New error since lightning storm

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Smilingreen

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We had a big lightning storm Monday evening. I quickly shut down all my systems & UPS and unplugged everything, but it appears lightning got a couple of things. I have a Displayport to HDMI extender and lightning got the transmitter part, so I couldn't see my computer until this evening when the replacement came in. After I got the system up, I thought I had lost a camera, but it looks like lighting just got one of my POE injectors, which I just changed over my camera to the POE+ port on my switch. Camera is fine. Now that Blue Iris is up and running, I am getting this error on the log. Anyone know what server it is speaking of?

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Ya got me on that one. Maybe Tony of Brian will have an idea.
 
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Never mind. I figured it out. It appear the storm also, somehow scrambled my UI3 server settings. It worked perfect until Monday. Must of been a hell of a lightning wallop. I got the correct IP addresses put back in and everything works and the error went away. Thanks for taking a crack at it.
 
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Glad you're up and running.
Big, nearby ESD's can do very strange things.......I've lost my share of gear the last 8 years. :cool:
 
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TonyR said:
Glad you're up and running.
Big, nearby ESD's can do very strange things.......I've lost my share of gear the last 8 years. :cool:
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Yeah, my big UPS was throwing all kinds of alarms Monday evening when the storm started. So I quickly brought everything down and then unplugged everything. The UPS was the only device plugged into my house power. Everything else was running off the UPS. The Displayport to HDMI transmitter runs off usb 5 volts, that was coming from my PC, which was powered from the UPS. The POE Injector was being powered from the UPS. The UPS still checks out and is functioning. Can't explain it, except the strikes were definitely on my farm, very close to my house. My house sits on the front edge of the woods, so I do get more than my fair share of close strikes. I have had several large, mature trees, split in half due to lightning strikes in the past 25 years. I have lost several computers in the past due to lightning strikes.

Probably the strangest loss I had was a old HP PC. This was back in the days when ISDN was all the rage. Storm was coming, I was sitting in my mancave, watching TV. Computer wasn't even on. There was no lightning strikes near me, but as I was sitting there, I heard a "Snap" noise emitting from my computer and saw a tiny whisp of smoke emit from my ISDN modem. That's not good. Checked the house phone......dead. Looked at the ISDN modem......dead. Powered on my computer.........dead. A distant lightning strike hit somewhere and came down my ISDN line, arced everything inside the modem and continued into my PC and snapped some IC's on the MB. I lost a couple of TV's a few years ago, too.
 
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Smilingreen said:
Yeah, my big UPS was throwing all kinds of alarms Monday evening when the storm started. So I quickly brought everything down and then unplugged everything. The UPS was the only device plugged into my house power. Everything else was running off the UPS. The Displayport to HDMI transmitter runs off usb 5 volts, that was coming from my PC, which was powered from the UPS. The POE Injector was being powered from the UPS. The UPS still checks out and is functioning. Can't explain it, except the strikes were definitely on my farm, very close to my house. My house sits on the front edge of the woods, so I do get more than my fair share of close strikes. I have had several large, mature trees, split in half due to lightning strikes in the past 25 years. I have lost several computers in the past due to lightning strikes.

Probably the strangest loss I had was a old HP PC. This was back in the days when ISDN was all the rage. Storm was coming, I was sitting in my mancave, watching TV. Computer wasn't even on. There was no lightning strikes near me, but as I was sitting there, I heard a "Snap" noise emitting from my computer and saw a tiny whisp of smoke emit from my ISDN modem. That's not good. Checked the house phone......dead. Looked at the ISDN modem......dead. Powered on my computer.........dead. A distant lightning strike hit somewhere and came down my ISDN line, arced everything inside the modem and continued into my PC and snapped some IC's on the MB. I lost a couple of TV's a few years ago, too.
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I've had a couple of similar "strange occurrences:
  • Circa 2016 we had a bad electrical storm headed our way. I unplugged TV, DirecTV DVR and DVD from the UPS and unplugged the UPS from the wall. In the master (yeah, I said it) bedroom I unplugged the surge arrestor strip for the TV and the Genie from the wall. Later, big nearby strike. The ESD came in through the DirecTV satellite coax, into the DVR and the Genie and took out a HDMI port on both TV's!
  • A client had a nearby strike that took out the fax's modem , the DSL modem and the Ethernet port on the PC. But before I could address those 3 items, I had to install a PCI VGA card, as it took out the PC's onboard video as well! Anyway, I suggested a surge arrestor strip with an RJ-11 in/out to help protect the fax's modem and the DSL modem. When I plugged in the Tripp-Lite surge strip/RJ-11 protector I got no green LED for "Protected". I got to checking that outlet, nearby outlets and finally the whole house and found that NONE had an earth ground. A few questions to the house owner revealed it was built in '57 and so it was a 2-wire house; his brother-in-law had replaced all the 2 wire receptacles in the house with 3-wire (NEMA 5-15R) with a place for the earth ground, which did not exist. Like I've said: in these parts, if Bubba can make a light bulb light up, he's a bonafide (or self-proclaimed) "electrician"......not so, not by a long shot. :facepalm:
 
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Gotta remember to unplug the broadband connect, too!
 
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Gotta remember to unplug the broadband connect, too!
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Yes, you're correct and I sure do.
And I've been unplugging the HDMI cables on both TV's ever since. I even bought 2 little 6" long M-F HDMI cables so as to were them out and not the female inside the TV.
I don't worry too much about the satellite DVR and its bedroom client, as I have their insurance on them, I just make sure nothing of mine is plugged into them. :cool:
 
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