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  1. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Shhh!!! Don't tell the bad guys!
  2. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    LOL. I have no specific need for these, but for $33.24 when you buy 2, as you said, it's hard to pass up. I just ordered 2.
  3. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    Distance is 124' per DaftLogic. I have Automatic Power Control turned on.
  4. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    I don't have time right now to do a proper job with something sturdier, but I did get them elevated with some PVC, so they have clear LOS: and it seems to help a little bit:
  5. TheWaterbug

    LPR setup help

    IIUC 3D NR performs some sort of frame-averaging, which would kill moving plate readability, big time.
  6. TheWaterbug

    Gene Hackman: RIP

    "They're fueling their missiles!!!!!"
  7. TheWaterbug

    Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

    Things that tripped me up today: I put DahuaSunriseSunset.exe in my C:\Program Files\ directory. This means it writes its config file to C:\Program Files\, which requires Administrator privileges. Which means you must Run as Administrator to configure it, otherwise your configuration changes...
  8. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    PSA, if you want the database container to start automagically after boot, you can set Docker to start automatically on login: and then use netplwiz to enable auto-login: No regedit required! You may have to turn off Windows Hello in Sign-in options to enable that checkbox in netplwiz...
  9. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    A little bit better:
  10. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    It took a week to get them, but they're great! "Peel and stomp," and there's a reflective strip about 3/4" wide, only at the top, which makes these an excellent focusing target. For some reason my LPR camera isn't going night mode when it should, but here's what they looked like when I started...
  11. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    One of "my" coyotes died a few weeks back, and I found it on a trail about 1/2 mile from my cameras: A lot of folks around here consider them a nuisance, and I consider them a danger to my own cats, but it's hard not to feel sad when you've been watching them daily. I didn't turn it over or...
  12. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Done!! I didn't know this was a thing.
  13. TheWaterbug

    Get Web Client to Solo Doorbell Cam on Button Push?

    I have two Reolink POE Doorbell cameras set up and working in BlueIris, and I'm receiving ONVIF events on button presses: I also have a RaspberryPi-based BI viewer that has no user controls, e.g. the touchscreen is disconnected, so that it just displays both doorbell cameras, full-screen, all...
  14. TheWaterbug

    Frustrate: Blur....

    I can see them, but only after clicking and downloading and opening in a viewer application. Convert them to JPG or PNG before inserting into your post, or just copy and paste into your post, and then we'll see them inline:
  15. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Right now I'm triggering strictly on motion, and alerting on triggers, so I get a ton of false positives: I tried installing CPAI a while back, but it was really unstable, so I uninstalled it. I may try it again, and using it to Alert only on animal/human detection.
  16. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Great idea! I wonder if I can find some of those temporary reflective traffic guides that they use in construction zones. They're like two 2" x 2" plastic squares joined along one edge at a 90-degree angle, so they "pop up" into traffic, but they fold down when you drive over them. I'm not...
  17. TheWaterbug

    For those that have used both... Is onboard AI detection more accurate than CPAI?

    I think the big win for computer-based LPR is the learning that comes from training on multiple data sets. Or I say "will come," since we're not there yet. But people are working on it, as we speak! And who thought allowing oh, zero, one, eye, bee and eight in license plates was a good idea...
  18. TheWaterbug

    For those that have used both... Is onboard AI detection more accurate than CPAI?

    This is fascinating, and contrary to what my intuition would have suggested about whether the "smarts" belong in the camera or the computer. Apparently the cameras can do a lot with their tiny little brains! I am guessing that, over time, the balance will shift in favor of the the smarts being...
  19. TheWaterbug

    The official "WTF" thread

    The skinny guy didn't do squat!!!
  20. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Thanks! Will fiddle with it all tonight. Part of the problem is that this is a light industrial park parking lot, so get very little nighttime traffic through these driveways. I had zoomed out so that I could plant my dummy plate in the dirt and focus on it while I'm not there. There really...
  21. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    I'm still not getting good captures. I've got the exposure and focus dialed in on my dummy plate, (5XOZ099, on the right) that I mounted on a U-stake, adjacent to the driveway. But here's a real car coming in at 6:50 PM: resulting in "No plate found." And here's a car coming at 6:07 AM...
  22. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I'm recording Continuous and using ALERT_CLIP, and it works fine for me. In my ALPR Database > BI Settings I'm using my myDNSHostname.dyndns.org:81, and the clips open correctly in UI3, which just as good as the "UI3 integration" that I was requesting originally!
  23. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    How do we tell postgres to add the new columns? Or does that happen automatically?
  24. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Or just use/allow the BI hostname.
  25. TheWaterbug

    Remote access outside the LAN

    Whoa!
  26. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    ^^ Ah, now I see that somewhere the image does get masked by the motion trigger mask: This motion zone exactly matches the positive mask in my post just above.
  27. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Am I doing this right? I have { "memo":"&MEMO", "Image":"&ALERT_JPEG", "camera":"&CAM", "timestamp":"&ALERT_TIME" } in the Post/Payload of my On Alert config, but I only ever get one plate. Here's the full JPG from the alert: and 100% crop: The .dat shows: so the upper vehicle was...
  28. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    What version of BI are you running? My BI 5.9.9.25 (latest) looks different (Camera Settings > Alert > AI Config):
  29. TheWaterbug

    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    I'm on a Windows 10 box, so I tried out update.ps1: It failed At C:\Docker\ALPR-Database\update.ps1:207 char:71 ... $new_compose = $new_compose -replace '"3000:', """$APP_PORT:" ~~~~~~~~~~ Variable reference is not valid I commented out line 207 and reran it, but it Failed to stop...
  30. TheWaterbug

    Using single POE cable to power mic and camera

    M7 responded quickly! Although English is clearly not their first language, and it's a bit difficult to parse their answers: to which I further asked, "Thanks! Is the RJ45 output of the M7-POESP12V passive 24/48V? Or is it active 802.11af/at? Is there a datasheet or instruction manual?" and...
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