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  1. kklee

    Deepstack - Soo many motion detections are being marked as "nothing found".. othertimes it works?

    You may want to consider adding a GPU for DS, it makes a big difference. Quadro P400's are readily available (new!) at a reasonable price, unlike mainstream video cards. It's pretty easy to switch the DS configuration over to GPU. WIthout the GPU, CPU would hit 98%+ during detections, which...
  2. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    In my case, I want to capture motion that happens outside of a motion zone. For example, the motion zone for my front path doesn't include the gate to cut down on shadows from people walking by on the sidewalk, so it only triggers when somebody walks down the path to my front door. The...
  3. kklee

    Direct burial Cat6 above ground?

    I have direct burial cable run on the side of my house (in direct sunlight) for over a year and no issues so far. Squirrels haven't touched it (they like climbing on the stucco, one scared the daylights out of my wife once by peeking in through a 2nd story window).
  4. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    I haven't had any issues caused by the pre-trigger buffer, I have mine set to 5 seconds, DS set to 6 images at 500ms intervals. When I check the DS analysis, it's showing the expected frames being processed by DS. I did have random detection issues previously, but it was due to the CPU being...
  5. kklee

    is solarwinds safe to use to monitor my lan?

    Yep, firewall rules for those pesky ones...
  6. kklee

    is solarwinds safe to use to monitor my lan?

    I use a pi-hole to block DNS queries which prevents them from phoning home.
  7. kklee

    Network Cable Testers

    Most of the inexpensive testers do the same thing, run basic tests. Continuity, correct pairing, and cable length are basic tests, but not necessarily a sign of a good cable. I have a really old Monoprice tester. I ran into this just last week, where I have a pre made cable that worked for...
  8. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Did some reconfiguration last night after installing a Quadro P400 in my BI PC. I ran into some weird issues and had to make some interesting changes. I disabled DS, installed the P400 and requisite Nvidia drivers. After this, CPU kept running well over 90% without making any other changes...
  9. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    5.4.9.x series has not been happy whenever I turn on the dark model, lots of DS errors, evident when running clips through the real-time analyser. 5.4.9.10 seems to work better, just updated to it and ran a few clips through the analyser, no errors at all. Of note, the idle CPU percentage with...
  10. kklee

    For the gurus

    When I set up New recordings to use dated directories, the Alerts automatically did the same thing. New and Alerts use separate parent directories on the same drive. I could not find anything to explain why the Alerts did this too since I also couldn't find a specific setting that would do...
  11. kklee

    Review: EZVIZ DB1C

    The wifi in wireless doorbells is less than stellar... If I recall correctly, in addition to my underpowered transformer, I had some problems when I upgraded to Unifi's Wifi6 AP's and had to fiddle with wifi settings to make the DB1C happy. Can't recall what those settings were though, it was...
  12. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    5.4.9.7 is working fine for me. DS is working for detection. I think Deepstack -1 means that Deepstack isn't running (or BI can't talk to it). You should be able to confirm this by clicking on the Test link on the AI configuration page.
  13. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Unfortunately, I gave away the only spare GPU I had quite a while ago, otherwise I'd switch to the GPU version. Guess I'll stick with my current config until I can get my hands on another nVidia card.
  14. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Checking out the overnight activity, I'm not getting any DS errors, but object detection tanked, so I think I'll leave it at medium without custom/dark, that seems to work the best for my system. My other machine is an i7-7700K, 16GB RAM, 1Gbe, same as the BI system, so I was hoping to offload...
  15. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Just reporting on my findings with DS set to Low and custom mode dark enabled. It seems to be working well, no DS errors and detection seems to be the same as Medium. I'll leave it like this for a while longer and see how it goes. Just as a test, I tried to set up DS on another PC that runs...
  16. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Running default, medium. Maybe I'll try Low with the dark model and see what happens.
  17. kklee

    Review: EZVIZ DB1C

    I had that going on with my DB1C when I first installed it. There's an AP less than 10 feet away, but it was constantly dropping/reconnecting. It replaced an RCA DB2A, which was working fine. It seems that the DB1C needed more power, it stabilised after I upgraded to a 16VAC 30VA transformer.
  18. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Updated to 5.4.9.6 last night and enabled dark.pt. Got a few Deepstack 100's overnight, no 170's with this version. No other issues. Did a little messing around this morning with DS running in a Command window to see if it generated any interesting messages. Didn't see anything obvious. I...
  19. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    I had disabled the dark model with 5.4.9.4 due to the number of deepstack errors that I was seeing. I've re-enabled the dark model with 5.4.9.5 and it seems to be working better at first blush. Only one deepstack error so far on the camera that was constantly generating them. I'll have to...
  20. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    In my case, I have BI/DS configured so that specific cameras generate a push alert to my phone when DS reports a person. The dark model helped to improve people detection for people dressed in dark clothing or at night. Being an IT nerd, I like playing with BI/DS object detection on cameras...
  21. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    I find it interesting that people are experiencing wildly different results with DS. As an experiment, I disabled custom models (I was using the dark model). I changed the DS trigger configuration to 500ms and 3 images. Running 5.4.9.4. In addition, I reconfigured my deck camera (which was...
  22. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    Hmm, curious, I wonder what's going on with your system? For what it's worth, my system is an i7-7700K with 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive and two Seagate skyhawks for local storage. I have a mix of 5442's, Hikvision OEM 8MP, a couple of Amcrest cameras, and an EZVIZ DB1C doorbell. I have 9 cameras...
  23. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    I'm seeing similar tags with -1, 100, and 170. I'm guessing those are status codes from DS, tried to look them up, but DS documentation not very complete so I gave up.
  24. kklee

    Application error

    Just tossing this out here, I had random crashes long ago and it turned out to be an issue with the Visual C++ runtime. I updated it to the latest from the Microsoft web site and the crashing went away.
  25. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    I had similar results with unknown faces. I started playing with it with the later 5.4.8 versions, It stored a few unknowns and then stopped saving unknowns. After one of the more recent updates, it saved a couple of unknown faces and stopped working again. I added the unknown saves of my...
  26. kklee

    5.4.9 - June 25, 2021

    I'm on 5.4.9.2 and things seem to be working well (also worked well with 5.9.4.1). I'm using the builtin and dark models in DS and it is detecting objects pretty well, people, cars, and birds. I have cloned cameras configured, one for continuous recording and the other for triggered motion (I...
  27. kklee

    BI/Deepstack haven't alerted on a car pulling into driveway - need help answering "why?"

    Just adding my experience with the DS analysis tuning over the last couple of weeks. The custom dark model seems to be working well for me. It's picking up people and cars better at night. During the day, it will often show a higher confidence for a person than the built-in model. Faces has...
  28. kklee

    Cant view clips from one camera in App

    I've had this problem with cameras that record in H265 (works fine with H264), The fix was changing the LAN/WAN Encoder profiles from VBR to CBR.
  29. kklee

    DeepStack "Nothing Found"

    I have the same problem and on top of that, Windows crashed a couple of times due to a memory leak causing it to run out of resources, the two programs identified in the event log as the cause are BI and DS. I've turned off faces for now to see if that helps. The first crash happened a few...
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  30. kklee

    Out of memory error?

    I have a fairly old installation, upgraded from v4 and continuously upgraded. Having said that, I reconfigured all the paths a few weeks ago due to a hard drive failure. I have over 64,000 files in an archive folder on a NAS and BI seems to handle it okay, although the DB rebuild takes a very...
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