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    recomondations for a trail cam?

    looking for something with solar and 4g. This is for a piece of property I picked up -- undeveloped, no power, so looking for something I guess that hunters use? I can get out there a few times a month, so maybe something that'll last a week or two with solar., Not ring.
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    recommendation on decent cam wit sound?

    I'm using 15 Dahua in my BI build - (these: Dahua Cameras ) They're great, but don't have integrated mic. I know I can put on an external mic, but I'm thinking of adding one or two cameras that have a build in mic just to get sound --- I built this house, so we have plenty of cat6a run...
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    is there a "best practices" guide for camera setup in BI?

    I just built a new setup, running 15 brand new dhaua cameras, with a somewhat dated system (which I'll upgrade at some point) -- I don't want to sacrifice quality, but are there any settings I should be mindful of, that don't really impact quality, but can significantly impact cpu usage (for...
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    weird issue -BI stops recoring every nigh, for a few hours... never exactly the same time though

    I recently revived an older BI server that was in storage -- was workign fine for years. On windows 10, the hardware, while old, is more than capable -- an intel 6950x, 64gig ram, paired with a 1080ti. I'm running 9 dhaua cameras, with 4x 18tb barracudas. I updated BI to the latest, found the...
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    code project -- 75% utilization of my gpu ? normal?

    I'm running a 9900ks / nvidia titan Xp (basically a touch better than a 1080ti). GPUz reports that the gpu is running pretty consistently at 75% -- not a huge deal, temps are manageable (I've done a custom water cooling loop on the cpu and gpu, in the low 40s). But is this normal? seems high...
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    code project--- holy crap

    I know I'm a way behind on this, but just got around to installing code project. WOW-- so easy to install, and works so well.. within minutes, my wife / kid were out side, he was on his bike, and a fede truck in the background, got a 85% person, 85% person 80% bike, 80% truck notification ...
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    deepstack GPU installation guide?

    I'm just getting my feet wet on installing deepstack, and using the GPU install. wading through getting cuDNN installed, etc ... that alone is a little murky. Before I dissect the instructions on Nvidia's site, is there a more digestable guide to getting deepstack GPU version up and running?
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    Has anyone run BI on a QNAP TVS-472XT?

    Obviously would have to be in a VM --- I'm currently running in a stand alone PC, wondering if anyone has any positive experiences doing this. Just upgraded mine to a 9900t, 2x m.2 2tb cahce drives, 4x 10tb barraccudas, and 32gb ram. I understand the general consensus has been for a while that...
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    recomondations on wifi, battery operated camera for temporary use at construction site?

    currently building a new house-- it's on the shore/beach, and is pretty visible... finished framining the third story, and want to add in some cameras to watch over the site while I'm/construction guys aren't there. Right now no doors, windows, and barely sealed against the elements, won't be...
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    new construction -- camera placement?

    building a new house on the water -- around 7,000 square foot, three stories. Here's the footprint, I'm thinking around 6 cameras or so from andy on the first floor should do it, where I put the arrows, then maybe a camera on the second or third story on the front/back/side of the house to get...
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    recording most recent clips to cloud?

    I have plenty of local storage, but trying to store at least 4-5 past days to the cloud. I have dropbox business, but it just really isn't working -- it doesn't know what to do with files that are constantly changing... seems like it never gets past checking the BI folder (even though I'm only...
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    recording JUST substream?

    My current setup has 18 cameras recording 24/7, at 4k resolution. Needless to say, this is a lot of disk space -- which isn't a problem locally-- but I'm also mirroring some of the most recent video to online cloud storage. But it's still a ton of files, to the point where the cloud app is...
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    BI/ Dhaua IPC-HFW81230E-ZE going out of focus

    I'm currently running a BI 5.0 system with 14 Dhaua IPC-HFW81230E-ZE purchased from Andy. All are working fine, except one of them keeps going out of focus-- this happens every day, when it switches from day to night, it goes out of focus and stays out of focus until I switch it back. I've...
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    migrating BI to another server/

    rebuilding my server using a fresh install of windows.. how do I export my current BI server, so I don't have to set it up again on the new install?
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    BI on an x99 platform -- which processor .. more cores/lower clock or fewer cores/higher clock?

    I'm currently running BI on an older x99 platform (I know this is not an ideal platform for BI since it doesn't have quicksync -- It's a system I already had and cost me nothing). I'm currently running a 6850k (other specs -- 64gig ddr 4 ram, samgg 980pro nvme boot/3x 10tb wd red drives). I'm...
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    POE switch that runs off.. incoming POE?

    I just ran a POE wire from house to our dock... dug it by hand (way too rocky for a machine), buried the wire, hooked up the camera.. and realized I want two cameras down there. I don't want to re-run another wire. and I have no power down there either. Are there any switches that take a POE...
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    Dahua IPC-HFW81230E-ZE won't focus...

    purchased a IPC-HFW81230e-ZE from Andy, thing will not focus -- it goes out of focus at night, I tried going directly to the camera web ip address and manually focus it, but by the next day, it's out of focus again. I tried upgrading to latest firmware, now it just stays our of focus.. any ideas?
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    help optimize my system..

    just upgraded to BI 5, and overall CPU usage seems high -- I'm consistently running around 35-40%... any thoughts on my config? (note, I understand this build is probably slight overkill for BI, just stuff I had laying around): Hardware: i9-900k/32g ddr4 samsung 970pro 1tb boot drive, 3x wd...
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    Anyone running bi in a vm?

    I'm running an underutilized dell server at home for domain in various rolls. I setup a hyper v vm running windows 10 and setup bi with 10 4k cameras, set for 10fps at full resolution. The server chip does not have quick sync. Even so, the vm is o fly running at around 20% (8 core virtual cpu...
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    Using single POE cable to power mic and camera

    Been lucking this forum a while looking for an easy way to do this … I have few dhaua from andy, and wanted to add a mic without having to add a power outlet for the DC in on the mic (camera is nowhere near power). a POE line should have sufficient voltage to run both the camera and a mic, but...
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