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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I've concluded that this is what it takes to have an even chance against the dems. They are such polished liars and deceptionists that anybody giving them any respect gets rolled over and buried.
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    Money & Economics

    Kind of makes sense with expanding government having been responsible for a lot of the prior growth.
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    Best rat trap

    Cats didn't do squat for me with rats. The biggest they'd take on is mouse and chipmunk. I've had the best luck with the cheap old fashioned spring trap, learning a few tricks along the way. A few are to block off the back and sides so the rat has to approach the trap from the front, put a...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I don't understand how the EU censorship act can kill US social media. They don't have any jurisdiction to regulate US companies. They can say ISPs have to block it in the EU, say it's illegal for their citizens to look at it, but I don't see how they can kill it from existing outside their...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Have you checked the refurbished list?
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    New vehicles are crap and private equity groups are the reason

    My newest car is a 2019 subaru. Mechanically it is being a very good platform, and the CVT at least so far, works well. What's crap about it is the electronics, both in design and bugginess. The GPS is the worst I've had, with even the ~$159 garmin being better. Can't use the GPS without the...
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    Notes from the Swamp

    bigred, do you have a front door camera? “I heard a knock at the door and then nothing else,” Nathalie Gaines, who lives in Lake Mary, Florida, told Fox 35 in Orlando. “I waited a while and then I hear it again.” After she looked at the camera, she realized, “There was a full-blown alligator...
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    Not my point. Amazon spying and harvesting of data is among the best in the world. Right up there with google.
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    Does this mean the HD for BI storage is kaput?

    I'd start with verifying that BIOS sees the device. If not, no sense wasting time with windows. If not in BIOS, next step is to reseat the connectors. If no luck there, I'd plug it into a USB-to-SATA gadget and see if that finds it.
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    So instead of dahua spying on us, amazon can, and they have a lot more experience at it! Maybe ads will start popping up when viewing cameras remotely?
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    P2P is neither inherently secure or inherently insecure. It's all up to the quality of its implementation and the trustworthiness of whoever is able to see your data. Since P2P requires contact with a server somewhere, whoever has access to that server could misuse the information passing...
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    Dahua NVR5216 hard reset?

    My V1 5216-4ks2 originally ran V3 firmware. A few years ago I upgraded to a fairly early version of the V4 firmware. I do not use the very latest V4 firmware that I could be using. Detail you probably don't care about: Somewhere during the V4 firmware evolution, dahua added code to prevent...
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    Dahua NVR5216 hard reset?

    You have version 3 firmware. The latest is version 4. I'm running a fairly old 5216-4ks2 with version 4 firmware and as of a couple months ago it worked with P2P, although the smartPSS and DMSS apps had to be upgraded with newer versions. Be careful if upgrading the firmware. There are V1...
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    Camera to watch over garden

    Does the animal detection cause a BI trigger? The advertising says this is a 4MP camera with a 1/1.79 sensor and f1.0 lens. This sounds like the new wiz-color line, which might not be able to detect animals, at half the price. It looks like the case isn't as robust as a dahua case is, but if...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    One of the new flying cars?
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    Dahua NVR5216 hard reset?

    If the NVR works for other than connection to DMSS and smartPSS, I would suspect some kind of communication configuration problem. A while back, dahua changed the P2P servers and older versions of the remote software no longer connect. Perhaps an older NVR won't work with dahua P2P anymore...
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    I'm surprised to hear this. I don't have a 4k-t to compare, but I'm pretty happy with how the 3.6mm 4k-x catches details over 100' away.
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    Camera to monitor 5" x 8" LCD panel ?

    I'll compare notes with you. When I'm away I use an old 6mm 4MP chinese market dahua camera pointing at my touchscreen thermostst. At this point in time, this is considered a fairly low-end camera. It's very close to 32" away and works great. One thing I noticed is, if I have this right, the...
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    Anybody know what "Comprehensive smart object detection" is?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Judge Boasberg Admits He Can’t Stop Tren de Aragua Planes to CECOT This is the part that gets me: "The three-judge D.C. Circuit panel split 2-1. The two Trump appointees, Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, ruled for the administration. Judge Cornelia Pillard, an appointee of former President...
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    The autism pandemic

    Pretty scary stats: Autism much more prevalent in boys. Nationwide 1 in 20 boys have it. In california, 1 in 12.5 boys have it. If these stats are correct, it is indeed a major epidemic.
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    I need to pay attention to this. It would be a reasonable solution if it really works. It just seems silly to me to not include what's already proven in the S3 cameras.
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    I have one big question. Since these are new phones with new firmware, why the heck aren't they including the animal detection?
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    Off-Road IR light bar

    I'm using 11 of the round cmvision 4 watters, and I keep a spare for fast swapping. I lose one of the eleven about once a year and have a pretty high repair success rate. With these, and I assume most or all others, replacing an actual IR emitter isn't feasible because of the way they're...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    This is seriously bad. Instead of the muslims taking over, we're being sold down the river to Israel.
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    Off-Road IR light bar

    Was moisture intrusion the cause of your failures? I bought a few Tendelux illuminators and all had moisture intrusion after a couple of years,. My theory is that the sealing gaskets shrank. They were all repairable, only one time because I think they'll have to be destroyed to open them up...
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    WTS Lightly used NVR8CH-8P-2AI NVR

    It's all about supply and demand and what purchasers are willing to pay. Unfortunately, what you or I think something should be worth doesn't matter much at all. I'm sitting on a few perfectly good cameras just because it isn't worth the hassle to me to sell them for what anybody here would...
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    In the late 70s the company I worked for (not big blue) had two models of a chain printer, one twice as fast as the other, and costing a bit shy of twice as much. The difference was an internal jumper. To people like me who thought this to be a bit dishonest, they had a bit of a justification...
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    And that's the problem. People need to throw the old machines away and buy new ones. Fits right into Krugman's theory about breaking glass windows helping the economy. Helps fill up the landfills, too, as well as needing more mining and chemicals released into the atmosphere to make new chips.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    Did President Trump’s Doctors Needlessly Risk His Life With Remdesivir?
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