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    Recommendation for indoor PTZ POE camera ... to be used outdoors

    I have an Pelco outdoor camera housing that is heated/vented that had a Panasonic BB-HCM381A indoor camera working fine in it for about 10 years before it quit. I'm looking to replace the Panasonic with a new INDOOR PTZ camera, preferably with POE. I don't need an all-in-one outdoor PTZ camera...
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    What is a decent IP cam for my budget?

    Thanks sebastiantombs. You learn something new every day ... unless you're careful :)
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    What is a decent IP cam for my budget?

    And another thing ... If you can't connect your cameras with ethernet, and before you go to wifi, you might consider Powerline Adapters ...
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    What is a decent IP cam for my budget?

    Sorry, forgot to mut my 2 cents in on the PC vs. NVR. Sooner or later that NVR is going end of life, or a part will fail that cannot be replaced due to age, or its software will no longer be supported on that hardware then you're looking at a forklift replacement. BI has lasted me through 2...
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    What is a decent IP cam for my budget?

    Not sure if it was mentioned already but be sure to use both streams for your cameras in BI. Typically your cameras have two. Set the sub stream for 15FPS and the main stream for 20-30 or whatever the form suggests... (works for me but I'm sure some senior members will curb-slam me on that...
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    Multiple ftp servers?

    I just set up a 2nd FTP server for my clips. There are plenty of existing clips and new clips being generated that are being sent to the 1st configured FTP server but nothing is going to the 2nd server. I did "test" the new config and it works fine. Any ideas why the 2nd ftp configuration is...
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    Amcrest AD110 - Can I do better than this?

    I tried to isolate my AD110 to my home network (blocking it from phoning home to China via firewall rules) and only letting it talk to Blueiris, and I believe it simply would not work otherwise. Since I had other BI controlled cameras in the vicinity I gave up on it and ended up putting it on a...
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    Insurance Fraud Outside My Home

    Thanks!
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    Insurance Fraud Outside My Home

    Seems this thread went a bit far afield and I stopped reading but did anyone suggest that the fellow with the cameras contact his local TV news "investigative reporter"? They like that sort of thing.
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    Blue Iris compatible doorbell/intercom/2 way audio

    No updates to this thread in 18 months? Bummer. I have an Amcrest AD110 that recently went offline. It had been working fine with BI and with it's mobile app. During the process of re-enabling it I learned that I am now REQUIRED to have internet connectivity to spin this camera back up...
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    Amcrest AD110 - Can I do better than this?

    Just for fun I tried one more time. I moved the wifi router to within 10' of the AD110 and tested the wifi signal using my mobile (4/4), I hard reset the device, enabled the hotspot, went through the setup, entered the passwords (device and wifi), and it the AD110 connected to my mobile and we...
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    Amcrest AD110 - Can I do better than this?

    A few years ago I installed pfSense as my firewall/router/DNS. Because of its firewall logs I learned that every single camera that I have, from Hikvision, to NSC, to Foscam, wants to "phone home" to IP addresses in China, and I have 15 cameras. So I wrote a firewall rule I cleverly called...
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    Amcrest AD110 - Can I do better than this?

    I have an AD110 that was working fine for a year or so but it recently lost wifi connectivity due to a power outage. While reconfiguring it I had to hard-reset as I forgot the admin password. Now it is failing to finish the config app as it cannot reach their cloud. Yeah, no kidding. I...
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    Blueiris or NVR?

    I have been running Blueiris on an older I7 desktop for several years without too much trouble, other than the underlying OS (Winders). I am frequently seeing ads from one of our sponsors ;) that offer NVR's for around $500 (plus HD's) and getting tempted to see if the grass is really greener...
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    Lamp post mounted hidden camera?

    Has anyone seen or created a lamp post with a camera inside? I would really like to have a view of the front of my house "from the street". My recent hare-brained idea was to sink a 10 foot long 4x4 into the front lawn, mount a small POE camera on the post facing the house, then cover it with...
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    Virtualizing BI?

