Shout out and celebrate a forum member and... Hello!

[ProTapper]

Before I say Hello and introduce myself, I want to take a moment and shout out and celebrate a really, really special member of this community... Ladies and gentlemen, let's take a moment to appreciate my friend @wittaj who is simply an INCREDIBLE member of this forum!

Again, before I get into my intro, let me give some background on how incredible @wittaj has been! I had posted all but 1 or 2 posts here, a few weeks ago asking for a comparison on 2 Lorex cameras. @wittaj helped me in the thread, but then, DM'd to offer more help.

Folks, that is scratching the surface of how much this person has helped me in the weeks. He has patiently exchanged over a 100 messages with me ranging on topics of basic focal science, to specific brands to BI, to reviewing my angels to networking to computer hardware help! @wittaj is relentless in his ability and willingness to help almost all hours of the day!

Quite honestly, I don't believe I've ever met this a person this consistently helpful to me over the internet in my 25 years of internet use... So... SHOUT OUT and my IMMENSE thank you to @wittaj! As asset to this community!



Now about me.. Not much to know... I'm coming from the miserable life of wireless Arlos. First step was to get cable laid for PoEs. Then I got me a Lorex kit from Costco, til I learned the wealth of information to learn about what basic monitoring means to surveillance and most importantly, ability to have equipment that will produce a usable footage if something bad does happen...

Currently, I'm in the process of setting up my BI Server and collecting cameras for overview, varifocal and an LPR solution.

Hope you guys can help a n00b and thank you all in advance for your knowledge!

 

[samplenhold]

Welcome! and yes @wittaj is a great guy.

 

[ProTapper]

Welcome! and yes @wittaj is a great guy.

Thank you friend and yes! I cannot overstate @wittaj and his helpful contributions in my journey to BI. One day I'll have a fully working solution! Excited to learn more!

 

[laka1]

Before I say Hello and introduce myself, I want to take a moment and shout out and celebrate a really, really special member of this community... Ladies and gentlemen, let's take a moment to appreciate my friend @wittaj who is simply an INCREDIBLE member of this forum!

Again, before I get into my intro, let me give some background on how incredible @wittaj has been! I had posted all but 1 or 2 posts here, a few weeks ago asking for a comparison on 2 Lorex cameras. @wittaj helped me in the thread, but then, DM'd to offer more help.

Folks, that is scratching the surface of how much this person has helped me in the weeks. He has patiently exchanged over a 100 messages with me ranging on topics of basic focal science, to specific brands to BI, to reviewing my angels to networking to computer hardware help! @wittaj is relentless in his ability and willingness to help almost all hours of the day!

Quite honestly, I don't believe I've ever met this a person this consistently helpful to me over the internet in my 25 years of internet use... So... SHOUT OUT and my IMMENSE thank you to @wittaj! As asset to this community!
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Now about me.. Not much to know... I'm coming from the miserable life of wireless Arlos. First step was to get cable laid for PoEs. Then I got me a Lorex kit from Costco, til I learned the wealth of information to learn about what basic monitoring means to surveillance and most importantly, ability to have equipment that will produce a usable footage if something bad does happen...

Currently, I'm in the process of setting up my BI Server and collecting cameras for overview, varifocal and an LPR solution.

Hope you guys can help a n00b and thank you all in advance for your knowledge!

Welcome to the forum!

 

[srvfan]

Welcome. @wittaj is great; he has taken the time to help me dial in multiple cameras.

 

[wittaj]

Thanks for the shout-out @ProTapper! I am glad to help you out along this journey! And jealous of the amount of light you have in your neighborhood that can let you run fast shutters at night and stay in color if you wanted!

I am simply giving back to a great community that helped me along the way as well and get me to where I am today (although I am still learning and improving my system as well). Way too many people here that have helped me along the way and the list would be too long to to give a proper shout-out to them all (and I would probably leave someone off unintentionally), but @bigredfish, @looney2ns, @sebastiantombs, @samplenhold , @SouthernYankee, @Wildcat_1, @tech101, @Gymratz, @DLONG2, @biggen, @EMPIRETECANDY and others I know I am missing that are all frequent posters on this forum and recognizable names here and all have been helpful to me and they give back to this great community more than I do. I am just following their example.

I too started out with an all-in-one box kits (yes plural LOL) with 2.8mm wide angle cameras on each corner of the house and thinking "wow I can see the whole neighborhood with these things", but as stuff happened in the neighborhood I started to realize how inadequate the cameras are and started my internet searching for how to get better video and images and came across this site.

I now have a system that has been fine tuned to alert me whenever someone gets within my "personal space" and have multiple types and brands of cameras each selected specifically for the coverage I wanted in a particular area. I have a camera that can get me great license plate captures at 175 feet, fixed lens wide angle overview cams, varifocals optically zoomed in to a specific spot, and PTZs for extra coverage and being directed by spotter cams. But as @sebastiantombs says, cameras multiply like rabbits LOL, so I am constantly adding or changing as I feel like an area needs more or better coverage. Andy's sales like the one he is running this weekend help with that as well!

