Recent content by Mike A.

Change DST to week and it will be more accurate. 2 am on second Sunday in March, first Sunday in November. Won't have to update the day.

Get used to it. You'll see a ton of stuff reaching out if you've just installed PiHole or something similar. You can try turning off everything related in the cam but many still will try. Block it as you are and at your router. If you don't want to see the log entries you can exclude those...

Depends how you use it. If you're not accessing the NVR remotely, then you should be able to without any problems. If you're accessing the NVR remotely via some direct connection to your network (port forward, your own VPN server inside your network) then it likely will block that.

Might just be the location/view of the Amcrests. Some of my identical cams look different as far as that goes depending where they are. You could try changing shutter settings but that's going to change things overall beyond just rain. Doubt that any shield like that will help much. It's not...

I've noticed more recently with plates mounted upside down. We're getting a lot more traffic violation cams around here and I'm wondering if people think they can beat them that way. Kind of interestingly, I looked and I don't see anything in the law re plate display that says you can't do...

Owl says THUNK lol

I started out doing that but then had some things happen while at home that I wished that I'd recorded. Same as for recording continuous - You don't miss it until you do. If your security is good, you're the only one who's going to see them anyway. And I don't put cameras in more private areas.

Send the kid out again... we need movement to judge. ; ) Also, do you have some sort of backlighting turned on?

Try taking sharpness down to ~30-35. That can help get rid of some of the "jags" in the detail. Also reducing saturation seems to help mine some with color at night. Seems to get a little more distortion with more colorful areas (see the stop sign and the red collar/shirt/bag for example)...

Not sure where you're getting the idea that everyone's using default settings for good LPR. Day, sure. Lots can get away with that. But night, mostly the opposite usually with quite a bit of tweaking required to optimize the images. wittaj gave you good starting points. Do that and fine...

Condition: Open Box.

Same. Was cool at the time but I had a hard time giving mine away when I got tired of it. Everything that I need is in a 6U rack now.

Yeah, I'm able to get good focus with my 5842 much closer than what they're spec'ed at. Easy within 1' or so. That should be a good one for your purposes.

That won't kill the service. What happens is that the Windows time service will grab the port (123) that NetTime also uses. So you need to disable the W32Time service. Bring up Task Manager, at the bottom click on Open Services. Scan the list for Windows Time. Right-click and select...

That I can understand. But doesn't look like what happened here. They put some work into it and looks good all the way up to that point.