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  1. Left Coast Geek

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

    hah. mine sits on the right edge of my desk, and is connected to a dedicated 24" wall mount monitor, right next to the dual screens on my main PC workstation. ok, the miniPC now lives where those old HK speakers were temporarily. that wall mount monitor has HDMI audio :)
  2. Left Coast Geek

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

    I will never get a car year/make/model nor a license plate from here...
  3. Left Coast Geek

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

    yah, all that. I'm the latest idjit who bought the HP mini after a bunch of crappy cameras. Its OK, if the drive craps out on me, I'll get something better. maybe I'll end up making that little box my big desktop to replace my old I5-3570K beast... . I'm pretty sure this HP supports dual...
  4. Left Coast Geek

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

    my view of the road is from 180 feet away, and perpendicular, looking through a tree tunnel :D .... about all its good for is counting cars. now it is timestamped, and you tell what size/color car it was and how about fast it was going, also audio. if I'd been recording, it would have...
  5. Left Coast Geek

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

    do you guys usually record 24/7, or just on motion trigger?
  6. Left Coast Geek

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

    FWIW, I use the Android BI app on my phone nad on my tablet, it works just fine for me. its particularly handy when I'm aiming a camera, but I also access it (via a VPN server on my router) when I'm out of town just to check up on the place.
  7. Left Coast Geek

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

    while I've not used any of the modern NVRs, I presume they simplify camera setup ? as it is, with the mix of dahua and hikvision cams I have now, the exposure settings for night vision etc are pretty funky, each camera has its own webservice to set them up.
  8. Left Coast Geek

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

    that gaming computer probably has a 200 watt video board in it, tho... not something you partiicularlyl want running 24/7 in a NVR
  9. Left Coast Geek

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

    my sorta tuned EmpireTech Loyota (Dahua OEM) IPC-T5442T-ZE at 12mm, with an auxilliary 7 watt 30 degree IR spotlight lighting the driveway entrance, near total darkness outside at 2AM the other night... where i turn around is about 180 feet from the camera....
  10. Left Coast Geek

    A browser that WORKS for camera interface

    and MSIE is apparently going away for good in a near future Windows 10 update. Apparently there's an IE Tab extension for Chrome but I don't know if that relies on the underlying MSIE APIs which may or may not be going away when IE itself is dumped.
  11. Left Coast Geek

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

    yeah, I found that out after getting it, and worse, the 2TB 2.5" disk I got turned out to be SMR (head plant on desk!). if/when it dies, I'll probably hack an external 3.5 esata drive onto it. I'm only recording on motion triggers, so there's rarely more than 2-3 recordings going on at...
  12. Left Coast Geek

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

    for sure, DIY NVR's, using a mid-aged mini PC and BI are probably more expensive than most turnkey NVRs. I think I paid $300 something for a HP EliteDesk Mini 800g2 w/ 16GB ram and a Core I7-6700 and another something for a 2TB 2.5" disk (the HP came with a 256GB M.2 SSD for the boot device)...
  13. Left Coast Geek

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

    I would definitely go with Dahua over hikvision. the cameras are better, the mounts are better. I particularly like the turret ('eyeball') style 5442 cams with the 203/204 wall mounts. the HiKvision wall mount is big, clunky, and ugly. when you go with a canned NVR like that, you want...
  14. Left Coast Geek

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

    Yeah, standard silicon cmos chips don't do 940 at all well I specifically wanted a spot to light that back area, if it was a flood, the trailer would be way too bright. It is too bright so I need a dimmer flood to equalize the foreground
  15. Left Coast Geek

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

    ok, here's test # 4, with v1 of having extra lighting. probably too much but hey. zoom at 12mm gamma=60 exposure=1/60 exposure comp=55 advanced 3D NR=45 advanced 2D NR=25 no WDR/BLC/HLC 8192kbps CBR, 15fps, iframe=60 that IR spotlight is darn near too bright, OR I need more wider...
  16. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS latest new firmware General_IPC-HX5XXX-Volt_MultiLang_NP_Stream3_V2.800.15OG004.0.R.201203

    so I've tried to deploy this for my IPC-T5442T-ZE, but its not working. got the service configured, it gets a legit sunrise/sunset time for my lat/long, configured the camera and I'm getting this in the logfile... this is from a manual 'sunrise'... 8/20/2021 11:22:38 AM...
  17. Left Coast Geek

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

    ok, per my laser measuring thingie, the trailer is about 50 feet from the camera, those trees are about 100 feet from the camera, and the 30 degree spotlight is about 75 feet from the corner of the woods.
  18. Left Coast Geek

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

    well, first try at setting up a spot illuminator to light those back woods, and I wish it had a dimmer. I'll have to play around with using some black tape as an aperture to better balance it. this 30 degree spot is about 60 feet from those woods, while the camera is about 110 feet the...
  19. Left Coast Geek

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

    hahaahahah. me too.
  20. Left Coast Geek

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

    that, I think, is my next step.
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