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    Review of Vstarcam C29s

    Well, yesterday I received the 2 additional cameras I had ordered, and one has a focus issue. Hard to say right now whether it is a QC issue, or whether the cam got knocked around during shipping. Guess it will give me the opportunity to find out about how the vendor handles customer...
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    Review of Vstarcam C29s

    For the most part I completely agree with you Fenderman, but we have a couple of locations where the wife really wants an indoor PT camera, mostly to keep an eye on pets. If money was no object I'd ceiling mount a couple of Dahua PTZs, but in this particular case, a $50 PT camera with what I...
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    Review of Vstarcam C29s

    So a couple of weeks ago the first IP camera I ever bought, a Foscam 480p Pan Tilt camera finally died. Although its image quality was horrible, we actually made use of it for several years as a way to look around the ground floor of our vacation home when we aren’t up there. My first...
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    Failed capture on camera...

    I was having a lot of similar misses while trapping and relocating squirrels using a similar trap. Something that I found that helps is to place an appropriately sized object under the "front" of the trigger, the side facing the open door, so that weight on the front edge won't trip the...
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    More bear and moose

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    Seeing bears more frequently this year

    I think this makes 7 sightings so far this year vs 6 for all of 2016.
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    Fox and 3-legged dog

    Apparently this guy will play chase with just about anyone...
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    Sweet tooth

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    1st time I've caught more than one bear...

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    A brief compilation from a couple of days last week

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    Fox and 3-legged dog

    Initially I was afraid of what was going to happen if the dog ever caught up to the fox, but after watching for awhile you can tell the fox isn't really trying to escape. He pauses several times to make sure the dog doesn't get too far behind. About two minutes after the above clip they passed...
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    Fox and 3-legged dog

    The fox is having a great time, and the dog is getting a great workout.
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    Moose capture with my mini ptz

    Huisun Mini PTZ V1 10x
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    ZWave Controller Question

    I have a VeraLite running UI5. I've done a small amount of integration with BI. I have scenes on Vera called Away, Stay, and Disarmed. One of several different things that happens when each of the scenes are run is having Vera run a Luup command to do a wget to the BI server to have BI switch...
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    Elk in the back yard.

    This capture is kinda interesting... Got an alert from BI and managed to track a couple of elk with the MiniPTZ, controlling the camera from the iPhone app. I also appended a clip from my Hik turret. It gives you a good idea how much stronger the IR in the MiniPTZ is.
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    There is a reason these guys wear masks

    The little s**t pulled the same feeder down a few weeks ago and broke it. I put it back together last weekend with some marine putty. At least this time it doesn't look like he broke it, and I got a good video out of it. He's going to be a problem though... Raccoons have a really long...
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    Moose capture with my mini ptz

    Our place is just outside the park. We see moose almost as often in the neighborhood as we do taking a 10 mile drive into the park.
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    Moose capture with my mini ptz

    Take a trip up to Rocky Mountain National Park sometime. Moose are pretty common on the western side, near Grand Lake. This guy walked right past our living room window. Bet he stood pretty close to 6ft at the shoulder. There is another bull that we see in the neighborhood that is even a...
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    What to do to salvage cameras lost due to static/lightning?

    I don't think I've seen a tear down of the HFW430S, but most of the cameras I've taken apart were made up of more than one board. Although it seems likely that a surge entering the cameras would blow something on the same board in each camera, it's possible you might be able to get one or more...
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    There is a reason these guys wear masks

    I'm thinking of something along the lines of electrical tape and thumb tacks. Won't stop the bears, but I ought to be able to make it harder for this guy to climb the pole and bend it over.
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    Moose capture with my mini ptz

    Same moose, different day. Taken with the same MiniPTZ.
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    There is a reason these guys wear masks

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    Lightning storm last month, replacing all equiptment question

    Considering that what we are talking about here is a set of previously working cables that have potentially been damaged by a lightning strike, I would think that it would be rather unlikely for a lightning damaged cable to not have continuity problems, wouldn't you? Equipment that adheres to...
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    Lightning storm last month, replacing all equiptment question

    If you don't own a tester, I'd recommend buying one of these... https://www.amazon.com/Tonor-RJ45-Network-Cable-Tester/dp/B00OUFX38W Well worth what they charge for it. If it were me, I'd probably ring out each of the cables with the above tester, and cut the ends off of any cable that tests...
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    Moose capture with my mini ptz

    Colorado.
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    Sleepy Fox

    Huisun mini ptz v1
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    Sleepy Fox

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    Moose capture with my mini ptz

    Spotted this moose in time to capture some footage with the Mini PTZ V1. (A bit long, even after cropping out some of the footage where he was hidden behind trees.)
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    IPC-HDW4421C reverted to chinese

    I don't think the camera went through a hard reset as I had configured the camera to display portrait instead of landscape, and changed the admin password. Neither of those settings had reverted to defaults. I sent a message to the seller, Julia Li, via aliexpress asking if they could provide...
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    IPC-HDW4421C reverted to chinese

    I've had my IPC-HDW4421C for almost a year now. I set it up in August of last year, and have had it working under Blue Iris ever since, and have never applied a firmware update, or really had any reason to go in and tweak settings since then. Today I wanted to increase its frame rate, and...
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