I do not chat to my neighbors that I have cameras. Some have noticed, but most do not. When we had a break in here a couple years ago or so and the neighbors with cameras were talking how their great arlo, ring doorbell, Lorex, Foscam, and reolinks captured something happened but the police couldn't find any useful video from them (several had their car broken into and their cameras were less than 10 feet from their car) and they were chatting how this is just an accepted fact from camera systems and poor nighttime performance. I just stood there smirking to myself.

One of them joked that my cameras probably didn't catch anything since I didn't have a car on the driveway that night and they skipped me. I let them see what my cameras captured and they were blown away. The money shot that got all their stolen stuff back was my varifocal 60 feet away zoomed in to a spot on the sidewalk at the street where the perp walked past and my LPR got their plate. They were shocked my 2MP cameras were blowing away their 4K cameras...and one with sense started replacing cameras and buying them from Andy since they would work with his Lorex DVR. He was all ticked that his $1,300 Lorex 4k box kit was being beat by a 2MP camera LOL, but he recognized now what we all preach and went with 2MP cams to replace his 4K cams...now several of these have since been updated to better cameras with the right MP/sensor combination, but many of us know that a good 2MP camera will beat out a low-end 4K camera on the same sensor all night long!

 

[oknoob]

Indeed,Thanks to this great forum and his members that take,their time to help us. They all help this great community and we learning with them oh and is Free. Thanks to all

 

[gwminor48]

Hello, welcome to the forum, always great to hear kind words in the modern internet jungle we live in.

 

[ProTapper]

Thanks for the shout-out @ProTapper! I am glad to help you out along this journey! And jealous of the amount of light you have in your neighborhood that can let you run fast shutters at night and stay in color if you wanted!

I am simply giving back to a great community that helped me along the way as well and get me to where I am today (although I am still learning and improving my system as well). Way too many people here that have helped me along the way and the list would be too long to to give a proper shout-out to them all (and I would probably leave someone off unintentionally), but @bigredfish, @looney2ns, @sebastiantombs, @samplenhold , @SouthernYankee, @Wildcat_1, @tech101, @Gymratz, @DLONG2, @biggen, @EMPIRETECANDY and others I know I am missing that are all frequent posters on this forum and recognizable names here and all have been helpful to me and they give back to this great community more than I do. I am just following their example.

I too started out with an all-in-one box kits (yes plural LOL) with 2.8mm wide angle cameras on each corner of the house and thinking "wow I can see the whole neighborhood with these things", but as stuff happened in the neighborhood I started to realize how inadequate the cameras are and started my internet searching for how to get better video and images and came across this site.

I now have a system that has been fine tuned to alert me whenever someone gets within my "personal space" and have multiple types and brands of cameras each selected specifically for the coverage I wanted in a particular area. I have a camera that can get me great license plate captures at 175 feet, fixed lens wide angle overview cams, varifocals optically zoomed in to a specific spot, and PTZs for extra coverage and being directed by spotter cams. But as @sebastiantombs says, cameras multiply like rabbits LOL, so I am constantly adding or changing as I feel like an area needs more or better coverage. Andy's sales like the one he is running this weekend help with that as well!

I do not chat to my neighbors that I have cameras. Some have noticed, but most do not. When we had a break in here a couple years ago or so and the neighbors with cameras were talking how their great arlo, ring doorbell, Lorex, Foscam, and reolinks captured something happened but the police couldn't find any useful video from them (several had their car broken into and their cameras were less than 10 feet from their car) and they were chatting how this is just an accepted fact from camera systems and poor nighttime performance. I just stood there smirking to myself.

One of them joked that my cameras probably didn't catch anything since I didn't have a car on the driveway that night and they skipped me. I let them see what my cameras captured and they were blown away. The money shot that got all their stolen stuff back was my varifocal 60 feet away zoomed in to a spot on the sidewalk at the street where the perp walked past and my LPR got their plate. They were shocked my 2MP cameras were blowing away their 4K cameras...and one with sense started replacing cameras and buying them from Andy since they would work with his Lorex DVR. He was all ticked that his $1,300 Lorex 4k box kit was being beat by a 2MP camera LOL, but he recognized now what we all preach and went with 2MP cams to replace his 4K cams...now several of these have since been updated to better cameras with the right MP/sensor combination, but many of us know that a good 2MP camera will beat out a low-end 4K camera on the same sensor all night long!

Thanks for the kind words about the light and always thoroughly walking everyone through the logic behind the right equipment! I think the exposure is really hurting during the day time on that one camera we set up and my OpenVPN is failing me... Are you down to looking at that stuff ?

 

[ProTapper]

Hello, welcome to the forum, always great to hear kind words in the modern internet jungle we live in.

Thank you, kind friend! You said it really well! My pleasure to appreciate a golden member of this community!

 

[ProTapper]

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[wittaj]

Thanks for the kind words about the light and always thoroughly walking everyone through the logic behind the right equipment! I think the exposure is really hurting during the day time on that one camera we set up and my OpenVPN is failing me... Are you down to looking at that stuff ?

We sure can - I told you the settings would probably hurt the daytime, which is why we do a day and night testing and profile within the camera! Let me know when!