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    Natural Gas Generators

    I've never understood the value in the whole house standby. We lose power for a few minutes here and there, and we we have a storm might lose it for a week. My computers and such all have at least 15 minutes battery, which is long enough for me to pull out the $700 portable, connect it to my...
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    How To Upgrade Amcrest / Lorex to Dahua Firmware And Get All Dahua Features

    I was able to upgrade my Amcrest NVR but not my Lorex. I tried about every firmware I could find for the Lorex without success.
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    Is Rekor Scout still the best option?

    Using your settings improved things quite a bit! I think I was only doing ALPR on confirmed vehicle alerts, which didn't work at night, and I didn't have my images each 50ms. I also found I was not finding plates because BI is saving the space between the second and third digit, while Rekor is...
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    Is Rekor Scout still the best option?

    I’m happy to send some examples. I think though the main difference is how BI captures and sends to CO. My LPR camera supports three streams. With Rekor I have it processing the 1080 stream. Second, I think BI only processes key frames. I’m pretty sure Rekor is processing more or all of the...
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    Is Rekor Scout still the best option?

    I’m paying for rekor for my one camera which point parallel to my road. I have BI+CodeProject license plate checker. It only catches a fraction of the plates the Rekor does. It’s reasonably well for cars which pull into my driveway. With three cameras, it’ll usually recognize plates from one of...
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    My back yard.

    I’ve certainly thought about it. I can programmatically open my garage door, but I have a cat door and not dog door to the garage.
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    My back yard.

    I have an AI model which detects deer. It then announces on the Alexa. The dog hears the Alexa and goes crazy to be let out and chase the deer.
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    Amcrest Surveillance Pro 2.0 Beta (64-Bit Mac)

    Your best option is SmartPSS released 2021. There is a more recent SmartPSS lite, which is terrible.
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    People can mask USPS AI detections

    I have BlueIris and Rekor ALPR running on the same camera. BlueIris doesn't do half as well as Rekor unfortunately. You may have better luck counting day plates / night plates than vehicles.
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    Pooping in the playground

    I was hoping that the culprit was going to be a teenager, who could have then been gang pressed into some community service. Unfortunately, the Amcrest DVR used have doesn't record "intelligent alerts", just motion. Even if it did have AI, often at that range the person detection wouldn't...
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    Pooping in the playground

    Sunday afternoon stroll through the playground. He left quite the mess - even on the wall. Quite a shock for the preschool when they found it the next week. Before and after his business 10 other cameras picked him up during his stroll, giving more than enough to identify him.
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    Texting while driving hits rocks on my curb

    I came home to find the rocks by my curb had moved while I was away. Took a look at my cameras and find this person hit the rocks while speeding down the road in front of my house. The speed limit is 25 MPH, and it looks like this person is maybe going 50 MPH. The second time through is slowed...
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    Buying overseas

    Does anyone have experience buying Dahua equipment overseas and taking it home in your luggage?
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    Ants

    It was just the POE switch. I put the warranty replacement in and all three have been fine. I don’t know if the ants contributed to the early failure of the switch or not.
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    Ants

    Probably. It’s just conduit going up the pole, but I could probably seal it as well.
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