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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    Finally got a 520' run of cat5 cable to the feed plot. Using a PoE++ (803.2BT) switch in extender mode (up to 250m), I am able to power two cameras aimed at the hog trap. Just happened to catch a doe going after my corn. The trap is for hogs - not the deer. It's just neat to be able to...
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    Poor IR contrast in new Tennessee license plates

    That's good news. Looks like Andy's is near $600... that'll have to come down a bit before my budget can justify it. Hopefully this will put some downward pressure on pricing...
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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    I did ask him a while back and he was pretty emphatic that it was a hard limit. I would much rather have it one one, and would gladly pay to add more capacity. I'll try again.
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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    Correct. I think the thermal is 13mm and the optical is 8mm. Definitely far from ideal, but at $75 a piece I can find a way to make it work. Most of them will be 20' up on utility poles along the street where wide FOV isn't super critical. Now my problem is I'm at 64 cameras and I can't add...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Any idea what could be causing this flickering of video streams? It's been present for months on the console, but never on UI3 - until this morning. What's odd is it seems to only do it on the native display resolution when the browser is maximized. Any browser smaller than the entire...
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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    Used to be - over on the other coast in Tampa. Moved to middle-TN about 8 years ago... lot's more open area and wild life. I have three cars a day that drive down my road. One is mail, the other UPS... Third is FedEx or my only neighbor.
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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    LOL... the thought crossed my mind... but I can already imagine where I'm using all of them. I have a deer feed plot that could use a few...
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    DH-TPC-BF5421-T Thermal camera captures wild hogs...

    I absolutely love this camera. I picked up 5 of them on eBay about 6 months ago - a guy was letting them go for about $160/ea. That was a good deal compared to what others were charging. But since then, I've realized I can use a lot more. Unfortunately, the guy had no more to offer, and...
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    Poor IR contrast in new Tennessee license plates

    Thanks Tim - Yeah, I read all 20 pages again tonight to refresh my memory on how we progressed. Unfortunately, my application is a bit unique - with zero ambient lighting where the camera is placed. No street lights, no houses visible from any direction. Fireflies are BRIGHT out here. So...
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    Poor IR contrast in new Tennessee license plates

    Has anything changed (i.e. come to market) that provides for a DIY solution with a 740nm IR and appropriately tuned sensor? I saw the review of Andy's LPR camera, but that's just a bit too rich for my budget. I was hoping by now something like conventional Z12-E, but equipped with the 740nm...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I just tried both and no beans. I suppose I could just create another camera going to just one of the remote cameras and point to that with the audio channel - but I'm up against the 64-camera hard limit (which is why I'm going with the group/index-to-camera option in the first place). Thanks...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I was using the neighbor's server as RTSP and it worked - but frequently dropped out and no audio. I recently moved to using Raw h264 with the IP of the server, and /h264/[groupname] under the stream. Much more reliable, but still no audio... For grins, I added /h265/[camera_shortname] to...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Quick question about viewing streams from an external BI server. I use my BI server to log into a neighbor's BI server, and have added one of their groups as a single camera. That group-view camera on my UI3, understandably, has no audio (as no group does). However, I'd like to use the audio...
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    Need help watching elderly parents via cloud + BI

    My parents are in an independent living facility with excellent free wifi (500+mbps). However, it's double-NATed, with no ability to pull a public IP or access port forwarding. I'm able to connect to his PC using RealVNC's cloud services, but nothing that requires port-forwarding works. I...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Anyone having issues getting PIP to work in Brave? It's been working great until a couple days ago and now the main screen goes black, but no PIP. Works good in Chrome. It may be on my system. Resolved... Turns out somehow the PIP went to the background - behind everything else (vs...
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    Everything likes chicken... even owls

    He is persistent.
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    Everything likes chicken... even owls

    Legally, nothing. They are protected migratory birds. Big fines and criminal liability.
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    Poor IR contrast in new Tennessee license plates

    I can't speak to new installations, but the Flock cameras that have been around for several years here in mid-TN are now noticeably brighter red strobing LEDs. I suspect they're retro-fitting their existing installations - at least here in 3M printed-plate heaven, TN.
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    Finally got that bobcat...

    I'm using Blue Iris' UI3 to export short segments of the BVR files. That's the first and second video. The third video from the scope was about 45 seconds long, so I ran it through a shareware program called Avidemux to shorten it to the final 14 seconds. It's great for making simple edit...
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    Finally got that bobcat...

    It's what I'd used earlier to zero in the scope. I had bought tons of it years ago. It is cheap. That brass casing actually got stuck in the breach after it fired. Extractor ripped the edge off the casing. Had to push it out from the muzzle side with a cleaning rod. I suspect it's cheap...
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    Morning Aurora (August 4, 2024)

    That's so much more beautiful than the one we captured a few months ago that came further south than TN. Ours only lasted about 20 minutes and I couldn't see it with my naked eyes.
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    Finally got that bobcat...

    On the very last evening of the nighttime bobcat hunting season too, imagine that! It started as it usually does. Mr. Bobcat is visiting the all-you-can-eat chicken buffet bar... But while patiently sitting pretty (and still) looking for an opportunity, the...
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    Everything likes chicken... even owls

    If it's not bobcat, racoon, or coyote, it's owls. This Great Horned is particularly persistent. He's gotten at least 6 over the last month. I've had to keep them locked up 24/7 since then. This same owl managed to get into the run through an automatic door (before I had...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Thank you! Not the end of the world but knowing I wasn't going crazy helps.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Quick question about the convert/export list on UI3. When I export something, in the past, I could go to the "convert/export list" on UI3 and see what I've exported recently. Now, that list is always empty. If I don't save it immediately as a clip is finished exporting, it vanishes...
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    Coyote nabs one of my chickens - Thermal vs. Optical

    Yes! And after watching a few YouTube videos, and spending some time at Rural King, the trap is set. Right at the spot where he surveilled the chickens. I set it about 2 hours ago. RK didn't have any coyote or bobcat lure, so I used red fox gland lure. I have the coyote stuff on order...
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    Coyote nabs one of my chickens - Thermal vs. Optical

    I have one of those. It's darn near cheating. I gave my "night vision" IR-illuminated ATN scope away after going thermal.
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    Coyote nabs one of my chickens - Thermal vs. Optical

    No offense taken. I'm grateful for suggestions.
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    Coyote nabs one of my chickens - Thermal vs. Optical

    Yeah, that's where my "wet behind the ears" shows. I'm sure there are settings that aren't optimal. I just haven't had time to compare or do some fine tuning. I will have more time in the coming days. THanks for the suggestion on where to start.
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    Coyote nabs one of my chickens - Thermal vs. Optical

    Admittedly I haven't had very much time with this thermal camera - so take my opinion for what it's worth... But, I think in this particular case, the thermal was magnitudes better for detection of the coyote during his surveillance phase. In fact, until it actually made its move in the optical...
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