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    ALPRD Broken with Ubuntu 18.04 Upgrade...

    prompt:~# alpr lp.jpg Prewarp Initialization Time: 0.019569ms. OpenCL not detected OpenALPR Initialization Time: 26.6861ms. Prewarp Initialization Time: 0.01598ms. Prewarp Initialization Time: 0.017218ms. OpenCV Error: Assertion failed (!empty()) in detectMultiScale, file...
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    ALPRD Broken with Ubuntu 18.04 Upgrade...

    I upgraded to UBUNTU 18.04 a couple of days ago, and my ALPRD system has not functioned since the upgrade. Has anyone else experienced this, and willing to share the fix before I dig in?
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    License Plate Capture Help

    You need more IR, and less gain / shorter exposure. Night captures will show little more than the plate and headlights / taillights.
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    Ordered IPC-HFW5231E-Z12

    Junction Box is: PFA121
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    Cameras facing each other?

    I use Blue Iris on a dedicated PC.
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    WTS - 6 HikVision Dome Cameras

    Dropping the price to $360. Any takers there (or make a reasonable offer)?
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    Best Night time image, regardless of cost

    Dahua Launches Multi-lens 180-degree Panoramic Network IR Bullet Camera - Dahua Technology
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    Using IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 - can't read at night. Recommend settings?

    Actually, I recommend using the SMALLEST Iris setting you can get away with. This will give you the deepest possible depth of field, and make more plates be in optimal focus.
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    Using IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 - can't read at night. Recommend settings?

    Oh, and IR on manual, 100%
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    Using IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 - can't read at night. Recommend settings?

    These are my night settings. You won’t be able to see anything but plates, headlights / taillights at night when set up correctly.
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    WTS - 6 HikVision Dome Cameras

    I have the following HikVision mini dome cameras for sale: 2x DS2CD2132F-I 2.8mm 2x DS2CD2135F-IS 2.8mm 1x DS2CD2132F-IS 2.8mm 1x DS2CD2132F-I 4.0mm In order to minimize shipping costs, I would like to sell them as a lot. All are in perfect working order, but I have switched to a Dahua...
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    My home automation system just announced my wife’s name as her car drove down our street!!!
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    2a. Configure (camera? Blue Iris?) such that snapshots are put into a directory for post processing 2b. Possible configuration of ALPR Daemon to monitor stream from camera I ended up going with option 2b. There are plenty of tutorials out there on installing openalpr and openalprd, so I...
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    So... my original thoughts when I opened this thread were: 1. Acquire a camera with adequate lens, resolution, and IR to observe plates day / night 2a. Configure (camera? Blue Iris?) such that snapshots are put into a directory for post processing 2b. Possible configuration of ALPR Daemon to...
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    FedEx coming and going with web front-end reads shown. More later!!!
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    Finally, for tonight, a couple of shots of the web front-end.
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    Typical day capture. These are a 1280x720 rtsp sub-stream from the Dahua z12.
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    Typical night capture (still need to tweek focus a bit) - working!
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    Well, I finally have LPR working! Over the next few days, I’ll document the steps I took and what I ended up with (and what’s next) here. For now, I settled on the Dahua z12 camera. I had to use max zoom and aim ~75 feet down the road to get usable captures.
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    Apple TV BI App?

    Any chance we’ll ever see a native Apple TV version of the BI IOS app?
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    many cameras accessing same hd

    I just recently ran into (and solved) the same issue. I was having issues with playback of recorded clips / alerts, both at the console, and via the BI IOS app. My system has 23 cameras, running 8192 bit rate for each. Thinking the HD may be a bottleneck, I added s second 8TB drive and put...
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    Netgear Router or Pfsense build?

    I run one of these: Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite ERLITE-3 Desktop Router (Black) Amazon.com: Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite ERLITE-3 Desktop Router (Black): Computers & Accessories VPN works great with IOS. Very powerful / flexible.
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    Dahua Starlight Varifocal Bullet Z5 7-35mm (IPC-HFW5231E-Z5)

    Here's a side by side comparison of the zoom of the Z5 vs Z12. Both at full zoom.
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 vs IPC-HFW5231E-Z5

    Here's a side by side comparison shot of the two, both at full zoom.
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    WTS WTS IPC-HF5431E-Z

    Receiving the Z12 on Thursday. No one needs a Z5 at a discount?
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    Dedicated License Plate Cam project

    Please document what and how you set up to have this work!
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    WTS WTS IPC-HF5431E-Z

    I have an IPC-HF5431E-Z5 that I'm going to sell. Decided I need the extra zoom of the Z12 model for my location. Asking $160, shipped to continental US. Anyone here interested? NOTE that this is the 4MP model.
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    IPC-HF5431E-Z5

    I have an IPC-HF5431E-Z5 that I'm going to sell. Decided I need the extra zoom of the Z12 model for my location. Asking $200, shipped to continental US. Anyone here interested? NOTE that this is the 4MP model.
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    Dahua Starlight Varifocal Bullet Z5 7-35mm (IPC-HFW5231E-Z5)

    I have an IPC-HF5431E-Z5 that I'm going to sell. Decided I need the extra zoom of the Z12 model for my location. Asking $200, shipped to continental US. Anyone here interested? NOTE that this is the 4MP model.
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    LPR Walk Through / Tutorial

    It's VF 7-35. The Z12 is VF 5-60. With the extra zoom, I should be able to shoot further down the street with less angle.
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