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    Whats the catch with Annke?

    I received my cameras pretty quickly. My only quirk is that you gotta login (enable remote access) to use the smart detection features. I might just spin up frigate instead of opening up my network to annke.
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    Whats the catch with Annke?

    yep and i was able to catch the code as well - pretty crazy price compared to everyone else....
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    Whats the catch with Annke?

    I just ordered TWO of the fcd800s for less than one duo2.. im just mind boggled. good to know the 600 is working well for you.
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    Whats the catch with Annke?

    Anybody order from Annke? I see their cameras 50% cheaper than competitors like reolink, so I am wondering what am I missing? Ive been looking at dual lens cameras. Update - I ordered and I got a fedex tracking number with an address based out of New Jersey, so there isnt any shipping directly...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    If I had to do it again, I'd still use my old mechanical dumb doorbell and just get a camera, especially blink camera (if you don't mind cloud/amazon), and put it at a good angle over my entrance area. You can even grab a sage sensor, I have a few some unopened, and connected inside your...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    After all the work I've done its definitely an app/fw issue. BECAUSE I am a good and responsible person and I search for my problem and solutions BEFORE posting about it - I know you seen a lot of this issue there were quite a few posts - I did feel like posting again because I didn't see a...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Thanks! I quickly tried it out unsure which button assignment matches to what. I tried maybe the transformer since that should receive a signal and nothing happened after I made a routine to turn a light red. I will assign each of the three buttons a different color and hopefully the light...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Nice, thanks for sharing! Yeah I am unsure how much I am going to dive into this, so my goal was to keep cost low without bringing a lot more devices in the house. My optiplex is in the MT form so I can store a few drives in there to help with minimizing system footprint. I probably will just...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Nice yeah I got mine for $106 shipped, 7th gen i5 16gb ram and 500gb ssd - I had a 512 m2 drive laying around that I use as the primary drive on it. I also have a few HDDs laying around. I havent determined if I should just get rid of windows and do completely linux based system or not. I am not...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Thank you! I am just getting started with leaning from the cloud - google notification about low storage has been annoying me. I recently purchased a dell optiplex from an office liquidator. I'll probably have home assistant on it in addition to it serving as an archive for photos/emails etc...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Unfortunately the mechanical chime is still not activating. If you don't mind me asking, what firmware and version are you using, is it possible for me to downgrade to that? I've tried the following thus far and no luck: Chime works when I remove the doorbell out of the circuit and touch the...
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    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Probably why EZVIZ is going slow as a snail to support me with my mechanical chime not working - its been about a month since I've opened a case with them. I just got a bunch of sage sensors - anyway I can tell from that if the ezviz is sending any signal at all to the chime?
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    open source Blue iris alternative

    can you show a youtube video for reference demonstrating the new integration in BI?
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    open source Blue iris alternative

    I didn't reply to the OP, I replied to someone else who is just getting started. Interesting you mention that AI is integrated with BI but I do not see that as a feature on BI's web page, you'd think that'd be all over since its a hot buzz word. I am just getting started and can be totally wrong.
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    open source Blue iris alternative

    You can also check out this guys channel if you are more into using blue iris and a windows environment. This solution uses your local hardware for AI processing instead of a coral. Here is one where he does AI locally but on his own hardware, again in a windows environment: