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    configure older IP camera that expects MSIE with plugin?

    Update: I realized that all the available controls on this camera can also be accessed through ONVIF Device Manager ONVIF Device Manager so configuration can be done without needing MSIE at all.
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    configure older IP camera that expects MSIE with plugin?

    Thank you very much! Yes, sure enough simply renaming that folder enables it to work again. Glad there are people around to tell me what Microsoft will not.
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    configure older IP camera that expects MSIE with plugin?

    I have an older IP camera, a Watchman WM-IPC-39AR/3CS(FP)-3 which works fine in an ONVIF viewer that uses the rtsp:/ protocol, but to do any configuration (for example, to correct the displayed time/date) it seems to want MSIE using some plugin. I don't seem to be able to use MSIE at all...
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    IR Cannon w/Adjustable Focus

    I have another one that I'm still using. For $45 I think it's a reasonable value if you need that much range. Almost all IR lights on the market are some kind of wide-angle, short effective range floodlight. There isn't much else out there with that tight a beam and long effective range, unless...
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    IR Cannon w/Adjustable Focus

    That 3-lens, 5-80 degree adjustable focus 850nm light from Aliexpress looks like one I got several years ago. Cheaply made, of course; the angle adjustment knob was very stiff but it did work. Eventually an internal circuit failed and I cut it open to have a look. Interestingly, most of the...
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    motorcycle incident

    This came from the owner of the car that was hit. There is some speculation about what's happening with the other guy at upper right (who is maybe holding a stick?) just before this happens. Don't know more except that the rider was taken away in an ambulance, and the police called a tow...
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    another use of camera tech

    Thought this was interesting, very remote trail cams. They don't show the actual device, maybe for security reasons. Correction- they do show one installed in a tree. I didn't see it at first. This tiny camera aims to catch poachers — before they kill
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    The case of the delivery that wasn't

    They do seem to find some interesting characters to deliver. If instead of your front door, the Amazon-controlled wifi lock is just on a package storage bin sitting outside your front door, or even on a garden shed I think that could make sense.
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    local news shows a prowler

    The typical wide-angle cameras are usually not as good for getting an ID, but there's always the exception... Willow Glen Prowler (Not my video or my neighborhood, just saw it on the news)
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    The case of the delivery that wasn't

    That makes sense, if "marked the hand-held electronic ticket as delivered" is possible to do without scanning the actual package. I don't know but I had assumed that was not possible.
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    The case of the delivery that wasn't

    I guess only the delivery guy knows for sure. But if the delivery service found out through the Amazon complaint that there is video of this particular non-delivery, it seems to me that may have influenced subsequent events.
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    The case of the delivery that wasn't

    Here 's an odd one. My neighbor asked if I had footage from a package that was marked "delivered" at 2:09 pm 4/30/18 but he was home at the time, heard nothing, and could not find it. I see the OnTrack truck stopped in front of his house at that time, and I see a package came out of it, but...
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    Saw this on kickstarter ...

    What I want is a camera that works like your eye: wide-angle peripheral vision, but also automatically detects and centers high resolution imagery on the key part of the frame at any given time. Of course, that is only as good as your algorithm is. We can't do this reliably just yet, but AI is...
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    upside down plate?

    Saw something different on the freeway yesterday- a new-looking pickup truck, with a clean license plate attached neat and square, securely on the bumper in the usual place- but the plate itself was upside down. It had a frame which read "Rural- and that's the way we like it" and the frame was...
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    Mountain Lion Spotted Just Before Midnight

    Thanks for the video, that's an impressive animal.
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    Cat5 wiring and lightning protection

    I can see where a single ground makes sense but is 12V yard lighting etc. done that way too? I wonder about holiday light strings in the yard (which generally don't even have a separate ground wire)? I guess a water pipe is not a cable but when I had the main electrical panel updated last...
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    Cat5 wiring and lightning protection

    As a rare thunderstorm rolls through here, I'm just wondering- how long a run of Cat5 cable do you put in before starting to think about surge protection? Or does that even do any good? For example I have about 40' running at ground level to a camera near the front fence for a license...
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    just curious what this is

    Well, I'll be. What will they think of next? You are probably right about that, he was going at a fairly fast and steady clip and I did not see him push off with his foot.
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    just curious what this is

    Maybe some kind of game? Guy on skateboard holding I presume a cellphone just before 5 am this morning passes by, and then comes back a few minutes later pointing it ahead of him like he was shooting it?
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    too much noise reduction

    Just for comparison, the same bicyclist from a $65 Dahua IPC-HDW4431C-A retrofit with a 16mm lens, directly in the beam of my external IR spotlight. I think the bike frame is black and I don't see any reflectors.
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    too much noise reduction

    I just thought this was funny. This person is riding a bicycle. Can you see it? In the video the bike is faintly visible in earlier and later frames, but this was the event keyframe that I saw first. I have several external IR lights, but I am not using the camera's internal IR at all, to avoid...
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    pretty clear views of a hit and run

    Not my cameras. What was this guy thinking!? San Jose: 12-year-old girl injured in hit-and-run
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    My camera only shifts focus when I tell it to; twice each day, once at sunrise & sunset. I gather yours is in continual autofocus mode (?) What does the focus control screen look like? If you hover your mouse over the focus slider control at different times, do you ever see the number change...
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    Yes, in my case I have it set to run just before sunrise and just after sunset.
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    I have a similar day/night focus issue with my IPC-HDW5231R-Z that only goes to 35mm. My workaround is that my script does a zoom partway out, then zoom in again each morning and evening. If it stays zoomed in, it will sometimes not focus, depending on conditions. I think that Dahua has not...
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    audio more useful than I thought

    I shared it with the homeowner who in turn did report it. However apparently our local boys in blue are not so much interested in "reckless driving" as they said- even though he actually clipped a parked car in the driveway too, so I would think it was at least technically a hit and run. With...
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    audio more useful than I thought

    Read a nextdoor post this morning from a neighbor about a block away on the corner, that a car missed the intersection, jumped the curb and did some instant re-landscaping in their yard. Completely took out a bush before vanishing down the intersecting street towards me. I had a look and...
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    different modes of transportation

    Maybe this is a common thing but I just thought it was funny, as I had not seen it before.
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    anyone looked at "Flock Safety" or similar systems?

    Thanks for posting this great info bigredfish, this is very good to know. I think our neighborhood needs a guy like you! In our case it's not a HOA, just an informal voluntary group which maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of homeowners contribute to. All told the neighborhood has 7 access roads and contains...
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    anyone looked at "Flock Safety" or similar systems?

    After a number of local incidents, our neighborhood got motivated to form a safety committee. Being known as "that guy with all the cameras" I was asked to provide some input on someone's suggestion of the "Flock Safety" neighborhood camera system. Flock Safety : Keep the whole neighborhood...
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