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  1. Left Coast Geek

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

    that gaming computer probably has a 200 watt video board in it, tho... not something you partiicularlyl want running 24/7 in a NVR
  2. Left Coast Geek

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

    my sorta tuned EmpireTech Loyota (Dahua OEM) IPC-T5442T-ZE at 12mm, with an auxilliary 7 watt 30 degree IR spotlight lighting the driveway entrance, near total darkness outside at 2AM the other night... where i turn around is about 180 feet from the camera....
  3. Left Coast Geek

    A browser that WORKS for camera interface

    and MSIE is apparently going away for good in a near future Windows 10 update. Apparently there's an IE Tab extension for Chrome but I don't know if that relies on the underlying MSIE APIs which may or may not be going away when IE itself is dumped.
  4. Left Coast Geek

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

    yeah, I found that out after getting it, and worse, the 2TB 2.5" disk I got turned out to be SMR (head plant on desk!). if/when it dies, I'll probably hack an external 3.5 esata drive onto it. I'm only recording on motion triggers, so there's rarely more than 2-3 recordings going on at...
  5. Left Coast Geek

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

    for sure, DIY NVR's, using a mid-aged mini PC and BI are probably more expensive than most turnkey NVRs. I think I paid $300 something for a HP EliteDesk Mini 800g2 w/ 16GB ram and a Core I7-6700 and another something for a 2TB 2.5" disk (the HP came with a 256GB M.2 SSD for the boot device)...
  6. Left Coast Geek

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

    I would definitely go with Dahua over hikvision. the cameras are better, the mounts are better. I particularly like the turret ('eyeball') style 5442 cams with the 203/204 wall mounts. the HiKvision wall mount is big, clunky, and ugly. when you go with a canned NVR like that, you want...
  7. Left Coast Geek

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

    Yeah, standard silicon cmos chips don't do 940 at all well I specifically wanted a spot to light that back area, if it was a flood, the trailer would be way too bright. It is too bright so I need a dimmer flood to equalize the foreground
  8. Left Coast Geek

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

    ok, here's test # 4, with v1 of having extra lighting. probably too much but hey. zoom at 12mm gamma=60 exposure=1/60 exposure comp=55 advanced 3D NR=45 advanced 2D NR=25 no WDR/BLC/HLC 8192kbps CBR, 15fps, iframe=60 that IR spotlight is darn near too bright, OR I need more wider...
  9. Left Coast Geek

    IPC-T5442T-ZE IPC-T5442TM-AS latest new firmware General_IPC-HX5XXX-Volt_MultiLang_NP_Stream3_V2.800.15OG004.0.R.201203

    so I've tried to deploy this for my IPC-T5442T-ZE, but its not working. got the service configured, it gets a legit sunrise/sunset time for my lat/long, configured the camera and I'm getting this in the logfile... this is from a manual 'sunrise'... 8/20/2021 11:22:38 AM...
  10. Left Coast Geek

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

    ok, per my laser measuring thingie, the trailer is about 50 feet from the camera, those trees are about 100 feet from the camera, and the 30 degree spotlight is about 75 feet from the corner of the woods.
  11. Left Coast Geek

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

    well, first try at setting up a spot illuminator to light those back woods, and I wish it had a dimmer. I'll have to play around with using some black tape as an aperture to better balance it. this 30 degree spot is about 60 feet from those woods, while the camera is about 110 feet the...
  12. Left Coast Geek

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

    hahaahahah. me too.
  13. Left Coast Geek

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

    that, I think, is my next step.
  14. Left Coast Geek

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

    well, i'm learning as I go, but so far, I'm liking sebastian's settings over yours, nothing personal. I'm not done yet, this is an incremental process. Part of this is just the challenge of seeing what I can tease out of this $200 camera.
  15. Left Coast Geek

