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Ok fellas I have an update and solution on this one after waiting a few nights to make sure it stuck. After changing the sensitivity as suggested, there was no change. However, what did do it was changing the Profile Management from Day/Night to Normal. My other cameras are set to Day/Night...

Yes, the first thing I did when this started was clean the camera's face which unfortunately made no difference. As for age of things, if she's breaking in, I guess that could explain it as time is really the only factor that has changed here that I can think of. We'll see how turning down the...

Thanks, all. The LED on the truck has been there for the past year and I never had this issue. Nothing in this scene is different at all from the last year, which is what perplexes me. Plus car headlights head on into this cam don't cause any issues... As for the sunrise sunset utility...

Morning, fellas. I've had my HDW5231R-ZE up for over a year now, and it developed this new behavior out of nowhere. Under certain lighting conditions (front house light on), the cam goes into Color mode, then back to B&W, then back to color. I don't use IR in B&W mode. It's a cycle that...

Cyberpower never got back to me. Newegg stepped in and took care of the issue and refunded me. The APC unit I replaced it with has been flawless.

Awesome new addition! I'm excited about this one and how it will improve my usage case, which is a 9-camera stream at my office I use to keep an eye on the house while at work. To ease my allotted bandwidth of doing this 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, I was set down to 950 as the cap. Let's...

I hate asking this question because I'm sure it's been discussed before but I can't seem to find the setup in the help file of BI nor on the forum after searching. I'd like flagged alerts to be saved and offloaded to a second standard 1tb drive installed in my BI PC. That way they aren't using...

This is discouraging. My LPR cam is next in the plans and not sure what to get now. Needs to be a long zoom for sure.

Nice vids! Just got back from a camping trip at Bahia Honda last weekend. They have a sign in front that drone usage is against state law at the park so don't fly over any of those! Hah. Beautiful place, cant' wait to go back.

OP here... As an update to my problem: I opened a ticket with Cyberpower and never got a response. I had registered the warranty on the unit on their site and everything. I never heard back from them as they completely ignored me. So as far as I'm concerned, Cyberpower and eat a fat one...

Good data... I think I will use my Tripp-Lite surge protector power strip downstream (maybe upstream is better?) of the replacement UPS no matter the brand. Another surge protector inline is cheap insurance if anything makes it thru. I also have one of those meter base whole house surge...

Man but when that ball blows, it's violent. Haha that will blow the doors off any closet. :D Guess that's better than the fire. Imagine you sleeping in that room when it goes off.

I also came across this, which is a fire extinguisher with a heat sensing head. Just place it at the top of your gear. At 135 degrees it fires...

I saw this on Amazon and was questioning it's effectiveness. Easily placed on top of the PC and done.

Looking thru the vents, it seems the fire was at two very large transistors on heat sinks. So we seem to have the same failure. However, there was no power outage nor high drain (I'm at around 50 watts). It was just idling there as usual and poof, it was off. Once I touched it, BANG...

Last night, oddly enough, I was running a cable in the attic for my next camera location when I noticed my internet went out. So I go over to my network shelf and everything is off? Modem, router, BI PC, all switches and cameras. The whole shelf is dead. Strange, I didn't touch anything here...

Six tries! In my neighborhood it would have taken him only zero tries. If it's not in the can and goes into the truck, that's it, he's gone. Once I came home to the ENTIRE contents of my recycling bin windblown thru the cul-de-sac. If they miss, it's your problem. :idk:

Looks like a windshield pit to me. :D

I installed one of these whole house manual transfer switches. By nature of a transfer switch, it includes a main disconnect. This then feeds your main panel either from the utility or your generator of choice...

Thanks, guys. Shit, I even searched this topic first. The search on this forum for some reason isn't very effective for me compared to other forums. I get so many hits that your thread from 2017 would be way too buried to find. I need to work on fine tuning that or using Google to search...

Easy fix, man.

Nice... Your closet setup is just like mine with the high location causing that heat trap. I see you have a speed control on it. I assume it's on relatively low being it's such a small space? Question for everyone: Is thermostat control preferred over manual 24/7 operation? The heat...

Fellas. I have my BI PC and all gear stuffed on the top shelf of a closet. The airflow is poor as the gear is near the ceiling well above the top of the closet door so it's basically an upside down cup with regards to heat: it builds up. I can go thru the walls to vent this, so I'm thinking...

Tony, I don't see cams on that list of backed up circuits. ;)

I have 5Mbps up and it can't even reliably handle my single 1280x720 UI3 stream. Usually it's fine. At least once a day it's 0-300Kbps (yes, a K) for about ten minutes. You can't rely on your internet to reliably do anything 24/7. If anything, run a fully local system and back it up to...

They take the $20k that's in your name and run? No cameras, defaulted loan, ruined credit, collections, eventual lawsuits until you pay the 20k back? I wouldn't trust people in my own family to pay a loan in my name much less an obvious scammer. Don't let this guy near your house. This...

Let me try to talk you into this... This is one of those projects where it really pays to do it yourself. It doesn't take special equipment or knowledge. Just time and sweat, which people charge a LOT for. If this was a new kitchen countertop, sure. Reroofing your house? Ok. You aren't...

Good god this is dangerous information. Not going to do it, but surely fun looking into what it would take. I wasn't aware it was even possible nor so inexpensive. Good to know for future possible projects. Apparently here (legal issues aside) the limiting factor is height of the devices...

So then why am I paying for iffy internet at my house when I can beam gigabit from my office 1.9 miles away?? :banghead: :D

Just set the motion zones to be your grass and exclude the sidewalk. That way when the dog that leaves the sidewalk to squat you'll get an alert. Me personally? I want to see every person that comes down my sidewalk. You never know when that can be handy. People do the strangest things...