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  1. Left Coast Geek

    POE camera that can FTP or SFTP a picture every 5 minutes w/o a NVR ?

    any PoE cameras that can be configured to FTP/SCP/SFTP/RSYNC a picture to a webserver every 5 minutes w/o needing a NVR or other sort of server? or will I need to do something with a raspberry pi or something for this?
  2. Left Coast Geek

    Why can't drivers with good driving etiquette report drivers with bad driving etiquette to the appropriate authorities?

    Mine moved here from Boston nearly 40 years ago and she's STILL a baaaad driver, speeding and tailgating.
  3. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    I wish these PoE cameras had an option to OUTPUT 12V at maybe .25 amp (eg, 3 watts) on its DC power connector so you could use that to power lighting.
  4. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    thats what I did with 2 of the 3 emitters on my 30 degree spot. about 6 layers of scotch 'magic' tape proved just enough to provide some fill light on the area where the trailer and car is parked while still throwing a ton of light in the narrow beam aimed at the driveway entrance from the...
  5. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    opoops, I missed that its a 940... afaik, that won't work very well with most of our cameras. I used the spot specifically to hit my driveway entrance which is 100+ feet away (I think the road is 160 feet or something). its tricky balancing lights between the foreground and distant, a...
  6. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    if yiou have a SD (micro?) card stuck in a camera, you're probably going to have to take the camera apart to extract it, and that quite likely will damage its weather seals.
  7. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    this is a 60 degree version, Amazon.com
  8. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    they are a little expensive. nicely made, properly weatherproof. to permanently install them outdoors, I would solder splice their pigtail to similar wire for the rest o the run, use marine shrink wrap to seal the wires and the whole thing. I'm looking at IR LED tape, that I can mount in...
  9. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    the spotlight had 3 LEDs that were just too bright at the ~100-120 foot range I was shooting for, so I covered 2 of them with 3-4 layers of scotch 'magic' tape to frost them, now 2 of them are floods, and the third is still a spot, this works pretty good. I've actually turned off the IR...
  10. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    this is an example of the night vision from a reasonable camera thats been setup properly. just a coyote that wandered by at 2am the other night camera is a @EmpireAndy IPC-T5442T-ZE at its maximum 12mm zoom, there's a IR spotlight off the lower left side illuminating the driveway entrance...
  11. Left Coast Geek

    Replacement fans for PoE switch...

    rack mount equipment is supposed to suck fresh air in the front and blow hot air out the back. but I've seen a bunch of relatively low power 1U network stuff that sucks it in one side and blows it out the other. I did my share of servers, RAT NEST! and a couple years later, I had to...
  12. Left Coast Geek

    Replacement fans for PoE switch...

    one thing you can do with 1U kinda commercial equipment in a SOHO is take the cover off, and mount it on some riser side plates so its now effectively a 3U or 4U, and put a couple low speed large fans aiming down at the board, with cardboard baffles. some plastic screening on both ends to...
  13. Left Coast Geek

    Replacement fans for PoE switch...

    big commercial switches like Brocades are intended for rack mount data center usage, where noise isn't an issue. A fan for a 1U chassis can only be like 25 or 30mm, and for a fan like that to move sufficient air, its going to be noisy
  14. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    most any cam will work OK in the daylight, where they really differ is in how good their night vision is. a poor camera might even superficially look ok on a still scene at night, but something moving will be too blurry. and many cheap cameras 'fake' it with very bright IR illuminators, which...
  15. Left Coast Geek

    Need some help, need to know what to buy?

    there are a /few/ out there... my kid spotted this one on a high mountain pass in Morrocco a few years ago...
  16. Left Coast Geek

    Why can't drivers with good driving etiquette report drivers with bad driving etiquette to the appropriate authorities?

    I've always thought that most of the drivers on SF Bay Area highways were fairly efficient, and just trying to get through the mess in a timely fashion with a minimum of drama, but recently I've seen some crazy stuff, like a dude careening from the far left 'fast' lane going 80-ish across ALL...
  17. Left Coast Geek

    Why can't drivers with good driving etiquette report drivers with bad driving etiquette to the appropriate authorities?

    heh, funny this thread got dredged up... I'm looking at late model (2018+) Ford Expeditions as replacement for my 2002 F250 longbed 4x4 diesel (7.3). the F250 is total overkill for towing our 4500 lb trailer, and its 60+ foot turning circle with a 21 foot long truck makes it just so...
  18. Left Coast Geek

    dahua outdoor WiFi IP camera

    wifi cameras still need power, and ethernet is just as easy to run as 12VDC power wiring, so why not use PoE and get rock solid connectivity AND power on the same wire ? I routed the ethernet for my outside cameras under the eves of the house, behind the backing boards that support the rain...
  19. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for IP Security Camera System with people (not facial) recognition

    IMHO, best cameras currently for night vision are those with 1/1.8" sensors, such as the Dahua IPC-T5442T-xx, these run $150-180 each, so 16 cameras will blow out your budget entirely. they have audio monitoring/recording, but you'd need something else for talking back. they are...
  20. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for IP Security Camera System with people (not facial) recognition

    BlueIris supports DeepStack which supports 'person' recognition (along with car, truck, bicycle, dog, cat, etc etc). you can configure which categories you want to alert on for each camera.
  21. Left Coast Geek

    how do you isolate cameras from the inetent?

    Steve Gibson of Gibson Research is a bit of a self-promoting twit, and his silly security scanner doesn't do much other than a simple port scan.
  22. Left Coast Geek

    deepstack 'tags' in BI regular viewer?

    ah. on the desktop UI, I need to look at Alerts, not 'all clips', THEN I see the Deepstack tagging.
  23. Left Coast Geek

    deepstack 'tags' in BI regular viewer?

    I have deepstack working, and in both the android ui3 app and the ui3 web version, my clips have tags for car, people, dogs, etc, but I don't see these on the desktop UI ? is there some setting I'm missing ?
  24. Left Coast Geek

    For those who have hidden or disguised Cams in faux Bird House's, any issues with birds pecking or damaging the lens?

    do note that putting a camera behind a glass (or plastic window) will induce reflections, which will be much worse if the camera has any sort of illuminator.
  25. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    So let's ban Toyota for supplying Hilux trucks to Jihadists around the world?
  26. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    very soft soil there. I actually stuck it back in the ground last night after investigating the immediate area to see if there was evidence of a freshly caught gopher or something (didn't see any), and this morning it fell over the other way.
  27. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    its a fallen over solar garden light :-p
  28. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    Just remember, Open Source Software is only free if your time is worthless. :winktongue:
  29. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    anyways, cool owl! I'm pretty sure its a young Great Horned Owl. the adults have 6 foot plus wingspan, they are LARGE birds, but they fly totally silently
  30. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    You could setup a bunch of discrete BI servers that all 'pushed' alert/trigger videos from the 'shared' cameras to a central webserver, and whip up some sort of website to view them..... this wouldn't be as sweet as a single BI instance, but could be workable enough. pfSense is the...
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