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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    They’d be very attractive if the batteries were better or cheaper. Wife and I could get by with one car now, and it’s tempting to get an electric one since we don’t go more than a couple of miles 95% of the time. But there’s that other 5%… California now turns the power off when the winds...
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 troubleshooting

    One of my fails was at the beach, so yeah, humidity. But the other was in the San Fernando Valley, dry as it gets without going to te desert. But we get three rainy months, and that’s enough to kill an rj45 in a couple of years, even inside a housing.
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 troubleshooting

    I can say that I got corrosion when I didn’t use it. So far, none when I did.
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 troubleshooting

    I’m sure rj45s were never intended for exterior use. All those delicate little contacts in close-packed channels perfect for concentrating moisture and dirt.
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    Malibu Fires

    I once heard Vladimir Putin say people do what they get paid to do. This was in the context of the war in Syria, but it applies to homelessness too. If you give homeless people tents, needles, food, money and easy access to drugs, meanwhile overtaxing everyone else, you should expect more...
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 troubleshooting

    I’ve had a couple of cameras go bad that started good but began failing intermittently. The culprit both times was corroded rj45s.
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    My wife’s great grandfather made electric cars in the 1910s and 1920s, the Baker Electric. They had nickel-iron batteries, which will still work if you put fresh electrolyte in periodically, but they aren’t very energy dense. The recent advances in nuclear fusion make me hope that cheap, clean...
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    Malibu Fires

    It’s nice they arrested a couple of looters, but the real problem is the legislators and governor who gave them the imprimatur by making theft of less that $1,000 in value the same as a traffic ticket. Why arrest people for stealing when you told them stealing is ok?
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    Malibu Fires

    We did manage to get rid of George Gascon, the Soros DA, this last election.
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    Malibu Fires

    Yes and no. In the mayoral election a couple of years ago, Rick Caruso was ahead the whole way, until right at the end they “found” some boxes of ballots and what do you know? Karen Bass, the establishment candidate, won. So did we vote for it?
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    Malibu Fires

    And just to rant a bit more, the hills around LA aren’t all that solid. Most of them are more like dirt mounds than stone mountains. So if your house doesn’t burn, it will likely slide during an earthquake. I had a college professor who lived in the Pallisades. Before he bought the house he...
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    Malibu Fires

    And re your comment about floods, the perplexing thing is we have strict zoning and insurance regulations against building in flood plains. In LA, we have a flood once in 30 or 40 years. But you want to build on a hill that probably burned 4 or 5 years ago? Here’s your permit!
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    Malibu Fires

    Generally, the fires go uphill. Once they get to the top, they usually don’t keep going. I know this time there was an area on the flats that got burnt, but almost all of these fires were on hilly areas. The areas you’re hearing about, Malibu and Pacific Pallisades, are both built on cliffs...
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    New to BI - Confused AF and need some help please!

    +1 on wittaj’s computer comments. The 6950x and a gtx10_0 is way overkill. Take the money it represents and buy better cameras. For your live monitors you can use very lightweight computers like old hp t620s or intel mac minis running a lightweight linux distro (Lubuntu works well) and a...
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    Malibu Fires

    I’m actually surprised it took so long. When I was a kid, no one would consider building on the hills around LA because everyone knew they burned every few years. The hills became valuable view lots, but they were also the only land left in a lot of areas. I never understood how they got...
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    Malibu Fires

    My house is on the flats, so no danger of fires, but they turned off the power for four days anyway. That’s the standard response to high winds now. We have high winds every year. In LA, we’ve become like South Africa, not even trying to maintain or improve the infrastructure. People who can...
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    Which nVidia GPUs are you using?

    I see where it says that: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Specs Fwiw, nvidia says may 1016: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti/ But I’ve got an email where I mentioned it to a colleague from 2015, so I know it’s close to ten years old.
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    Dahua hard reset button

    Don’t forget to power with an adapter outputting at least 2 amps when you do the hard reset. A lot of the time it won’t actually reset on POE or even 12v if under 2amps.
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    Notice the Amazon strike?

    One of the few social media venues not to censor people expressing doubts about the 2020 election was called Parler. Amazon Web Services silenced Parler by deplatforming it. In addition to all the other good reasons for breaking Amazon into tiny, tiny pieces, that, on its own is a sufficient...
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    Which nVidia GPUs are you using?

    I have a gtx1080ti, which I don’t use for BI, but even though it’s about 13 years old, it’s a beast. You have to get pretty fancy card$ to out perform it. Overkill, unless you run lots of AI cameras, but if you do, it could probably handle the load despite its age.
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    NVIDIA's $249 Secret Weapon for Edge AI - Jetson Orin Nano Super: Driveway Monitor : Dave's Garage

    Where can you buy it for $249?
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    Building my home network

    Probably.
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    Which CCTV systems will interchange with a Dahua system?

    Something like an intel i350 dual nic will work with almost anything. I think these usually take an x4 pcie slot, but you can find other nics that take an x1 slot. I’m surprised your old hp tower doesn’t have a suitable pcie slot. Yes, let us know how it comes together.
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    Building my home network

    I have been toying with the idea of getting a quad port card for a low power BI install in a vacation house. It really only needs a couple of cameras, so with a quad card, I could eliminate the switch, and put each camera on its own subnet. The cameras would have to be powered by wall adapters...
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    Building my home network

    Interesting idea about using the fiber sff ports to carry the chicken coop / mailbox signals. Those ports are usually used for uplinks to a main switch or router, but I can’t see why you couldn’t use them for a lateral branch. Your uplink will have to run through a normal port, but your switch...
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    Fall detection

    This seems live a very valuable ai feature. My inlaws in their 90s really need this. We hire someone to attend them all night largely because of the danger they’ll try to get up and fall. My mother in law broke her hip a few months ago this way.
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    Which CCTV systems will interchange with a Dahua system?

    I think that was me. Sometimes they’re less. Sometimes I go to pick stuff up and they offer me things for free if they haven’t sold in a few auctions. They need the space. I usually decline, because I need the space too. Every once in a while they sell a high powered laser, and I think...
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    Which CCTV systems will interchange with a Dahua system?

    It’s amazing how low the specs for a BI computer are. Ten year old SFF computers cast off from businesses and governments are what most people use. No graphics card needed unless you want to run some ai functions. To be fair, the nvr is also a switch, and the switch will put out heat, but...
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    Hello All Im Learning as i Go

    Interesting. I will cut out the ssd for new footage and see if I see a difference. Thanks wittaj.
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    Hello All Im Learning as i Go

    Here’s an ongoing discussion: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/which-computer-do-i-buy-to-run-blue-iris-on-what-do-you-use.71237/
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