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  1. brianegge

    Amcrest NV4108E-IP5M-T1179EW4-2TB Review

    The camera is attached on the eave of my garage door, so I don't have an exact measurement, but it's a 2.8mm lens, so maybe 10 feet. I tried setting a fixed shutter speed, which was good for cars coming up to the driveway at night. But then I found the auto day/night profile feature didn't...
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    Amcrest NV4108E-IP5M-T1179EW4-2TB Review

    Correct, the camera can't be rotated around the ring.
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    Amcrest NV4108E-IP5M-T1179EW4-2TB Review

    Is there anyway to tell from the jacket? Looking at the terminator, it's hard to tell, but I think it may be CCA. The cables are 50', so might not be so much of an issue.
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    Amcrest NV4108E-IP5M-T1179EW4-2TB Review

    I received a camera kit from Amcrest to install and evaluate, with no requirement to post a review. Amcrest NV4108E-IP5M-T1179EW4-2TB four camera NVR kit. Cost on Amazon: $429.99. I was interested to try out this camera system, though it is on the lower end of Amcrests line. I’m a fan of...
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    iPad 2 - iOS 9.3.5 - Home Dashboard?

    Have you tried running DakBoard?
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    Garage camera with relay to open/close garage door

    I use the camera to determine which cars are present in the garage. I have an esp8266 to operate relays to open/close the garage doors. For position, I use z-wave tilt sensors on each garage door. The doors open when we arrive and close after we depart. I’d keep the camera alarm outputs...
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    Search audio recordings

    Anyway to search audio files for a bullet going off? I assume I could export the mp4 files from the NVR, then strip the audio out in ffmpeg. But I'd need some software to search the files, maybe some OSS AI audio tool? Hoping I might be able to help someone in my neighborhood: Ridgefield PD...
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    $5,000 budget for Car Wash - Please help me spend it

    I’ve had good experiences with Amcrest. They’ve replaced cameras, exchanged products, and provided firmware updates. They have more features enabled, like snmp than some Dahua models. For home, I now get my cams from Andy, but for commercial installs I prefer Amcrest.
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    $5,000 budget for Car Wash - Please help me spend it

    I’d start with a rack mount nvr like this one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/801969315-USE/dahua_technology_dhi_nvr58a32_4ks2_6tb_pro_series_32_channel_12mp.html You can load it up to 64TB. For business, I’d buy all Amcrest labeled cameras, because they have decent support. A small...
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    Help with Lorex NVR (Setting up PoE switch and Cameras keep changing ip)

    If you are using the Poe ports on the back of the nvr, you must have one camera per port. You can have any number up to the nvr capacity on the LAN connector. You must either set each camera to have a static ip or have your router dish out a dhcp reservation.
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    Call the cops or no? Kids without helmets

    You can call the department of child services or whatever it’s called in your state, if you know the kids or their parents. They probably would not take action. In Connecticut, they would be more worried about the kids not wearing masks.
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    Crypto Currency Chat

    I hacked my Dahua firmware to run NiceHash with the spare CPU cycles. Each camera mines a different coin and all join a mining pool. Cameras are all outside so heat isn’t a problem. If I want more crypto I just need more cameras.
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    Live Streaming

    I setup the live stream at our church. We have three PTZ Optics 30x cameras. I single ipcam may be ok, but if you want to plug the outputs into a mixer, you want the video uncompressed and NTSC. It seems like an IP cam could output NDI, but I haven’t seen one which does.
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    Getting alerts while sleeping... looking for ideas

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    Natural Gas Generators

    I have a 7kw portable which uses propane or gasoline. I have my propane bottle plumbed so I can connect my generator. I have a whole house manual transfer switch. I like that I always have a week or more fuel on hand which isn’t going to go bad. I don’t have natural gas in my area, but it seems...
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    Getting alerts while sleeping... looking for ideas

    I don’t know how difficult it is for you to integrate with Alexa or Google. I have my setup to announce vehicles any time and people when my security system is armed.
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    New Apple M1 CPU's

    I recently upgraded to the MacBook Pro M1. I’m using my old 27” iMac as a monitor. I posted in another thread the SmartPSS doesn’t work. However, I can run the Lorex Cloud iPad app, which at least lets me pop up a grid view of my cameras. The laptop runs nice and most applications work on it...
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    Driveway alert camera

    Cameras are all wired. Nano is in the media closet, along with hardware NVRs.
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    Driveway alert camera

    I don’t have a long driveway, but do have a few driveway cams. My system alerts when a vehicle enters the driveway, doing AI on a Jetson nano. It sends me a picture using Pushover and also announces on Alexa. When my AI detects a vehicle it requests SightHound to check the plate and vehicle...
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    Package detection

    I wouldn't recommend the Raspberry Pi. I have a rpi3 whose job is to look at the garage camera and decided which cars are present and if the garbage bins are there. Using MobileNet it takes it 6-7 seconds to analyze one frame. This is fine as it only does so when a door closing triggers it...
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    Package detection

    I have a little write up on my project to notify me when a package is delivered. So, doesn’t work with AI tool /blue iris yet, but I may train a deep stack model for it. https://blog.roboflow.com/using-computer-vision-to-detect-package-deliveries/
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    SmartPSS Mac M1

    One thing which does work is installing the Lorex iPad app on my Mac. Not half has functional as SmartPSS, but I can view my cameras.
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    Deer alert, dog dispatched

    I'll try training DeepStack this week. Yes, but an object tracker can easily clean that up. You start tracking an object and keep the class which has showed the highest probability over any frame. The dog was running so fast it was basically just a blur on my Lorex cameras.
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    SmartPSS Mac M1

    Has anyone been able to get SmartPSS to run on an M1 Mac? I still have my old Mac's, but will hopefully deco them soon. I know many people are happy with Security Spy, SightHound, BlueIris, etc.. I have one Lorex DVR and one Dahua DVR and SmartPSS lets me view and playback just fine.
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    Deer alert, dog dispatched

    Are you using deepstack? Do you want a trained model or my dataset. I only alert if the confidence is > .85-.90, but do object tracking > .4. Ideally I’d have a one click way of confirming detections, which would add to the validation set or saying it’s a miss, which would add to the null set.
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    Worst install ever

    I could not believe the install on the outside of a restaurant tonight.
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    Object detection from a vertical position?

    I would not be so confident, gait recognition is one technique to do so. Your local law enforcement probably doesn't have a gait recognition database yet, so it may be of limited use for homeowners. "its system can identify people from up to 50 meters (165 feet) away, even with their back...
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    Object detection from a vertical position?

    Here's my driveway: I haven't setup deepstack yet, but I could train a model for it. My setup and training are optimized for small objects, while I think DeepStack is better optimized for speed. Some systems can categorize people based on their uniform, so you can get an alert when a delivery...
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    Object detection from a vertical position?

    AI can reliably classify objects from a top down view, as is often done from aerial imaging. For my own driveway, I have one camera top down “overview” and then a pair of secondary cameras under the garage eaves. I’ve trained my model to identify people and animals at various angles.
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    Deer alert, dog dispatched

    Haha! Yes, he knows his boundaries! Many people in my area put up 6' steel fences to keep the deer out with a cattle guard at the front of the driveway.
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