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Have you power cycled them recently. If not, may be time.

I just wrap male RJ45 in tape if they aren’t in use.

I don’t remove timestamps for any camera. Why not just move the timestamp down to the lower left or right?

In my opinion, the 5442 (renamed to 54IR for Empire Andy) is still the best cameras to get for night time. The 4K-T/X suffer from blurry video when close up as noted above.

Figure out what you want and then post what you think and we can take a look at them. All his cameras are good but some will have better low light capabilities than others.

A bag of poop would offer better quality than a Reolink camera. Do you need all your cams to be PTZ or can they be fixed? This camera is the standard around here for surveillance in low light settings. Spec sheet says it goes down to -40C but I've never seen anyone mount one in that environment.

This is why I went with the Axton unit (or really any unit with PoE) several years ago now. Wall warts just aren’t very reliable and it makes installing the emitter a lot more troublesome since you have to plug it into mains.

I use intrusion boxes myself. Others seem to have better results with IVS. I think it is scene dependent. You may want to try both and test.

I don't think the new GUI lets do you as many zigs and zags on IVS that you want like the older GUI did. At least, that has been my findings unless I'm doing it wrong too.

The problem is if your internet drops then you have no recorded video. I guarantee it would happen eventually and it will be the time you needed it not to happen the most. Anyone in the security sector who knows what they are doing is always recording locally and moving backups to cloud thereafter.

Correct. I don't see a need to run AI anywhere but the camera. I let the camera do the work and send the alerts to Blue Iris.

Haha. Yeah, now that you say it, I do get the occasional IVS alert for our neighborhood cat that comes into our driveway!

Same. I gave up on dumb motion via BI and CodeProject AI long ago. The built-in IVS from Dahua on these newer cameras is damn near bulletproof. Especially when you couple it with Pushover alerts. I never miss anyone coming into my driveway anymore with this setup.

To 100 feet, this cam for sure: EmpireTech IPC-B52IR-Z12E-S2 1/2.8" CMOS 2MP 5mm–60mm Ultra Low Light. I have two of them, one being the older non-S2 model. I capture plates up to 200 feet on one of them. Prepare to lose yourself down the rabbit hole in this forum. Do a search on LPR here and...

I use IVS trip wire/intrusion zone on all my cameras. On my driveway cam, I have it setup so that I get a pushover alert as soon as someone drives or steps foot onto my driveway. I don't remember having to install a plugin. Maybe I did. The newer cameras running the newer web dashboard I...

Yup. That distance is just way too great for those cams in that usage scenario.

I just emailed Ken as well to ask him if he could check to make sure I didn't have any more active subscriptions via Digital River than I have Blue Iris installations.

Lowering the shutter will make it darker at savings of getting less motion blur. Generally, a 1/60 shutter (16ms) is the slowest you can go for walking speed with no motion blurring. If someone is running or a car is moving, you will get motion blur on a shutter that slow. That is why I use...

Same issue I had with them. Kept getting emails from Digital River every few months for a subsciption renewal. Ended up email BI about it and they told me I had 6 active billing subscription from DR but only 3 licenses from BI. Wut? They ended up clearing it up for me. There needs to be way...

That is acually not too bad. Trying walking back towards the camera closer to it on the road. See if you can pick up identifying details of yourself as you get closer while still not getting any blurring.

Yeah I get it. I just didn't want you to think that at 100 feet you would be able to I.D. people on a 2 - 12mm varifocal turret. Edit: A 16ms shutter will give you motion blur. Need to bump it down to 10ms. Going any slower than that and it will be hard to get people in motion without...

100 feet on a 12mm camera is impossible to do much with other than see there is a car. You won't get any identifiying footage at that distance from either of those cameras. You will need a bullet cam if you want to see fine details at that distance: EmpireTech IPC-B52IR-Z12E-S2 1/2.8" CMOS 2MP...

ANPR is handled by the camera. Post 6 is a screenshot of the camera software in the camera. FTP has nothing to do with internal/external network. It's just a file server. It can be on the internet or you can host one locally. Some people like for jpeg snapshots from the camera to be sent...

Ah you are right. Domes are so terrible in outside settings I forget anyone actually looks for them!

Just installed one of these at my business to get plates of cars coming into and out of my lot. It's pretty nice when you can control the ingress/egress of every car and have throw as much light as you want at them since its a commercial property. I had hoped to run this cam in full color 24/7...

This: EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP IR Starlight Vari-focal Tur

My town is very pro police. Very responsive to both business owners and home owners. We are a tourist town with an economy driven 100% by tourism so we have tons of transient people in and out. My entire business is tourist based. Police here do a great job handling them.

This week (Monday) I discovered we were missing some jewelry in one of our display cases with the value of $1200. Upon questioning my employees, none of them had sold them. Luckily, we take pictures of the jewelry cases from time to time. We had just snapped pictures of the cases with the...

I use to work in production at a local news station in my hometown 20+ years ago. Even then, we had $30k studio HD cameras and the damn studio tripods they sat in were tens of thousands of dollars as well. Production level gear is expensive. That’s why no one wants to broadcast in 4k. There...

If the handle is "inline" it's on. So in your picture above, that flow is going through. If the handle is at a 90 degree angle, then it's closed. At least, that is how every ball valve I've ever seen worked.