Recent content by S-F

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    Water Behind Lens

    Well all of the water is gone now and I'm getting a clear picture again. It's been two sunny days and the camera is on a southern exposure. I don't have a drip loop and honestly am not sure how to go about setting that up. Any pointers? It was definitely bulk water in there not vapor. I could...
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    Water Behind Lens

    I'm probably using a WPOE cable! I hadn't thought of that one. Some times I'm a brainless idiot. No, I've never opened it up. I just took it out of the box. Installed the base and then popped the cam in. Looks like I have a legitimate issue here. Is there any guide or the like on dissembling...
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    Water Behind Lens

    I had assumed that it was just on the lens even though nothing like that had happened before. I assumed that it was just fog because it's been that kind of weather. I got up there on a ladder with some paper towels this morning to dry it off and the water is clearly behind the glass.
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    Water Behind Lens

    I have a IPC-HDW5231R-Z and after a not so heavy but not light rain last night there's water behind the lens. It has been getting better as the day moves on but there is still a noticable amount of water in there. I'm not too happy about this. It's mounted to a gable wall. What's up with this?
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    Image URLs not working

    Anyone? I uninstalled UI2 by installing BI on a different system and copying the www folder into my BI directory. Still doesn't work.
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    Image URLs not working

    Maybe this is all because I installed UI2, but, I have a list of URLs one can use to view a video feed from BI and not a single one of them works. UI2 works just fine though. The URLs I'm talking about are things like 192.168.x.x:port/mjpg/{cam-short-name}/video.mjpg Does anyone have and...
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    IS BI right for me?

    I'm new to IP cameras and am needing a way to have motion in certain directions detected. Like the tripwire feature that apparently exists on the Dahua camera I'm getting. Does BI have this functionality? I have two choices for software as they are the only ones supported by the home automation...
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    Getting into IP cameras for the first time

    Great! Thanks. I emailed him but it's probably the middle of the night in China. I have a file server so I'm just going to run some software on it. So the SD card route isn't needed.
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    Getting into IP cameras for the first time

    Sounds good. In that thread I see that there is an additional discount for IPCTalk members. Is this something I should PM EMPIRETECANDY here about? Also can someone recommend a good POE injector? I'm not quite ready to jump to a POE switch just yet.
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    Getting into IP cameras for the first time

    I have spent hours reading here and honestly I have more questions now than I did before. I'm looking to start out with one camera and BlueIris. The camera is for my front yard. I live on a fairly busy street and it's only about 30' from my house so I'm thinking that the street lights might...