Recent content by SAVideoman

I'm so jealous, I've only got 2 cams on the front of my house!

I have 13 cams at 1080p and 1 cam at 4K. Most are Dahua. The 4K is pointing at a residential street so there will be a few cars. A couple of cams are aimed at a greenbelt so they get a few deer and assorted critters. The other cams don't have much movement at all usually. The biggest problem I...

If that will handle multiple cameras that'll be great! I'm looking forward to a comparison between Camect and BlueIris. If your product is better I'd have no problem with $60/year to cut down on the false alarms.

Thanks spectator. Are you using something like YOLO for you AI? That algorithm seems pretty popular lately.

Sounds interesting. Are you using a GPU to do the AI analytics processing?

bp2008, When a group of 10 cameras is being shown, are there 10 separate streams being sent to UI3? Or is the entire group being encoded by BlueIris as a single video stream? I set up a group of 11 cameras at 4K resolution on my 4K tv using a Firestick and it looks fantastic! But my poor...

I bought mine a couple of months ago and it's been running reliably. But there's been 2 times the camera went offline. The first time I just pulled and reinserted the Ethernet cable from the switch and it came back fine. The second time it restarted itself after a few minutes. So far I'm happy...

Thanks tangent and mat200. In my research I didn't see that sharing a conduit wasn't code kosher. In fact originally I was just going to staple the romex and cat6 to the fence rails until I found out how cheap PVC conduit is. My main concern was preventing squirrels from getting at the wiring...

Hey tangent, why is there a problem with 120VAC sharing the conduit? I am using romex inside the conduit. My original plan for this project was to use 12VDC all the way until I did voltage drop calculations. It's been a year since I did those calculations so I don't recall the exact figures but...

Thanks Mike. I don't get a chance to see faces too often at night but just last night a couple of kids walked by close to the lights and they did look washed out. However when they were further away they looked ok. Here's the link for the $11 lights I used. These in particular do NOT have the...

Thanks SouthernYankee. I was able to seal all the camera connectors within sealed junction boxes and they are powered by PoE so they don't require a separate power supply. See the finished photo below. I showed the junction box pics with the gasket lid off to be able to show the wiring inside...

Thanks Tony. I'm using one power supply for each light and they are rated at 2 amps which should be plenty for these lights and they are weatherproof. I've been using 3 of them for the past year with no problems so I think they'll be ok. And they're pretty cheap to replace if not.

I have a greenbelt area behind my house that I wanted to get "eyes" on. I decided to install 2 Dahua starlight cameras on my privacy fence, one on each end, as well as 6 IR lights along the fence to light things up. It is pitch black at night so I wanted to have pretty good power to get wide and...

I've found another great feature of this camera; licence plate reading. I can capture plate numbers on my street, coming and going, from my camera installed above my garage door. Default settings, 15fps, daytime only, 30 - 40 mph speeds shown.