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Oh, yeah, don't forget that temperature could be a factor, too.

I can see a scenario where the power regulator in the camera is heading south (eg. a capacitor going bad) and the voltage after the IR drop is on the wrong side of the hairy edge. Testing with a 150' length of cable may be prudent. I'd do that for sure before climbing up on the ladder again...

A tiny pinhole anywhere in the covering of Cu clad Al cable is death to the cable. Sometimes it takes years for the Al to oxidize to the point of failure. If you're serious about your system, don't use it. Personally, I love climbing up and down a 25 ft ladder and holding a the cable with...

I was more concerned about the cameras I have "phoning home" They were very inexpensive, but well manufactured with a lot of great features (human recognition). That's a pretty powerful processor, thus the reasons for my suspicions. (I later learned that these cameras do indeed attempt to...

My Blue Iris software is Release 5.5.0.15 x64 (9/22/20210) When I manually trigger the camera (right click on camera->Trigger now), I, too, get the alert and it is &TYPE EXTERNAL And, again. when I send the web request OR an MQTT request,(mosquitto_pub -t BlueIris/admin -m...

Via the Web server, I send the command /admin?camera=NW&trigger=1 to trigger a camera with the short name NW. The camera gets triggered but no alert is sent. It's not Audio nor Group so I don't check those. I have the other three checked DIO, ONVIF, and Extern. If the trigger is motion, an...