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  1. Left Coast Geek

    dahua outdoor WiFi IP camera

    wifi cameras still need power, and ethernet is just as easy to run as 12VDC power wiring, so why not use PoE and get rock solid connectivity AND power on the same wire ? I routed the ethernet for my outside cameras under the eves of the house, behind the backing boards that support the rain...
  2. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for IP Security Camera System with people (not facial) recognition

    IMHO, best cameras currently for night vision are those with 1/1.8" sensors, such as the Dahua IPC-T5442T-xx, these run $150-180 each, so 16 cameras will blow out your budget entirely. they have audio monitoring/recording, but you'd need something else for talking back. they are...
  3. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for IP Security Camera System with people (not facial) recognition

    BlueIris supports DeepStack which supports 'person' recognition (along with car, truck, bicycle, dog, cat, etc etc). you can configure which categories you want to alert on for each camera.
  4. Left Coast Geek

    how do you isolate cameras from the inetent?

    Steve Gibson of Gibson Research is a bit of a self-promoting twit, and his silly security scanner doesn't do much other than a simple port scan.
  5. Left Coast Geek

    deepstack 'tags' in BI regular viewer?

    ah. on the desktop UI, I need to look at Alerts, not 'all clips', THEN I see the Deepstack tagging.
  6. Left Coast Geek

    deepstack 'tags' in BI regular viewer?

    I have deepstack working, and in both the android ui3 app and the ui3 web version, my clips have tags for car, people, dogs, etc, but I don't see these on the desktop UI ? is there some setting I'm missing ?
  7. Left Coast Geek

    For those who have hidden or disguised Cams in faux Bird House's, any issues with birds pecking or damaging the lens?

    do note that putting a camera behind a glass (or plastic window) will induce reflections, which will be much worse if the camera has any sort of illuminator.
  8. Left Coast Geek

    You guys agree with this guy?

    So let's ban Toyota for supplying Hilux trucks to Jihadists around the world?
  9. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    very soft soil there. I actually stuck it back in the ground last night after investigating the immediate area to see if there was evidence of a freshly caught gopher or something (didn't see any), and this morning it fell over the other way.
  10. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    its a fallen over solar garden light :-p
  11. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    Just remember, Open Source Software is only free if your time is worthless. :winktongue:
  12. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    anyways, cool owl! I'm pretty sure its a young Great Horned Owl. the adults have 6 foot plus wingspan, they are LARGE birds, but they fly totally silently
  13. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    You could setup a bunch of discrete BI servers that all 'pushed' alert/trigger videos from the 'shared' cameras to a central webserver, and whip up some sort of website to view them..... this wouldn't be as sweet as a single BI instance, but could be workable enough. pfSense is the...
  14. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    pfSense feels way better integrated to me than OpenWRT or DDWrt. but it requires a 2-4GB x86 CPU with 2-4 cores and it doesn't handle wifi at all well, so you need separate wifi access points (I'm using Ubiquiti APs). I run pfSense on a APU2D4 mini board, which has a quad core 1Ghz AMD "Neo"...
  15. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    i prefer to use a VPN to make BI accessible from outside my LAN. the ideal setup from a computer security perspective, you have your internet connection and your firewall router, and your LAN. your BI NVR system has two NICs, one connected to the LAN, and another with a private static...
  16. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    ah, I'm not doing anything with alerts, just triggers for motion capture recording
  17. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    oooh, oops, I had to re-edit that video as I messed up the clips in it.
  18. Left Coast Geek

    and this is why I'm not bothering with AI or Deepstack, and just using simple motion detection

    keep watching him, he's motionless for nearly a minute just behind the car then flies off
  19. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    p.s. I had some first gen Arlo cameras, they were even worse than the Nest system. they ate CR123 batteries for lunch (4 batts per camera 3-4 times a year), and they used PIR motion sensing so they nearly always trigger way too late. All 4 sit on my bookcase in the 'rejected junk' shelf.
  20. Left Coast Geek

    New and Overwhelmed

    a pretty good choice for a business grade refurbished PC to use for BI is a HP EliteDesk 800G2 SFF (not Mini), with a core i7-6700 (fastest CPU supported in that generation). these are showing up in good quantities on ebay etc as they come off business leases. they are about 3 years old...
  21. Left Coast Geek

    BI silly feature wish

    It would be cool if you could configure the stereo balance for live audio playback on a camera by camera basis... I have two cameras enabled to monitor audio, one at each end of my house, the rest only record audio but don't play it in the all camera live view... it would be really cool if...
  22. Left Coast Geek

    What dash cam are you using?

    if you had to enter a pin via the tiny 2-3 button controls of one of those cams every time you turn it on, chances are, you won't have it recording every time you drive, which is the whole idea, they are supposed to be fully automatic, start car, they record.
  23. Left Coast Geek

    What dash cam are you using?

    When I had a dashcam (they all seemed to die within a year), I used to just pull the uSD card out and stick it in my PC to read the vids, seemed much faster than messing with wireless downloads. re encryption, pretty hard to see how a camera could do that in a secure fashion, as if it has the...
  24. Left Coast Geek

    Trouble powering a new IR illuminator

    the IR LEDs are probably a lot more tolerant of low voltage and/or noise on the power supply.
  25. Left Coast Geek

    Trouble powering a new IR illuminator

    hmm, that should be within range, barely, unless its noisy. setup the same way, and put the meter in AC Volts, and you shouldn't see more than maybe 0.1V AC
  26. Left Coast Geek

    Trouble powering a new IR illuminator

    that was with everything connected, and the IR light forced on ?
  27. Left Coast Geek

    Trouble powering a new IR illuminator

    I would measure the voltage as close to the devices as practical with and without whatever loads plugged in. an extra 1:2 coax power splitter would suffice, stick this inline, insert your volt meter's + probe into the end of the spare male plug, and touch the - lead to the side of the barrel...
  28. Left Coast Geek

    Strong Enough Computer

    I've had motherboards die from bad capacitors, and I've had power supplies die for much the same reason. most of these were 'good' brands (Antec and similar PSUs, Asus motherboards, etc). these systems were on SmartUPS or equivalent high end UPS systems so power surges weren't an issue...
  29. Left Coast Geek

    Trouble powering a new IR illuminator

    IMHO, watch out for speaker wire on amazon, a LOT of it is NOT AWG, it is some bogus chinese gauge. I bought what was supposed to be 12 gauge speaker wire and turned out to be much closer to 14, and further, the strands were aluminum with a thin copper coating. I try and only by cable by a...
  30. Left Coast Geek

    Advice on Camera Choice - 2 Cameras, 180 degree FOV

    Dahua (and empiretech andy) has these lovely wall mount brackets for their turret cams, there's two versions, the 203 and 204, one is for a 3-screw mounted camera, and the other for a 4-screw mount. whiel in my picture, the wire is external, you can of course, feed it right through the wall...
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