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    smart thermostats & remote access

    You an do that from Z-Wave but not on the physical Tstat.
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    smart thermostats & remote access

    I have a slightly different model but functionally the same. Biggest advantages of this are that you have a really good thermostat to start with, better than the Wi-Fi ones; and that as Z-Wave it's 100% offline and just handled through your HA system du jour. It does require a Z-Wave...
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    ASUS routers vulnerable to critical remote code execution flaws

    Reading the vulnerability and exploit POC, this attack needs to come in via the web interface of the router. That makes it looks less critical than it is though, because it can be chained from malicious HTML from any website you may visit. It'll probably be within the next week when we see...
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    Close Call

    Lightning struck trees are always so cool :) So fun little thing about twisted pair is that it's designed to not care about induced current, at least in the original Ma Bell design. The pairs are twisted so that each receive roughly the same voltage, so that by the end of the (miles-long) run...
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    Close Call

    Glad everybody is OK at least! Lightning and induced current is definitely no joke, I've had a strike about 100 yards from my home and the metal furniture I was touching at the time gave me quite the exciting jolt, and a couple of times lightning passed about 75 feet above my home to hit...
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    Hi, I'm here because I want to upgrade...

    If they are addressed, they're not above the fold in any of the stickied posts in the BI section or Cybersecurity section, or IP Cam Talk Wiki If such guides exist here, I'm happy to be proven wrong, please link them. :) In the meantime, compare and contrast that to the first party option, a...
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    Hi, I'm here because I want to upgrade...

    If I wasn't clear, I was refering to IPCamTalk's guides, not Blue Iris (or any other vendor) itself, because I've also had very few guides like that come along, usually from Juniper, Cisco, Microsoft, the really big players and written because they employ PhD's and writing the books is a side...
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    Hi, I'm here because I want to upgrade...

    That's not how exploits work. Someone has a malicious app on my phone does not mean they necessarily have all of my data and pics, nor does it mean you're completely fucked. The point is to stop the attack chain as early as possible. Seriously, here's a book for you: https://a.co/d/cD9VrHS...
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    Hi, I'm here because I want to upgrade...

    I'm going to break this into two specific answers: Attack surface is a pretty simple concept: it's running less code and has fewer open ports. We know it's insecure for other reasons, but take a look at just how many services are running out of the box on a Win10.x install, and how many ports...
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    Hi, I'm here because I want to upgrade...

    Dahua makes an appliance - their security updates (and lack thereof) are on a much smaller platform and attack surface. There isn't a print spooler you need to secure, a bunch of background services to disable (e.g. XBox) and so on. A, "Clean," Windows install comes with a ton of bloat of a...
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    Hi, I'm here because I want to upgrade...

    For NVR, Dahua (and most others) they mostly rely on the camera to be intelligent and handle most of the data processing and heavy lifting, so camera selection is key. With Blue Iris, the intelligence can be put back in the PC itself, or it can use what's built into the camera - so you can...
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    Shots fired - Help with re-configuration of Camera set-up

    1 That depends what do you define as, "Cheap." Continuous 30 day recording for me is over $10k - I'd need disk shelves, SAS controllers, additional PCI-E slots, plus the ongoing cost of electricity, rack space, etc - it becomes a 4U 1kw solution. As opposed to 1U with a couple of 16 TB disks...
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    IP camera dhcp or static addresses

    From Altice (formerly Cablevision). The big question is why in the heck are you using publicly routable IPs for your cameras? Somewhere, you have a route crossed.
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    Shots fired - Help with re-configuration of Camera set-up

    In Blue Iris there's a setting that records when triggered and goes for a certain period of time, on the Trigger tab the "End trigger unless re-triggered within" box - mine is set to 5 minutes, plus a pre-trigger record time of 10 seconds. If cameras also have an overlapping FOV, you can have...
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    Waterproofing connection to camera

    Mastic tape is an even better choice. It's what amateur radio operators use, because even a tiny bit of water can affect signal on LMR400 - Ethernet is a much less sensitive connection.
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    Is it worth getting an outdoor camera instead of a partly hidden indoor camera facing outwards?

    Especially with how small most of them are. To be honest though, there's something to be said about being obvious - I have two really big obnoxious cameras covering my driveway (and only practical entrance to the property), where I could have gotten much smaller ones to do the same job. They...
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    Various viewing stations throughout a house?

    Your math is off, for 4 cameras it's a divide by 2; for 9 cameras, divide by three - it's similar to the square cube law: A 4K display can put up four 1080p images at full resolution, or nine 720p at full resolution. A 1080p display can put up four 540p images, or nine 360p images. That's...
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Insurance having requirements for any installed surveillance systems. And this is still hopefully still about cheap temporary network cams, I just have one requirement that apparently got people's dander up for some reason.
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    It's irrelevant because I didn't ask for NDAA compliant cameras and never said it's a requirement. Those are trivial to find a database of. Aside, saying that just shutting off the internet or using dual NICs is enough is disingenuous: it isn't, at least not for the last few years. To be...
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Very nice long post. Also irrelevant to the discussion. I have a checkbox I need to comply with, it's not a preference. For anybody referencing this thread in the future (yes I've come across far too many posts where nobody does any follow-up and so I'll be a good internet citizen): The NDAA...
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Chinese manufacture is OK so long as they're not Chinese OEM (e.g. a re-badge). The literal requirement is no OEM from PRC state-owned entities, which when it comes to surveillance cameras is, of course, all of them out of the PRC. The physical hardware is all global for virtually every camera...
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Yes that's each, (hence the /camera), that's actually what I paid last time I needed one, also as a pet cam. I'm actually quite pleased with wifi camera performance on shared APs, but we're also talking about enterprise-class equipment with multiple APs. Firmware manufacture is a compliance...
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Unfortunately it's a hard requirement; I fortunately don't need to go whole hog NDAA compliant though. Wyze don't appear to have BI compatibility (maybe I'm wrong?) I know that I can spend my way out of this situation, and especially already owning the backend it certainly would make more...
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Not all, but virtually everything on Amazon. TRENDnet and Wyze are US-based, and Axis is Swedish/Japanese, Panasonic is Japanese, etc. It's certainly a fraction of what it was 10 years ago though.
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Haha, yes, yes they are, they're a rebadged Dahua using firmware written by a state-owned company. If it had US/SK/JP/etc based firmware, I'd actually be quite happy with the camera even though it's at the upper end of my price range.
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    Cheap indoor PT camera for temporary install?

    Long story short, my in-laws are going to leave their home unattended for a bit over a month during this upcoming winter, and we'd like to be able to keep an eye on the place. Exterior security is not a concern, but freezing pipes, random leaks, broken windows, etc, are. I'm putting some...
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