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  1. TheWaterbug

    Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

    Are there any standards in camera boards and enclosures? As I stare at my stack of 6 of these VSR-60-02MP1 units, I'm thinking that the most valuable parts of these are the lenses and enclosures, if only I could put an upgraded camera board inside. And by "standard" I don't necessarily mean a...
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    And for the next 2 attempts at this I might be able to get my downtime down to less than an hour, because I can spin up the VM first, and migrate BI to the VM, before I replace the OS on the host box. Because the Server 2022 installation doesn't delete anything, all I need to do is install, run...
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    I got this done today. It took about 4.5 hours, but it could have been much shorter had I not run into two gotchas. Here's what I did and why: Installed a PCIe NIC into my BI PC to eventually separate cameras and server from management. Made backups of my entire C:\BlueIris directory to my...
  4. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Ugh. I have one application where the tall/narrow FOV of the White POE version would be great, but I also am seeing no availability of the White version, either on Reolink's site, nor on amazon. But the good news is that, while madly clicking around the internet to try and find the White...
  5. TheWaterbug

    Can BlueIris load a video stream using a ffmpeg.sdp file?

    I don't know about ffmpeg/sdp, but Claude and I were able to get the feed from my Bambu H2C into Blue Iris using a go2rtc relay server. Here's the dump from Claude: Here's the camera setup in BI: and here it is in ui3:
  6. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Ditto this. But I'll also say that this ALPR application and database is exactly the kind of coding that AI excels at. And it's open source. To wit, scroll back a few pages and see the security hole that my Claude was able to detect and fix. If anyone wants to throw some tokens at algertc's...
  7. TheWaterbug

    Does IR Light Deter Wildlfe?

    Not to be overly pedantic, but keep in mind that "infrared" is not very specific. The word generally refers to a vast range of wavelengths between ~700 nm and 1,000,000 nm: whereas the full range of visible colors that we humans enjoy are crammed into the relatively tiny band of 400 - 700 nm...
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    POE Passthrough 12 V Extractors

    I might go with something like this: since it's a bit easier to open and service. Every time I think I've closed up a box, and will never need to go into it again, I find one more reason to open it up. I've got a bunch of fixes to do in two locations, and I want to enclose both a...
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    POE Passthrough 12 V Extractors

    Yeah, I did the 12V split thing the first time I wanted this functionality, but it ends up being a contraption, with many possible points of failure. The diode bypass is mechanically the most elegant, but not always possible.
  10. TheWaterbug

    POE Passthrough 12 V Extractors

    e.g. I'd want the functionality of the two products I linked in my OP, but with this type of form factor, but also with a gland on the plug side:
  11. TheWaterbug

    POE Passthrough 12 V Extractors

    Link, please? And these are POE passthrough, not just 12 V extractors?
  12. TheWaterbug

    POE Passthrough 12 V Extractors

    About a year ago @PeteJ pointed me towards this product that has POE in, POE out, and 12 V out, for powering stuff like an IR illuminator in parallel with a POE camera, off of a single POE cable run: I haven't had a chance to try one out yet, but I did gripe about the $30 price last year, and...
  13. TheWaterbug

    Anyone get Blue Iris working with Wyze 3 Beta Firmware that adds RTSP Support?

    All 3 cameras are v3 hardware, running 4.36.16.7064. Multiple cameras restarts required, so keep trying! And/or put Claude AI on the case to troubleshoot.
  14. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Noisy Bunch of Coyotes on Thoroughbred Trail 08/01/26
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    Anyone get Blue Iris working with Wyze 3 Beta Firmware that adds RTSP Support?

    And Audio must be enabled in the camera settings. Per Claude: I now have 3 of these working at 2 different locations.
  16. TheWaterbug

    Anyone get Blue Iris working with Wyze 3 Beta Firmware that adds RTSP Support?

    I finally got it working. This required: Turning off RTSPS in the v3 camera: BlueIris doesn't support RTSPS, and Claude reports that Wyze's RTSPS implementation is broken anyway. I couldn't even connect via VLC. And Ken says RTSPS support is not currently high on his priority list. When you...
  17. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Owl Harasses Coyotes 07/24/26 I haven't seen the owls do this in awhile. Can anyone do a species ID for me?
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Who adjusted the aim on my camera? I set up an IP camera to make a long time-lapse of my grape vine growing up my trellis. A few days ago I noticed that the angle had changed, which is weird because the camera is tucked up under my eaves, in an area where nobody goes. Well, maybe not nobody.
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    She was supervising! It's a very important job. But she contributed significantly effort at the end; it was really hard to pull uphill, even on that gentle slope. We were both sweating by the time we were finished.
  20. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Max towing speed on that splitter is 45 mph, and it was an hour away by freeway. But yes, for local service visits &c, I can tow it. Now I just have to get a hitch installed on my own car.
  21. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Unloading this 525 lb. log splitter was an adventure! No one could have predicted how this would end, well, except everyone :rofl: Don't ever ask me to engineer a ramp, nor design an unloading procedure
  22. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    First (and only?) coyote pup of 2026: I normally see pups earlier, and usually a litter of 3-5, and once as many as 7. So maybe they're having a tough year, or maybe she's been taking them on a different route.
  23. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    It's available again, for $505, which is actually quite reasonable given today's RAM prices. This makes an excellent BI machine, out of the box, without any additional upgrades other than storage.
  24. TheWaterbug

    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    I think I'm starting to see the light on this approach. At work I found myself with a need to host a public-facing web server from an on-prem machine, which scares the bejeezus out of me, based on my latest experience with port-forwarding. Then I realized that I could spin up a VM on a...
  25. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris UI3

    Hmm. Did something change in this recently? I scaled everything the way I want and turned off Fit to Viewport, and it looks correct in Timeline if I'm current/live: but if I go back in time even one tick, I get these small black areas between the cameras: if I go forwards to Live, then the...
  26. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    https://github.com/TheWaterbug/alpr-dashboard-patches Package was Next.js 15.0.3,
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    I'm running 28+ cameras on a cheap refurb PC that I got off of amazon for $372 a year ago (costs more now), and it's been zero hassles. I migrated from an even cheaper PC that had been running BI for 4 years, and migration was as easy as moving over the config file. My storage space is a JBOD...
  28. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Red Tailed Hawk Bonks Me on Head, 05/16/26 Mild-mannered gardener on his way to do some orchard maintenance, and BAM!!! I'm lucky she didn't hit me with her talons. S/he just gave me a bump on the noggin' to remember. Seems like s/he was ok, the way s/he flew away. The side view shows her...
  29. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    It was all Claude! I was just watching. It was actually funny; Claude was soooo convinced that 100% of my performance issues were because of this logging thing, and then when it found the malware it actually put exclamation points on its response put its response in ALL CAPS:
  30. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Sorry to hear about your situation!!! You've been a great asset to our little community, so we all wish you well. I did vibe code two quick fixes to some issues, which I posted here awhile back: https://github.com/TheWaterbug/alpr-dashboard-patches I didn't want to bother you with it at the...
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