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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Out of stupid curiosity, is there a price yet? I'm afraid to ask
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    New Computer introduced at CES

    I'm with you. All my computers are Dell. I bought a refurbished HP Win XP Pro tower 5 years ago for my other editing suite to have available 5.25" bays for pull out rack drives and it's been nothing but problems - no preview on capture, cannot control sound in editing programs - a real heap. It...
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    New Computer introduced at CES

    In my experience, I'll stay FAR away from HP products. No thanks
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    new PoE doorbell? Vue Doorbell

    Probably a monthly monitoring service
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    That's true. Is there a link to it somewhere? I don't want to order the wrong item. Much appreciated
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    That type of setup has too many moving parts for me. I use NVRs, as for me, they require the least amount of maintenance to keep the system operational. Yeah, it is nowhere near as feature rich as Blue Iris, but I have enough things to eat up my time, and most of the features wouldn't apply to...
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    NVR has internet access for notification and playback of events when away from home. All cameras are connected directly to the built in POE ports. Unless I did something wrong in setup, if I enable Onvif for a non-Dahua camera for compatibility, it uses an outside port. I believe 35000.
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    My only experience with using "Onvif" selection to make a camera compatible with the NVR was that the camera became visible to the outside world. It was no longer hidden by the NVR due to the port used. I definitely need to avoid that practice for security reasons. I would probably need...
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Is this still the go to POE doorbell camera to get? I have a Dahua NVR and Andy cams
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    What mic are you using?
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    I didn't think this camera had sound. Was a mic added externally or dubbed in from another camera? Also, what firmware are you using on this camera?
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    Review- EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 4mp Varifocal Turret

    You could also test with the camera mounted to a junction as that would increase the distance from the soffit. I would also experiment with moving the camera location as close as possible to the outside edge of the soffit. Those 2 things should help make a significant improvement
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    Viofo randomly shuts off?

    Have had Viofo for years. They seem to work best with Samsung high endurance SD cards. I believe Viofo specifically recommends Samsung over SanDisk
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    2025 EmpireTech Thanksgiving Day Sales& Black Friday Sales- Winter Sales

    Understood, just bummed. I need a B52IR-Z12B to replace the one that died, but money is somewhat tight at the moment. It will have to wait, that's all
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    2025 EmpireTech Thanksgiving Day Sales& Black Friday Sales- Winter Sales

    Can only buy 2 tickets? Used to be able to buy 6
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    MS Edge Explorer option removed Windows 10 in latest update

    Long live Win XP Pro. For me it has been the best operating system I've used. SP3 is stable and quite capable
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    MS Edge Explorer option removed Windows 10 in latest update

    I have a few laptops and desktops with XP Pro on them. 3 desktops I use for media creation. They never see the internet
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    MS Edge Explorer option removed Windows 10 in latest update

    Up until yesterday, I had an IE mode icon where the user icon is now on the right of the navigation bar. I would bet the goal is to eventually force an online user account so that you and all your activity can be tracked. Basically spyware. No privacy
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    MS Edge Explorer option removed Windows 10 in latest update

    Ok, this works. I used to have an IE icon in the right side of the address bar in Edge to use IE mode, but that disappeared with yesterday's update. Good to know one can still use IE
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    MS Edge Explorer option removed Windows 10 in latest update

    Well, with today's MS Edge update, it looks like Explorer was removed. The option no longer exists on my Windows 10 laptop. And while Palemoon does work, it is so painfully slow.
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    Woman assaults witches in Salinas .. Ring camera captures as much as possible

    I agree, but it seems like there's more to the story than an unknown person passing by and deciding to randomly vandalize decorations. These two seem to have had previous encounters - or someone is just plain loco. If it's the latter, they need help
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    Woman assaults witches in Salinas .. Ring camera captures as much as possible

    I would be willing to bet there may be some history between the attacker and the property owner that no one is fessing up to.
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    Woman assaults witches in Salinas .. Ring camera captures as much as possible

    It's all fun and games until she picks the wrong property. Some people are quite willing to hand out an instant and generous dose of karma - no cameras needed
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    Woman assaults witches in Salinas .. Ring camera captures as much as possible

    It's not like the decorations were political in nature. I guess there's a lot of mentally unstable people there.
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    Warranty period on EmpireTech cameras?

    We are under a tropical storm (Imelda?) watch presently, so I will take it down as soon as the weather is safe to do so
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    Warranty period on EmpireTech cameras?

    I believe there is a 512 GB SD card in it and yes, I did use Dialectric grease on the RJ45 connector
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    Warranty period on EmpireTech cameras?

    I cannot connect to the camera - it keeps reboot looping. I don't have the time at the moment to take it down and to a reset from the reset button and I don't know if that would work anyway since it is in an infinite loop
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    Warranty period on EmpireTech cameras?

    I checked the time plan settings I wrote down for the LPR cameras, and they are all set to around 19:15, yet this camera started switching over to night mode at 18:31. This is the same camera that in the past would briefly switch to BW sporadically and then back to color during the day. I posted...
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    Warranty period on EmpireTech cameras?

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