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  1. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    heres a EmpireTech IPC-T5442T-ZE at max 12mm zoom, me walking around in the dark, i do my U turn about 120 or 140 feet from the camera. There is an IR illuminator 30 deg spotlight off to the left aimed at the driveway entrance, Its completely black out there. The road with the cars driving...
  2. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    ya know, you can right click on the image in BlueIris, 'Snapshot', and get a JPG so you don't need to mess with cellphone pictures off the screen... or, Convert/Export... and get a MP4 file you can upload as a video.
  3. Left Coast Geek

    Is ColorVu any decent or more of a gimmick?

    I second the motion on the IPC-T5442 series. I have the turret/eyeball zoom edition, currently using the 12mm max zoom to watch the entrance to my driveway thats over 100 feet away. I added a 30 deg IR spot to light said driveway entrance, and its pretty awesome.
  4. Left Coast Geek

    Dahua cameras and integration with home automation setup

    if you are going to have an NVR (be it software or hardware based), then you WANT to use RTSP from the cameras to the NVR, you use http to view either live or recorded video FROM the NVR... example, my BlueIris based NVR (which, yes, runs on Windows.... there is Unix based stuff too, like...
  5. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    5050s are way too bright. i want a diffuse low brightness IR source that visibily in total darkness just looks like a dim red line
  6. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    ah, cool, you can put that stuff in a plastic tube and seal the ends. my kid decorated his 5 ton 6x6 Burning Man art truck with RGB addressable LEDs doing complex light patterns in white nylon hose. heh, there's about 8000 watts of Crown amps on that truck feeding some serious pro PA...
  7. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    here's how the wiring side of was when I first hooked it up. the three sliders are RED, GREEN, BLUE. push all three up together for white. or just the rearmost one barely above 0 for astro dark red. it rocked. I haven't gotten around to reproducing it for my F250
  8. Left Coast Geek

    IR light rope

    is there such a thing as IR light rope? somethign that could be put behind a diffuser along a wall or fence line, and provide even illumination across the field of several cameras? this was a 1 m long RGB analog dimmable light I hooked up in the camper shell on my Tacoma, so I could use dim...
  9. Left Coast Geek

    an evening visitor...

  10. Left Coast Geek

    another misty night.

  11. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    you simply can not passively split twisted pair ethernet. 'hubs' were active devices that required half duplex operation and only allowed one packet at a time to be transmitted. and broadcast them to all ports, but they only existed for 10baseT ethernet, and were quickly replaced with...
  12. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    an ethernet splitter is in fact an ethernet SWITCH with 3 ports, 1 in, 2 out.
  13. Left Coast Geek

    Satelite Internet Connection

    Most cellular internet uses "carrier grade NAT" and doesn't provide a consistent IP address that an external user could connect to.
  14. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    ok, someone mentioned PoE mode A and B before, so I looked them up. PoE mode A uses pins 1,2,3,6 for power, this is the default mode for 802.3af, but an 802.3af supply is supposed to support both modes. PoE mode B uses pins 4,5,7,8, which are not connected in your splitter. old 24V passive...
  15. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    otoh, those are not weatherproof, so would need to be put in a weatherbox with compression glands around all wires that exit said weather box.
  16. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Splitter/Adapter of choice to power IR illuminator?

    are you trying to use this with gigE ? 2-pair (4-wire) is only good for 100baseT, gigE requires all 4 pairs, 8 wires...
  17. Left Coast Geek

    Satelite Internet Connection

    all the existing geostationary internet systems have extremely slow and high latency uplinks. so if your NVR or BI is at a site served by satellite, and you try and access this from anywhere else, the video playback will be brutally slow and bursty with about 1 second round trip request...
  18. Left Coast Geek

    electrical boxes for CAT5 cable?

    this is an office, so surely its going to have ethernet for office computers and such, as well as telephone wiring, no ? PoE cameras are exactly the same except for exterior mounting, and needing to go to a PoE switch rather than a regular ethernet switch. Talk to whomever is taking care of...
  19. Left Coast Geek

    electrical boxes for CAT5 cable?

    well, for outdoor camera mounting locations, you want a camera brand/model specific weatherbox. For example, Dahua 'turret' aka 'eyeball' cameras, there's some with 3 screws, and others with 4 screws, so they have two different weatherboxes. an example such...
  20. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    um, thats not what I'm going for. but thats ok, i get it, the consensus is the camera network should be static IP, manually tracked with a spreadsheet and/or notebook.
  21. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    heh, cowboy networking, all absolute addresses. sigh. thats what we were doing 15-20 years ago with industrial stuff. I like using DNS and DHCP on my networks, makes it much easier to manage. Ah well, first I'm going to have to run another cable before I can do this, because one of the...
  22. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    I set my lease times on my DHCP Servers to at least a couple days, and then everything important gets a DHCP Reservation, which is equivalent to static while keeping all the config in one place. further thinking while sitting on the 'throne', I realized I just need a DHCP Relay, as the DHCP...
  23. Left Coast Geek

    isolated Camera LAN w/ BI

    so I want to move my cameras to a separate network by adding a 2nd NIC to my BI Windows 10 PC and connecting my PoE switches to that. I'm assuming I'll need to provide DHCP service on that network so the cameras can autoconfigure their network settings... Whats the best way of doing that...
  24. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    thats more challenging when its a 24V or 48V system. and, golf cart batts like to be charged with between 10 and 40 amps. here's a 20A 24V charger, meant for a electric fork lift style system. Amazon.com: 24V 20A High Frequency On Board Pallet Jack Battery Charger with SB175 Conector by DPI...
  25. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    regular consumer grade UPS's like the typical BackUPS 600 kind of stuff, I've always been worried that the charger circuit can't handle the current load of charging a big battery. the middle and larger sizes of SmartUPS that have the external battery pack options can. just be sure to string...
  26. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    EcoFlow Delta Max... claims 2000 watt*hours, if it was based on a lead acid battery, that would be about what two golf cart batteries can hold, but its a NCM (Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt and Manganes). For $2000, I'm not sure its that great of a deal but it should run a 200 watt total...
  27. Left Coast Geek

    Security Camera Backup Power (8 Hours +)

    I'd find a larger APC SmartUPS, like an SU2200, that has the EBP connector, which is a big Andersen PowerPole connector. these typically are 24v or 48 v systems, although I've seen some that are 96V. use golf cart batteries, which are rated at 200-220AH each at 6V, 4 in series for 24V, 8...
  28. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Switch Suggestion List

    so how bad are these switches sold here? IPCamPower POE Switch (4, 8, 16 & 24-port) | IP Cam Talk Store
  29. Left Coast Geek

    Any 5V outdoor camera?

    hah, yeah, I knew it sucked. but now USB C PD includes profiles for 18 watts and even higher. my wife had a 90W laptop from her $job that ran off USB C port with the right 90W adapter and port expander.. that is all useless for outdoor cameras.,
  30. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Switch Suggestion List

    so it has 5+ year old firmware? or is this a dumb switch? I would not run a Cisco Catalyst (managed) switch in any sort of production environment without a support contract so I could keep the firmware up to date.
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