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Hi. Yes, it was installed by a contractor who ran the cable and mounted it on the tree. But a critter chewed through the cable, so I used a dual female waterproof coupler to splice it. It worked just fine until last week, and we have had no rain. I don't think we installed any CCA cable in...

Well, it's definitely the network. I was walking around tonight and watching the camera track me while the camera was not pingable. So POE was definitely getting through, but there was no network traffic flowing. I moved it to a different port on the switch, with no change. I will have to...

Folks, I am seeing a weird problem the last few days with my 3 yr old unit mounted up on a tree. The camera has been very reliable, but now it seems to stop being accessible from the network for some periods of time, sometimes 5 mins, sometimes 30+ mins. It always comes back, but I don't...

Mine doesn't trigger on rain (we don't get snow here), but it does trigger on insects flying by when they cross a tripwire or intrusion zone. Only at night of course. The insects can be a fair number of pixels in size if they fly near the camera. I think it's also related to the shutter time...

Whichever you pick, do NOT allow it to be directly connected to the Internet without a restrictive firewall, and do not allow direct port forwarding from the router to the NVR. Use a VPN etc... These Chinese NVRs are the source of huge botnet attacks...

One thing about security updates with these cameras - you should never consider these cameras as any kind of trusted device, no matter if it has "patches" or not! The NVR's are even worse! A huge % of DDOS networks today are being powered by NVR's and security cameras hooked up to high speed...

The WAF is going to take a hit on this, but you guys are right about the need for conduit. Sigh. Not that hard to do at least!

Argh. Looks like a squirrel chewed through the CAT6 cable running up the side of the tree it's mounted on. At least that's not that hard to fix. Do folks have any ideas about how to prevent critters from chewing through exposed cat6 cable?

I will take it down today and verify it's not the wiring or switch. If it's dead, I'll try and followup with Andy for a fix. I actually didn't install it myself, my contractor who did all the wiring for the cameras installed it, but the wiring is in the camera mount and pretty isolated with...

I didn't have a longevity warning on my unit, but it stopped sending video at 11:47AM, and it doesn't even sync for POE on the switch. I inspected the wiring, and don't see any damage, nor does moving it to another port on the switch doesn't result a power up either. It looks like it just...

You need an 802.3at injector for this camera - 16W isn't enough. Most new POE switches do 802.at anyway, but if you are using an injector, 802.3af isn't going to cut it.

I have that set, but the insects create a bit of a trail at night with the exposure settings. I had changed them around to optimize for dealing with headlights etc... Maybe I should revisit that...

I have done some tuning that helped with most of this. Maybe I didn't optimize enough! Yes, the problem with BI spotters is that there is a decent lag in processing, so sometimes a car already has moved to a different zone by the time the spotter triggers. It does break the track so the...

Actually, I was talking about motion detection the in camera itself, video motion detection and smart motion detection, and I am using the ONVIF event detection for BI to pick it up. I need to see if the camera is actually locking on objects and tracking them but not generating an alert, or...

Thanks for the feedback. There are limited locations available for mounting this camera, and I do have fixed cameras that look at other positions as well, albeit from the house and not on the other side of the fence, where this camera is located. I use the other cameras as spotter to direct...

Ok! Here are my settings (and you can see the filed of view in the images I think): For some reason, when I access the settings through chrome, it resets the track time 15 secs. But in IE I can reset it to the normal 240 secs I use. The view you are seeing in screen caps is the...

Guys, any ideas here? With motion detection off, the IVS triggers very infrequently, even on people and cars (esp at a distance).

Folks, a couple of questions: 1) I am having issues with the camera triggering when a moth or bug flies by at night and it's lit up by the IR. This results in a lot of spurious alerts. This is even with SMD turned on and the object filter set, and sensitivity set to low in SMD. If I turn off...

Spoke too soon. Doesn't seem to work...

Seems to be working ok so far. Will see how it does over the next day or so. Lots of activity this morning so I have to wait for a quiet period to see if it works.

Well, if the PTZ is tracking on a person or car, I'd rather have it keep tracking it rather than jumping back to the preset. That's why the idle motion is the best answer, because if it's tracking it resets the timer. I did find an option in BI that is supposed to restore the PTZ position to...

Interesting. I'm running 5.5.4.2, which I think is the current version. Is their a bug # I should be tracking on this? I was thinking about working around this using BI commands - I guess I'll have to do it that way if it's really BI causing the problem. The cameras are also fed into Home...

Hi. I am having a problem with the idle motion timer in this camera. I have it set to jump to preset 1 after 10 minutes, but it doesn't seem to do that. This is in the PTZ function menu. What usually happens is one of the other cameras may trigger the PTZ to jump to preset 3 to capture...

Hi. I run deepstack on a separate VM with lots of CPU power (BI runs on a dedicated system with no virtualization and intel GPU acceleration). How do I start standalone deepstack with the proper settings to use your custom model?

Indeed, I have it set to track people and cars, but it locks on to foxes and even a skunk 2 weeks ago! I do confess, if there is a skunk running around, I want to know about it too!

Does the 4MP version have the same issue that newer software updates remove autotracking support that the 2MP camera has?

Willie Howe just reviewed the GD3710: I have two of these being used as gate controllers, tied into my VOIP phones, as well as into Blue Iris. They work very well, at least with recent software versions, and interface to Blue Iris easily and reliably. In fact, I use these as cueing cameras...

Another question for you. I am trying to set up two profiles for IVS detection with different target track rations, one for people, and one for cars. I finally got around to trying to do that today. If both IVS rules are set for intrusion, even with different rules drawn, it won't seem to let...

Well, CAM1's lens will not pick up a car heading towards the PTZ before the PTZ does. So in practice, the only time CAM1 plays a role in sending a preset to the PTZ when a car is moving away from the PTZ. That's very useful because after alerts from CAM2 and CAM3, the PTZ will almost certainly...

Ok. You have the diagram right, but my problem is with a car going from the cul-de-sac back out towards CAM1. CAM2 triggers, and sets a PRESET2 to the PTZ, and then a slight amount of time later, CAM1 alerts and sends PRESET1 to the PTZ. It's this command that is not getting processed. I'm...