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  1. PeteCress

    Hik HES324-WDA and IP Cam Viewer?

    I have a Hikvision HES324-WDA, AKA "DS-2CD2543GO-IS" that seems to work under Blue Iris using the "DS-2CDxxxx RTSP" Driver (or whatever the term-of-art is). But on my Android phone the "IP Cam Viewer" does not offer up such a generic driver but, instead offers only specific ones like "Hikvision...
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    Have Vista (32-bit) machine: is it worth installing Windows 10?

    Neighbor gave me a 10-year-old gaming box (Dell XPS 2 Duo CPU E8500@3.16GHz), which seems reasonably quick in spite of it's age. Thinking about moving BI from my regular desktop (I-7) PC to the Dell and making the Dell a dedicated BI box - running headless in my LAN closet. But, of course...
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    HikVision 5.0+: Fatally flawed if used w/port forwarding?

    I come away from reading various "Locked Out" threads with the impression that, if the port to the cam's Setup page is forwarded on my router, anybody can take any of my cams out of service just by attempting 5 logins to Admin. One of my cams is inop right now and that seems to be the case...
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    BI: Ballparking Web UI Bandwidth ?

    4 cams, each running at 1280 x 720, max FPS. Can anybody ballpark the per-remote-user bandwith for viewing the cams via the BI web interface? The backstory is that these cams watch a windsurfing site so that users can view the web interface to see how conditions are instead of calling the...
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    HTTPS and Server Ports: Vulnerable ?

    I've been reading about the Reaper botnet (The Reaper Botnet Has Already Infected a Million Networks) and have come away wondering.... If I am not using either the HTTPS or Server ports on my DS2-CD22032-I's, should I take the trouble to assign port numbers that are different from the defaults...
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    Web Presentation: How to control cam pic positions?

    www.ExtremeSurfCam.DynDNS.org. Look at "All cameras". Before I started fooling around, I had the East, South, and West cams all on the same line - giving a nice panoramic view. Now I have done something and West is on the second ro with ParkingLot and ToledoAve. Is there anything I can...
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    Motion Sensor Types?

    I'm using a couple of Home Depot's motion-triggered 500w halogen floods to illuminate the field for my critter cams, but have been having trouble with the motion sensors - especially in cold weather months. I tried substituting one of these: RAB Lighting SMS500 Mini Sensor, 180 Degrees...
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    Spider At Work

    Busy little guy.... FWIW, I find spiders to be a recurrent problem on all of my bullet cams (e.g...
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    FTP Setup: Should It Handle DSN Names ?

    I have FTP working on my DS-2CD2032-I's, but only using a numeric IP address for the FTP server. Specifying something like "FTP:\\PeteCress.DynDNS.org" does not seem to work. .... neither does "PeteCress.DynDNS.org" Instead, I have to use a numeric IP addr like "173.50.201.217" Should the...
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