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  1. TheWaterbug

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

    Not particularly interesting, but I put one of these out in the garden last night to check out why my tenant was hearing "noises at night."
  2. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Rabbits in the Upper Garden, 01/16/26 I'm not currently growing anything here except weeds. My tenant in the guest house (in the background) heard "noise downstairs at night" and asked me to check it out, so I put a temporary camera down here.
  3. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Actually, now that I'm in my quiet home, my Reolink video does have audio: including a slightly audible crunch at impact. It's just about 1/10 the volume of the Amcrest camera's audio, which is why I thought there was none. edit: it might also be my audio setup at work. I have external...
  4. TheWaterbug

    Finally Got A Useful LPR Capture!

    We got 'er! She's one of the neighbors in the office park :banghead: When my other (large and intimidating) neighbor confronted her with the video, she got very flustered. "I didn't know what to do!!!!!" Yeah. How 'bout you leave a note and take responsibility for your actions.
  5. TheWaterbug

    Finally Got A Useful LPR Capture!

    This jerk backed his Lexus into my office neighbor's Camry: and then parked 30' away in the same lot for a few hours!! Later they drove away, and I caught a plate! Does that look like an E or an F? I don't have any other captures of plates ending with 259, so this is the first time we've...
  6. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Does anyone else have their Reolink POE Doorbell dropping audio? I successfully captured this jerk backing into my office neighbor's car: but there's no audio. I know that the camera and BI are set up to record audio: and later in the day I did get audio: But it didn't catch it during...
  7. TheWaterbug

    PTZ w/stored focus points and HTTP scripting?

    I got ChatGPT to write me a script to cruise through N presets every M seconds, so we're good! The new camera is now streaming in place of the old camera: BeeCam from Painted Peacock Manor And now we have bee sounds, too, as the Hik camera has a mic. You can also hear the motor as it slews...
  8. TheWaterbug

    PTZ w/stored focus points and HTTP scripting?

    I should have read the specs more carefully, but it never occurred to me that a PTZ camera wouldn't have this. Well, it's looking like I have to write/modify a script to do this ‍♂️ Unless I can get BI to do this. Is this what PTZ Auto-Cycle is for? I'm still trying to grok how to set that up.
  9. TheWaterbug

    PTZ w/stored focus points and HTTP scripting?

    I finally got a chance to get this thing mounted out by the bees: https://www.youtube.com/@paintedpeacockmanor7469/live Live streams won't embed, so just click above. I have 2 presets, because I'm down to 2 colonies right now, but I can't figure out how to set up a "cruise" or "patrol" path...
  10. TheWaterbug

    Version 6

    The back-end stuff is probably 10x easier to port than the front-end stuff. Just count how many dialog boxes exist throughout the Console; those would all have to be re-created from scratch in any OS other than Windows. But the video processing and database logic is probably all straight...
  11. TheWaterbug

    Version 6

    I'm not seeing this: Do I need to be up to 5.9.9.9999999 before I can do a direct update to 6? And we're up to 6.0.0.1 already! Is it soup yet? Or should I wait a few more bug fixes? edit: updated screen capture to show active support contract.
  12. TheWaterbug

    Pickleball/Tennis "Line Judge" CPAI?

    I found another project using YOLO, but it's using phone cameras: https://github.com/clssmitty/PBLineCaller
  13. TheWaterbug

    Pickleball/Tennis "Line Judge" CPAI?

    I was wondering whether this would be possible with low-cost IP cameras and BI, and I found this project from 2014: https://github.com/andreynech/linejudge That was done with Intel Edison boards and their associated camera modules. Cameras and compute have come so far since then, so it seems...
  14. TheWaterbug

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

    Here's a silly experiment I ran: I am considering putting a pickleball court in my backyard, and I wondering whether these cameras could be of any use as "line judge" cameras, e.g. to determine whether a ball is in or out using instant replay with a iPad and BI. Then I found out that the max...
  15. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote with Chicken on Thoroughbred Trail, 11/30/25 Broad daylight, too.
  16. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    But you will need to use the app at least once, to turn on HTTP and other services. Or at least I did with mine, a year+ ago, as it came OOtB without HTTP enabled. But I haven't needed it since.
  17. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    4 Coyotes on Thoroughbred Trail 11/22/25 I'm linking to the middle of the video, because there's plenty of less-exciting footage on either side of the link. One has a mild limp. S/he can walk on it, but not run on it.
  18. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Adult Coyote Howling with Juvenile 11/13/25 I cut out some dead air, so the rabbit was never that close to getting eaten. And I need to fix the mic gain to get rid of that annoying clipping. But when they're this loud it sounds like they're in my bedroom!
  19. TheWaterbug

    5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

    When I updated to .99, my actual performance suffered, not the reported CPU usage. In fact my reported CPU usage didn't change at all, but scrub/seek performance was unusable until I reverted back to .96.
  20. TheWaterbug

    5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

    My seek/scrub/playback performance also went massively downhill with .99, although oddly enough, my reported CPU usage didn't go up. But this is in UI3, so maybe the CPU usage reporting isn't as accurate. In any case I reverted back to .96, and now everything is good again. Will wait for 6.0.1.
  21. TheWaterbug

    Review- New Design Tendelux 10 Watt IR illuminator.

    I have a very similar unit, too, from the same manufacturer. It's been working fine since January 2021. It stopped working a few months ago, but I traced that to a bad DC power coupler, and now it's working again. But the mounting solution is clunky. I vastly prefer the square Tendelux models...
  22. TheWaterbug

    5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

    I don't think it's a big deal today, but I suspect its importance will grow over time: CPU-agnosticism is, in general, a good thing, if done properly. In the best cases, there is no CPU-specific code in the code base, which makes it easier to subsequently compile the code later for other...
  23. TheWaterbug

    5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

    6.0.0 is nigh!!!!!!!! I'mma wait for 6.0.1.
  24. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Those cameras have been there for awhile, and they're the older Amcrest IP5M-T1179EW models. I have at least one of the newer Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI units lying around, and those have far better performance at night. I also have an IPC-T24IR-AS AndyCam, but I haven't swapped everything out...
  25. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote with Prey on Thoroughbred Trail 10/23/25 I think I see a long, bushy tail to our left, which suggests a squirrel, but there's also something sticking out to our right, which is ????
  26. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    5 Coyotes on Thoroughbred Trail 11/02/25 I haven't seen 5 together since the pups were little. In fact I thought only 2 pups had survived. But here we are, with a stable population. Any guesses as to which ones are adults, yearlings, and this year's pups?
  27. TheWaterbug

    5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

    Can't most installers probe for the presence/version of a required framework, and then prompt the user to install said framework at installation time?
  28. TheWaterbug

    Football field security -- camera layout/design

    At one end of the spectrum: "Mr. Skip Jones, father of Chip Jones, quarterback, see that camera up there? It's recording, so don't do anything stupid." At the other end: "If it please the court, this 100x zoomed video clearly shows that Mr. Skip Jones is not wearing his contact lenses, and...
  29. TheWaterbug

    5.9.9 - January 17, 2025 - More Pre-6.0 feature releases

    Awesome! Thanks!!!
  30. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Dogs are dogs:
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