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    Black bear and her two cubs...

    Managed to capture some pretty neat video of a bear that keeps visiting my feed plot. Generally it's discouraged to feed them, and you want to do everything you can to have them "move along". In part, because they run off all other game, but also because if they don't get fed, they begin to...
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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    I absolutely love this camera. I picked up 5 of them on eBay about 6 months ago - a guy was letting them go for about $160/ea. That was a good deal compared to what others were charging. But since then, I've realized I can use a lot more. Unfortunately, the guy had no more to offer, and...
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    Need help watching elderly parents via cloud + BI

    My parents are in an independent living facility with excellent free wifi (500+mbps). However, it's double-NATed, with no ability to pull a public IP or access port forwarding. I'm able to connect to his PC using RealVNC's cloud services, but nothing that requires port-forwarding works. I...
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    Finally got that bobcat...

    On the very last evening of the nighttime bobcat hunting season too, imagine that! It started as it usually does. Mr. Bobcat is visiting the all-you-can-eat chicken buffet bar... But while patiently sitting pretty (and still) looking for an opportunity, the...
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    Everything likes chicken... even owls

    If it's not bobcat, racoon, or coyote, it's owls. This Great Horned is particularly persistent. He's gotten at least 6 over the last month. I've had to keep them locked up 24/7 since then. This same owl managed to get into the run through an automatic door (before I had...
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    Coyote nabs one of my chickens - Thermal vs. Optical

    This was captured using the Dahua DH-TPC-BF5421 I picked up last week. I suspected I was losing chickens to predation. It helped justify the excursion into thermal cameras. Given the short surveillance time (<1 min), and the rather difficult location (no clean shot from the house), it will...
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    [SOLVED] Encountered unexpected file [camera_name].reg; stopping

    I changed phones, so I wasn't getting push notifications. Since I have system alerts set to notify when BI has errors, I thought - wow! I haven't had any restarts or errors in weeks! Well, checking logs today, I see both. What is the subject error? And what does "stopping" refer to...
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    Battery powered Vico camera integration with BI... Is it possible?

    I know it's a stretch, but if there's any way to integrate this camera, I'd like to give it a go. I needed a quick, simple, dirty way to get notifications for a neighbor's chicken coop. They've been getting some kind of predator that's been picking off chickens. It's probably a yote or...
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    CodeProjectAI is tagging items twice... Is that wasting resources?

    I'm not quite sure what setting would cause it to double-tap like this. It's not every trigger, but most. My settings are as follows:
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    God I hate lightning....

    Had a nearby strike that took out 11 switches and fiber-to-ethernet adapters. At least that's what I counted so far. The problem is that all of the distant ethernet runs have no power - so I have to use ethernet (vs fiber) to have power at the cameras. Some runs are approaching 500' long...
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    Is there a way to make certain cameras private?

    My kids are getting to the age where they have figured out how to get their tablets to the LAN IP and are/were logging in w/o credentials since I had disabled LAN authentication. I've changed that, and created them their own user accounts. It's been a while since I created new groups, but...
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    SD59225U factory resets with power failure...

    I've had this camera for many years. Recently it's been rebooting randomly on a pretty frequent basis - sometimes in as little as 2 minutes. While reboots are not unusual (it's always done every once and a while), the loss of time, presets, and any other configuration variables is new. I've...
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    Anyone seen the IP4M-S2112EW-AI Amcrest/Dahua camera in the wild?

    I just receive a promo email from them... Looks compelling for sub-$200. https://www.amazon.com/Amcrest-Motorized-Detection-Intrusion-IP4M-S2112EW-AI/dp/B0C32MQ38Y I like the wide field (2.7mm) and two-way audio for gate use...
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    Finally popped bobcat that was snatching my chickens...

    I debated whether to post this, but figured it highlights success, so why not. This bobcat has been poaching my chickens quite successfully for over year. I've tried leg snap traps, sitting in a blind high up in a tree, but he would never show, or was too smart for the traps. Until...
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    AddToBIDB failed 665, and alert image not created...

    I am getting these errors all afternoon. I just now had time to investigate what's going on. The entire time, NOTHING has been recording - whether clip or alerts. More than anything, I'd like to know how to keep this from happening. I'm running UI3 version 229, Blue Iris version: 5.7.0.3...
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    AI is only recognizing about half of my vehicles....

