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    City upgraded to LED street lights

    The tract was built in the late 60's and the lights were probably just as old. They were very dim and orange-ish. The new LEDs are much brighter and probably 4000-5000k. The light is on the pole in the front yard. The difference isn't as dramatic in B&W mode as it is in color.
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    Witch takes all the candy

    I blame the hippies. It all went downhill with them.
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    Do you use anchor on wood wall?

    Pre-drill the proper size hole and the screw will bite and hold way more than you need.
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    Do you use anchor on wood wall?

    Yes, you use them in drywall and plaster too. They have similar properties to other stone/masonry materials. That is, they're brittle, turn to dust and don't give the threads of a typical screw anything to bite into. I have used Tapcons for going directly into mortar but that's a special product...
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    Do you use anchor on wood wall?

    Plastic anchors are for material like stucco or brick. Use wood screws on wood, not sheet metal screws. Pre-drilling the holes will make running the screws in easier.
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    Witch takes all the candy

    And if they tried, they'd be banished to the desert, forest, tundra, etc or worse when the group got tired of their BS.
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    New Ring Alarm System 199

    I have a "windy" profile in BI that increases the make time and the distance an object must travel which really helps.
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    remote monitoring

    Don't use a laptop for a production BI machine. They use slower CPUs and don't dissipate heat as well as a desktop. You also want your storage to be local, SATA preferred. Video is far more sensitive to any system lag or glitches than just about any other application.
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    remote monitoring

    Aside from the cost (which I feel is too high) Surveillance station just isn't that great. I have a Synology and toyed with the idea of using it too, but ditched it. Blue Iris runs circled around it, eats its lunch, and f**ks its wife. I got a 6th gen i5 Dell Optiplex for about $300 for Blue...
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    remote monitoring

    Blue Iris for recording + ngrok.com for remote access is the easiest. You can also setup a VPN but its more steps to get connected on mobile. All of the Edgerouters support a VPN.
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    Daylight savings time?

    Look around in the camera's web UI. For Dahua, its under Setting, System, General, Date&Time.
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    Neightbor Being Hazed With Tortillas

    You need big pixels to have good night vision. That means less pixels on a bigger sensor. A long zoom lens more than makes up for the lower pixel density.
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    Neightbor Being Hazed With Tortillas

    That big sensor really keeps the noise down. I have Dahua starlights on the front but they don't look nearly as clean.
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    Neightbor Being Hazed With Tortillas

    Same. Probably the overexposure made everything look white.
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    Neightbor Being Hazed With Tortillas

    What make/model camera is that again?
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    Neightbor Being Hazed With Tortillas

    Yes, but also being California, they could get charged with cultural appropriation and various hate crimes.
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    Help a newb with camera network questions.

    You can't plug a camera using 10.1.1.65 into a 192.168.20.0 network and have it communicate unless you have a router between them. I believe an NVR will find cameras on its LAN interface as long as they're on the same IP subnet.
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    Has anyone set up their cam in portrait mode? Are there any drawbacks?

    I have three setup that way because it fits the area I'm trying to cover. The only downside is that you can't see it full screen pixel for pixel on a wide screen monitor.
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    Review-Dahua IPC-HDBW4231F-E2-M Dual Starlight Cam

    Yes, the area below the light will give you the best face views. You'd have to play with the placement as a small adjustment can make a big difference in glare from the light. When installing my door camera, I found less glare with the camera mounted facing the light than I got with the camera...
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    Disk not ready

    And avoid "green" drives which will do so regardless of the sleep settings in Windows.
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