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    A homeowner turns the tables on three armed men who broke into her home last Friday

    Re: A homeowner turns the tables on three armed men who broke into her home last Frid I was "extracting the urine". We have pretty tough firearm laws here, so our exposure to guns are quite limited. I just saw an opportunity to give a bit of a rib but I forget some forum participants are...
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    A homeowner turns the tables on three armed men who broke into her home last Friday

    Re: A homeowner turns the tables on three armed men who broke into her home last Frid Don't come in here talking about your $2.5k highbrow guns when your average homeowner is perfectly happy with thier $100 guns from alibaba. Oops, sorry... Wrong forum :)
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    Camera to catch taggers at Park.

    Paranoid nutters like you are part of the problem. Where did he even mention "kids"? Give the guy some cred for trying to help in his community. Hell, I have a camera trained on the tennis wall in the park across the road from my place. Again, graffiti. I video them and get a time of offence and...
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    First tower. Solar Dahua.

    Not very. It depends a lot on how conductive your soil is. The general go-to these days is a copper plated steel rod because nobody outlays for copper rods anymore. In the case the soil isn't that conductive you'll want to pack the rod with salt to increase the conductivity. You absolutely want...
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    When is Hardware Acceleration Used in BI?

    I use it on Hik R0 (2332/2532), R3 (4526/6026) & R4 (4332) cameras and it sucks on all of them. The 4-Line units are the expensive ones with the super-duper all singing and dancing analytics on board. They still suck outdoors or in rooms with windows. I make it work passably by combining...
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    When is Hardware Acceleration Used in BI?

    Here's an odd thing. None of the cameras I've tested have done any detection or analytics pre-encoding. The easy way to test this is to set an ROI such that there is a reasonable part of the image that has deliberate degradation. Now set your I-frame interval long enough that you get snap...
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    Did I max out my cameras?

    Pullpoints are interesting from the standpoint that they require an open and idle connection to the camera to "poll" for events. With each camera requiring an rtsp connection, ONVIF soap connection and a separate connection for the pullpoint I wonder if the event notification in BI is running...
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    When is Hardware Acceleration Used in BI?

    What most systems do is when you ask for a stream, they wait for the next available I-frame, so there's never any "spike" in CPU usage or "catching up" to do. Most systems are generally configured with a 1-2 second I-frame interval where live control room use is required. For custodial where we...
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    When is Hardware Acceleration Used in BI?

    Ahh, I see. So it's being used as a substitute for effective review and search methods? Cool. Different strokes for different folks and all. Thats probably fairly effective for small systems, it won't scale though which explains why I see people asking about 20+ camera systems being advised to...
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    When is Hardware Acceleration Used in BI?

    Surely you can turn that off and have it just recording though.
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    Always having problems w/ IP setups. Why???

    5 Cameras, 3 different switches, 2 different locations and 4 different manufacturers patch leads. I've checked *all* the variables. When you try 3 cameras on one switch and reboot one of them 4 weeks into the test so they are staggered and the first 2 lock up after 4 months, the third locks up...
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    Always having problems w/ IP setups. Why???

    Thanks for the heads-up, but I'm not using an "NVR" in the sense of a Chinese appliance. I'm recording and have confirmed the lockups with 3 different video management systems that I assure you are not bandwidth constrained ;) It's a slow fault finding process with an iteration time exceeding...
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    Always having problems w/ IP setups. Why???

    I'm seeing this also, but only if the cameras are configured ONVIF. Takes about 4 months for them to lock up, so diagnosing the problem is slow going. Does not happen using RTSP only or Hikvision protocol so they are fine on Hik NVR's or anything that does not chat to them constantly with ONVIF.
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    What type of hard drive should I be using? WD Blue? WD Red? Something else?

    No real surprise. Greens follow the same bathtub curve as any other drive, they just seem to have an anecdotally higher failure rate. Having said that, of the 10 Green drives I put into service 5 years & 171 days ago, 7 of them are still running flawlessly. Again, nothing but an anecdote. The...
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    What type of hard drive should I be using? WD Blue? WD Red? Something else?

