Recent content by n8bdk

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    DHCP or static?

    Yeah, I’m dealing with 100+ camera installations with Avigilon specific or Digital Watchdog specific that are spread out over several fiber linked or RF linked campuses on my larger projects that I maintain. For an at-home Dahua system it would still drive me nuts to have some hardware...
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    DHCP or static?

    I suppose to each their own but I’m doing camera systems a little bigger than what comes out of one box from Sam’s Club.
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    DHCP or static?

    “Automagically” Is a word a prefer to avoid. If I set a static IP, it’s pretty much set in stone. Every network I touch “automagically” gets an excel file, customized to itself with everything I find on the network or place on the network, down to usernames and passwords for anything I’ve...
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    Help me spend $20,000 (new information in post #23)

    Does it have to be Blue Iris? Digital Watchdog has excellent cameras with some decent built-in analytics and they usually have a promotion that if you buy two, you get one license free. After a server that you build up on your own, 15 cameras, some PoE switches, and some PtP links you should...