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

    oh, when I had the iframe set to 15, same as the FPS, it looked awful, it was pumping from crisp to fuzzy every second. when I bumped the iframe count up to 60 (every 4 seconds at 15 fps), the pumping completely stopped. now, I was using the h.265 encoder, and thats a much more complex codec...
  16. Left Coast Geek

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

    i'd rather have sharp slightly noisy than the really blurry stuff the 2D NR is showing me. I started with both at zero, and turned one up 10 at a time, then the other, then tried combinations. To adjust the exposure settings, I'll turn the noise reduction way down so the image is pretty...
  17. Left Coast Geek

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

    ok, trying another set of parameters. lets see... h.264, 15 fps, 60 frames per iframe, 8192kbit/s video. manual shutter: 0-10ms, gain 0-75 exposure comp: 85 3D NR On, 3D=50, 2D=0 gamma: 100, Backlit: OFF this is grittier than the previous, but shows ok facial detail at 40-50 feet, and you...
  18. Left Coast Geek

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

    oooh, maybe I should mount a flood on the TRAILER, out of the field of view of the camera, and aimed at those woods on the left. muahahaha. trailer has 12V dual golf cart batts, AND solar charging. except any such mount would have to be removable for travel, and of course wouldn't be there...
  19. Left Coast Geek

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

    hmm, found this one. Amazon.com : Infrared Illuminator Microlight IR Helios P4 30/130 30deg Narrow Angle up to 300ft Night Vision Outdoor IP67 12-24 V AC/DC : Electronics
  20. Left Coast Geek

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

    well, more light on the darker parts of the picture should help a lot. fyi, my blackout is using the overlay in the camera, NOT in blueirtis, for what thats worth,b ut I believe you re exposure. I'll have to play around with making a shield for the on-camera flood, but that likely will glare...
  21. Left Coast Geek

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

    yeah, i just found that Z4E ... are there any non-zoom cams with that sort of focal length? I 'd hope those, at least, would have a more focused IR beam ? I still need to find a IR 'spotlight' thats like a 20 or 30 degree spot with reasonably even lighting across that cone. something I...
  22. Left Coast Geek

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

    sure, but I'm good with just seeing they are there at the extreme, and having 'recognize' at around 60 feet. in both my videos its around 100 or 120 feet where i turn around. 150 feet is the road behind that, which I block out from motion detect anyways, as there's far too much traffic, it...
  23. Left Coast Geek

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

    what size sensor is that chart for ? a 1/1.8" is going to be much wider at any given FL than a 1/3" or whatever.
  24. Left Coast Geek

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

    12mm is not exactly a wide field on a 1/1.8" sensor. and I want to add more IR light, I just don't want bright white lights out there.
  25. Left Coast Geek

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

    so WDR and HLC and SSA all sound like they do the same thing??
  26. Left Coast Geek

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

    well, 50mS, thats 1/20th second, quite a lot of motion blur. I was using sebastian's recommended shutter/gain settings.
  27. Left Coast Geek

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

    well, without the WDR off, the far side of the driveway is almost completely black, with it around 30-50, I can see details in the shadows, and tahts in B&W IR mode. tonight I'll play around some more with the settings once its dark. one thing, I dunno what BLC or HLC or SSA are, I know WDR...
  28. Left Coast Geek

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

    The closest corner of my house is about 150 ft from the road. I want to see what comes in my driveway, and this chimney spot has the best vantage. I have a few other cameras under the eaves, watching the walkway to the front door and the garage area. I'm also trying to get the best night...
  29. Left Coast Geek

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

    Note my vids in this thread are at max zoom, 12mm.... My little perp stroll takes me about 120 feet from the camera, I'm at about 25 feet when I 'peace, out' in the bottom right corner, and there's no light at all other than the ir illuminator
  30. Left Coast Geek

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

    hmm. i thought higher 3D NR resulted in more ghosts/trails, as its time averaging ? gotta say its really scary how ugly this looks with NR entirely off.
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