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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    I have a clone of the ALPR camera in BI to just identify vehicles and people.
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    Burglars run after getting fright on their life

    Did you ever get this to work? I'm thinking of doing something similar using MQTT to turn on our driveway street lights. I use Home Assistant for all things smart home if that helps any.
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    W00t! Sweet time to replace more of these Amcrest cams.
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    It's a much wider angle too so it's getting blasted by the home street lights. Here's a day shot of the old Amcrest for REF: Dayshot of new Empiretech
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    I think I got the go ahead to buy a few more based upon the better quality. I think..... Always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission :lmao:
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    I can verify that the results have not been updated. As a side note I finally installed one of the cameras that I bought during the sale and am blown away at the night time image quality. Here are some comparison shots: Old Amcrest IP8M-2496EB-28mm New Empiretech IPC-Color4K-B180 Totally...
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    I got my 2x refurb 180 Turrets and 2x 180 Bullets yesterday. Getting all of them setup at the moment.
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    So I'm kicking around the idea of adding a Nvidia GPU into my unraid server that runs the CP.AI docker to help with times. I have a Supermicro X9SCM-F mobo which only has x8 physical PCIE slots; 2 closest to CPU are PCIE 3.0. Since CP.AI is just using the GPU for number crunching, if I use a...
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    HFW5231E-Z12E image degraded

    How did you go about to replace it? Mine is starting to have the same issue.
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    Woo hoo. Grabbed 2 of the 180 cameras from the refurb sale. Do the refurb cameras qualify for the lottery?
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    @MikeLud1 Is there a guide or writeup I can reference besides the BI Manual: Camera --> AI section & CP.AI API REF that details what I can put in the highlighted fields below for the AI camera settings? I'm trying to get a better understanding of the options and features and make sure things...
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    Nice I was just ready to purchase some of the 180 cams.
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    send Telegram notifications with pictures

    I just set this up. So far been working great. Here is my parameter string: https://api.telegram.org/botxxxxxxx:xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/sendphoto -F chat_id=xxxxxxxxx -F photo=@C:\BlueIris\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH -F caption="[*&NAME*](http://10.10.30.10:81/ui3.htm?t=live&cam=&CAM) \- &MEMO" -F...
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    How do we get or find the rotated plate images in BI? I have CP.AI License Plate Reader 3.0.2 and the latest BI,
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    Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR

    So these are the recommended camera settings for LPR/Plate AI only items correct? Or are these settings adequate:
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