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    OpenVPN, Tailscale and a travel router-tales of woe

    A site-to-site VPN is the simplest solution. The router at you condo (Router A) would connect to the router at your home (router B). You could setup the route at the condo so that all WAN destined traffic is sent to your home (Router B) first and then out to the internet. At your home, your...
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    Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-PFW5849-A180-E2 - Dual Lens 180 Degree Full Color 4K (8MP Stitched) Camera

    Not that I’m aware of. I gotta ask. Why did y’all leave the installation site before looking at the video feed to determine if there was a problem. I mean, how did you even know you had it pointed properly?
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    Coral TPU with BlueIris v6

    Yup. Like you said, it's abandonware. Here is a long list of products that Google has killed over the years: Killed by Google. Add Coral to the list
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    Coral TPU with BlueIris v6

    Sure you can use them for existing projects that still support them. But no one is going to go through the hassle to develop new code for it like you were wondering about BI. No. There are no other options for BI other than a GPU. You'd have to come over to the dark side of Linux and run...
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    Coral TPU with BlueIris v6

    Coral devices are basically a dead end product and are EOL. No one is building out anything for Coral devices any longer.
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    Add Sunrise Sunset to Time Plan Settings

    If you guys run linux, you can use Sunwait to issue a command via cron to your cameras directly. I talked about it several years ago here: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/program-for-flipping-cameras-to-day-night-on-linux.48196/ No need for any BI profile shenanigans if all you want to do is...
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    It’s uses SAS to SATA breakout cables. It has twin SFF-8643 connectors which can support 4 sata drives each.
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    The NAS is just plan Debian. I installed mergefs to it: mergerfs
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    This is the reason why I like using fuse style file systems. You can fuse multiple drives together and in the event of a drive failure on the fused system, you only lose the data on that one specific drive. The rest of the data on the other drives is still intact and readable. I do this with...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    Yeah, I was giving theoretically numbers for 100% discharge. No one is doing that because the voltage level would drop below what the equipment needs to run before the battery even reaches 100% discharge. Or, as you say, the software in batteries themselves won't even let you go that low before...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    Yup, but then you have to consider that you should never discharge lead acid batteries below 50% or you will damage them. So a 100Ah lead acid battery really only has 50Ah of capacity if you take that into account.
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    You can wire wind turbine into the charge controller. That is simple. Would help offset losses when the sun isn't shining but I still would design the system so the panels would cover 100% of the load and charge. Wind is finicky and the wind turbine will probably never output its maximum...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    For another round of simple math, if I plug my zipcode into Pvwatts.nlr.gov, it shows that a 100w panel would produce 10kWh per month for the month of December. December/January are always going to be the months where you receive the least amount of sunlight if you live in the northern...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    Doing some quick math to give you an idea of power requirements: PoE switch (preferably powered from the 12/24/48v battery) = 5W - 10W baseline 3 cams @ 10W/cam = 30W PtP airMAX NanoBeam 5AC = 9W So you are at ~50w continuous power draw 24/7/365. Assuming a 24v battery you are drawing ~.5Ah...
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    Solar Wireless Bridge 2 camera recommendations

    It’s expensive. Expect to spend a several grand on the buildout. That much power draw 24/7 will require large panels and batteries.
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    Long-range IP camera networking options

    Wireless is only feasible with clear line of site. You need internet at both locations. That is the bottom line.
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    Merged/Spanned Disks in BlueIris - Possible?

    I’d just add them to Windows individually and change your storage in BI to point cams 1-4 to drive D:, cams 5-8 to drive E:, etc.. Easy to do and setup.
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    0.17.0 with OpenVino - great improvement!!

    Can't wait till the next version of frigate. Lots cool features coming up. For example, there will finally be fully configurable options via the GUI. Hand editing the config.yml file will still be available but potentially no longer needed. Also, the chat ai help bot will be built-in and you...
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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    They don’t have a weekly test that can run longer than 5 minutes if I recall so that is why I do a full load once a month. It’s easy using genmon.
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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    Once a week 5 minute test and a once a month 30 minute loaded test is what I do.
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    EOM (End of Marketing and Sales) for 5442-S3 announced

    If it did IR then it would be an excellent 1:1 replacement.
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    EOM (End of Marketing and Sales) for 5442-S3 announced

    Fortunately I have enough light that I can use 4K/x and T models. I like those better for low light color.
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    0.17.0 with OpenVino - great improvement!!

    5 cams. Mix of 4MP and 8MP. Hardware is a Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 2 (235HX version) for the host (Debian and running Frigate via Docker) connected to a Ugreen 2 Bay NAS for the actual storage. Also run an expensive RTX Pro 4000 SFF for local generative AI. That is definitely not needed. Just...
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    0.17.0 with OpenVino - great improvement!!

    I already moved my home off of BI. About to move my father off as well. Frigate is great. Blows my mind what it's capable of.
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    EOM (End of Marketing and Sales) for 5442-S3 announced

    Do you have a link? I'm not familiar with a -M variety.
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    EOM (End of Marketing and Sales) for 5442-S3 announced

    The 4k-X/T cameras but they don't offer IR and suffer from close range focus problems <10 feet or so. Still, they have better low light color than the 5442s.
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    Installing an Axis speaker to run the door checkers off

    Here is a dropbox link to the file. I remixed it to add the siren at the end as well. It's original form was just the siren at the beginning.
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    Installing an Axis speaker to run the door checkers off

    Sure. It's in BI -> Camera Settings -> Alert Tab -> On alert. Once an alert is confirmed with AI, it sends a HTTP request to the link in the speaker that plays the audio file:
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    Installing an Axis speaker to run the door checkers off

    It came with the speaker. There are several pre-loaded audio clips you can play back or you can upload your own.
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    Installing an Axis speaker to run the door checkers off

    Here is another one. Guy had to have felt the burn stopping mid-stream. Loving this speaker.
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