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  1. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    That's actually the point of the lottery. It's designed to increase sales. Sure, anyone can win. But your odds increase the more cameras you buy.
  2. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    My nvr went from Shenzhen, China, to Memphis, TN in about 48 hours. That's not mush of a delay to me.
  3. CaptainCrunch

    This is Mind-blowing

    What about the DOT Helper. It looked like he may have been in front of his truck and took a ride on his hood. Was there anyone in the car?
  4. CaptainCrunch

    This is Mind-blowing

    successiveI agree with most of the above. I think the guy pulling the trailer was moving over as a courtesy for the vehicles on the side of the road. It sure looks to me like the truck just didn't want to let the trailer in. In the first picture, it looks like the trailer has enough room to...
  5. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    Oh, I know. I already plan to have a SD22204UE-GN-W in the back of the house so me or the wife can access it through the wireless connection to keep an eye on the kids in the pool. I'll have a color bullet for the back patio and a 5442 for people approaching the back door. Overview will be from...
  6. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    I have 7-8 cameras I still need to install. Any new cameras, like a thermal camera, would enhance the planned coverage, not add new coverage.
  7. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    There are a few cameras I would like to get but I have to tell myself I need to pace myself and save some cameras for the next sale.
  8. CaptainCrunch

    Blue Iris PC and EmpireTech NVR together?

    Thanks, that's what I thought I figured out but wanted to ask a pro to be sure. It looks like the 6 series has 2 network ports. They are also geared more for businesses and start off at $1K. That's a little much for my budget for a test platform. I don't mind plugging the NVR into the camera...
  9. CaptainCrunch

    Blue Iris PC and EmpireTech NVR together?

    To extend this conversation, I have my cameras on a separate network. All of the cameras are connected to POE switches. The BI is plugged into the switch. A dual NIC allows me to also plug the BI into the main network. If I want to add an NVR for testing and backup purposes, I should be able to...
  10. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    Are you going to deliver my lottery super prize in person?
  11. CaptainCrunch

    I put together a sky/roof rig with (4) 180* Color4K cams...

    I'd have to consider adding the EmpireTech PTZ1A2M. Your setup seems like it would make great spotter cams.
  12. CaptainCrunch

    I put together a sky/roof rig with (4) 180* Color4K cams...

    In the view example, all of the camera views are pretty level. In the shots of the build, half the camera shrouds are mounted opposite the other half. Are you going to be mounting them with half facing more up and the other half facing more down?
  13. CaptainCrunch

    Subdivision Monitoring - Smallest Viable System Recommendations

    That's great. I learned something else new. I was able to add one of the NVRs from the wiki to SmartPSS.
  14. CaptainCrunch

    Subdivision Monitoring - Smallest Viable System Recommendations

    I'm in the process of convincing my hoa to add cameras. I've learned a few things during my research so I may be able to address some of the things that I did not know that I didn't know when I started. The Z12E is popular for catching plates. I've got 2 set up for just that purpose. They are...
  15. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    I can volunteer to buy 4 more tickets if you really really NEED them gone.
  16. CaptainCrunch

    This is a little different...

    I don't think I'd limit that group to drug addicts. The system and a year's worth of coverage is about $500. I think a better use of that money would be to get a locking bed cover.
  17. CaptainCrunch

    ANPR NVR Confusion

    So an anpr camera will recognize a plate and put the plate number in the metadata it sends to the nvr. The nvr has a search function that allow you to search the metadata for criteria, like color and plate and stuff. In your case, your nvr tries to isolate the plate but doesn't read it because...
  18. CaptainCrunch

    ANPR NVR Confusion

    Are you able to maintain a database of plate numbers?
  19. CaptainCrunch

    ANPR NVR Confusion

    I'm looking for an NVR that will be paired with a IPC-LPR437B-IR camera. As I understand it, with an sd bard, the camera has the ai built in to capture and read plates and store those plates in a database. The NVR8CH-8P-2AI says it can create a data base with up to 20,000 plate numbers...
  20. CaptainCrunch

    Review - EmpireTech IPC-TPC124X-AI 1/2.7'' CMOS 4MP Thermal Network Mini Hybrid Eyeball Camera

    That's what I would have thought. The main stream from the thermal camera is 1280x960. That means the camera takes the 50k pixels and sends out 1.3M pixels? It sends out 25x more data than it takes in?
  21. CaptainCrunch

    Review - EmpireTech IPC-TPC124X-AI 1/2.7'' CMOS 4MP Thermal Network Mini Hybrid Eyeball Camera

    Ah. Thank you. I missed that part. I must have stopped looking after the second line under thermal. That makes me wonder what the max resolution means if it doesn't mean the max resolution.
  22. CaptainCrunch

    Review - EmpireTech IPC-TPC124X-AI 1/2.7'' CMOS 4MP Thermal Network Mini Hybrid Eyeball Camera

    When I saw this picture, my first thought was that I hope the deer don't jump off the cliff. The specs list the thermal resolution as 256 (H) × 192 (V). Is the resolution of the thermal measured differently somehow? That's the size of a high quality desktop icon. Some of the images, like the...
  23. CaptainCrunch

    A Truck with chemical gas explode on 7th in China

    I think they're lucky they ran off in the direction they did instead of down the wall.
  24. CaptainCrunch

    EmpireTech 2023 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday Sales Nov.20-24th

    3 ir cameras = 3 tickets 5 ir cameras = 5 tickets 2 full color cameras = 3 tickets I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
  25. CaptainCrunch

    What motivated you to get started

    It was really surprising the number of people who had a system but had no idea how to retrieve any video from it.
  26. CaptainCrunch

    I get poor quality exports when exporting via the timeline

    What it seems like is the timeline export takes the substream and scales it down to whatever resolution the window is actually using and exports at the window's resolution, much like just recording the screen. If the size of the window is larger than the substream, it takes the main stream and...
  27. CaptainCrunch

    Smallest Auto-Tracking Camera

    According to the specs on empiretech101, the SD49225XA has auto tracking and the PTZ3E405-AI has auto tracking lite. Do you know the difference?
  28. CaptainCrunch

    Review: IDahua DH-ITC-437-PW6M-IZ-GN / LPR-437 - ALPR/ANPR - Traffic & Access Control Camera

    Has this camera been discontinued? It looks like dahua has this marked as eol. https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Discontinued-Products/Mobile--Traffic/ITC437-PW6M-IZ-GN
  29. CaptainCrunch

    I get poor quality exports when exporting via the timeline

    Or, for those people who read the manual, Add a 3rd paragraph to the Timeline export section indicating that method will record in the resolution of the display. I did save the manual. It may come in handy to me at some point.
  30. CaptainCrunch

    I get poor quality exports when exporting via the timeline

    I understand what you were doing. I saved a few clips that way before I realized some of them were not full resolution. What frustrated me for a bit was I thought I had a consistent workflow. When one view was the only one visible and you were right clicking on the timeline, I was right clicking...
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