    I am struggling to get my AI to work properly after upgrading the CodeProject to 206. These are my settings for the camera: Sometimes it catches the same vehicle coming, but not leaving, and other times, it catches them leaving, but not coming. For example, this video shows the school bus...
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    Need help setting up specific trigger/alert

    So I would like a given camera to record with any motion detected by the camera. And I'd like to set up a "trip wire" where if it is crossed, it sends an alert. Using the motion detection, I have set up zone A to trigger with any movement anywhere in the image. I set zone B as a line, and...
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    SMS/MMS gateway using gmail servers getting bounced (blacklisted ip)

    I'm using the Verizon SMS/MMS gateway option as a quick and dirty way to send neighbors notifications when someone comes down our dead end street. I have several on my alert list and all of them get the same alerts. Consistency has been problematic, as Verizon's email to text gateway can have...
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    AddToBIDB failed 665 started to night...

    3 identical errors, on on each of three cameras. All within 2 hrs. UI3 version 226, Blue Iris version: 5.6.5.9 Otherwise running fine. Anyone see these? Don't want to be overly dramatic if it's a benign error, but it is push notifying me which makes the same sound as a system restart - so...
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    Any good solutions for push notifications outside of BI android app?

    I have multiple tablets around the house (and at in-laws place) that I use exclusively for monitoring BI via UI3. When someone breaks the IR beam at my gate, it triggers an alert for the gate camera that sends out: 1) Push notification to BI app on my cell phone (instant delivery) 2) A...
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    Clips no longer recognized as being part of BI

    I know, I know... being on the bleeding edge causes problems. Willing to take that risk in an attempt to help flush bugs... That said, with the latest update (5.6.3.2, UI 223 and 224) I can no longer see most of my clips/alerts. They are there, as I can see them if I open the .BVR file from...
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    out-of-sync (OOS) audio...

    Not quite sure when it started but my live, recorded, and exported clips all appear to have the video a second or more behind the audio. Occurs whether exported from BI console, or UI3. Happens with all cameras that have audio - either their own audio channel or when taken from another...
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    Need help getting two-way audio working on my Hik 2CD-XXXX cube cameras

    Over the years, I've had intermittent success getting the two-way audio to work. Sometimes it would go through reasonably clearly, other times so distorted and chunky it was useless. Other times, the microphone button would turn green only while held, others it would stay on until clicked a...
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    I have this camera - a Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z 2.7~12mm that works reasonably well on my street. However, I just installed the same camera on a neighbor's new installation, and I can't seem to get the exposure correct. I've duplicated my settings, but on her street, cars are moving much faster...
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    Never seen anything like it. Running on an i7-6xxx with 16gb ram, win 10 w/latest updates. It's a new system I put together for neighbor. Latest intel drivers installed (from Dell for Optiplex 7050). Screen "paints" very slowly - with each button/icon coming up about .5 seconds after the...
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    Live is main stream, but playback is substream only?

    UI3 version 221, Blue Iris version: 5.6.0.5 Newly installed on a neighbors PC. Playback on all cameras is sub-stream resolution. Live shows sub momentarily then snaps to main as it should. This happens on UI3 (both local PC and remote PC) and on the console locally. I've verified that...
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    I have a neighbor with a BI set up. I'd like to pull one of her feeds from one of her cameras without connecting to her camera directly (via port forwarding). Instead, I'd like to create a camera and point to a specific camera (or group) being streamed from her server. IOW, I would like to...
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    Notification on user login showing remote IP address. Is that possible?

    So I have multiple neighbors to whom I will be giving access to a single "public" account so they can see my street-side cameras (as part of a neighborhood watch imitative). It's a short term "demo" to help them decide if they want to set up a similar camera system. I don't want to go through...
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    High memory usage... 38GB for BI!

    I've never seen this before. Came home to find BI using 38GB of memory... PC was lethargic, and I was getting an "out of memory" error on my scanning software that runs in the background of the BI machine. This was running 5.5.9.5. My system has 48GB of RAM. BI is running as an app...
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    Found something that causes BI to crash every few minutes....

    We had a wicked lightning storm that came through two nights ago. It cooked four switches. In the process of replacing them, I neglected to plug my small NAS drive back in. Since I don't really use it for anything other than backups, I didn't notice that it was off line until this afternoon...
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