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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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    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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    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

    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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    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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    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

    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

    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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    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?

    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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    Driving slow, and making me a little worried

    This guy came down the street almost at idle, I'd say a slow jogging pace. With his window down, you can see the driver. Can anyone offer an opinion? Is that a white ballistic vest he's wearing? Camera is the cheap Dahua turret IPC-HDW4431C-A retrofit with a 16mm lens.
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    (audio only) gunfire

    (EDIT) Unfortunately there was a local shooting last night. I don't know if an audio-only recording from about 1/2 mile away tells much, but what was reported on Nextdoor from more immediate neighbors was 5 shots. From this audio, it sounds a lot like there were a few additional shots...
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    door-to-door salesguy talents

    Nothing special, just thought it was funny. I wasn't home at the time. My camera happened to capture a still at just the right time. Maybe he's thinking, "if I do balancing tricks with my sales binder, they will talk to me...?"
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    Do police ignore your video?

    Local theft of > $4000 in tools from a work truck (not mine, thankfully) parked on the street in front of a house overnight. Neighbors have video of two people involved, including a clear view of a getaway vehicle and the plate. San Jose PD was offered the video. Their response...
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    3 teens in west San Jose home breakin (11am Sat. Dec. 9)

    This one came from Nextdoor. Don't know what cameras they use, but the compression is too high. Still backgrounds look fine, but even with closeup face shots, movement makes everything blocky.
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    watching you watching me

    A Google StreetView car just drove by. I presume the cameras are looking out of the blue pod on top, but I'm curious about the white-capped black cylinders tilted downwards in front and back just under the camera pod, any idea what that is? Another type of camera, or maybe lidar scanner?
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    When to really, really not answer the door.

    (Not my video, of course. ) Homeowner catches man with gun ringing her doorbell on video
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    huntin' season open on cameras in San Jose?

    Karen Scherrer and her husband Bill saw the man, with a shotgun, taking aim at Booksin Elementary School on Booksin Avenue and Dry Creek Road. "I saw the gunman shooting out the main camera underneath the library. You can see the camera shot out," said Karen. Surveillance cameras shot twice in...
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    how to configure IVS (tripwire)?

    I thought I had this figured out long ago, but maybe I just got it working accidentally. I'm using a Dahua IPC-HFW5231E-Z5 (starlight varifocal bullet, 7-35mm) for now, but all the Dahua models I have use a similar interface. I have a DVR recording 24/7 which is OK but I also want the...
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    R/C vehicle to pull CAT5 cable through crawlspace?

    I've got a pretty tight crawlspace under the house, also cluttered with A/C ducts, pipes etc. I can physically get into it but I prefer not to. The floor is dirt but relatively level and smooth. I want to do another run of CAT5 across this space, and there's enough obstructions that it's...
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    theft from car avoids setting off alarm

    Somewhat off topic of IP cameras but maybe someone here has an idea: I heard on Nextdoor that many cars, perhaps as many as nine parked at a restaurant were all broken into last night, all within 1 hour. Each had a broken window. They apparently took laptops from each car that were not...
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    what can be determined from low-quality video

    I saw that Tampa PD wants to locate a person that they show walking and running on some low-quality, heavily compressed video clips. It seems to me possible , if they have some people walk along the same track at night and look at the same camera output and compare the results, they ought...
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    another package thief

    Not my video; this is from West San Jose. This guy doesn't seem to care much. Nice t-shirt tho. PackageThief_10-17-17 EDIT: no date/time on the video but it happened on Tuesday, 17 Oct 2017. Apparently the package contained some coffee-making supplies.
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    a thoughtful porch package theft

    Another porch package theft in San Jose. She certainly took her time thinking about it. (yes, not the greatest camera angle- not my videos.) The woman: The car:
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    car crashes into light pole (not my video)

    A little too much fun on a Friday night... CAUGHT ON CAM: Illegal street race leads to crash in San Jose
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    police body cams

    Maybe a little off topic here, but I'm really curious about this... apparently police body cams, at least the ones in the city referenced below, even when nominally "off" have a continuous 30-second loop buffer so they can record whatever happened in the 30 seconds before they are activated...
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    sounds you don't want to hear near your house

    I don't know if this belongs here as there's no useful video, only audio, but this happened fairly close by and put a woman in the hospital. Police confirmed the incident but aren't saying much. I heard police recovered 9mm casings from the street. I don't know anything about guns, but for...
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