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    best way to work cameras into a rental

    Im moving from CO to GA the end of the year. Ive become addicted to my cameras around my property here in CO What is the best non building altering way to put some cams in when you are renting a house for a year? i will eventually talk with the owner, but i need some way to initially have some...
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    leaving cams and blue iris if you sell house

    Im going to be selling my house and moving for a job. I obviously dont want to dismount the cams and leave holes and shit. Does anyone know if i can just transfer my BI account to the new owner somehow, like change to their email and password on the account? Since the shit is already up and...
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    this seems shitty. help...

    this is a varifocal Dahua 5442t-ze set to roughly 10.5 focal 2 small lights on either side of garage door, and cam is in center of door when i veered off out of sight i was roughly 15' ish farthest out was 30-35' i think the quality isnt good enough compared to what it should be? im guessing i...
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    Sunrise on the farm

    30 second time lapse from my back door cam Oh btw, all that wood is a shitload of work.... i tried to insert vid direct but it must be too large sunrise
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    T5442T-ze focus issues

    My varifocal struggles to focus. It will be ok, then it will just not focus even if someone is standing in front of it where it should be fine it is zoomed in to roughly 10 for the focal length. When its happy, it does really well there at about 30-40ish feet or so. Then for no apparent reason...
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    Do we have a what are you listening too thread?

    Sorry if i missed it tonight im feeling mellow
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    ya, its a peaceful protest

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    BTW this place

    Is rough on my wallet I bought 8 cams to look around and see wha ti have you fucks made me spend 600 more today to get cams to cover shit i thought i alreay covered but looks like ass now that im up and running I cant stress enough the importance of buying 1 or 2 GOOD varifocals, just to test...
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    Tailscale and BI

    Set up a dual NIC All my cams are in a switch and in NIC1 NIC2 goes out to my ISP given mikrotic router Downloaded tailscale and followed how to set up a subnet Followed their instructions as well as watched a video My admin page showed the IP of my PC for both NIC I did as the instructions...
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    Well this is wonderful

    i live in the middle of nowhere. nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away. Today we go in the shop and my wife says the trailer had something fall from inside and poke a hole. I look. No thats a fucking bullet hole. Sure enough. through the shop wall and both walls of the trailer. i found the 9mm...
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    do you hide the nvr and BI computer

    Title says it im trying to decide if its worth it to hide the pc and the nvr? i actually have an old switch and an old dead pc im going to make a dummy that is in plain sight. Hopefully someone would see that and take it thinking its doing the work
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    Well this is interesting

    yesterday i started working on camera location, and all was fine I got into a cam to change a few settings and logged out had it up on BI, everything was cool. Come in this afternoon to do some stuff, and the cams seem to have locked me out All 8 of them ive unhooked the second ethernet cable so...
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    VPN

    Again, top level engine builder 2 weeks into my IT career so trying to get a handle...hahahaha Working to get my head around doing a VPN now so i can get my shit online via bi I have a mikrotek ac3 that my isp gave me as the router for the main system. I also have an AClite that idk where it...
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    Cam came with a password?

    I bought one of these a few months back from andys Amazon store Duhua IPC-T5241H-AS-PV 2MP 3.6mm FocalIts actually branded loryta it appears to already have a password. I cant get in to set it up. I have 7 other cams ive finally gotten enough of a clue on how to do this...lol. This one i...
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    Lets try this again

    Im a very high end engine builder, but my effort into IT stuff is virtually nothing So cut me a little slack here...lol I ordered an unmanaged 16 channel poe switch At this point i do not want to use an nvr to start I was talked into a non poe nvr, but at this point i dont want to figure that...
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    first time trying, cant get switch to connect

    I bought a refub JG539A HPE managed switch. I plug in the cable from it to my computer, and it sees it, but it does not find its ip address so it gives it no network access, and i cant read anything i plug into it. Naturally being old, info is old and outdated (im on windoze 10) trying to change...
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    How much hard drive in an nvr?

    If you have say 8 cameras, how much hard drive capacity do you need? like how long does 4 TB record? or 10 TB etc
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    install 101 question

    Ive ordered some cams from Andy. What i need to know is what cable and ends do i need to have to wire this all up? its all poe, when you google rj45, there are some somewhat confusing results. so What cable, ends and crimpers? I believe i have a set of klien crimpers from 100 years ago that...
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    here is an interesting statistic

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/17/bad-neighborhoods-1-counties-responsible-42-americ/ and if you want to narrow it further, use a zip code search but ya, we have a gun problem
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    first little group of cams and POE

    i bought a used HP JG539A POE Switch Will use dedicated computer as a server with BI software I have a 40X80 rectangle house on 35 acres, no trees, plus a big shop and barn going to start at house, with at least 2 cam aimed at shop door Was thinking of 2)New Arriving IP Camera IPC-T5442TM-AS...
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    Newb here from CO

    Recent activities have made me really think about needing a good camera setup. Mainly outside. Driveway, entryway etc Looking forward to learning, as i know nothing right now.
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