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I had a similar front door delivery experience with UPS. Here is the 14 year old (2010) video of the special delivery. Apologies for the poor quality. - Thomas

At my previous house I was having an ongoing problem with wild turkeys digging in the front yard gardens. They made a huge mess. I tried a couple different motion sensing sprinklers from Amazon but they were unreliable. The winning solution was a DiY automated water sprayer that used my home...

As as long as we are here to dream, I'd like this for a NVR5216-16P-4KS2 V1. :) - Thomas

If you want to limit the Dahua NVR's screen to only five cameras then you can create a custom "Split-5" layout. However, two cameras will share a quadrant, so their width will be compressed. See screenshot. - Thomas

+1. Windows security reported my Color4K-T's plugin is Trojan infected. The Trojan is named "Win32/Wacatac.H!ml". The details say: "This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker." Fortunately the camera's web interface works without it. But it is worrisome that the plugin is...

Today I received my 3rd place (IPC-Color4K-T) and 6th place (IPC-HDBW5442R-ESE) prizes. Thank you Andy. The HDBW5442R is already installed; Interior location that will observe a big sliding glass door. The Color4K-T will go up as soon as the rain stops. My driveway view is currently a...

I live in a gated community that has a self-serve Amazon convenience store with "Walk Out" technology. The ceiling has a couple dozen cameras and shelving can sense weight changes to monitor when packaged items are removed or returned. Management told us the "AI" tracking cameras were incapable...

A couple years ago I used DH_IPC-HX25(8)XX-Molec_MultiLang_NP_V2.800.0000000.19.R.200628.bin on mine. Worked great, added IVS functions. But as mentioned by wittaj, Amcrest changed the camera upload function to prevent this hack. So if you have recently manufactured Amcrest IP5M-T1179EW then I...

The equipment ban was probably killing them. Hopefully the change of ownership will allow them to sell new camera models to North America. - Thomas

Sixth place winner here. Got the email. I requested a white BMW. - Thomas

I'm a 6th place lotto winner. I hope the BMW is on its way! Thank you Andy for conducting another fabulous lottery. - Thomas

Thanks for the info. I populated the schedule's calendar with local sunrise/sunset times for the middle of each month. - Thomas

Good to hear that. But all I can find is the profile scheduler (calendar method). I've continued to dig in the menus and don't see how to enable my day/night profiles from the camera's light sensor. So it seems I need some hand-holding on this function.

I'm a new Color4K-T user. And this is the first IPC I've installed with the new Web interface. I saw the profile scheduler, which requires manually entering the day/night times for each month. This is nice, but any chance this camera has a light sensor that can switch day/night based on outdoor...

Just installed my new IPC-Color4K-T from Andy. Really like it. My Dahua NVR is now hosting 13 camera views. And my lotto ticket was a 3rd place winner; I get another IPC-Color4K-T! Living the dream. - Thomas

This is what I do: One boob points towards visitor's face, the other boob points down to see packages.

I have a Dahua Boobie camera at my front door. Height is 68" AGL. Attached is an example of a head shot.

Some good deals there. But sadly a white IPC-Color4K-T 2.8mm is not on it. Will have to talk myself into spending more on a fresh new one. Or wait for the next sale. - Thomas

I have a location that needs a white 3.6mm IPC-Color4K-T Turret. Hoping to see some on the refurb list. - Thomas

I wanted to rack mount my NVR5216-16P-4KS2 using a generic 2U shelf kit. But the required depth was not friendly to the rack size that would fit in the coat closet. I ended up wall mounting the NVR, which is now hidden behind some jackets.

WAF = Wife Acceptance Factor. - Thomas

Not that I have performed a scientific study, but I swear turrets do not attract wasp/hornets as much as bullets do. I think the bullet's smaller lens "hole" is fooling them that a nice place to nest is inside. For sure, turrets are less "commercial" looking. So WAF is much higher on them.

I found this, which might apply to your use case: https://www.cctvforum.com/topic/38182-resource-is-limited-open-video-failed/ - Thomas

1. No. The DLS programming software is old and it communicates via the panel's serial port. 2. Chime is the same for open/close. BTW, the chime sound is depends on the keypad, not the panel. Some keypads have only one chime noise. 3. No. 4. No. 5. Yes. One of the reasons I like the Envisalink 4...

Looks like you have made your choice to stick with DSC. That's what I did. Your situation is similar to one I faced a few months ago. Twenty years ago I installed a DSC PC5010. It was expanded to about 30 zones to monitor all the wired entry switches and other sensors. I had a monitoring...

Perhaps a workaround is to set the Video Detection Period to ignore the timeframe it switches to day mode. - Thomas

Perhaps you have Display->Tour Setting turned on. If that's the case then disable it. Or maybe your Uncle has a mouse on his system and is clicking it after you leave. Doing that can direct the screen to show only the camera that was clicked on. Click it again and it will return to multi-view.

Thanks for letting me play. I got lucky this time and won a 4th place seat! - Thomas

Currently using a IPC-HDBW4231F-E2-M at the front door, but thinking of upgrading. Does the IPC-HDBW5441F-AS-E2 allow face detection on one channel and IVS on the other? - Thomas

I don't know where I read it (so I could be wrong), but I think some routers support "adblocker" protection that redirects suspect traffic to the 203.0.113.x range. So check your router for such a thing. - Thomas