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  1. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    tonight's sound track is brought to you by Samantha Fish ->
  2. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    yeah. I have a couple UB mFi Power plugs. they discontiuneed the whole mFI product line, but it was power management. I have, I think, 3 of the single plugs. one runs the hot water recirculator pump in the garage, and a macro in their mFI controller program shuts it off if its been on for...
  3. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    tell us what you really think! :-P
  4. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    thats something I've not tried to quantify yet My home office draws around 250-300 watts most of the time, feeding SmartUPS 1200 UPS that powers... always on main PC desktop 2 IPS 1920x1200 24" montors for desktop, on when I'm using it several network switches HP MicroServer truenas box (20TB...
  5. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    to my naked eye, the LEDs on the Reolinks are visibly much brighter than those on either the Dahua or Hikvision turrets I have. I chase far more spiderwebs off the Reolinks than the others. I guess i didn't word it strongly enough, I was trying to say, the Reolinks pretty much suck at night...
  6. Left Coast Geek

    Losing signal on all cameras randomly after BI 4 to 5 upgrade....

    well, i have bi 5.5.x and a mix of currently 7 reolink, dahua(empire, amcrest), hikvision, and haven't had any issues. i'm using cheap generic 'stupid' POE switches
  7. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    A few random comments ... I have a couple cheap ($49) Reolinks, I thnk they are the RLC-410? they work fine with BI, but their IR illuminator is just way too bright and is a total spider magnet, and yeah, the night vision is not very good for motion, and if I turn down the illuminator the...
  8. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    bobcat. have only seen cougars around back with a trail camera
  9. Left Coast Geek

    Dahua camera logins

    if they were using simlpe html forms, paste would work automatically. they have to be doing some weird JScript stuff to break copy/paste.
  10. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    its people you want to see, not cars driving by. ok, I like seeing animals, too. to reduce noise, I mostly use 1/60th as my night shutter speed, and tune the 2D and 3D noise reduction til it looks good
  11. Left Coast Geek

    Impressed with HFW5442E-ZE

    I would do night color if I had soft indirect lighting evenly distributed around my drive and walk ways. but as an amateur astronomer, I like the dark, and i'm hesitant to add lights to ruin that.
  12. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    oh, let me add this to that. the MicroLight IR illuminators are awesome. even light for exactly the specified cone, with a clean cutoff.
  13. Left Coast Geek

    Impressed with HFW5442E-ZE

    I dunno, IR has always looked plastic to me, but that doesn't bother me, I've seen enough of it to know what is what.. I want to run an IR light tape around my eaves and shut off all the camera illuminators. heh. suppose it would be smart to turn them all on again if there was any alarm
  14. Left Coast Geek

    Dahua camera logins

    When I access either of my Dahua cameras directly with Chrome browser, I can neither save or paste the password to log onto the cameras webpage, yet I can on Firefox, on the same Win 10 Pro system. why is this?
  15. Left Coast Geek

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

    speaking of Excursions. last night, an Excursion t-boned a Prius at a rural T intersection not far from here, killed the driver of the Prius instantly. nothing like 9000 lbs smacking into the side of 3500 lbs to ruin someone's day. it was at about 6pm, so hours before sunset, who...
  16. Left Coast Geek

    Dahua cameras and integration with home automation setup

    yes, it has a lot of options, but concentrate on the IP camera profile, which I think is "T", and its not that bad. it does include both video streaming AND event/alarm alerting. as a client user, rather tahn as a device, you only need to invoke the specific functions you are interested...
  17. Left Coast Geek

    Dahua cameras and integration with home automation setup

    the AI cameras use ONVIF protocol, which is an open standard for their integrated triggering support. https://www.onvif.org/
  18. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    heres a EmpireTech IPC-T5442T-ZE at max 12mm zoom, me walking around in the dark, i do my U turn about 120 or 140 feet from the camera. There is an IR illuminator 30 deg spotlight off to the left aimed at the driveway entrance, Its completely black out there. The road with the cars driving...
  19. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    ya know, you can right click on the image in BlueIris, 'Snapshot', and get a JPG so you don't need to mess with cellphone pictures off the screen... or, Convert/Export... and get a MP4 file you can upload as a video.
  20. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    I second the motion on the IPC-T5442 series. I have the turret/eyeball zoom edition, currently using the 12mm max zoom to watch the entrance to my driveway thats over 100 feet away. I added a 30 deg IR spot to light said driveway entrance, and its pretty awesome.
  21. Left Coast Geek

    Dahua cameras and integration with home automation setup

    if you are going to have an NVR (be it software or hardware based), then you WANT to use RTSP from the cameras to the NVR, you use http to view either live or recorded video FROM the NVR... example, my BlueIris based NVR (which, yes, runs on Windows.... there is Unix based stuff too, like...
  22. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    5050s are way too bright. i want a diffuse low brightness IR source that visibily in total darkness just looks like a dim red line
  23. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    ah, cool, you can put that stuff in a plastic tube and seal the ends. my kid decorated his 5 ton 6x6 Burning Man art truck with RGB addressable LEDs doing complex light patterns in white nylon hose. heh, there's about 8000 watts of Crown amps on that truck feeding some serious pro PA...
  24. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    here's how the wiring side of was when I first hooked it up. the three sliders are RED, GREEN, BLUE. push all three up together for white. or just the rearmost one barely above 0 for astro dark red. it rocked. I haven't gotten around to reproducing it for my F250
  25. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    is there such a thing as IR light rope? somethign that could be put behind a diffuser along a wall or fence line, and provide even illumination across the field of several cameras? this was a 1 m long RGB analog dimmable light I hooked up in the camper shell on my Tacoma, so I could use dim...
  26. Left Coast Geek

    an evening visitor...

  27. Left Coast Geek

    another misty night.

  28. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    you simply can not passively split twisted pair ethernet. 'hubs' were active devices that required half duplex operation and only allowed one packet at a time to be transmitted. and broadcast them to all ports, but they only existed for 10baseT ethernet, and were quickly replaced with...
  29. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    an ethernet splitter is in fact an ethernet SWITCH with 3 ports, 1 in, 2 out.
  30. Left Coast Geek

    Satelite Internet Connection

    Most cellular internet uses "carrier grade NAT" and doesn't provide a consistent IP address that an external user could connect to.
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