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  1. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Dumbest Birds on the Planet? Even if the Dodo were still extant, I think Peafowl would take the prize.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Yup! That would all match up. I would see this pop up if I was scrubbing or using the +/- 10 second buttons. I would seldom see it when clicking the left/right arrow buttons. And nearly always in Timeline view. Along with the clip export bug that he fixed last year, BI/UI3 is now Very Good...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I'm not sure which of the recent updates did it, but this problem seems to have gone away. I haven't seen "The video stream was lost. Attempting to reconnect..." message in quite a few weeks, and I'm now current on 5.9.9.64 on all 3 installations that I manage. Over the past 2.5 years this bug...
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    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    . . . although I am curious as to how my system doesn't detect this plate (Spectrum Internet service truck, so I don't care about their privacy!): That's scaled down to 1/2 its original size, but it should be a pretty much perfect night-time capture candidate, don't you think? The truck...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    We have no deer around here. Any other guesses?
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote with Prey on Thoroughbred Trail, 07/14/25 Can anyone tell what he's carrying? It's too big to be a squirrel or rabbit, but it also doesn't look like a cat or dog. A peafowl would be the right size, but the legs don't look like bird legs:
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    Amcrest or EmpireTech

    Another option is to buy the Amcrest cameras and then build a Blue Iris system from an old renewed PC. My ex bought an NVR-in-a-box, and it sucked. She couldn't use it. I walked our son through building her a BI system from a $200 PC, and it's much better, plus it will work with a much wider...
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    Ugh. That model doesn't seem to be available anymore, either at amazon or at any other reputable refurb retailer. It was just too good to be true. I was thinking of buying 2 more, to replace older i7-6700 Dells that I could then hand-me-down for other, less-demanding applications when Win10 goes...
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    Is my WD purple 6tb HD in trouble?

    Nope. It started exhibiting the same symptom, and it went out-of-warranty back in March, so I just replaced with a new drive. This one has a 5 yr warranty.
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    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    So it's been quite a while since I've had time to fiddle with this, but now that I have the focus dialed in on these reflectors, I'm getting good plate captures!
  11. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I had a login problem yesterday. I hadn't checked the system in awhile, and it wasn't running because my Docker Desktop had died. I started up Docker Desktop, and got that same error message, despite using a saved password and even copying/pasting manually from the password manager, so I know it...
  12. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote Family of 6 on Thoroughbred Trail, 06/29/25 The two adults are not necessarily the parents, because I found one dead adult in February, after the mating would have happened. But they might be. In any case, with 4 pups, the population is healthy. Keep your small animals indoors, neighbors!
  13. TheWaterbug

    IP5M-T1277EW-AI vs. IP5M-T1179EW

    How does it compare to the IP5M-T1277EW-AI? Has anyone bypassed the power diode for powering an external illuminator?
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    IP5M-T1277EW-AI vs. IP5M-T1179EW

    Hmmm. I may be in the hunt for 3-4 more low-cost eyeball cameras, to replace some old Reolinks that continue to disappoint me. These are not demanding applications--they're monitoring an entryway and a driveway that are constantly lit, and I'm watching for people walking up to the house. So the...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Single Coyote Pup on Thoroughbred Trail, 06/17/25 A single pup normally wouldn't be noteworthy, except that one of 3 adults known to live in this territory died back in late February 2025, and I hadn't seen any pups from this season until today. I still don't know if we have a reproductive...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    My finches are gone Warning: NatGeo-style violence ahead! House finches have been nesting near my front door every year for the past 5 years. They normally build their nest about 6" off-camera from this view, in one of the protected crevices between those roof joists. So I removed one of...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Great Horned Owl on Thoroughbred Trail 06/10/25 Hello! I haven't seen owls on my camera in a few months, so it's nice to have an appearance.
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    I found it easier and cheaper (for me) to put a tiny, cheap POE camera inside the mailbox:
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    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Ok, this is strange. I went back to the firmware page to see if I could download 4.36.10.4054 directly, and not only is it not linked, neither is 4.36.10.2864: I downloaded 4.36.10.2864 from that page 48 hours ago, and now it's no longer available. Curiouser and curiouser. I still have my...
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    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Thanks! I downgraded my one of my Garage Door Controller V3 cams to 4.36.13.0416, and re-pulled the Docker Wyze Bridge from mrlt8's latest, and I still couldn't see it in the Bridge. So I rolled all the way back to 4.36.10.2864, and then the Bridge could see it. Unfortunately the Wyze App then...
  21. TheWaterbug

    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    Thanks! Can you tell me which firmware you have on your v3 cameras? My cameras that have stopped working with the Bridge are: v3/4.61.0.3 v3/garage door controller/4.36.14.3289 (3 of these in various locations) v3 Pro/4.58.13.3289 I have two other v3 cams running the old RTSP firmware, and I...
  22. TheWaterbug

    Good IP Cameras That Don't Need IR Lights

    Most mid-wave and long-wave IR cameras detect emitted light, e.g. based on the temperature of the object emitting the light instead of external light reflecting off the object, but those are not going to show up in consumer-grade IP cameras for awhile, because the detectors and lenses are...
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    Good IP Cameras That Don't Need IR Lights

    Do you mean "without any IR illumination at all, including without the camera's built-in IR LEDs?" Or do you mean "with only the camera's built-in IR LEDs, but without adding external illuminators"? Because those are two completely different questions.
  24. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Nice! That would be the best solution, if possible. I'd use this on nearly half of my cameras. I know how to bypass the power diode on some models, but not on the newest model that I've been buying. Great find! I've been looking for something like this for awhile, but couldn't find one. $30 is...
  25. TheWaterbug

    Docker Wyze Bridge - configuration

    . . . and now the Docker Wyze Bridge solution doesn't really work any more. Or at least it's not working for me. Wyze changed something in the authentication or API or ???, and now my v3 cameras don't transit through the Bridge to BI. Does anyone have a workaround?
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    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Yeah. I'm thinking they could have charged a lot more than $30 - $35 for these, and still sold a whole bunch of them. Because a $35 list price suggests that they might be junk, and they're certainly not junk. Maybe once all the $35 inventory has been depleted I'll try to sell one for $100 and...
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    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    If you could figure out which diode to bypass, you could bring the 12 V from the POE circuit back out on the 12 V supply lines, and then we could use that to power a mic or an external illuminator.
  28. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Hmmm. A long time ago I bought one of these: for use with my RLC-423S BeeCam, because YouTube Stream Now requires an audio track*, but I never hooked it up because it was too much trouble to extract my BeeCam wiring from the box I crammed it into, so it's sitting in a box somewhere in my junk...
  29. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    I am unfamiliar with with analog audio at the electrical level--does a line-in audio circuit know if anything is connected? Or is it just sampling a voltage on a wire, regardless of what's happening? If I were to solder an RCA jack onto brown/brown-white pair, and then pipe in some music at...
  30. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    If you can figure out how to enable audio, these would be worth at least $40 apiece!!!
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