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  1. Left Coast Geek

    Any 5V outdoor camera?

    the only way I'd consider doing rechargeable battery powered cameras would be with solar panels, and that would probably be a 12V system, either using AGM or LiFePo4 12V batts.
  2. Left Coast Geek

    Any 5V outdoor camera?

    USB cables, connectors, and power bricks are not weatherproof, not even close. There's a hard maximum length for a USB cable, too, its like 21 feet or something. none of this is conducive to outdoor cameras, mine are all on 75 foot, 100, and 150 foot cable runs.
  3. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    ok, I've set the iframe back to 15 as in 15fps. I initially cranked it up to 60 because I was getting one sharp frame then 14 really blocky ones every second but tahts before I upped the data rate to 8192 kbps. btw, this last set, I disabled my privacy blocks in the lower left corner, and put...
  4. Left Coast Geek

    PoE Switch Suggestion List

    real Cisco stuff is expensive, and requires annual support contracts that are about 30% of the hardware cost. Linksys "Cisco" stuff isn't much different than any other consumer brand (netgear, dlink, tplink, etcetc). Anyways, does Cisco even do PoE+ except for supporting their own devices ?
  5. Left Coast Geek

    odd Export behavior

    ok, it seems if I right click > Convert/Export... on the thumbnail in the left hand 'clips' column, it ignores the start/end markers, but if I right click the video itself, Convert/Export, it uses them
  6. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    I have a swiss pc.engines APU2D4 quad core 4GB ram cpu board I use as a router, has 3 intel gigE ports (but no PoE), and draw like 7 watts. I wonder if with poe switches, you could turn this into a NVR. oh yeah, no video, I guess it would only run a linux/unix NVR. meh. its a quad core...
  7. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for a simple system I know what I need it to do, but I do not know what to get.

    oh! and don't put the cameras anywhere you can't reach with a spiderweb brush! the IR lights WILL attract spiderwebs which will be bright in the lens because they are so close. these work great for a regular evening walkabout taking the spiders off the cams...
  8. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for a simple system I know what I need it to do, but I do not know what to get.

    re all those ZE's, if you want to spend the time on this, get ONE ZE, try it in each location, and figure out what focal lengths you really want there. then for the ones that want wider angles (2.8, 3.6, 6mm), you can save like $50 a camera getting the -ASE model with a fixed lens stiick with...
  9. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    ok, the same perp walk where I U turn at about 160 feet from the camera, a IPC-T5442T-ZE at max 12mm zoom, with the dimmed IR narrow angle light aimed at the driveway entrance but not the trailer.
  10. Left Coast Geek

    odd Export behavior

    so I have BI set to record my 7 or 8 cameras using raw, the nto-so-important cameras have substreams enabled but the important one or two don't, including the one I'm dealing with here. I select a recorded video on the left column of such. I move the green and red markers to the start and end...
  11. Left Coast Geek

    Test video from my IPC-T5442T-ZE ...

    wow, going on 4 pages now, hah. so tonight, i put some black tape over 2 of the 3 LEDs in the 30 degree IR illuminator I'd mounted to better balance the light this is what it looks like now. (a still). much better balanced with the foreground than before. I didn't touch the camera...
  12. Left Coast Geek

    Looking for a simple system I know what I need it to do, but I do not know what to get.

    the UB cameras don't have very good night vision with moving objects, anything moving, like a person walking, is very blurry under low light. UB is also discontinuing their software NVR, and requiring you buy one of their hardware NVRs. I sold my two UB cameras after that. I've experimented...
  13. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    I mostly lurk in a couple sql database channels, pfsense, and freenas aka truenas.
  14. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    hah. mine sits on the right edge of my desk, and is connected to a dedicated 24" wall mount monitor, right next to the dual screens on my main PC workstation. ok, the miniPC now lives where those old HK speakers were temporarily. that wall mount monitor has HDMI audio :)
  15. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    I will never get a car year/make/model nor a license plate from here...
  16. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    yah, all that. I'm the latest idjit who bought the HP mini after a bunch of crappy cameras. Its OK, if the drive craps out on me, I'll get something better. maybe I'll end up making that little box my big desktop to replace my old I5-3570K beast... . I'm pretty sure this HP supports dual...
  17. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    my view of the road is from 180 feet away, and perpendicular, looking through a tree tunnel :D .... about all its good for is counting cars. now it is timestamped, and you tell what size/color car it was and how about fast it was going, also audio. if I'd been recording, it would have...
  18. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    do you guys usually record 24/7, or just on motion trigger?
  19. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    FWIW, I use the Android BI app on my phone nad on my tablet, it works just fine for me. its particularly handy when I'm aiming a camera, but I also access it (via a VPN server on my router) when I'm out of town just to check up on the place.
  20. Left Coast Geek

    Neighbor wants what I have but that's not going to happen.

    while I've not used any of the modern NVRs, I presume they simplify camera setup ? as it is, with the mix of dahua and hikvision cams I have now, the exposure settings for night vision etc are pretty funky, each camera has its own webservice to set them up.
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