    I recently saw a post about a docker for BI but I don't think he was using a "real" license key to test with and not many cameras so there was no real discussion about performance and stability. My BI computer is the last "Winders" computer in my home. Everything else runs Ubuntu on PC...
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    Amcrest SmartHome Video Doorbell Camera AD110

    I had to do some tinkering to get my Amcrest Doorbell camera online but it's worth it to not be using Ring. One of the features that I like, though it is a little flaky from time to time, is the motion sensing alert. I get a ding, I launch Blueiris or IP CAM Viewer, and look around. The flaky...
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    Clobbered BI UI settings

    My browser is set to clear cache and cookies upon logout. As previously mentioned, I couldn't find the specific cookie/file that is used by ui3 but if I could I would set the browser to NOT clear that one. Thanks anyways.
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    Clobbered BI UI settings

    I was using an internal address (http://192.168.0.xxx) but could not find any cookies or site specific data that had that string in its description. Clearing all the cookies/cache/settings and closing/restarting the browser ultimately worked. Thanks!
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    Clobbered BI UI settings

    I thought I was being clever when I set the BI UI Settings "close due to inactivity" to 99999 minutes. Apparently not. I made a typo and probably put some junk character in the field and now when I load the page ui3.htm page it immediately displays the web interface timeout page and tells me...
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    "Connected" camera with "Hotspot"?

    I actually purchased the Netgear Nighthawk Mesh system about 2 weeks ago because I live in a Faraday cage (house built in the 1930's with plaster and lathe walls - damn near impenetrable by anything). The Netgear does make it to the car, and the house next door who pays me $10/mth for internet...
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    "Connected" camera with "Hotspot"?

    I'm looking at some of the higher end dashcams that can connect to wifi and push notifications or videos when an event happens. I see that they can be a little pricey or limited with their monthly data limits and I'm sure I'd blow them away wanting to "peek" at the car all the time. I have a...
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    Whelp... it finally happened to me

    I did some googling last night and found two interesting prospects. One is OWL, though it appears that they went out of business recently then were resurrected. The jury is still out on their new ownership so that one is sort of on hold. The other one is RAVEN. I'm not sure about this one...
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    Whelp... it finally happened to me

    Wow interesting articles. This should keep me busy for a while. Thanks!
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    Whelp... it finally happened to me

    So without getting too far off in the fields, we are talking about cameras AND cars, but have you guys given any thought to cameras IN cars? I recently bought a new car and have been doing a lot of reading about dashcams. My primary reason is for any encounters with the local cops. It's a...
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    Whelp... it finally happened to me

    Maybe a Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range? Sorry to say that people just suck. Why is it that we need to bolt our doors, put up cameras, and carry guns, just because people can't be decent and leave other peoples stuff alone? Don't get me wrong, I do all of the above, (except for...
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    AD110 Motion detection, SD card, Android DND

    Thanks for the reply. My biggest problem with the SD Micro is that I switched my desktop and laptop from Winders 10 to Ubuntu about 8 months ago and have not looked back. Although I have been a Unix Sysadmin most of my career, the desktop version still has its share of quirks. I am having...
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    Amcrest SmartHome Video Doorbell Camera AD110

    I have since found a Google Pixel/Android support link that sent me back to the app notification settings (not sounds). There were 3 settings that were listed for overriding DND for Amcrest. "RingPush, "push_default_alarm", and "push_four_tone_door ..." I had just adjusted the one that called...
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    Amcrest SmartHome Video Doorbell Camera AD110

    Thanks for the reply. I did check the manual before I bought the card and page 12 of the v1.0.0 manual says "128GB MicroSD Card Class 10 or higher".
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    AD110 Motion detection, SD card, Android DND

    Ignore the part of the title "Android DND". I found a Google specific post for my Google Pixel 3 phone that helped me fix that and forgot to change the title.
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