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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I went wayyyyy down the rabbit hole in this, and asked Claude to do a controlled test of CPU and RAM usage in the container, of the old logging routine vs its new logging routine, under a set of simulated loads and current log-file sizes (since the pathology is a function of both)...
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Closing the port forward would stop the crypto miner from getting out, but it won't clean it from the container. You'll want a fresh pull from GitHub to ensure a fresh image.
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Crow Strikes Again, Eating Finch Eggs I thought this nest was safe, but apparently not. The crow swallows 3 of the eggs, but leaves with 2 intact, presumably to feed to their own chicks. Nature is brutal.
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Bad news and good news on this: I put Claude on the case this morning, and the problem isn't the application, it's MALWARE!!!!! I had stupidly opened a port-forward the ALPR container, assuming that my ridiculously long password would protect me. The app is built with Next.js 15.0.3, which has...
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I'm having the same issue with the built-in (ONNX) AI, so it's not limited to CPAI.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I did try this, but I didn't get the result I expected. The wider camera just got wider, and it didn't force the 2nd camera to the bottom row.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I figured it out. My problem was that, in all my experimentation I had clicked Align to grid in the console's group layout mode: That was causing both problems, e.g. the scaling up of the half-width dummy images and the left-alignment of the lower 2 cameras. Once I unchecked Align to grid I...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    And now I think this is the answer to my first question, which is to create two black "padding" cameras to flank the camera I want to be top-center. I'm trying to figure out what the right sizes are. If I create 2 at 848 x 480, I get the top camera centered in the top row (good), but the whole...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Hrm. In the midst of attempting this, I somehow dragged one my cameras out of the frame in the Edit Layout view of the BI console, and it moved itself into some other set, as another #1, and I can't figure out how to get back into the same set. It's still part of the group, and if I remove and...
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    POE Trigger/Switch for Mailbox Cameras on BI?

    Fun physics questions for the kids: Ignoring air resistance and the trivial mass of the grit, and assuming perfectly efficient transfer of rotational kinetic energy to translational kinetic energy, at what speed will the sphere be rocketing down my street at equilibrium? Bonus points for...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I'm not sure if this is related or not, but is there a way to configure 3 cameras such that I get one on top and two on the bottom? These are my 3 mailbox cameras: The bottom camera, RainbowRidge, would logically fit in between the other two, but more logically on above them rather than below...
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Yup. It's got either a runaway process or a memory leak or both, and the Docker contain will ramp up to 400% CPU and/or many GBs for RAM and bring the machine to its knees. I did a brief amount of googling on how to put a watchdog on the container to restart in when this happens, but I didn't...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Finches Are House Shopping! And here they are, with nesting material! Dad even tests the mesh protector and declares it sound. We'll see if they build a new nest here. There's still plenty of time in the season to have a brood or two.
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Installing the Crow Stopper: Sorry finches. I hope you come back next year. It should be safer, now. And yes, the finches definitely use the "front" entrance frequently, and the front side should be significantly more protected from crows. But we'll see what happens .
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Crow Eats Finch Eggs, 03/25/26 After the crow ate my finch babies out of the light fixture last year, I thought I'd fixed that problem, so that the finches would go back to the "safe" nesting spot, where'd they'd successfully raised chicks for several years prior, with no crow predation...
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