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    Armcrest support is a joke

    It was a few years ago. We did get it resolved.
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    Armcrest support is a joke

    I've used their customer service twice. Once could have been better but the second time was great. YMMV.
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    Roku enters Home Security/Monitoring Business

    I have a bunch of Roku set top boxes, and after seeing their software quality, I'd never buy anything from them related to security.
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    Moved from Blueiris to Scrypted NVR.

    Only for critical and highly stable updates only. If that's beta testing, then I clearly need to dump BI.
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    All Alerts Today disappeared, also not alerting new ones

    That happened to me last week. I ended updating BI and that seems to have fixed it. That is concerning.
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    Moved from Blueiris to Scrypted NVR.

    Interesting. Thanks for the summary. I keep meaning to reevaluate BI. It has so many issues anymore, e.g. motion detection randomly stops working, push notifications randomly stop working, etc. It emails tiny, blurry images for the first but not 2-4th images. The BI iOS app is pretty bad, too...
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    Main/Substream and poor alert image quality

    I email alerts also, and the first one is always low-res for the same reason.
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    Nexar One: I really want to give this hope

    I'm certainly no expert, but that may be typical for these things. It looks like they cranked up the gain and did a lot of digital noise reduction (look at the fence pickets when you drive by.) Signs are readable, but many are illuminated and y'all have lots of streetlights. Seems decent to me...
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    Nexar One: I really want to give this hope

    Looks like fairly low contrast and it's hard to read a lot of signs. The resolution is listed as 3840x2160, but I agree that it doesn't actually look that. VLC says around 40,000 kb/s. I've seen worse, though.
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    Nexar One: I really want to give this hope

    I've been shopping for a camera and it is annoyingly difficult to find something that does what one wants.
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    Nexar One: I really want to give this hope

    How does it do at night and at capturing license plates?
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    Main/Substream and poor alert image quality

    It got better, but then got worse. Not sure what's going on.
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    EmpireTech 7 Years Anniversay Promotion Plan

    Congratulations! Looking forward to picking up something new.
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    Can we use combination of Media Converter and SFP

    Some SFP ports are 1 GbE only, and almost no cameras are that fast. Obviously one needs to power the camera separately.
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    All those things I noted have to be done or it definitely won't work. I wasn't running the old version very long before upgrading. I upgraded my CPU and motherboard so I needed to reinstall everything (since I also upgraded the OS.) It was pretty easy to get this new version of DS working. I...
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    Yes, I'm using it on Ubuntu in the Docker container they note on their installation page. It worked out of the box for me. The previous installation required a ton of updating since I have a newer GPU. This one just worked. Make sure you installed the GPU version and run it with GPUs enabled...
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    Looking at those prices, I’d suggest entering NewEggs Shuffle for an RTX 3060. The 3060 is 70% faster and just a little more money.
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    DeepStack only supports NVIDIA GPUs. From the install guide:
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    anyone know about imac computers?

    You'll likely have to erase the Mac if they have it linked to their iCloud account. I've not done that. If the device is set up with Mobile Device Management, you may not be able to turn that off, depending on the Mac. This may work for that...
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    I tried doing 4MP images with a 6th generation i5 and that timed out after 15 seconds. I didn't try the sub stream, however, which I suspect would have been much better. I kept entering the NewEgg shuffle and finally got a 3060 for a normal price.
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    No graphics card? You really do need an NVIDIA card for efficient image processing. Installing the latest release is pretty easy now.
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    Anyone running DeepStack 2022.01.1?

    I just installed it this weekend after upgrading the box I run it on. I have a RTX 3060 and this release runs out of the box. I had to go through a tedious upgrade process to get the docker container working with the 3060 using the old version. They finally updated DeepStack's CUDA library to...
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    Anyone installed an IR illuminator indoor behind windows?

    If you have Low-E windows it may not work well. I have older windows without a coating and my IR illuminator works perfectly behind the glass.
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    Cameras through windows. Temporary Ghetto Rental install.

    I installed a camera peeking out of a window in my attic. It works just fine. I obviously turned off the IR illuminator and pointed a separate illuminator out another window in a closet to light everything up. You do get some loss of quality, but it's still quite good, even at night.
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    IP Covert PIR Motion Detector Camera

    I ended up with one of these with a Sony sensor. Image quality isn't too bad, but the firmware is easily the worst I've ever seen in any product ever. IE only with an ActiveX plugin! Utter garbage. I'm wondering if one can flash it with something better, but I haven't found anything yet.
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    Christmas Sales 2021

    Did they add auto day/night profile changing? One review I saw from a few years ago claimed that didn't work. Other comments claim it may work now.
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    Christmas Sales 2021

    Any outdoor fisheyes, e.g. the IPC-EBW8630?
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    Blue Iris Log4J Insecurity?

    I don't think BI is written in Java, is it?
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    Christmas Sales 2021

    Yes, but for my application, I'm not really concerned about size.
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    Curious which app you use and why

    I'd love to find an alternative, but everything I've looked has serious issues, e.g. temperature limitations, poor performance, etc. Next summer I want to install one of those corner cameras.
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