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    Owl with prey, or moving a baby owl?

    I can't decide which . Flew straight at the camera for a few seconds.
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    PTZ control quit working with SD4A425DB-HNY

    All of a sudden the BI PTZ controls quit working on my SD4A425DB-HNY mini PTZ camera. They still work on the camera's web interface and smartPSS. I rebooted the camera and the BI machine with no luck. I don't recall changing anything that should affect this. Any hints on what to look at? An...
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    Automatic IP address change?

    I changed the IP address of one of my cameras. Before I got around to fixing it in BI, BI had changed it by itself and the camera was back running at its new IP address. How does BI know to do that?
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    Plane crash in Toronto

    Yet another one :( . It's a Delta branded RJ lying upside down. Obviously Trump's fault.
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    smartPss reorder device list

    Is there a way to change the order of the devices in this list? (photo from manual, not my own system)
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    WTS (sold) Dahua IPC-T5442T-ZEB + 2x IPC-HDW5231R-ZEB

    T5442T-ZEB $60 + actual shipping 5231R-ZEB $30 each + actual shipping The photos are 2 views of the same cameras. The 5442 is the one that says "Empire Tech" on the base. The 5231s were outside for a few years. The 5442 was outside for a few months until I figured out it can't detect animals...
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    T180 illuminator light control using the API

    I'm trying to turn the lights on and off using the API. It either doesn't work right, or I'm missing something that I'd like to know the solution for. With the "Get" command http://192.168.100.249/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=getConfig&name=Lighting, I receive this...
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    Selling your soul to big brother

    We all know we're being tracked and having our personal information sucked out of us. I got a glimpse of the details after buying a new cordless drill. I'm picking one one company, Ridgid, but I'm pretty sure what they do is typical of many other companies. Before starting the rant I'll state...
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    UI3 HTML5 startup message

    Could someone explain what's behind this UI3 message, and hopefully how to get rid of it? It's with a Linux system, and is the same with either Brave or Firefox.
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    Alerts clip playback length

    My alerts have inconsistent lengths, varying from 1 second up to the Break Time/End Trigger time. Should they not all be at least as long as the End Trigger time? When I double click on an alert thumbnail, it plays for the alert length + what might be the Pre-Trigger Playback Time, which can...
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    Wildfire air drop

    Not from my cameras, just a cool picture. A wildfire broke out yesterday at the edge of Bend, OR and they threw the big stuff at it immediately. The airport firefighting base is only a few miles away. The fire grew to 20 acres 3 hours after first report, and to 78 acres until fully contained.
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    S3 animal detection

    There have been posts about the new S3 series animal detection in unrelated threads. I'm hoping to pull it into its own thread. There have been multiple reports of how well the animal detection is working. So far I'm finding pretty much the opposite. For testing I've got an older 5442 and...
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    Anti-dither or equivalent in BI?

    For context, Anti-Dither is a feature in Dahua cameras for dumb motion detection. When there is a motion detection trigger, further triggers are locked out for the Anti-Dither time period. This eliminates the situation of getting multiple, closely spaced triggers for the same motion. The...
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    7 ways to make Windows 11 less annoying

    Seven of many reasons why I use windows 7 and linux. https://www.zdnet.com/article/seven-ways-to-make-windows-11-less-annoying/ "Increasingly, Microsoft is treating Windows as a giant billboard where it can promote and cross-sell other products." "Adoption of Windows 11 will both provide better...
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    Frequent camera logins from BI

    Is there any known or obvious reason why BI is logging in and out of one of my cameras every 8 seconds? It's a 5231E-Z, if that matters.
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    Attempted BI crash diagnosis

    My BI crashed this morning. It's version 5.8.5.3 which I assume is a stable version because that's what I got from the download link on the BI site a few weeks ago. Windows says it was a blueiris.exe APPCRASH, faulting module name mfc140u.dll. Now I get into all sorts of information that I...
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    Lightning strike distribution map

    This helps me understand why I'm not as worried about lightning strikes as some of the rest of you. More info and other maps where this came from New maps reveal unprecedented detail of 36.8 million strikes
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    Network connection problem

    This is actually a win 10 problem, but BI is saddled with it. If the wired connection from my BI machine to the switch is physically broken, then reestablished, win 10 does not reconnect. Running the network troubleshooter does not help. The only thing I found to get win 10 back on the...
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    Live view screen layout

    With Dahua's smartPSS utility there's a really nice feature where you can define a screen window layout (2,2, 3x3, etc.), then drag any camera from a list to any of the windows. Really fast and easy to change the camera view on the fly. Is there something similar in BI and/or UI3? (I...
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    NEW and STORED directories

    When using a machine with an SSD and single hard disk, I believe the recommended practice is for both NEW and STORED to be on the hard disk. In this situation, is there any point in having both NEW and STORED? Looks to me like it's useless overhead to copy from one directory to another.
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    World war 2 submarine sonar question

    With all the old-timers here, maybe somebody knows this. I've been binge-watching The Silent Service. In almost every episode, the sonar operator in the conning tower is almost constantly pushing a lever back and forth with his right hand. What is this lever and what is he doing? The USS...
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    Forum bots

    I don't know much about these bots we're seeing. They are a step up from spam and trolling, trying to look like serious technical conversation. The only giveaways I see are a low post count and language nuances. The language could improve down the road to not be a giveaway. I have a lot of...
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    Live view audio in smartPSS

    Is there a way to listen to camera audio in smartPSS live view? There's an icon to turn on the speaker, but I hear nothing and can't find a volume control anywhere. Works fine on playback. I've doing the live view through the NVR, not with the camera device configured in smartPSS.
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    Online identity verification id.me

    I ran into another new big brother thing today for the first time. One of my financial accounts is going to require creating an id.me account to continue accessing it. I don't want my info in yet another database that can will get misused. On one hand I'm thinking of closing the account, on...
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    Home insurance rate increases

    Are others of you seeing the same increase that I am? 2023 rate increase 42%, after 16% last year and 9% the year before. This is in Oregon, not in a flood zone, not near the ocean, and not close to the Portland utopia.
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    Mysterious camera IP address problem (fixed)

    Can someone help with a network problem that has me stumped? It's isolated to a single windows computer. It reared its head when I replaced a Dahua 2231 camera with a Dahua 5442 camera. The 2231 was on ip address nnn.nnn.nnn.228 in my network. I changed the 2231's IP away from .228 and...
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    Detecting wildlife with Dahua cameras

    I'm starting this thread to be a resource for people wanting to use Dahua IP cameras to monitor and view wildlife. If you're among the majority of users who want your cameras to ignore detection of cats, dogs, and other animals, you are fortunate that the newer cameras do this quite...
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    IPC-color-4K-X IVS issue

    I echo all the praises of the color-4k-x camera with one exception: Line crossing and intrusion are not working as I'd like them to. People and cars are detected with impressive reliability. Even tiny images in the distance trigger the IVS. On the other hand, it doesn't pick up animals. I...
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    Remote viewing Dahua with remote desktop vs. remote smartPss

    This is mainly an FYI for anybody using smartPss to remotely connect to a Dahua NVR. I've been doing this using Dahua's P2P function, and was inspired by another post to try remote desktop instead. My main motivation was to be able to access a couple of other monitoring apps while on the road...
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    Dahua NVR with more cameras than POE ports, how does it work?

    I run a Dahua NVR with no POE ports, so don't have any experience how they work, and would like to learn. I think I understand how it works when all of the NVR channels have built-in POE ports, as with a 5216-16P-4ks2: Plug each camera into a POE port one at a time. NVR adds it in...
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