    Dont bother reading up, it's garbage. The difference between hard drives is minimal, there are minor firmware tweaks to the different lines. It's not until you step up to enterprise drives there are significant improvements to hardware, but no heads touch the media unless landed or crashed.
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    What type of hard drive should I be using? WD Blue? WD Red? Something else?

    Do not under any circumstances try and use a Seagate Archive drive for CCTV. SMR recording is just not the right tool for that job under any circumstances and you'll end up setting fire to the machine in frustration. WD Red or Purple are a good bet. Both support TLER and play nice for video...
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    Planning 3-4 Camera system for house... Dedicated Blue Iris PC seems like overkill

    Re: Planning 3-4 Camera system for house... Dedicated Blue Iris PC seems like overkil Yes it does, and real VMS software has lots of features not available on BI, but you get catty any time I bring up real CCTV hardware or software so I thought I'd limit the recommendation to trying stuff that...
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    NVR or PC Based recorder

    Privacy is a massive issue. Cameras inside are a privacy issue. Cheap shit Chinese cameras which have already been identified as having security issues are another level entirely. Yeah sure, they "addressed" the identified ones. What else lurks in there? The best way to protect your footage...
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    NVR or PC Based recorder

    @fenderman made a good point on the mini domes. I have one outside my front door. It needs cleaning regularly to stop it reflecting ir on the domes. I just give it a quick wipe with a microfibre cloth. i think you are nuts putting cameras inside the house, but that's just me.
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    First tower. Solar Dahua.

    Roughly you have 1200WH of storage available. You estimate your draw at 50W, so you have ~24 hours of power available. You need to charge at about 12A for 10H to get the battery fully charged. If you have 8H of daylight, you are drawing for 16 hours and should use ~66AH, you'll need about 10A...
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    When is Hardware Acceleration Used in BI?

    Why on earth would it decode all streams for all cameras even when its recording direct to disk? Surely that'd be a significantly performance limiting behaviour.
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    First tower. Solar Dahua.

    So you are cutting off the discharge with approximately 75% left in the battery. A fully charged flooded lead acid battery should settle somewhere around 12.6-12.7v and run comfortably down to about 11.8-12v. You are barely scratching the surface of the charge if you are cutting off at 12.5v
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    Planning 3-4 Camera system for house... Dedicated Blue Iris PC seems like overkill

    Re: Planning 3-4 Camera system for house... Dedicated Blue Iris PC seems like overkil If you are using Hik cameras, why not look at the 4200 PCNVR software. Most NVR software just takes packets from the cameras and chucks them to disk. Blue Iris does other stuff that seems to require decoding...
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    Hikvion Fanboy kisses monumental ass

    Fair call. I was being subtle :)
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    HIKvision DVR (DS-7208) and Foscam IP cameras - motion detection?

    An event is the ability of the camera to pass a notification to the recorder. Basic events use ws-basenotification and allow alarm and motion events to be presented to the recorder to manage. theres nothing wrong with the ONVIF spec, just issues with the implementation in cheap barely-compliant...
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    NVR or PC Based recorder

    Do not do this unless you have stable inside lighting and no windows or doors. You will eventually regret it. PIRs are cheaper and far more reliable. As for the recorder, pick your poison. NVRs are adequate and cheap enough. A PC running decent recording software will do 12 cameras with a...
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    Hikvion Fanboy kisses monumental ass

    What do you expect. Chinese govt awards Chinese sponsored company for being the best in the world.
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    File conversion quality loss

    Use ffmpeg to remux the file without reencoding if you really have to. As long as you are not using Hiks butchered "h264+" almost anything will be able to play it. Here the cops want something that can be played on a clean windows install with no extra codecs as that is what they get in a court...
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    What 3rd party integration can detect loitering with reasonable false alarms rate?

    Re: What 3rd party integration can detect loitering with reasonable false alarms rate Yeah, you are right. It's an older H3, so no self-learning Analytic. I'll have a chat with the local distributor and see if I can grab a newer camera to test.
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    What 3rd party integration can detect loitering with reasonable false alarms rate?

    Re: What 3rd party integration can detect loitering with reasonable false alarms rate Don't know. I have a h3 here in a box, I'll try and get it plugged in and configured up this week and have a look.
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