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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    lol looking on amazon found a 4mp 1.8 camera from empire andy, ugh nice way to throw a wrench in the decision. looks to be the model listed in your sig line 5442T-ZE
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    ugh ipct store only uses paypal, bummer.
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    yeah dont have to worry about being cramped, especially if you dont mind the small towns littering the 5 major hubs of ND (Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck, Minot, Williston - Stay away unless you like oil field towns). taxes on avg are about 7.5% to 8.5% in the big towns to 5% in small towns. but...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    well now that i was able to lookup the full detail spec, going with the IPC-T3241T-ZAS 2MP Lite AI IR Vari-Focal Eyeball IP Camera. pro's: 1. 3 steams 2. mic 3. higher bandwidth 8192 vs 6144 cons: 1. 7.8w vs 6.4w
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    well nothing has changed, cause you know ND is slow to catch up to the rest of the world in everything. we are like 10yrs behind on everything. but thats a good thing i guess if you are looking for that which i love coming from a town that is 200k in size. and yes we are still low on homicides...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    nevermind i found the info on amazon thru empire andy. they only go down to -22F operating temp. only the ipc-hdw2231t-as s2 goes to -40F operating temp.
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    @sebastiantombs i am trying to look up more detailed specs and i am guessing these are the dahua branded versions of the ones listed in the store? IPC-T2231T-ZS 2MP Starlight Turret Varifocal IP Camera (rob2020 suggestion), dahua model # : IPC-HDW2231T-ZS-S2...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    thanks for the education and the time and patience in helping me. greatly appreciate it.
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    @sebastiantombs so now its down to either IPC-T2231T-ZS 2MP Starlight Turret Varifocal IP Camera (rob2020 suggestion), IPC-T3241T-ZAS 2MP Lite AI IR Vari-Focal Eyeball IP Camera (your suggestion) and then decide what extra features i want between the two.
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    ok thanks guess i learned something that i didnt glean from all the posts the last 2 weeks. that part about the image sensor size would need to go down in value (bigger) would offset the increase in MP which i never quite caught in readings
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    and here i though i had read enough to understand stuff to make an informed decision. spent like the last 2 week going thru the wiki posts and general forums posts to glean info and still woefully behind on info
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    @sebastiantombs so if the image sensor is 1/2.8 @ 2mp will be more effective than the one at 1/2.7 @ 8mp?
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    @sebastiantombs unless i need to look at IPC-T2831T-ZS 8MP Starlight Lite Varifocal IP Camera, Image Sensor:1/2.7” 8Megapixel progressive CMOS Effective Pixels:3840 (H) × 2160 (V) RAM/ROM:256 MB/128 MB Scanning System: Progressive Electronic Shutter Speed:Auto/Manual 1/3 s–1/100,000 s Min...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    looking at the specs between the 3 camera's i listed they all have the same image sensor specs except the MP range is different. unless i am looking at the wrong specs for each camera IPC-T2831T-ZS 8MP Starlight Lite Varifocal IP Camera, Lens Type:Motorized vari-focal Mount Type:φ14 Focal...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    ok that puts things into a different perspective, but the nvme drives are just wasting space as it is (i installed new nvme drives in my new main desktop) and this single camera isnt using much space as is it. maybe 1gb per 30 min chunk right now and the nvme is only at 9tb written in the last...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    was thinking the IPC-T2831T-ZS 8MP Starlight Lite Varifocal IP Camera, IPC-T2231T-ZS 2MP Starlight Turret Varifocal IP Camera (rob2020 suggestion), IPC-T3241T-ZAS 2MP Lite AI IR Vari-Focal Eyeball IP Camera (your suggestion) but if you folks think the 2mp is just as good image quality wise...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    1. i will have dedicated floodlights on during dusk to dawn, low light isnt the issue. issue is during the day the amount of traffic. 2. current floodlight is at about 7ft on south side and 7.5ft on north side, going to have another mount installed above those to either mount the camera or...
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    New to BI and looking to dive in

    little background. started with some ring floodlights, decided after a while i didnt care for the monthly/yearly fee and replaced with eufy floodlight cams. 1 of 3 eufy floodlights died, decided to try out a amcrest floodlight cam. its ok but the color temp is only 3k which clashes with my eufy...
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    Foscam F41/FLC firmware posted

    thanks, if no yellow then it probably closer to 4500k/5000k color temp.
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    Foscam F41/FLC firmware posted

    lucky you. can you confirm 5k color temp? all i have to go by is some documentation from overseas version.
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    Foscam F41/FLC firmware posted

    um where did you buy yours? i cant find it for sale even at foscammall
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    Foscam F41/FLC firmware posted

    been every few days looking for something on this floodlight cam and for the past month nothing shows up. checked today and now they have posted a firmware file for this new camera. only reason i am looking for this is that i want to move away from eufy. had 3 but 1 died and replaced with an...
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    No WAN access unless open

    funny, i can connect to the BI server externally just fine (ie thru my cellphone IF i turn off wifi), if i connect locally via the network i cant unless i open a console directly on the pc running BI.
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    48% off @ dellrefurbished.com

    Just a note on these systems from Dell. Double check the power supply mounting in the cases. Not all allow regular ATX power supply to be installed as a replacement of the oem one, if you want to add in a dedicated gpu later on.
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    48% off @ dellrefurbished.com

    So I was thinking since I don't want to run another desktop on my crowded desk, was thinking of adding a poweredge rack server to take over BI duties and emby server in one. On the refurb site they list Xeon e-2124, 8gb udimm ram (easy to swap in 32gb from current BI server), 1tb 7200 sata &...
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    BI 5 issue with triggers vs alerts sending email

    I was running synology surveillance station for a while but saw a few youtube videos about BI and tried it out with the 14 day trial. So much more you can do with BI that synology can't do that BI can do that I went ahead and bought BI. So many things you can do but the problem is that you have...
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    BI 5 issue with triggers vs alerts sending email

    you wouldnt happen to have your camera's in a group would you? that might explain why you are getting emails from all your camera's. if you left the trigger checkbox at default, one of them is group so it will fire if you have any camera's in the group looking at the zone you have checked.
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    BI 5 issue with triggers vs alerts sending email

    also i have windows scheduling reboot the machine once a week on tuesday after 7am, i shutdown my main server at 640 am and startup at 650 am via synology scheduling.
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    BI 5 issue with triggers vs alerts sending email

    timeout /t 9 C:\Windows\explorer.exe z:\ this is to ensure the mapped drive is accessible timeout /t 9 cmd /c start Z:\Emby\system\EmbyServer.exe starts my ember server (portable version that all the files reside on my synology server on mapped drive Z timeout /t 9 cmd /c start...
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    BI 5 issue with triggers vs alerts sending email

    i would but i run stunnel so i need that running first before BI starts. i just run a startup.bat file that i setup in windows scehduling, pretty simple really.