to get awg23 conductors instead of awg24 conductors in cat5e. Make sure the cat6 is awg23, not all are, and of course solid copper conductors, not CCA. Running some ballpark numbers is easy if you assume a...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I know this doesn't exactly fit here. We know that different media outlets contradict each other. How reputable is one that contradicts itself? WalletHub says San Francisco is the healthiest place to live n the US. While at the same time it's dead last on the best run cities. Pretty...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    RFK Jr. Announces Repeal Of Policy That Rewarded Hospitals For Reporting Staff Vaccination Rates
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Stolen from another forum: It's like Trump got offed and they have someone using a latex mask, filling in for him.
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    Money & Economics

    But, but, I keep hearing there's a housing shortage.
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    easy way to make a small trench?

    I totally agree. I'm just being cautious about advice being posted that readers will interpret as "official" or "legal". I have however just discovered that there is a lot more specific info in the 2023 NEC than when I last paid attention. These are all my non-expert interpretations, i.e. use...
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    easy way to make a small trench?

    Am I misreading the NEC that says for wires carrying over 30 volts (which would include POE), the minimum cover depth is generally 18" if in conduit and 24" direct burial? I know there are some special exceptions, like for under concrete, and not all jurisdictions are covered by NEC. But for...
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    Camera Feed Just Turned All White

    I've had moisture problems with those female couplers. So far, the solution has been to lightly grease all of the gasket and compression washer surfaces. Mine are in underground connection boxes and it's drippy wet most of the time.
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I wouldn't have been surprised. This is how USA trains were when I was a teenager.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    May I cheat with a 14-monther? I nominate obamacare. Ruined the medical system, enriched big pharma, enriched the insurance companies, and bankrupted many. Nothing DJT has done can compete with that!
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    HUGE RUMOR: Unifi Protect will support ONVIF cameras (like from HIK/Dahua)

    The image transmitted from the Dahua cameras I have is inferior to what the optics and sensor are capable of. Easy to see by using ROI on a small area, which gets significantly clearer while the rest of the image turns to you-know-what.
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    Why I hate phones...

    Mine can sit "off" for a couple of weeks without the battery going down at all. I realize that's not proof that it's fully off. Just in case, one of my requirements is that any cell phone I have has an easily removable battery. This is getting harder and harder to find.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Less security and fewer cameras? Cut down during escape attempt?
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    Earthquake off coast of Russia - Tsunami heading for Hawaii

    Not if they were there measuring earthquakes in prehistoric times, when all the big volcanoes blew, when the mountains sprouted up, during the ice age, and other big-event time periods. Never say never ;)!
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    My reaction was to giggle, with the king of foolish and inflammatory statements accusing somebody else of foolish and inflammatory statements.
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    Why I hate phones...

    Same here. When I'm at home, the cell phone is off. Sometimes when I turn it on I pick up week-old text messages and/or voice mails. Many can't understand why I won't leave the tracking device on 24x7.
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    Unable to log in to one of my Dahua cameras via the Dahua NVR interface

    It may very well be 24 channel. Here's one to see. https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/product/20180824/DHI-NVR5424-24P-4KS2_Datasheet_20180824.pdf
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    Alert on simple contact closure. Any suggestions?

    This is the one I might get someday because you can hang it on a POE port anywhere on the network. Another version with added relay outputs is a bit more $. I can't confirm that it works ok with BI, but everything I see sounds like it should. eI/O PoE Modbus TCP w/ 4 Isolated Inputs
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    All you're going to do is send it to Andy. Then the tariffs will create a budget surplus, you'll get a check from that, and send it all to Andy. Except maybe for some gator food.
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    SmartPSS Lite on a mac - trouble getting connected

    smartPSS Lite runs pretty well under Wine on Linux. I wonder if it would work with Wine on MacOS? The M4 chip certainly makes it less likely, but something called Rosetta supposedly built into the mac lets it run x86 code. Just thinking out loud. It could work, or turn into a big time rathole.
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    Low-cost label maker

    If just numbers is ok, you can use the adhesive backed number labels from the electrical department at Home Depot, etc. For roll your own labels, Brother has at least a few low end models under $50.
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    Flat Ethernet cable

    I'm not trying to be the forum police, it's that these posts really annoyed me. I went from grumpy to grumpier.
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    Flat Ethernet cable

    I can't help thinking this post and another similar one busts the rules. "Businesses or individuals representing businesses are not allowed to post outgoing links, affiliate links or advertisements to their products / services or solicit members in any way whatsoever. This will be considered...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    Since I've been comparing use of BI's UI3 to smartPSS, I don't want to accidentally leave the impression that they're similar technology-wise, because they are very different. At a high level, BI's native interface is similar to a monitor connected directly to the NVR. UI3 is the rough...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    One last video attempting to show off how fast and easy it is to review and play trigger events on UI3. It's 89 seconds long and I readily admit somebody that knows what they're doing could have done a better job. I finally got the mechanical part down, using OBS studio. Another one of those...
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    Coyote down... Sorta

    Thanks, and vice-versa. Definitely a life altering adventure.
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    Trying SSD on BI

    The suggestion is wrong. The BI storage folder (BI-new) is the only thing on the big SSD (the E drive), everything else is on C:. I'm just reporting what I see, and without knowing BI and UI3 internals I wouldn't hazard a guess as to why. I rarely run the UI on the BI machine, using UI3 on...
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