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    How much would this cost to build today??

    Something that cost $75k in 1975 would cost ~$500k in today's dollars. Inflation would be ~500% or more easily. Hell, architecture and engineering plans for those things are going to be six figures before the first shovel hits the dirt.
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    OpenVPN, Tailscale and a travel router-tales of woe

    A site-to-site VPN is the simplest solution. The router at you condo (Router A) would connect to the router at your home (router B). You could setup the route at the condo so that all WAN destined traffic is sent to your home (Router B) first and then out to the internet. At your home, your...
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    Not that I’m aware of. I gotta ask. Why did y’all leave the installation site before looking at the video feed to determine if there was a problem. I mean, how did you even know you had it pointed properly?
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    Coral TPU with BlueIris v6

    Yup. Like you said, it's abandonware. Here is a long list of products that Google has killed over the years: Killed by Google. Add Coral to the list
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    Coral TPU with BlueIris v6

    Sure you can use them for existing projects that still support them. But no one is going to go through the hassle to develop new code for it like you were wondering about BI. No. There are no other options for BI other than a GPU. You'd have to come over to the dark side of Linux and run...
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    Coral TPU with BlueIris v6

    Coral devices are basically a dead end product and are EOL. No one is building out anything for Coral devices any longer.
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    Add Sunrise Sunset to Time Plan Settings

    If you guys run linux, you can use Sunwait to issue a command via cron to your cameras directly. I talked about it several years ago here: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/program-for-flipping-cameras-to-day-night-on-linux.48196/ No need for any BI profile shenanigans if all you want to do is...
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    It’s uses SAS to SATA breakout cables. It has twin SFF-8643 connectors which can support 4 sata drives each.
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    The NAS is just plan Debian. I installed mergefs to it: mergerfs
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    This is the reason why I like using fuse style file systems. You can fuse multiple drives together and in the event of a drive failure on the fused system, you only lose the data on that one specific drive. The rest of the data on the other drives is still intact and readable. I do this with...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    Yeah, I was giving theoretically numbers for 100% discharge. No one is doing that because the voltage level would drop below what the equipment needs to run before the battery even reaches 100% discharge. Or, as you say, the software in batteries themselves won't even let you go that low before...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    Yup, but then you have to consider that you should never discharge lead acid batteries below 50% or you will damage them. So a 100Ah lead acid battery really only has 50Ah of capacity if you take that into account.
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    You can wire wind turbine into the charge controller. That is simple. Would help offset losses when the sun isn't shining but I still would design the system so the panels would cover 100% of the load and charge. Wind is finicky and the wind turbine will probably never output its maximum...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    For another round of simple math, if I plug my zipcode into Pvwatts.nlr.gov, it shows that a 100w panel would produce 10kWh per month for the month of December. December/January are always going to be the months where you receive the least amount of sunlight if you live in the northern...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    Doing some quick math to give you an idea of power requirements: PoE switch (preferably powered from the 12/24/48v battery) = 5W - 10W baseline 3 cams @ 10W/cam = 30W PtP airMAX NanoBeam 5AC = 9W So you are at ~50w continuous power draw 24/7/365. Assuming a 24v battery you are drawing ~.5Ah...
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