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  1. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    Yeah, the cameras run a bit warm: but they've been running for a good long while now, with no problems. When I first set this up I had three cameras and two 4W illuminators all running off of one cheap POE extender powered from one POE+ switch port: When I swapped the 4W lights for the...
  2. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    And credit to @tigerwillow1 for the hack.
  3. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    I'm powering a nominal 10W Tendelux illuminator off of each Amcrest camera. I measured the 20W Tendelux model off of my POE meter, and it measured 20W, so I would assume their 10W model is 10W. They've been fine. They've been up and running for a couple of years now.
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    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    Has anyone opened up one of these and figured out which diode needs to be bypassed to bring 12 V out on the barrel jack when the camera is powered over POE, e.g. so that we can power an external illuminator from the camera? Here's what I did with the older, cheaper, IP5M-B1186EW-28MM:
  5. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris UI3

    BlueIris.exe is fine. I believe the bug is on the UI3 side. If I trigger the bug, and then choose a different clip to Convert/Export, and I leave UI3 open long enough, it will automatically download successfully. And then if I go back into the Clipboard to try and re-download that same clip...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    H! I started a Convert/Export of 4 time-lapsed 2 hr clips from one of my cameras, and while the first one finished processing and downloaded on my laptop while UI3 was open, the other 3 finished while I was NOT connected to the BI server box (5.9.9.10). When I next connected via UI3 and saw all...
  7. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    Are all 3 pairs connected directly back to your LAN? Or are any of your bridges connected by bridges, as in my diagram above?
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    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    Here's the test setup in my kitchen/dining area:
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    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    LOL. I forgot that this isn't my thread. I'm the Blue Iris server, and I'm trying to enable placement of LPR cameras at these other locations, that I don't control, because my angle to the driveways is all wrong:
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    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    I bought a pair of the NS-5AC units and another LPR camera, for experimentation in my house, before I approach my industrial neighbor for cooperation to deploy. First impressions: Units unbox with a static IP address of 192.168.1.20. Why are manufacturers so allergic to DHCP for networking...
  11. TheWaterbug

    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    These don't suck. Success! I plugged the endpoint unit into the AC socket under the eaves: and then tried two locations in the house/garage where I had an Ethernet drop near an outlet. The first was right near the router and other assorted infrastructure, and that was bad. As soon as I...
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    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    Interesting. The new firmware is a mixed bag. In my original configuration, which is two GPL-2000PT units about 20' apart, iperf thoughput increased appreciably from ~180 Mbps up to ~250 Mbps: but when I put one unit at the other end of the house, throughput dropped from ~20 Mbps down to ~8...
  13. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 11/24/24 This is 11 days after the injured coyote first showed up on my cameras, so clearly it's surviving. It doesn't look emaciated, so it's eating. I doubt it can hunt like that, so are the other helping it with food?
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    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    Units received, and preliminary testing completed. The GPL-2000PT Kit comes in a shiny retail box, whereas the GPL-2000PoE comes in almost white box OEM packaging: Neither box was sealed, which is very slightly annoying. The PoE adapter had a glossy, printed Quick Install Guide, an FCC...
  15. TheWaterbug

    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    Four days after placing my order, Nexuslink is still showing "Processing" and hasn't responded to my messages or chats, so I canceled and ordered from amazon. I had to order 2 of the GPL-2000PT, because they're only in stock as a kit right now, but I'm sure I'll find a use for the extra unit...
  16. TheWaterbug

    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    There; I fixed my OP.
  17. TheWaterbug

    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    Which Nexuslink model are you using? The one I linked has 2 POE outputs, but you mentioned that you're using a POE splitter from a single output. Is your unit G.hn Wave 2?
  18. TheWaterbug

    POE over Powerline adapters! Will they suck? Let's find out.

    I want to mount two IP5M-T1277EW-AI units at my parents house, under the eaves where there is a reasonably-protected AC socket, but where running Ethernet is not feasible. Whilst looking for Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters, someone pointed me towards the $90 Nexuslink GPL-2000PoE that provides...
  19. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 11/13/24 Traveling in a group of 3, so if s/he's lucky, the family will share food.
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    Amcrest Surveillance Pro 2.0 Beta (64-Bit Mac)

    @CarlosBarletta, Has there been any update to this software since 2020? Thanks!
  21. TheWaterbug

    Road Rage Dumba$$

    100%. The SUV was in the turn lane. I don't know WTF the BMW was thinking.
  22. TheWaterbug

    Road Rage Dumba$$

    The intersection at the top of the frame has only ONE left turn lane from 223rd to Western Ave. The BMW attempts a jet sweep around the SUV, but gets pushed out of bounds: 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
  23. TheWaterbug

    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    It was unchecked, so I checked it. We'll see if the behavior improves.
  24. TheWaterbug

    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I have a Blue Iris server box behind a port forward (port 81 only) from my pfsense 2.60 appliance, on a "things" subnet of my segmented network, along with my IP cameras, smart TVs, etc. All cameras have DHCP reservations: One camera in particular, TrailDown (MAC 9c:8e:cd:2a:5f:4c, reserved...
  25. TheWaterbug

    Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.

    Gallium Nitride (GaN) power supplies can be dramatically smaller than older Silicon-based at the same power rating. But I don't think they'd be cost efficient for lower-priced applications like illuminators, at least not yet. But soon.
  26. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Middle Coyote Missing Tail, 09/27/24 Three coyotes go by, and the middle one appears to have lost most of its tail. I cut out 18 seconds of dead air between the first and second coyote, but there was no edit between 2 and 3, so they're definitely all traveling together. We saw the family of...
  27. TheWaterbug

    Corrupt Files induce 90+% BI CPU Usage?

    I had an interesting problem over the last 2 weeks. BI was consuming 90+ CPU any time I was viewing in Chrome, and playback was poor. Scrubbing resulted in 100% CPU and timeouts. I RDPed into the box, and was reporting similar usage, whether or not the BI console was running. So I disabled...
  28. TheWaterbug

    Corrupted Files Induce 90+% BI CPU Usage?

    I had an interesting problem over the last 2 weeks. BI was consuming 90+ CPU any time I was viewing in Chrome, and playback was poor. I RDPed into the box, and was reporting similar usage, whether or not the BI console was running. So I disabled every single camera from the console, and the BI...
  29. TheWaterbug

    Disk Full/Over-Allocated after power failure

    Yeah, long overdue. I just purchased this basic $80 UPS for my BI server and disk box. My Kill-A-Watt shows that these two consume about 100 W, steady state, and APC estimates this will give me 23 minutes of run-time. This will handle most of our local outages, which tend to be in the << 5...
  30. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote Family of 5 on Thoroughbred Trail, 09/18/24 I see them run by in 1s and 2s literally every night, but I haven't seen them together like this in a few months. I see at least 5 distinct coyotes, but there might be 6. Hard to tell with them whirling around so much. This was over a 2.5...
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