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    Drill bit size to bore hole for Cat-6 ethernet cable through stucco wall

    Hi all, I'll be mounting a Dahua turret camera with Dahua junction box to a stucco wall. What is the the minimum drill bit size needed to bore a hole for an cat6 ethernet cable (just the cable, no, RJ-45 pin). I measured the outside diameter of my cable and it is about 6mm (slightly less than a...
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    Vivint doorbell camera captures extremely creepy visitor in the middle of the night

    From reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/4xznfz/got_a_notification_from_my_smart_home_app_in_the/ A commenter suggested that the person may have been wearing a female face mask: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/4xznfz/got_a_notification_from_my_smart_home_app_in_the/ The...
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    smb/cifs partitions used by Hikcams seem to require reformatting on a monthly basis

    I've been experiencing a strange problem. Every month or so, a 32 GB NTFS partition mounted through samba on my router for the DS-2CD2332-I seems to fail, the status changes to uninitialized and the only solution to this issue seems to be to completely reformat the partition in a partition...
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    Necessity of surveillance-class/WD purple hard drives and usage of SSDs

    Are WD Purple and/or so-called surveillance-class hard drives really necessary in a basic home setup? May someone kindly explain their benefits? Do the optimized firmware and caching algorithms really help reduce any errors/frame loss and "improve playback performance" (whatever that means)...
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    Looking for a cheap indoor cam with built-in NVR-like capabilities (samba share/NFS)

    I'm looking for a cheap indoor Wi-Fi ip camera with abilities to use samba share/NFS (I don't have a dedicated NAS server, but I have an expensive router with a very simple built-in NAS server and offers the same performance as the expensive standalone NAS units). I'm looking for something...
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    Does anyone deploy imitation/dummy cameras in their setup?

    Which ones do you use? Do you believe it's been a successful deterrent, if any? I'm considering purchasing this dummy camera http://www.amazon.com/Swann-SWPRO-735DUM-US-PRO-735-Imitation-Camera/dp/B00T3QBTJ8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444628992&sr=8-2&keywords=dummy+security+camera++swann...
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