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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote Family of 6 on Thoroughbred Trail, 06/29/25 The two adults are not necessarily the parents, because I found one dead adult in February, after the mating would have happened. But they might be. In any case, with 4 pups, the population is healthy. Keep your small animals indoors, neighbors!
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    IP5M-T1277EW-AI vs. IP5M-T1179EW

    How does it compare to the IP5M-T1277EW-AI? Has anyone bypassed the power diode for powering an external illuminator?
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    IP5M-T1277EW-AI vs. IP5M-T1179EW

    Hmmm. I may be in the hunt for 3-4 more low-cost eyeball cameras, to replace some old Reolinks that continue to disappoint me. These are not demanding applications--they're monitoring an entryway and a driveway that are constantly lit, and I'm watching for people walking up to the house. So the...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Single Coyote Pup on Thoroughbred Trail, 06/17/25 A single pup normally wouldn't be noteworthy, except that one of 3 adults known to live in this territory died back in late February 2025, and I hadn't seen any pups from this season until today. I still don't know if we have a reproductive...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    My finches are gone Warning: NatGeo-style violence ahead! House finches have been nesting near my front door every year for the past 5 years. They normally build their nest about 6" off-camera from this view, in one of the protected crevices between those roof joists. So I removed one of...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Great Horned Owl on Thoroughbred Trail 06/10/25 Hello! I haven't seen owls on my camera in a few months, so it's nice to have an appearance.
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    I found it easier and cheaper (for me) to put a tiny, cheap POE camera inside the mailbox:
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    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Ok, this is strange. I went back to the firmware page to see if I could download 4.36.10.4054 directly, and not only is it not linked, neither is 4.36.10.2864: I downloaded 4.36.10.2864 from that page 48 hours ago, and now it's no longer available. Curiouser and curiouser. I still have my...
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    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Thanks! I downgraded my one of my Garage Door Controller V3 cams to 4.36.13.0416, and re-pulled the Docker Wyze Bridge from mrlt8's latest, and I still couldn't see it in the Bridge. So I rolled all the way back to 4.36.10.2864, and then the Bridge could see it. Unfortunately the Wyze App then...
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    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Thanks! Can you tell me which firmware you have on your v3 cameras? My cameras that have stopped working with the Bridge are: v3/4.61.0.3 v3/garage door controller/4.36.14.3289 (3 of these in various locations) v3 Pro/4.58.13.3289 I have two other v3 cams running the old RTSP firmware, and I...
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    Good IP Cameras That Don't Need IR Lights

    Most mid-wave and long-wave IR cameras detect emitted light, e.g. based on the temperature of the object emitting the light instead of external light reflecting off the object, but those are not going to show up in consumer-grade IP cameras for awhile, because the detectors and lenses are...
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    Good IP Cameras That Don't Need IR Lights

    Do you mean "without any IR illumination at all, including without the camera's built-in IR LEDs?" Or do you mean "with only the camera's built-in IR LEDs, but without adding external illuminators"? Because those are two completely different questions.
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    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Nice! That would be the best solution, if possible. I'd use this on nearly half of my cameras. I know how to bypass the power diode on some models, but not on the newest model that I've been buying. Great find! I've been looking for something like this for awhile, but couldn't find one. $30 is...
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    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    . . . and now the Docker Wyze Bridge solution doesn't really work any more. Or at least it's not working for me. Wyze changed something in the authentication or API or ???, and now my v3 cameras don't transit through the Bridge to BI. Does anyone have a workaround?
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    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Yeah. I'm thinking they could have charged a lot more than $30 - $35 for these, and still sold a whole bunch of them. Because a $35 list price suggests that they might be junk, and they're certainly not junk. Maybe once all the $35 inventory has been depleted I'll try to sell one for $100 and...
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