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4 dead and 3 homes destroyed. https://www.wtae.com/article/plum-house-explosion-doorbell-camera-video/44800826 https://www.wtae.com/article/plum-fire-house-explosion/44799635

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - A car crashed into a house in south St. Louis County, killing the driver, Tuesday. The accident occurred just before 2:30 p.m. on Kingston Drive near Telegraph. The day after the crash, St. Louis County police said the driver who was killed was a 73-year-old woman. Her...

A man is being sought after being seen on video abandoning a dog at a cellphone tower in Riverside County last month. The incident occurred in the Winchester area, when the man was seen picking up a dog and “hurling it over a tall fence topped with razor wire,” according to the Riverside County...

Surveillance video catches two men setting fire to an immigration services building in Bakersfield. The video shows the two men catching on fire themselves after starting the fire. Two different cameras caught the incident. Firefighters arrived moments later and extinguished the fire, limiting...

I am glad I found this place and Dahua and Blue Iris before buying any of these cameras. Arlo is taking away security camera features you paid for When I set out to buy my first home security cameras, the Arlo Q was my obvious pick — every reviewer pointed out that it offered seven days of...

I am planning on separating a Dahua 4239 at the red points in the attached drawing. It seems easy enough but I wanted to inquire in advance for any tips, issues, gotchas, lessons learned, etc WHY? I am feeding the small diameter at the junction/separation point through a (smaller) hole in a...

GOP Invites People to Play 'Biden Bingo' During SOTU Address Link

PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) Link to story

Link goes to Colorado Springs news affiliate channel 11 KKTV Numerous viewer submitted videos

Hello everyone, been running BI-5 and four Dahua/Andy Cams recording 24/7 for close to a year, isolated on a separate NIC. PC has plenty of CPU (Ryzen2700) /RAM (16GB) horse power, never an issue. I am updating my original post below as I have discovered additional information. After a multi...

Guessing this is something new?

Long story short: System is BI 5 and 4 Dahua (Andy) Cams and has been rock solid for 6+ months. I have a second NIC Card in my BI PC but my system does not have BI on the dual NIC. Due to recent Dahua security issues I decided to start the move to dual NIC and went into the admin GUI and...

Not my House/Bear:D EVERGREEN, Colo. (KDVR) — A bear was caught on camera earlier this week trying to find its way into a home. Todd Mitchem said the bear was captured on his Ring Doorbell camera around 3:16 a.m. on Sunday. “So….errr….I mean…hello friend,” shared Mitchem. You can watch the...

Hello all, been fighting this off and on today and hoping someone smarter than me (that would be most here:p) can help me out. Running Blue Iris 5 purchased here about 6 mos ago, added Blue Iris Android today from the Play Store, can't connect! Read through the archives and I believe all the...

Hello everyone, I have made at least a dozen Cat5E cables using the Klein crimping tool and Klein Pass Through Connectors, zero issues and I can make a cable from start to finish (2 ends stripped/crimped) in 3 - 5 minutes. I recently purchased some Cat6 Direct Burial cable, I generally buy...

Hello everyone, I have read, and read again old threads, new threads, wiki posts and I am doing something wrong, I just can't figure it out. Here is my issue, I have two Dahua (Andy) IPC-T5442-AS 3.6 watching my driveway from two different angles w/BI5 (under the garage eaves). I run these in...

I want to put a few cams at lower heights in bird houses. Has anyone done this and had problems with birds pecking or damaging the lens? My plan is to cut a hole for the lens with a hole saw so the hole will be pretty much be the size of the exterior lens. Currently just playing around; here is...

Hello everyone, I am in the process of fine tuning my system ( Blue Iris 5.3.5.1 X64 purchased from IPCamtalk Store and 3 Dahua/Empiretech Cams, a 2MP Varifocal, and two 5442 fixed focal, currently recording 24/7). PC is a Ryzen 2700 CPU, 16GB Ram, BI5 & OS on a separate M.2 PCI 3.0 NVMe drive...

Hello everyone, I will be mounting a hidden Andy/Dahua cam in a home built 95% watertight birdhouse on my cedar privacy fence. The installation will require about 4 feet underground through 3/4 plastic conduit (to cross the gate open/close area). I plan on adding a lightning arrestor and...

Hello everyone, I am in the process of building my system and I have followed the ipcamtalk recommendations of a Dahua 2MP Varifocal starlight to start, followed by two Dahua (Loryta) 5442 , added another 2 MP Starlight recently. I am only recording with one of the 5442's 3.6MM at the moment but...

Hello everyone; I have learned so much here and appreciate all the great information. I have 3 Andy cams (An IPC-T2231T-ZS 2MP varifocal and two IPC-T5542TM-AS 3.6MM, and Blue Iris 5 (on a dedicated WIN 10 PC), B.I. was purchased from the ipcamtalk store. I am slowly building my system and only...

Greetings all, the attached pictures represent my proposed install of a Dahua (Andy OEM) and Dahua Side Mount. The pine board is just temporary to assist in determining the mounting location, the attached is very close to the final location. The cable comes out of the mount on the side towards...

Hello everyone, I am trying to take my time to gain a good understanding of my new BI/cam setup, this forum has been very helpful in steering me towards quality and value, thank you. Here is the system in question: BI software, 3 Dahua (Andy), C: OS/BI on NVMe 500GB, D: 500GB SSD, E: 4TB WD...

I know this is going to seem a bit strange but this is the situation. I have the following equipment, 3 OEM Dahua's bought from Andy, BI software purchased from IPCamtalk, a Zyxel GS1008HP POE Switch (802.3 AT/AF) and a Windows 10 PC built with with an ASUS Motherboard. Here is the problem...

Hello everyone, I have an issue I have been fighting for the last several hours and decided to reach out for guidance. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Quick background, this is my second Dahua camera (Andy products 2231 then 5442), the first one (about a month ago) I did not have...

Hello to all, sorry if this is a dumb question. I have a single BI license on a dedicated BI PC purchased through the IPCamtalk Store. Windows 10 updated and fouled my PC up (removed Chrome, Removed Dahua Toolbox/PSS, other unwanted side effects). I was planning on restoring my PC to an...

Hello everyone, what a great and active website. There is so much valuable information here and I am overwhelmed but enjoying learning. There are so many members here I would like to thank for sharing information and their test & evaluations but I don't want to snub anyone by naming just a few...