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Yup. I installed an Arlo WiFi doorbell for my parents, and it was terrible, despite the WAP being less than 20' away through a wooden door and drywall. So I replaced it with a Netgear WiFi doorbell, and it sucks just as badly. My parents hear "Connected to network" 20x a day. If the doorbell...

Ok, I've read through the entire thread, and I don't think I've seen the answer to this: If I'm viewing my BI server via UI3, is there any way to have a "visitor" event (e.g. doorbell button press) cause selected logged-in UI3 users to switch over to this particular camera? I have an office...

I should note that I'm using the wedge, because the Doorbell Camera is centered on the door, and the doorknob is on the side. Seems to work pretty well.

Nice! Here are some other temperature-related goodies: I'm using this to monitor my hot tub, and it helpfully logs measurements every 10 minutes, with data available in many different ways, many of which don't require internet access, and none of which requires a paid subscription: For my...

Lots of good ideas, here. Thanks! I was definitely overthinking it! But I did leave 4 fancy cables for my tenant today: (Yes, I tightened the back end of the gland after I took the photo)

I did get some very strange looks from our other neighbors as they drove by :rofl:

My neighborhood has a single entrance/exit that every car must pass through, so it's a natural place for an LPR camera. The HOA has been dragging its feet for years, but the new owner of the house closest to the intersection is game to work with me on this. She has a big tree that might be a...

I'm trying to prep a property so that the new resident can install cameras without any networking knowledge or tools. I've run Cat5e to 4 different outdoor camera sites, and I want to terminate them with RJ45 plugs and the corresponding cable glands, so they can just buy a camera and plug it in...

Not my prettiest installation, nor my ugliest. But it's a warehouse, so aesthetics aren't as important as the for the front door: Here's our FedEx driver ringing the bell:

My second Reolink doorbell is going here, replacing this peephole: This will prevent me having to drill through a really heavy steel door frame.

Thanks! My office is two floors, and I confirmed this morning that I can definitely not hear the chime downstairs when I'm upstairs. But the guys downstairs heard it. All 10 times. :rofl::rofl::rofl: I'm also buying another doorbell for the side door, so I bought 2 of those Kerui 521 sets. The...

Here's this morning's "normal" capture, e.g. he's not deliberately staring into the camera. Face is definitely recognizable, but the IQ is not great. Lots of noise and compression crush, despite 4096 kbps main stream.

Hmmm. I don't see any backlight compensation setting. If I leave it on auto, faces are not visible: and if I max out the brightness and contras the background is washed out: I'll leave it this way, because I care about the faces, and the Amcrest cameras are recording the background anyway...

And now I have it installed. I had to drill through two pieces of aluminum before I could get to the rear channel where I could push a fiberglass rod and chain through from the space above the drop ceiling, then pull it out with a magnet: But it's in, along with two IP5M-T1277EW-AI turrets:

Yup. The folks on the right were the ones who got their truck and tools stolen, so I think they'll want to cooperate.

. . . and sometimes people park in the one defined parking spot that perfectly blocks my view:

Yup. Here's my neighbor making a normal, 90º turn into the parking lot:

Ugh. The angle is wrong for cars entering from southbound Western. This is me, coming into work a few minutes ago. I deliberately drove in at a shallow angle, but even at a normal angle I don't think it would capture:

Just as a proof of concept, I have thing mounted on a pole on the balcony, using the PFA152-E Pole Mount and PFA121 Junction Box: Does a grommet exist to seal up this hole at the bottom?

Here's the wide view of the BMW. And LOL, I just noticed that you can see the AndyCam in the corner :lmao:

So I've got the IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2 mounted as noted above, in parallel with a IP5M-T1277EW-AI for the overview. I have Working Mode (aka what everyone else calls Profile Management) set for Day/Night Switch, with Day at Shutter = 0.25 ms (1/4000?) and Night at Shutter = 0.5 ms (1/2000). Folks are...

That's a great idea! I'll start asking once I prove out the utility of this first camera.

I just bought a POE doorbell for the office, and I finally got it set up in BI, but geez, what a PITA to have to set it up in the app first, just to turn on HTTP, ONVIF, RTSP, and RTMP access. Reolink, please turn these on by default.

I've met most of the other tenants, and I'm hoping I can talk them into buying some cameras, but some of them are not technical at all, which means they'd either have to trust me to manage a device on their network, or I'd need some other way to connect to a camera that's 2-5 suites away. edit...

Unfortunately we rent only the southerly 1/7th of that building, as we're Unit 107. And the roof is off limits to us. Also, how far off-axis can I be and still resolve plates? The north driveway on Western is looking like a good 60º.

There are 3 driveways in the complex. Two of them are close to ~120-ish feet from a potential mounting point on my balcony: but the 3rd one is more like ~200 ft: if I can't get my northerly neighbors to host this camera, how much $$$$$ do I have to spend to see plates at 200'?

Thanks! I just ordered one for work. If I end up spending a few thousand dollars buying a fleet of these, I'm blaming you!!!!

Thanks! I've been trying to talk the landlord into putting in LPR cameras at the 3 different entrances to the facility, on their own dime, but that hasn't happened yet. I've even volunteered to host the BI installation. In the meantime I just want to get started and learn about LPR, generally...

There is one place I can hang a camera pretty quickly, and requires no drilling or landlord approval. We're Pulse Research Lab, at the southeast corner of the largest building at 22301 S. Western Ave. #107. The truck was stolen from the building to our West, where I've pasted in the truck...

Yeah, I need to completely re-do the cameras. The problem is that I need a hammer drill (and the landlord's permission) to get through 8" of concrete wall if I want to move them. So it's not so simple.