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  1. TheWaterbug

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    The Kurds have wanted their own territory, e.g. an independent Kurdistan, for decades, and they've been fighting the Iranians, the Iraqis, the Syrian, and the Turks the whole time. If the benevolent U.S. had its way, I'm sure we would be totally willing to let them take big portions of the...
  2. TheWaterbug

    EmpireTech aka Dahua LPR Settings

    Ah, this thread? That links to this thread on the BI Forum? I did see that awhile back, but I remember that this solution seemed error-prone, because all the configuration was being done manually, in a fairly obscure, hidden part of BI (e.g deep in the bowels of one particular camera's...
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    EmpireTech aka Dahua LPR Settings

    That's the goal with LPR! We don't care about anything except the plate. Use a second camera if you want to see the car. Tha's the 3D Noise Reduction, which is a kind of computational picture enhancement . 3DNR attempts to reduce noise by averaging successive frames, which can cause ghosting...
  4. TheWaterbug

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    I heard there aren’t any Walmarts left in Iran, only Targets.
  5. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I'll have to check next time it goes sluggish, but before it dies, because once it dies I can't get to the logs. Unless they're stored somewhere that I can read them from outside the container or web interface.
  6. TheWaterbug

    EmpireTech aka Dahua LPR Settings

    I asked ChatGPT if it could give me the corrected curl commands to program my camera, and it produced replacement http calls that correctly set my IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2 to Day or Night mode on command: curl -g --digest -u 'admin:passw0rd!'...
  7. TheWaterbug

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Does the insurance policy include a "respawn" for the captain and crew?
  8. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I think that's when the Database dies! This morning it was extremely sluggish, and barely functional. I have plenty of RAM on the host machine, so it was fine, but the container was up against its limits and really struggling.
  9. TheWaterbug

    EmpireTech aka Dahua LPR Settings

    And as sundown drifts further and further-er, I get junk like this: This is why I want real sunrise/sunset timing. 30 minutes before this or 30 minutes afterward, I could get plates:
  10. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    It happened again this morning. This time I looked at the host PCs Task Manager: and Python is eating tons of RAM. Apparently this is my CPAI server running amok somehow. Restarting the CodeProject.AI Server brought Python RAM usage down to reasonable levels:
  11. TheWaterbug

    EmpireTech aka Dahua LPR Settings

    After more reading, it appears that the modern solution to this might be to turn on DHCP Option 100, Time Zone Strings: in my DHCP server (pfsense): But of course this relies on the client camera requesting Option 100, and then doing the correct thing with it, which I'm not hopeful about. My...
  12. TheWaterbug

    Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?

    Seriously. Given the carefully curated control over internet access in Iran, how the heck did Israel get the video feeds out? This article has more detail, but not nearly enough:
  13. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Docker-philes, is there a way to interrogate my container when it's in this stuck state? I can open a Terminal, but I'm unfamiliar with what I can or can't do, there. I did try "top" but it didn't do anything while it was stuck, whereas right now, functioning properly, "top" does report process...
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    And it just locked up again. Here's the Container dashboard while it was unresponsive: and then after a Stop/Start: Memory leak?
  15. TheWaterbug

    Dwarf Cavendish Banana Fruiting Time Lapse, 06/26/26 - 03/02/26

    This is the second crop ever from this Dwarf Cavendish banana plant in my back yard. The first crop, a few years ago, was damaged by the stalk folding under the weight of the fruit, because I'd supported it incorrectly, and the bananas never fully ripened. This time I have a much better...
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I was running Docker Desktop << 4.62.0, but I just updated to 4.62.0, which is what prompted the restart of the container. :idk:
  17. TheWaterbug

    Can BI embed binary timecode into Direct-To-Disk recordings w/o real-time transcoding?

    Apparently h.265 does support embedded timecodes, but they aren't very good. At least on the cameras I'm using. Dunno if anyone cares about this except me, but here's a comparison of 3 different syncing methods: 0:00:00 uses Resolve's Clip: Auto Align Clips: Timecode method, using the time...
  18. TheWaterbug

    Hit and Run in front of my parents' house

    Oh, for sure. Any sober person would have gotten out of the car to inspect for damage, etc. To make things more interesting, you can see that they keep driving along my same street, across a cross street to the other side, where there is no outlet. So this is my parents' neighbor. ‍:facepalm...
  19. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I have AI alerts saved to my boot drive (C) instead of my video drive (V) for now. I've been running for about a year, starting in February 2025, but with some downtime when things weren't working, saving LPR alerts from 2 cameras to start, and then increasing to 4 over time. Here's my Alerts...
  20. TheWaterbug

    Hit and Run in front of my parents' house

    Listening to that car limp away. . . .
  21. TheWaterbug

    Hit and Run in front of my parents' house

    Driver hit a parked car (empty at 3:46 in the wee hours), then limped away with significant damage to their car. Highest resolution version for submission to LE: and my typical 2-up for funsies:
  22. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Ok, this is weird. One of my ancient Reolink RLC-420 units doesn't appear to have an Other setting for NTP server: and my DHCP server gives it a bogus gateway to keep it from getting out to the Internet: But the other day I had some electrical work done, and I got to watch as it came back...
  23. TheWaterbug

    EmpireTech aka Dahua LPR Settings

    Now that I've got the cameras switching to Night mode at the desired time, I've got some shots that show how these doohickeys help with focus: At this time of day the camera gain isn't all the way up, so the reflective strips don't bloom/wash out, and you can see that the focus is nice and...
  24. TheWaterbug

    6.0.3.1 - Broke my webserver

    Can someone explain, in simpler terms if possible, with the hosts field protects against? e.g. what requests would get denied and what requests would get permitted?
  25. TheWaterbug

    Savannah Guthrie's mom - new images released

    If I ever get kidnapped from my office, we'll be damn sure that we get plates!!! Now if I get napped from home, that's another question. For now . . .
  26. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Actually, I just discovered that during today's failure, while CPAI itself was running, ALPR was not: 07:39:48:Response rec'd from Object Detection (YOLOv5 .NET) command 'custom' (...ad51a8) ['Found DayPlate'] took 393ms 07:39:48:Response rec'd from Object Detection (YOLOv5 .NET) command...
  27. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Lately I've noticed that the ALPR Database quits working every few days. Requests to http://hostname:3000 from other machines timeout, as does a request to http://localhost:3000 from the Windows 11 Pro machine it's running on, which is also the same machine running BI and CPAI, both of which are...
  28. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Two Chonky Raccoons near Thoroughbred Trail
  29. TheWaterbug

    How Many Cameras Do You Actively Manage?

    200 > 50, so >50 is true.
  30. TheWaterbug

    How Many Cameras Do You Actively Manage?

    Quite possibly the best first post ever! Welcome to the forum!
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