The Typical picture of a Perp on Nextdoor-type Apps with Consumer Grade Cameras like Ring, Nest, Arlo, Canary, Wyze, etc.

Natey2 said:
I am on Ring Neighbors and the videos there look better than those posted here.

The writing is on the wall which cams sell better. Good luck selling in-home data centers (rack-mount, server-class hardware, powered switches, etc) to support home security cams.

See also Ring TV for a better representation of Ring cam videos.
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With respect to writing on the wall - you are confused. POE ip surveillance cameras and HD analog wired cams outsell ring and similar by orders of magnitude every year. Hikvision revenue in 2020 was over 9 Billion USD and dahua at 4 billion. With a B.
Ring sales are at about 400 million and they are by far the largest toy camera company.
90 percent (probably higher) of the folks installing poe cameras run a single NVR with a built in poe switch. Those running PC based vms here use cheap ($100-300) pc's.
Ring doesnt work if the internet is down - all it takes is a single snip snip of your cable. It also relies on wifi = shit. Ring cannot store continuous video and only stores highly compressed video for a max of 60 days. People use ring and similar until something happens and they either a) completely missed the event or b) the image is useless. It has its place in apartments or temporary situations just for basic awareness.
 
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Natey2 said:
signature blocks of the various users there indicate their configurations, including things like:

Intel Xeon
Windows Server [2022]
"12 cores"
32GB RAM
Western Digital Black

Sounds like a lot more than a $300 [used] PC.

I did run Blue Iris on a 4th Gen Core-i7 home desktop PC.
It killed the WD consumer grade drive before warranty expiration with all those disk-writes.
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Those are idiots who buy OLD used servers on ebay that are space heaters and burn power and are way LESS powerful than modern efficient machines. They actually pay LESS than way 300 for those old servers. Take some time to learn about CPU's. There is no way that running BI killed your drive. Its a mere coincidence. I have over 20 blue iris machines and almost all write video to the OEM HDD and are running fine. There are thousands of users here with similar setups. You are misinformed.
 
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fenderman said:
Those are idiots who buy OLD used servers on ebay that are space heaters and burn power and are way LESS powerful than modern efficient machines. They actually pay LESS than way 300 for those old servers. Take some time to learn about CPU's. There is no way that running BI killed your drive. Its a mere coincidence. I have over 20 blue iris machines and almost all write video to the OEM HDD and are running fine. There are thousands of users here with similar setups. You are misinformed.
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Current rules for dealing with KIA Californians:

Rule #1 Californians are always right.

Rule #2 When Californians are wrong, refer to Rule #1. :rolleyes:
 
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Warm weather brought out the perps this weekend.

Here is another typical Ring image. Notice that due to the wifi nature of the camera that once there is motion, the bandwidth cannot keep up. The columns are clear, but the person is a pixelated mess:

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At least it notified her there were people in her backyard:

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Best capture from this video - whole image is a blocky blur though...

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Parley said:
Here is one more picture from two days ago. I just posted this one on Nextdoor as the Gypsy thread is really taking off. This one is of the woman in the back seat asking me for time even though it is on the console of the Jeep Grand Cherokee. This one is from my 4MP PTZ.

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The reflection of you in the passenger window is better than any of the other cams straight on, of the subject.
 
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Parley said:
I know. Maybe it is her monitor.
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Could also be Nextdoor. Sometimes they seem to shrink images and video clips and really strip detail. It seems to depend on the image format / video codec and aspect ratio. This is a recent change in the last 6 months or so. It's been a real nuisance particularly with wildfire maps.

Sharing a youtube video on nextdoor is the best option to share high quality footage.
 
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Another day, another attempted theft during daylight caught by Ring:

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What a pixelated mess.

The homeowner was home at the time and opened the door and the dude dropped the package and got into his car and left and the homeowner said he saw the car was full of package.
 
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Natey2 said:
They getting braver: Ring Neighbors
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Green hair .. not a good choice for a thief .. unless it is fake ..

Ideally should have a solid clear facial id capture here .. the image it not clear enough ( not enough pixels ) ..

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Side shot is better in terms of pixels on target, still ideally you want to solid straight on image capture also ..

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should have enough info to ID the type of car ..

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I think this would be best if the victim had also set up a good solid IP PoE set of cameras .. you really do want to get a solid 100 ppf out to the range where you want to ID suspects .. also you want enough cameras to get cars coming and going away ..
 
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hajalie24 said:
Honest question, how much does the angle matter here? It looks more like the camera quality isn't the greatest so things are washed out. The OP said the letters are not readable because of the glare not because of resolution or anything. I'm sure a similar specced camera but with a narrow view would have yielded the same results no?
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Not necessarily. Yes and no. A narrower field of view would have increased the pixel count and so yieled a sharper result. However, try getting a Ring with a lens of the type required for that distance and that aside, the quality oif the camera sensor and lens have a part to play as well. It takes a quality sensor to capture the image, a sharp non distorted lens and the right focal length / pixel density to aquire a good image. I'm ignoring lighting as a factor as it's external but again the chip sensitivity has a huge part to play. If any link in the chain is missing or weak, the picture will degrade in quality.



samplenhold said:
Here is yet another from my area that was posted on Nextdoor today. Seems this guy came up the walkway but knew the cam was there so he hides his face, but really did not need to! He steals the bench on the front porch.

Here is the shot of him just as he is raising his shirt to cover his face. Here his face is visible but it is too far away for a good money shot.

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Here he is taking the bench. Notice that the frozen movement is blurry. This is what we talk about when we say in low light these cams suck. Notice that this has a lot of direct light on this porch.

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But here he is in direct line of the cam in the area that it should perform the best. Again blurry motion.

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So I thought maybe I am being overly critical by taking caps in full screen mode. So here they are in their native resolution. Still blurry motion.

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Father Christmas on a night out?

I always wondered where he got all those presents from.
 
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Natey2 said:
More outta control crime caught on doorbell video
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Thanks for posting this.

One lesson with regards to cameras, you need more than a doorbell video camera .. you need to cover the blind spots, the street, the sidewalks ..

Unfortunately this is from The People's Republik of Kalifornia .. so you can't shot them until they are inside your home .. and then only with a nerf gun ..
 
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