Rekor Scout Outage?

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Anyone notice any problems this morning

At around 8:20am all plates stopped recording

 

[TVille]

Yep. I thought it was my setup at first, went and checked, everything seems to be working, except them.

Edit: It seems to be up now, 1:35 pm ET, with my first plate at 12:40 pm, but it missed one, at least, so maybe it is coming back up.

Edit2: It may be related to the AWS issues that seem to be getting better. I hadn't looked into what could be down until now. Life360 is also struggling, among others.

 

[Mike A.]

Yes, another big AWS outage today.

 

[wittaj]

It must not be system-wide, as my Rekor (knock on wood) doesn't appear to have any blocks of time missing. Doesn't mean maybe I didn't have a small window, but I have what appears to be the normal hourly plates coming through.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Mine looks good now, fingers crossed

 

[Arjun]

And that's why you don't rely on the freakin' cloud! God only knows what Bezos does with whatever transmits via AWS

 

[wittaj]

Believe me, we all here would love to have a stand-alone version that could run locally.

One of these days, someone will take it upon themselves to train a model to read plates. I think we are getting close.

I think @MikeLud1 has creating that as a New Years resolution

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Yep, that would be fantastic

 

[MikeLud1]

Believe me, we all here would love to have a stand-alone version that could run locally.

One of these days, someone will take it upon themselves to train a model to read plates. I think we are getting close.

I think @MikeLud1 has creating that as a New Years resolution

I am thinking about it, I found the below GitHub repository that I might try to improve on. Along with the Python scripts in the below post. If I do it it will not be until sometime early next year.

GitHub - alpr21/deepstack_alpr_models

Contribute to alpr21/deepstack_alpr_models development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

License plate detection, crop, and save

Hello, This could be useful to any tinkers with cars passing by their camera (either with or without a full LPR solution already - such as openalpr / license plate reader.) I did this because my setup was challenging to catch every plate that went by in a single image (yes, it probably could...

ipcamtalk.com

 

[mat200]

Even with the AWS outage today .. Amazon stock went up ..

 

[Arjun]

Someone setup a GoFundMe page for @MikeLud1

I am thinking about it, I found the below GitHub repository that I might try to improve on. Along with the Python scripts in the below post. If I do it it will not be until sometime early next year.

GitHub - alpr21/deepstack_alpr_models

Contribute to alpr21/deepstack_alpr_models development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

License plate detection, crop, and save

Hello, This could be useful to any tinkers with cars passing by their camera (either with or without a full LPR solution already - such as openalpr / license plate reader.) I did this because my setup was challenging to catch every plate that went by in a single image (yes, it probably could...

ipcamtalk.com

 

[wittaj]

@MikeLud1 - that would be so sweet!

 

[TVille]

And that's why you don't rely on the freakin' cloud! God only knows what Bezos does with whatever transmits via AWS

That would be why I record my LPR camera, and all my cameras 24/7. If motion misses something, or something occurs outside my motion range, I still have it for a week or two. If a local ALPR option becomes available, I'll take it too!

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Yep, I record it locally and actually just upped the amount I'm recording too. If Rekor ups the price a cent more, I'm out

 

[TVille]

Yep, I record it locally and actually just upped the amount I'm recording too. If Rekor ups the price a cent more, I'm out

If @MikeLud1 gets it half working, I'll gladly jump in and depart Rekor. My coding skills stopped with BASIC But, if @MikeLud1 needs someone to test it, I can probably break it, let me know!

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

One thing that is super frustrating is that apparently Rekor had no idea half their users were down...

Great support for a paid product when your users know more about an outage than you



I work in IT, and you have to be super incompetent to not even have some BASIC monitoring in place

 

[wittaj]

Yeah, I think if we all supply some plates for the model, it would improve its ability.

Nice response from Rekor LOL. I have yet to call a customer service where they knew more than me LOL.

 

[TVille]

The way I figured out it was down was when I checked the web interface, to confirm that it picked up a potential drug deal. I got a bad gateway response for a couple of hours. I checked the Rekor service, they were all running, checked my camera video, crystal clear plate in daylight. Hmmm.....missed several over several hours. I am in a very low traffic area, I run 300-500 plates per week on one 24 hour camera, one daylight only camera.

 

[DLONG2]

The way I figured out it was down was when I checked the web interface, to confirm that it picked up a potential drug deal. I got a bad gateway response for a couple of hours. I checked the Rekor service, they were all running, checked my camera video, crystal clear plate in daylight. Hmmm.....missed several over several hours. I am in a very low traffic area, I run 300-500 plates per week on one 24 hour camera, one daylight only camera.

So I am off the hook then? ;-)

 

[TVille]

So I am off the hook then? ;-)

Depends. If you are part of the meth retailer & flop house at the other end of the block, no, I'm going to nail your ass. If not, then yeah, I'm focused on the drug dealers right now.