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    Getting a 5442

    I got it connected up in my basement just playing with basic config. Piece of cake. I tried it first with Edge and of course it was clunky... for instance the picture doesn't display in the focus and zoom adjustment window. Now using IE, no problems. One question: is there any need to enable...
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    Getting a 5442

    I ordered one of these from Empire, coming today. I probably won't have time to set it up right away, but may connect it up tabeltop next week for testing and a look at basic configuration first. I am not like you guys, this isn't my primary... or even secondary... hobby so I don't want to...
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    Hummingbird action

    I shot this video a couple years ago, just put an extra Foscam I have laying around out next to the feeder. I need to do this again with one of my newer cams when the hummers arrive in the next couple of weeks. HummingBird - YouTube
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    Anyone here have the Amcrest floodlight cam?

    You don't really need to have a real doorbell... Doorbells and Rings run off 24 vac. You can buy a simple 24 vac transformer and plug it in or hard wire it to a nearby circuit, then run the feed to your door jamb. A bit of work for not much value I suppose. I agree I don't use the Ring for...
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    Local criminal action

    Sure, but if it was AI "smart" they could have it zoom to and maintain the smallest FOV that still has the target.
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    Local criminal action

    Oh, I did that a long time ago. I trained him for awhile with that shock treatment but it was temporary. Now I have a long arm hanger with another pot in between. I have another long arm hanger with a seed bird feeder and even with the long arm he was swinging it around... smart little...
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    Anyone here have the Amcrest floodlight cam?

    Totally agree. I actually have a Ring on my front door primarily for the porch pirate deterrence value and I can see packages on my stoop. But I don't rely on it for much else. Its motion detection is really bad... far too sensitive. I have it dialed down to lowest with a small hot zone and...
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    Anyone here have the Amcrest floodlight cam?

    I agree that's how it SHOULD be... but look at the 4th bullet in this product info snip. Now if they said "this DEVICE" (to include the light) it would make more sense. And yes, the intent would be to bring this into my BI setup. But reading about many issues with the light and cam triggering...
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    Local criminal action

    This could work to replace my existing sensor floodlight right next to that door. It would have a very close up view of anyone approaching the door and perhaps be a bit of a deterrent. Anyone here have one? Amcrest SmartHome 1080p WiFi Outdoor Security Camera with Floodlight, Built-in Siren...
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    Anyone here have the Amcrest floodlight cam?

    I am thinking of adding one of these, not as a main cam but it is right next to my most vulnerable point of entry door where it could be useful as cam and as a deterrent. How does it work for you? One curious thing in the product info says that the wifi camera needs to be connected to power to...
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    Local criminal action

    I understand that to be the case originally with manual varifocal cams... but this Dahua has a motorized varifocal so one would think it could zoom in operation?
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    Local criminal action

    Yeah, as usual it's tough to balance side to side coverage with distance. I really need the FOV about what you see here to be able to view potential approaches to disable the camera. Maybe a little, but much narrower and you could get to it from the right side. It is up about 9 or 10 feet...
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    Local criminal action

    What would be a particular model I could read up on? I prefer a dome or turret, starlight, and 4 mm lens... but could get by with a 2.8 I suppose. Varifocal would be great if not too $$$.
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    Local criminal action

    I hear you but I have never seen any really reliable motion sensors that eliminate FARs and NARs. Here is a snip from one of many similar reviews of Guardian on Amazon: " — but there are plenty of times it gets triggered by small critters, leaves, wind, rain, etc. At those times, we usually...
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    Local criminal action

    No way to get that sort of long range notice in a townhouse situation. And the close in video detects, line crossings, and other alerts are just too unreliable to have it active, especially at night, for real time warnings. Far too many nuisance alarms from the critters at night and waving...
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    Local criminal action

    Speaking of local criminals... this is what we are used to dealing with. My hummingbird feeder kept getting drained overnight so I put a cam out to see what was going on. Raccoon, of course. I put up a little Have-A-Heart shocker to try to train him but as you can see in the first video the...
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    Local criminal action

    Used to be all we ever saw back here was raccoons, cats and squirrels, now this. Some sort of B&E crew working our neighborhood looking for open back doors. Pretty scary considering most folks were home so any B&E would turn into a home invasion. Police report filed. Unfortunately I had my...
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    "Affordable" PTZ Starlight Cam?

    Do you have a photo of its ceiling mount? I have a dome there now so not sure something like this would work.
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    "Affordable" PTZ Starlight Cam?

    Dealing with some wanna be B&E clowns checking our back doors lately so I am looking to upgrade my HIK back there to something that provides more detail in low light. This looks interesting.. but how does it mount? All the photos show it hanging from what looks like the network cable conduit.
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    Outdoor POE cam for satellite internet service

    We have a remote property that has satellite ISP. I installed a couple of typical generic network cams once upon a time, Foscam and an AcTi and they worked to send alerts and such but I could not reach them to view them live or to administer them via the satellite. I currently have a Reolink...
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    Best way to upgrade

    I am a long time BI user at least since v2 and want to upgrade my current v4 install to v5. I don't mess with this very often so don't recall the best way to do an upgrade whilst retaining settings and profiles. I will make sure to make a backup of the config file, of course. But then is it a...
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    Do I install the Honeywell Ademco Vista 20P or get something newer?

    I have a Vista20ip and like it a lot. I originally has a Via 30 but went to Internet monitoring. These panels are dead solid reliable. And I just learned something from the above post by Reflection... I had no there was an Alexa skill for this. Cool.
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    Reolink?

    The Reolinks have their place and I also use a similar KASA cam in one remote location. I don't use either of these in my own Blue Iris setup but they come in handy where you don't have a full DVR setup or a BI server. For instance, I have the KASA cam in my mom's garage so I can get alerts on...
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    Reolink?

    I have used one Reolink cam in a situation where a normal IP cam won't work... with a satellite internet connection. I guess I should qualify that. I did get a standard ip cam to work at least to e-mail alerts and clips at the remote location with satellite service but the cams there are not...
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    Schedule and profile configuration

    I think I have this worked out... I have created separate Home and Away schedules and home-day, home-night, away-day and away-night profiles, configured the motion triggers for all the profiles in every cam, then have the geofence set to enable "Home" schedule upon entry into the geofence and...
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    Schedule and profile configuration

    I am trying to set up schedules and/or profiles to manage my simple setup to work with the geofence. Basically I have 2 groups of cams, Interior and Exterior. I want the all the Interior cams to stream 24/7 but I want the motion triggers to be inactive when any mobile device is "inside" the...
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    Need help with error message

    That was it.... D'oooohhh. I had originally set "Stored" to 5TB and "New" to 1 TB so when I upped New it was over allocated. Sheesh. Thanks for the patience in working through this. I don't mess with my BI very much, it usually just hums right along. That HDD issue turned out to be a real...
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    Need help with error message

    Yes I see the over allocation issue but I don't see a separate setting for "Stored" folder, just the one setting for the overall drive as shown above... unless I don't know where to look for that.
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    Need help with error message

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    Need help with error message

    Sorry, that's not the pic you wanted. It's coming.
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