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    2023 and 2024 Models Update

    I offer a word of warning to people considering those cameras or any other new cameras that require IE . . . I was hesitant to buy my first thermal cameras since they only supported IE. I asked Andy about this, and Dahua told Andy that they would provide firmware updates for the first thermal...
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    Are surveillance microphones a thing?

    @aesterling @TRLcam How do you guys provide power to the microphones you use? Are you using a specific adapter that pulls power off the PoE line to the camera or ??? I've always been nervous about tapping into the PoE line so I've just never done it, in part because I haven't seen enough people...
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    which setting causes 5241E-Z12E blur with even slow motion?

    @AlwaysSomething you didn't show sharpness or saturation in your settings list above. If you look back at one of my previous messages in this thread, you'll see that I found those settings have a HUGE impact on the clarity. I found that I had dramatically better results with those values down in...
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    IPC-HDBW4231F-E2-M IPC-HX5X3X-Multi-Rhea_Eng_V2.622.0000000.38.R.211029 Dual lens Firmware

    I am not aware of any newer version for the 4231F-E2. I have version V2.840.0000000.27.R, Build Date: 2024-03-22 for the 5441F-AS-E2, but I am still on that 2021-10-29 version for the 4231F-E2
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    Hmm...do you agree with the advice I got from EmpireTech on camera selection?

    Short answer: the suggested cameras are great, and are effectively my default. I don't personally own the newer 8MP version, but I own several of the 4MP & earlier versions. FYI, you referred to both as "dome", but they are not domes and that means something else. You should refer to them more...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    I believe you're referring simply to the AI config setting of "Zoom-in to objects":
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    Ah, I didn't realize that they could not even see IR. I just assumed that B&W mode would at least pick up those higher wavelengths but I guess that was a really bad assumption on my part. In that case, they definitely won't work for me. Thanks for that clarification.
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    Are any of you using this or any of the newer dual lens cameras at night in B&W mode with external IR illuminators and if so, are they just as good as other cameras with similar sensors (like the IPC-HDW5231R-ZE & newer IPC-T54IR-ZEB-S3) with external IR illumination at night? What is the impact...
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    Got it. It all goes back to the training of the model. Thanks.
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    @wittaj As I hope you know, I agree with everything you said about cameras, optical zoom, etc. etc. Having said that, do you know why CP.AI drops the resolution by default? I realize there's a significant performance issue, but shouldn't that be left up to the client application to decide? If...
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    I see exactly the same thing with your images, using both CodeProject.AI v2.5.4 and 2.6.2, so this does appear to be an issue with CodeProject.AI and I don't think it has anything to do with BlueIris (with the disclaimer that my wife says I'm often wrong). Perhaps CodeProject.AI is reducing the...
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    Does CodeProject.AI explorer also fail on the full image? I ask to help determine whether the problem is CP.AI recognition, or perhaps BlueIris passing a lower-res version to CP.AI. If you're willing to share an attachment here (I assume an embedded image would get reduced) then others can...
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    better to reduce frame rate on camera or BI or both?

    Wow. I completely missed that the max FPS is only for USB cameras, and all mine are PoE. That implies I've been an idiot this whole time for no benefit :=) Thank you. Yes, I'm an old school photographer who definitely understands shutter speed vs. frame rate, so I generally max them both out...
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    better to reduce frame rate on camera or BI or both?

    I commonly reduce the frame rate of recordings in an attempt to save a bit of storage and/or bandwidth, particularly when the camera is just looking for humans walking at a moderate distance from the camera. By contrast, when I want to capture fast moving vehicles (LPR in particular) or wildlife...
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    config settings for new IPC-T541R-ZEB-S3

    I never want to contradict @wittaj on anything, but let me point out that the WDR (wide dynamic range) setting can be super useful at night in some situations, and this specific camera model with the large sensor handles it far better than other models. I have several cameras where the infrared...
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    A Guide to CodeProject.AI Server

    I have no idea how much memory should be used running with docker, but I'm running the non-docker installation and am using way less than 2GB of memory on both the CodeProject.AI server and the YOLOv5Net process with my GPU and Python process. I'm running over 20 camera streams through...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    Ken did reply to my earlier message and it appears there was a change in BlueIris that changed the behavior for me to what it should have been all along. His explanation (below) also helped me. Obviously using the sample from @MikeLud1 worked, but I didn't fully understand how or why. I naively...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    Thanks. I just made the change. Now I need a car to drive by, but I'm optimistic this change will probably do it. Thanks again.
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    FYI, I moved up to 5.8.8.8 and the objects:0 specification in the settings is no longer working, and all models are being evaluated. I haven't yet started installing older versions to figure out when this happened, but I did email Ken to alert him. Having said that, could/would someone else here...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    I just learned something that I haven't seen shared before, so in an attempt to be proactively constructive . . . For anyone doing ALPR at night, especially with a cloned camera, check your camera's watchdog settings and make sure you have unchecked the "Interpret monochrome video as a loss of...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    Is anyone aware of a way to control the degree of parallelism when running with BlueIris? Does anyone know what the default is? In searching the codeproject.com forums, I found reference to the "parallelism" setting through the API, so I looked in the appsettings.json, but didn’t see anything...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    I've been watching the logs and saw a couple "Error -1" results in the BlueIris logs from the alpr call (see screenshot below), so I looked in the CodeProject.AI logs and I don't see any errors or problems (which is great). What I do see is a bit of queueing and execution times that are much...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    I feel compelled to say that @wittaj and @MikeLud1 are both 100% right (always!), and I knew that even when I added all the objects that I did. I continue to be eternally grateful for all they have done here. I've learned a ton from both of you, so thank you AGAIN for everything. Mostly for the...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    I mentioned above that I periodically get messages in BlueIris' log of "AI: not responding (2)". I just went to an instance of that earlier today and found the CodeProjectAI log lines from that time. Note that BlueIris eventually restarts CodeProject.AI (the stopping is shown at the end of...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    Ah, that is very interesting! I've been using the DayPlate and NightPlate to identify the plate before calling ALPR with PlateRecognizer, and I think you were the person that started that trend so I apologize that I haven't been here enough lately to see this new approach. Are you taking this...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    Is it normal that BlueIris will show the red circle with the "x", indicating a failure, for the "Plates"/ALPR detection even when it succeeds? See my screenshot below. I have blacked out the first characters of the license plate itself, but you can see that alpr "found" a result with...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    Should the License Plate Reader work with non-CUDA GPU, like the YOLOV5 .NET version works with DirectML? Or would that require a separate build of the License Plate Reader in order to support DirectML? I ask because I am able to run with the GPU using the YOLOV5 .NET model, but when I try to...
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    Dahua 2MP 25x Starlight IR PTZ Network Camera (SD49225T-HN)

    I'm going to suggest something that may sound way too simplistic so please don't take offense, but just so you/we don't miss the obvious, make sure your power supply (presumably PoE) and cabling are not having any issues. I once experienced a similar reboot problem with an early version of this...
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    Review: Dahua SD5A425XA-HNR 4MP 25x Starlight IR PTZ

    @CamCrazy I cannot know if this camera will work for you, but since you mentioned that night performance is your goal, I thought I'd mention that I have both this camera and the PTZ1A225-HNR-XA. Both are supposedly of the same generation, but the PTZ1A225-HNR-XA has the smaller sensor and to me...
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    what is the "General" firmware?

    @kobebeef That totally makes sense, and your screenshots are great. Having said that, it would seem that the General & DH would be kept roughly on the same version, yet they seem to have such completely different version numbers. For example, in my original screenshot there was General 2.401and...
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