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  1. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Possible, but the cameras need to be high enough that vagrants can't reach them by standing on the bollards or the electrical panel :facepalm:: They haven't brought a ladder. Yet.
  2. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    That also looks weird because my front plates were all bent up. Here's my first natural night-time entry, at a normal angle: Maybe I have the focus point correct, where the cars need to complete their turn before running into the curb that runs parallel to the driveway. If I focus further out...
  3. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Good news! After I got all the wireless bridges configured and tested in my kitchen, I rigged everything up with a tripod, jumpstarter, and an inverter for a real-world test in front of 301: The tenant in 301 came out, and we talked, and he's actually negotiating with the landlord to move his...
  4. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    True, but that's not the same thing as a true, standardized benchmark. I did email Ken, and he replied that this type of scriptability would be "frosting," and he's currently working on the cake. I told him we all want the cake! and that I'd ping him again after 6.0.1 is released.
  5. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    I just ordered this, because I have a need for another low-end machine at work anyway, so I'm going to replace the i7-6700 box with this new-to-me i7-12700 box, and the i7-6700 will get handed down to the non-demanding application.
  6. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    That's interesting, but it's really noisy data. Here's a sort of records with my CPU model, between 450 - 600 MP/s, which is what my BI reports: BI CPU utilization varies from 11% - 63%. Even if we remove those two suspect min/max numbers, there's still a range from 16% - 35%. Most are with...
  7. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    That would be interesting to review, but everyone's cameras and configurations are different, so it's really hard to know what's apples to apples. A standard, scripted benchmark would ensure that we're comparing like for like. But it would depend on how scriptable BI is. Maybe I'll ask Ken.
  8. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    Interesting! Searching Amazon for "renewed PC i7-12700" reveals this Lenovo Thinkcentre Neo 50S G4 SFF PC Core i7-12700 16GB RAM 256GB SSD W11P (Renewed) for $355 after coupon. I don't need internal storage, since all my video is stored on an external box, so the only thing I even might need...
  9. TheWaterbug

    My New Roof, in 2 Minutes!

    Camera: Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI, 5 MP (2960 × 1668) First 1/2 of video recorded continuously in Blue Iris 5.9.9.14, then decimated to 1 frame per minute and re-encoded to 30 fps in ffmpeg. Second 1/2 of video recorded 1 frame per minute through cron/curl "$IPAddress/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi" and...
  10. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    I'm still running an ancient i7-6700 in a renewed Optiplex 7040. With 28 cameras (on sub streams! ) plus a Wyze Docker Bridge VM, it idles at ~50%, but often redlines when I scrub through footage. What would be a reasonable upgrade amongst renewed PCs with Win11 Pro for less than $500? I...
  11. TheWaterbug

    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I strongly prefer DHCP reservations for just about anything other than a router or domain controller or other core infrastructure. Reservations allow me to: Preconfigure my DHCP server based on the MAC address on the product box, so it comes up from first power-up with a known address that I...
  12. TheWaterbug

    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I haven't seen the problem since, so I'm checking that box for all of my cameras, now!!
  13. TheWaterbug

    SOLVED: Dahua IPC-HDW2231R-ZS loosing the plot!

    Is it 192.168.1.108? Or 192.168.1.251?
  14. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 12/20/24 It's been 5 weeks since this injured coyote initially crossed my cameras, and for the first time s/he seems to be putting a little bit of weight on it. I cut ~30 seconds of dead time between the two animals, but these two are definitely traveling...
  15. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    So, just for fun, I did get the 2nd bridge up and running, with the camera in the upper-right powered via the POE Pass-through. So yes, this configuration works, even though I will most probably not use it this way: I think the bridge are happier with greater distance, as currently this is...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Ground squirrel?
  17. TheWaterbug

    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    If I do that, and then repair the database, will all my old Alerts still be there?
  18. TheWaterbug

    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    Performance will not be a problem. I have only 15 cameras that push less than 10 MB/sec to the server: The Synology will read/write >>> 80 MBps, sustained:
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    Use Mapped Drive as V:\ instead of \\ServerName\Share?

    I currently have a single internal HDD inside my Optiplex as the V:\ drive, e.g. for Video, so BI stores everything at V:\BlueIris\New\, V:\BlueIris\Stored\, etc. I just bought a 4-bay Synology DS423 and set up a Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) volume with three 8 TB spinners to give me 16 TB of...
  20. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris 6.0 coming?

    From the notification email: Emphasis mine. Kudos to BI for this policy. So many other companies use a major version as an excuse to charge extra.
  21. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    The issue with this application is that it's almost 150' from that POE+ switch to the cameras, and I pulled the two strings of outdoor Cat5e thinking that I'd never need more than 2, so it's screw-clipped to the underside of a fence rail for about 100' of that distance, e.g. no easy way to pull...
  22. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    And yes, the internal IR on both cameras is turned off.
  23. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    Yeah, the cameras run a bit warm: but they've been running for a good long while now, with no problems. When I first set this up I had three cameras and two 4W illuminators all running off of one cheap POE extender powered from one POE+ switch port: When I swapped the 4W lights for the...
  24. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    And credit to @tigerwillow1 for the hack.
  25. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    I'm powering a nominal 10W Tendelux illuminator off of each Amcrest camera. I measured the 20W Tendelux model off of my POE meter, and it measured 20W, so I would assume their 10W model is 10W. They've been fine. They've been up and running for a couple of years now.
  26. TheWaterbug

    Power Diode Bypass on IP5M-T1277EW-AI?

    Has anyone opened up one of these and figured out which diode needs to be bypassed to bring 12 V out on the barrel jack when the camera is powered over POE, e.g. so that we can power an external illuminator from the camera? Here's what I did with the older, cheaper, IP5M-B1186EW-28MM:
  27. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris UI3

    BlueIris.exe is fine. I believe the bug is on the UI3 side. If I trigger the bug, and then choose a different clip to Convert/Export, and I leave UI3 open long enough, it will automatically download successfully. And then if I go back into the Clipboard to try and re-download that same clip...
  28. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris UI3

    H! I started a Convert/Export of 4 time-lapsed 2 hr clips from one of my cameras, and while the first one finished processing and downloaded on my laptop while UI3 was open, the other 3 finished while I was NOT connected to the BI server box (5.9.9.10). When I next connected via UI3 and saw all...
  29. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    Are all 3 pairs connected directly back to your LAN? Or are any of your bridges connected by bridges, as in my diagram above?
  30. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    Here's the test setup in my kitchen/dining area:
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