LPR Setup SUCCESS with HFW5241E-Z12E

At least get some tape on the audio input and 12 volt jacks. Even I (;)) would do that.
 
It will end up in the soffit, this is very temporary for placement. I've learnt the hard way to never mount a camera permanently before letting it sit for a night!
 
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First night clip, just duplicated the other camera. All good! I

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Actually went back to 1/1000, gets plates fine and they pop out more

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GOD DAMN IT. I hope that temporary cable isn't too visible


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Interesting to see how much my large tree moves in the wind. The tree is easily 2x or more higher than the house. Its a large tree

I guess the fact I'm using so much zoom magnifies how much its moving



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I have a couple of tree mounted cameras and in a good wind, say 20mph or higher, the sway can get bad enough to make you seasick. I can even see them twisting when the wind is coming from the right direction. They're both around a foot and a half at the base of the trunk and probably 30 or 40 feet tall. The downside of using such a convenient mounting location.
 
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These are overview cameras of the front yard, far from the house. Not LPR. I haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet due to budget constraints and getting the whole house turned into a pimple infested collection of turrets.
 
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Embrace the camera themed house :smash:
 
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@IReallyLikePizza2 is your OpenALPR Watchmen doing this: screen goes in and out and it saying "waiting for video" ?

Also what version firmware u running on your z12e? i see some extra tabs on your camera menu under camera/conditions.

Thanks,
 
Also what stream url u using in openalpr ? can you post it here? at setup i have put some like this:
rtsp:/admin:mypassword@192.168.1.111:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

This is from cloud.openalpr.com dashboard

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Looks like OpenALPR WatchmenLink is Red in software...hmmm
 
Mine has never done that before, what's the CPU usage like? It might be over taxed perhaps?

Camera work fine otherwise, in Blue Iris and just viewing them?

My stream is rtsp:/admin:password@Dahua-Cam9:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif

Looks a little different to yours interestingly

My firmware is below, two different versions, I haven't updated either

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Oh, I just looked at your sig and we actually have different cameras, you have HFW5231E-Z12E and I have the HFW5241E-Z12E's
 
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IReallyLikePizza2 said:
Mine has never done that before, what's the CPU usage like? It might be over taxed perhaps?

Camera work fine otherwise, in Blue Iris and just viewing them?

My stream is rtsp:/admin:password@Dahua-Cam9:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif

Looks a little different to yours interestingly

My firmware is below, two different versions, I haven't updated either

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Well go figure it was the cpu...on BI was running 99-100%
I added 2 more cameras and and now have 15 wired and 2 wifi. I have disabled 11 cameras just to see what happens and now the Openalpr works fine. I guess i need to re-look at all cameras in settings to get that cpu usage down.
How many cams you have and what is your cpu usage in BI? Mind sharing the video settings from your z12e?
This is what i have :
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Regarding firmware is from 2018, contacted Andy to see what he has for IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E.
My Firmware:

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OpenALPR uses a fair amount of CPU, I just moved mine to a separate system. That also means that if one is being rebooted/updated etc, I still get a plate no matter what since I'm recording the LPR Cams 24/7 anyway

I have 10 total now, CPU usage is 20%. Only the two LPR cams are using the sub-stream feature to lower CPU, none of the rest. It was a little to buggy for me, but maybe they fixed it. My LPR box is using a fair amount, I gave it 8 cores and its at around 60% all the time with two cameras

Here is my video settings

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