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  1. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    ok, someone mentioned PoE mode A and B before, so I looked them up. PoE mode A uses pins 1,2,3,6 for power, this is the default mode for 802.3af, but an 802.3af supply is supposed to support both modes. PoE mode B uses pins 4,5,7,8, which are not connected in your splitter. old 24V passive...
  2. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    otoh, those are not weatherproof, so would need to be put in a weatherbox with compression glands around all wires that exit said weather box.
  3. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    are you trying to use this with gigE ? 2-pair (4-wire) is only good for 100baseT, gigE requires all 4 pairs, 8 wires...
  4. Left Coast Geek

    Satelite Internet Connection

    all the existing geostationary internet systems have extremely slow and high latency uplinks. so if your NVR or BI is at a site served by satellite, and you try and access this from anywhere else, the video playback will be brutally slow and bursty with about 1 second round trip request...
  5. Left Coast Geek

    electrical boxes for CAT5 cable?

    this is an office, so surely its going to have ethernet for office computers and such, as well as telephone wiring, no ? PoE cameras are exactly the same except for exterior mounting, and needing to go to a PoE switch rather than a regular ethernet switch. Talk to whomever is taking care of...
  6. Left Coast Geek

    electrical boxes for CAT5 cable?

    well, for outdoor camera mounting locations, you want a camera brand/model specific weatherbox. For example, Dahua 'turret' aka 'eyeball' cameras, there's some with 3 screws, and others with 4 screws, so they have two different weatherboxes. an example such...
  7. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    um, thats not what I'm going for. but thats ok, i get it, the consensus is the camera network should be static IP, manually tracked with a spreadsheet and/or notebook.
  8. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    heh, cowboy networking, all absolute addresses. sigh. thats what we were doing 15-20 years ago with industrial stuff. I like using DNS and DHCP on my networks, makes it much easier to manage. Ah well, first I'm going to have to run another cable before I can do this, because one of the...
  9. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    I set my lease times on my DHCP Servers to at least a couple days, and then everything important gets a DHCP Reservation, which is equivalent to static while keeping all the config in one place. further thinking while sitting on the 'throne', I realized I just need a DHCP Relay, as the DHCP...
  10. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    so I want to move my cameras to a separate network by adding a 2nd NIC to my BI Windows 10 PC and connecting my PoE switches to that. I'm assuming I'll need to provide DHCP service on that network so the cameras can autoconfigure their network settings... Whats the best way of doing that...
  11. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    thats more challenging when its a 24V or 48V system. and, golf cart batts like to be charged with between 10 and 40 amps. here's a 20A 24V charger, meant for a electric fork lift style system. Amazon.com: 24V 20A High Frequency On Board Pallet Jack Battery Charger with SB175 Conector by DPI...
  12. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    regular consumer grade UPS's like the typical BackUPS 600 kind of stuff, I've always been worried that the charger circuit can't handle the current load of charging a big battery. the middle and larger sizes of SmartUPS that have the external battery pack options can. just be sure to string...
  13. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    EcoFlow Delta Max... claims 2000 watt*hours, if it was based on a lead acid battery, that would be about what two golf cart batteries can hold, but its a NCM (Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt and Manganes). For $2000, I'm not sure its that great of a deal but it should run a 200 watt total...
  14. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    I'd find a larger APC SmartUPS, like an SU2200, that has the EBP connector, which is a big Andersen PowerPole connector. these typically are 24v or 48 v systems, although I've seen some that are 96V. use golf cart batteries, which are rated at 200-220AH each at 6V, 4 in series for 24V, 8...
  15. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Switch Suggestion List

    so how bad are these switches sold here? IPCamPower POE Switch (4, 8, 16 & 24-port) | IP Cam Talk Store
  16. Left Coast Geek

    Any 5V outdoor camera?

    hah, yeah, I knew it sucked. but now USB C PD includes profiles for 18 watts and even higher. my wife had a 90W laptop from her $job that ran off USB C port with the right 90W adapter and port expander.. that is all useless for outdoor cameras.,
  17. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Switch Suggestion List

    so it has 5+ year old firmware? or is this a dumb switch? I would not run a Cisco Catalyst (managed) switch in any sort of production environment without a support contract so I could keep the firmware up to date.
  18. Left Coast Geek

    Any 5V outdoor camera?

    the only way I'd consider doing rechargeable battery powered cameras would be with solar panels, and that would probably be a 12V system, either using AGM or LiFePo4 12V batts.
  19. Left Coast Geek

    Any 5V outdoor camera?

    USB cables, connectors, and power bricks are not weatherproof, not even close. There's a hard maximum length for a USB cable, too, its like 21 feet or something. none of this is conducive to outdoor cameras, mine are all on 75 foot, 100, and 150 foot cable runs.
  20. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    ok, I've set the iframe back to 15 as in 15fps. I initially cranked it up to 60 because I was getting one sharp frame then 14 really blocky ones every second but tahts before I upped the data rate to 8192 kbps. btw, this last set, I disabled my privacy blocks in the lower left corner, and put...
  21. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Switch Suggestion List

    real Cisco stuff is expensive, and requires annual support contracts that are about 30% of the hardware cost. Linksys "Cisco" stuff isn't much different than any other consumer brand (netgear, dlink, tplink, etcetc). Anyways, does Cisco even do PoE+ except for supporting their own devices ?
  22. Left Coast Geek

    odd Export behavior

    ok, it seems if I right click > Convert/Export... on the thumbnail in the left hand 'clips' column, it ignores the start/end markers, but if I right click the video itself, Convert/Export, it uses them
  23. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    I have a swiss pc.engines APU2D4 quad core 4GB ram cpu board I use as a router, has 3 intel gigE ports (but no PoE), and draw like 7 watts. I wonder if with poe switches, you could turn this into a NVR. oh yeah, no video, I guess it would only run a linux/unix NVR. meh. its a quad core...
  24. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for a simple system I know what I need it to do, but I do not know what to get.

    oh! and don't put the cameras anywhere you can't reach with a spiderweb brush! the IR lights WILL attract spiderwebs which will be bright in the lens because they are so close. these work great for a regular evening walkabout taking the spiders off the cams...
  25. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for a simple system I know what I need it to do, but I do not know what to get.

    re all those ZE's, if you want to spend the time on this, get ONE ZE, try it in each location, and figure out what focal lengths you really want there. then for the ones that want wider angles (2.8, 3.6, 6mm), you can save like $50 a camera getting the -ASE model with a fixed lens stiick with...
  26. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    ok, the same perp walk where I U turn at about 160 feet from the camera, a IPC-T5442T-ZE at max 12mm zoom, with the dimmed IR narrow angle light aimed at the driveway entrance but not the trailer.
  27. Left Coast Geek

    odd Export behavior

    so I have BI set to record my 7 or 8 cameras using raw, the nto-so-important cameras have substreams enabled but the important one or two don't, including the one I'm dealing with here. I select a recorded video on the left column of such. I move the green and red markers to the start and end...
  28. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    wow, going on 4 pages now, hah. so tonight, i put some black tape over 2 of the 3 LEDs in the 30 degree IR illuminator I'd mounted to better balance the light this is what it looks like now. (a still). much better balanced with the foreground than before. I didn't touch the camera...
  29. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for a simple system I know what I need it to do, but I do not know what to get.

    the UB cameras don't have very good night vision with moving objects, anything moving, like a person walking, is very blurry under low light. UB is also discontinuing their software NVR, and requiring you buy one of their hardware NVRs. I sold my two UB cameras after that. I've experimented...
  30. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    I mostly lurk in a couple sql database channels, pfsense, and freenas aka truenas.
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