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  1. guykuo

    SD5A425GA-HNR detects cat ??

    Andy's special animal tracking firmware is letting my system catch detailed shots that would normally just be a distant blob. However, it has a tendency to excessively hunt back and forth during tracking. That creates what would be a non-presentable video, but thankfully Final Cut Pro does a...
  2. guykuo

    SD5A425GA-HNR detects cat ??

    Add image stabilization in Final Cut Pro and the result is quite nice despite the jerky camera tracking moves.
  3. guykuo

    SD5A425GA-HNR detects cat ??

    Never did it this well before.... More jittery than my manual aiming, but getting actual automated tracking for animals is a step up from the standard firmware. These are a few examples that are getting caught now.
  4. guykuo

    SD5A425GA-HNR detects cat ??

    Animal tracking firmware? I would love to have that on my PTZ5A4M-25X cameras. I only have the General_SD-Taurus_MultiLang_PN_Stream3-Normal_V3.200.0000018.2.R.240617 which does not track animals. The bear video was manually aimed, but getting firmware that also does animals would be wonderful...
  5. guykuo

    Mr. Bear Digs

    Captured on EmpireTech PTZ5A4M-25X about 100 yards away in darkness. Scene is illuminated only by the PTZ's IR lights. Really demonstrates what a good pairing its 4MP resolution is with 1/1.8 sensor. Uploaded video is only 1080P. BTW all the audio is SFX work in Final Cut Pro
  6. guykuo

    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    From above. Brim now installed on new camera.
  7. guykuo

    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    I use a one in three out splitter. It isn't "outdoor" unit, but it stays dry inside in mount. I do dop all the connections with silicone grease. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVR3C92S
  8. guykuo

    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    Total of nearly 28 hours print time. Here it is atop a pole with three turrets on the newly printed mount. A POE+ splitter within the mount lets one ethernet service all three turrets. Still need to add a brim to newest turret. Three other cameras on the pole are mounted using standard mounting...
  9. guykuo

    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    22 hours done, about 7 more to go. The top portion will be interesting because I'm printing the vaulted ceiling without using supports, unlike the horizontal portions at base that absolutely required supports. The top of the circular opening, I know my printer is tuned well enough to print...
  10. guykuo

    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    A couple hours in Fusion 360 to do the modeling. No AI assist, just CAD modeling. I cheated a bit by basing it off my two camera pole mount. Hardest part was getting all the cuts and intersections to keep the three upper mounts emptied out in their interiors. 13 hours into the print... .
  11. guykuo

    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    I wanted to change the top of one camera pole to have three turret cameras instead of two cameras currently mounted. The prior, two headed mount I printed in black PETG has held up well through several years weather. It's going to take a day and a half to print in PETG. 1/4 of the way through....
  12. guykuo

    PT - New Dahua Camera Category and Models

    Getting that currently means at least doubling the camera cost. We were spoiled for a time with good low light capabilities mixed with low cost.
  13. guykuo

    KP7 Aurora June 1, 2025

    One of the more energetic events since last year's major showing. Color 4KT came through again. Intensity was just barely visible to naked eye, but the camera captured a lot of color that would otherwise be invisible. View is from east of Seattle and our clouds nearly ruined tonight's show.
  14. guykuo

    Owl Giving a Ride

    Bunny gets ride with Owl Uber. Gives only one star review. EmpireTech PTZ5A4M-25X managed incidental night capture while pointed out at field. Only IR light is from the PTZ. Capture was triggered in SecuritySpy bythermal camera pointed in same direction.
  15. guykuo

    PTZ5A4M-25X vs PTZ4M-25X

    Finally replaced older PTZ4M-25X 4MP (less than ideal 1/2.8 sensor) with a PTZ5A4M-25X 4MP (on 1/1.8 sensor). Now I can supply a more direct comparison between the smaller sensor vs larger sensor PTZ's. Both are 4MP images, but the sensor difference is obvious. First is the 1/2.8 sensored...
  16. guykuo

    Cascades Sunrise on Color 4K-T

    Super nice sunrise over Cascades this morning. Start of video was almost black to the naked eye looking out window, but really shows up well on Color 4K-T
  17. guykuo

    More EmpireTech Color 4K-T Night Time Delight

    Careful, a few more times and Pavlov will take over if you hear that music elsewhere. o_O
  18. guykuo

    More EmpireTech Color 4K-T Night Time Delight

    I hope your legs didn't get too numb. :winktongue:
  19. guykuo

    Delivery Driver with pulsing IR

    Haven't seen this yet. Maybe active LIDAR self driving sensors?
  20. guykuo

    More EmpireTech Color 4K-T Night Time Delight

    Dawn to Dusk night of April 30 and May 1, 2025 gave a nice show of stars, Milky Way, northern lights, and Andromeda galaxy.
  21. guykuo

    Blue Heron Eats a Bass

    Great capture. Totally agree, 24/7 recording (in addition to motion triggered recording) has been truly worthwhile for me as well. Motion triggers miss a lot of interesting stuff. Course that means I'm recording nearly 3 TB / day on the RAID.
  22. guykuo

    Mr. Bear on Thermal and Visual

    First black bear video of this year. Easy to spot on Dahua DH-TPC-BF5421 thermal, but in daytime he also shows up on IPC-T54IR-ZEB-S3. Action is 100 yards out from cameras. Although he usually seems a slow lumbering beast, Mr. Bear is way faster than I can run. Would not want him after me!
  23. guykuo

    Relaxation Time Lapse with 4K-X

    A calming, cloud time lapse made with EmpireTech Color 4K-X 6 mm camera.
  24. guykuo

    Color 4K-T 3.6 mm NE Sky April 24 2025

    Milky Way, aurora and hundreds of Starlink satellites decorate PNW looking northeast over Cascades from 0100 to dawn. Best viewed on YT with quality set to 4K Captured at 3FPS and time lapse done in Final Cut Pro
  25. guykuo

    4K-X 6mm uneven focus

    This morning the Color 4K-X 6mm caught crescent moon rising. Earthlight lit up dark portion of moon enough to be visible on 4K-TX sensor. The entire frame is supplied so one can see 6 mm focus is pretty good for distance and onward to infinity. I agree it would not be good for close objects.
  26. guykuo

    4K-X 6mm uneven focus

    Sometimes it takes three cams to get everything you want in one direction.... One for license plates, one for general street view, Color 4K-X for tight sky view.
  27. guykuo

    IR halo ring issue in a IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2.

    Anything within three feet and in forward of camera front plane can bounce back enough IR to create a halo. I've been unpleasantly surprised a few times by nearby objects that I thought would be far enough lateral, but proven to be an issue. Solution was moving camera forward or removing...
  28. guykuo

    Eagle Nebula on Color 4K-X

    It is right at the limit of what the sensor and 6 mm lens can pick up, but the Eagle Nebula shows up as a faint blob in this time lapse. You can see the sensor gain is nearly too high by the presence of fixed hot pixels, but the nebula is obviously a real part of the moving star field. I zoomed...
  29. guykuo

    4K-X 6mm uneven focus

    Ironically, I'd love to have a 10 mm lens for even tighter framing on one of mine.
  30. guykuo

    Moonrise via Color 4K-X 6mm

    My Sky cams are set to manual shutter with 0 to 333 as the range. Frame rate is set to 3 FPS to match the long exposure. Camera automatically drops frame rate encoded when exposure goes long. So setting a baseline low rate avoids my video editor choking on video with variable frame rates. Gain...
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