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    Camouflaged tree cam and conduit

    I ran PVC conduit for a tree camera's ethernet cable, but the conduit was an eye sore. Too industrial looking. The conduit looks much better after painting it with tree-color-matched paint and wrapping it in fake ivy. I'm curious what other ideas people have tried for concealing conduit...
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    Side-by-side comparison of Dahua Z4, Z12, mini PTZ and a Reolink.

    Here is a side-by-side comparison between the popular Dahua Z12 and Z4 varifocal cameras, Dahua's new SD4A425DB mini PTZ, and a 4k Reolink. I will use the Z12 and the auto-tracking PTZ to watch the public walking trail next to my yard, and move the Z4 and Reolink elsewhere, but while all four...
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    Surge Protection from Lightning

    This site motivated me to get a license plate cam, but I'm worried that lightning could strike the tree in my front yard and follow the LPR cam's ethernet cable inside to fry my entire network. I'm using a Ubiquiti ETH-SP-G2 ethernet surge protector, but I read that nothing can stop a direct...
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    Blue Iris seems to rate limit repeat triggers. Anyone else see this?

    If I right click on a camera and click "Trigger Now", wait for the trigger to end, then click "Trigger now" again, an alert is not generated after about 5 triggers in a row. Can anyone else replicate this behavior? As a test, I set "End trigger unless re-triggered within" to 10 seconds...
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