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    Large amount of requests to config.amcrestcloud.com from IP4M-1041

    The response from config.amcrestcloud.com is concerning. Seems to be configuring some kind of remote video upload location. Going to add hostedcloudvideo.com to my DNS block list. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Config version="1"> <ServerList> <Server> <Name>Command...
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    Large amount of requests to config.amcrestcloud.com from IP4M-1041

    Have you been experiencing an issue where the camera is 'forgetting' what time it is and rebooting itself every 3 hours if you have auto-maintenance setup to reboot on Tuesday's at around 2:52 AM? The camera's Date and Time at some point reset's itself to February 1, 2000 00:00:00. Which just...
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    Large amount of requests to config.amcrestcloud.com from IP4M-1041

    I have about (I think) 6 or more IP4M-1041B's at a location. These camera's appear to have a 'bug' where you can't change DNS servers. No matter what you do, they revert back to Google DNS. So I setup DNS query redirection on my firewall and enabled query logging on my DNS resolver. Here's...
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    Scrypted NVR - Anyone tried it?

    Based on what I could learn so far, the server side doesn't require much in the way of power, nor a GPU. Am I correct? The GPU/Video processing is done client side?
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    Switched from Linksys to Amcrest

    For as long as I can remember I have been using Cisco Linksys IP cameras (WVC200, WVC54G, etc..). They were stable, very simple to setup and manage. Most importantly they have no cloud functionality and everything is local by default. The main reasons I've hesitated on upgrading them was...