These are great to extend "ethernet"
Where ever you may buy them, make sure they include the needed 24 volt POE power injector (not to be confused with powering POE cameras)...
I have seen several made from fence boards to resemble a bird house. There are members here on IPCT who have cameras disguised as bird houses. Here is a quick photo that I found to give you an idea.
Your sons internet provider may not allow open ports or it is not set up in the Windoze firewall and or router.
In my case, I use AT&T and Tmobile wireless for home internet and they do not allow open ports. Tailscale and Zerotier take care of that problem.
You can also use one of the port...
If the alerts are coming from BI then they will be labeled Motion. If from the camera it will say ONVIF on each alert. I am only using 1 Amcrest T1177 EB AI at this time and use ONVIF instead of BI alerts. I use IVS rules from the camera. In order for that to work, motion detection and smart...
On those cameras I only have detection through BI. ONVIF is not selected under Video-Configure either in this case where it would need to be selected to receive triggers from the cameras configuration.
I do not have any Amcrest 180s but with my Annke 180's, I had to set BI motion detections min object size and min contrast quite low. I used the default Edge Vector and use 100% within the Object Detection screen.
Do not be deceived by the optical zoom numbers. Dahua and Empire Tec provide the focal length which is used to determine the optical zoom. A good example is on the PTZ5A-25X that looney2ns mentioned above. It provides 5.4mm-135mm vari-focal which equates to 25X optical. Most of the cheaper...
Ring video shows woman shot, killed in cold blood confronting auto burglars
The headline is from an East Texas newspaper where the camera captured the shooting of a lady of 39 years by a 21 year old male. Other sources provided fairly decent photos of the guy captured on the Ring camera. He was...
The download will be the latest version. If you have not renewed since the 2022 install you can revert back to a version that fit your subscribed time frame from the setup menu where it will show your expiration date.
I could not resist any more so ordered 2 of the little WEN's myself to play with after you and mattp speaking positive about it. At least it is not new cameras this time.
I see that a lot at night on various cameras when the Texas humidity is high. These are outside cameras and air movement against metal walls seem to intensify it.