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I would like to get a few wifi cams set up outdoors in the back of my property. The distance is about 250-300 yards from the main house. I was thinking I could maybe use a few repeaters that are either solar powered or that use batteries. Anyone accomplished something like this? FYI - I...

Yeah , looking back at my PMs..I did reach out when I purchased them. However I didn't get a number at that time since it was so early, I should have reached back out again instead of assuming I'd get a number closer to the drawing. Oh well, nothing I can do now. While it sucks, I really can't...

Yeah it did but when the memorial day sale was posted I thought it said you'd get an entry in the July drawing.

Damn, I purchased several cams around Memorial Day but never got a number in the drawing :( Congrats to the winners!

If you try again, double check the CPAI port. When I updated the version I had to change it from 5000 to 32168. I guess they changed it in one of the more recent releases. Good luck!

Strange you had issues. I've been running BI 5.7.6.8 and CPAI 2.1.9.0 fine since my initial posts. Not sure how I got it to work again but it's been solid the past 2 weeks.

Good thought but unfortunately it was multiple cameras. I never rebooted them during my troubleshooting and eventually got the alerts working again so I don't think it was the cams. Still not a bad idea to power cycle them periodically though!

Final update for the night. After updating BI and Code Project AI, updating the AI port from 5000 to 32168, stopping and starting the code project AI server many times, and rebooting the PC 5 or 6 times...it seems to be working again. If anyone has a clue why this happened or how I can prevent...

Out of the blue my BI Code Project AI stopped detecting motion. Last one I received was yesterday afternoon. Nothing changed. I tried to reboot the PC but that didn't work. I checked the code project ai server page and it shows "Object Detection (YOLOv5 6.2)" is started. Motion detection is...

Is it possible to also push the image to the cloud when motion is detected? It's nice to have on my phone which should be fine. But in some kind of disaster scenario where someone broke in and stole the PC and phone, there would be no evidence. It would be nice to also have it stored to the...

TinyCam might work fine but UI3 is good enough for me. This solution has worked very well and meets my needs.

I have vinyl soffit. They slide into place and each piece is screwed into the fascia board. When looking up, I can only start at the end where the first piece can slide off easily. It would be impossible to start at the last piece because all previous pieces are screwed in. So the way they...

I don't know what it is about the turret cams but I just find they arent as flexible as a bullet cam. The wire coming off the "eyeball" of my IPC-T5449H-ASE-D2 cameras is a pain. The camera is still nice but I don't get quite as good of a picture for some reason. With a bullet cam I can...

I can't recommend the IPC-Color4K-X enough. It is by far the best camera I have used to date. I have one on my soffit facing the driveway, and the only real light it gets at night is from the doorbell (I turned off the bright light on the cam itself) and the picture quality is amazing...

Well guys, I'll admit when I've screwed up. I had forgot I upgraded my BI version back in April for the first time. Somehow my substreams got wiped out in BI (they were enabled in the cam UI, but gone from BI). I also found a recent camera I set up was not doing direct to disc recording...

I've been mounting mine to the soffit with good success. I take down the vinyl soffit and install a cut 2 x 4. In some areas I had to screw an addition flatter board to the 2x4 so it would be down a little further and nearly to the vinyl soffit. Once that's in place I put the soffit back up...

Thanks, that's reassuring. Hopefully I can fix this with some settings modifications. Are you doing any motion alerts? I know when I set up project AI, it made my mem jump quite a bit. Since it's only running motion alerts on 1 cam and I have 16gb memory...still seems really high.

So originally I thought I'd only need 4-5 cameras but as I started setting them up, I realized I needed more. Right now I'm sitting at 7 cameras and think if I can add just 1 more I'll be satisfied for now. I want to add 1 more IPC-Color4K-X, they are by far the best cameras in my current...

Thanks, I was thinking of making a separate profile to accomplish this as well. Id hate to be out and waste 100s of alerts because my wife is outside or something. Does the profile have to have full administrative rights or is there some kind of a more limited access that still allows toggling...

I have a few pushover questions around the 10k limit per month. 1) if I "snooze" pushover alerts, do alerts still count toward the 10k limit? For example, I have people at my house for a party so I know I'll be getting a lot of motion triggers. If i dont want to eat into my 10k limit, Can I...

That's pretty much what I did. I surface mounted a box for the eufy light. Still can't believe they just had the electrical wire hanging there without a box for the old light. I already have a poe IPC-Color4K-X bulletcam from Andy in the same area. That camera is amazing by the way. The...

Sadly if they are the ones I have seen, they are wall mount only. I should clarify in my earlier comments that I assumed POE+ (not regular POE). I did find a company called "POEWIT" that makes a POE++ light that's very bright at 5000K... but it's nearly $400. Waaaay too expensive for a...

I ended up just using a surface mount box and pulling my electrical wire back into it. Since I really only needed a floodlight I just went with a Eufycam Floodlight with Wifi in this situation. But all my "real" cameras are from Andy. I plan to pick up a few more eventually..definitely night...

Thanks for the quick response. Given there's no good soffit mount light/camera combo and I can't do motion only light on the IPC-Color4K-T, I'm going to have to use the existing electrical wiring. I believe I can purchase something like and just mount it right to the soffit (has a wood...

Hey Andy. That's not a bad idea..it seems the few poe floodlights out there are only wall mount. I need soffit mount. I know the IPC-Color4K-T, I actually already have one installed now and it works well. I haven't messed with the LED lights on mine though. In theory could I set up BI to...

At this point I guess I'd even settle for just a POE floodlight. However I'm not seeing any that can be mounted to the soffit. Do they exist?

I have been planning to replace an old floodlight with a LED floodlight with Camera. I already have a camera in the nearby area hooked up to my BI PC, so I was just going to do a Eufy Cam using the existing power and wifi connection to make this as easy as possible. Unfortunately when I got...

I forgot that I did recently install project AI for motion alerts. Is that known to consume a lot of memory?

That might be a good test. I only noticed recently when I started using u3 that it's always 50%-60% usage. I only reboot once every few weeks. I can do a reboot and see where it starts. You thinking memory leak? I haven't seen it go above 60%. BI and notepad++ are the only programs I have...

Hello. I have a dedicated BI PC with an i7-6700 @ 3.40 Ghz with 16GB memory. I currently have 4 cameras hooked up (all from empiretech). My cpu usage is fine and usually runs between 12-20%. However my memory usage is always around 50-60%. I am on the latest "stable" version of BI, I'd need...