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  1. TheWaterbug

    Blue Iris UI3

    I have encountered a recurring (but infrequent) display bug. Sometimes, one of my cameras gets displayed as zoomed in, but BI/UI3 thinks it's zoomed all the way out. Here's the correct view: Sometimes, perhaps once every 2 weeks, I'll click on one of the cameras (say, the upper-right camera)...
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    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote with Rabbit (?) Looks like a rabbit to me, but I could be wrong:
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    Is my WD purple 6tb HD in trouble?

    No, this is on a different BI box, my personal BI installation. The troublesome box is one I set up for my parents. The dead box is one my son set up for me ex. I also have a box at work that's working fine. :facepalm:
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    Is my WD purple 6tb HD in trouble?

    Yeah, but it's just the 256 GB boot drive, so I won't interact with it much. All the video is on a different, far slower, external drive box.
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    Is my WD purple 6tb HD in trouble?

    It's a cheapie SATA SSD that the refurb companies put in refurbished PCs: My new cheap box has an M.2 SSD that appears to be less cheapie:
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    Is my WD purple 6tb HD in trouble?

    Yeah, I will probably need to bring the box back to my house and do a bunch of swapping to figure out what's going on. The box that my son set up for my ex is also dead, and I just swapped out my personal box for a new one, so I will have 3 identical Optiplex 7040 boxes on my desk!
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    Is my WD purple 6tb HD in trouble?

    CrystalDisk reports zero errors or warnings on my 2-yo Seagate BarraCuda: but I'm getting repeated "Disk can't write fast enough" errors: and generally abysmal performance on this i7-6700 box that's essentially configured the same as 2 other identical boxes that perform fine with more...
  8. TheWaterbug

    URL to get Image from Empire Camera

    Yes, typo while I was deleting my real password :facepalm:
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    URL to get Image from Empire Camera

    This works for my Amcrest, Empire, Dahua, and Lorex cameras: cat AmcrestSnapshot.sh #!/bin/bash IPAddress=$1 OutPath=$2 cd /usr/local/bin outfile=$OutPath outfile+=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S) outfile+=.jpg echo $outfile curl -o $outfile --digest --user username:password...
  10. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    Migration nearly complete! This i7-12700 box idles at about the same ~20%-ish, but doesn't redline when I scrub. Took me awhile to get all the little settings and utilities replicated on the new box, and I'm 95% there, except for getting my Docker Wyze Bridge to launch automatically at boot. I...
  11. TheWaterbug

    Few simple Q's about Dahua install junction box

    Actually, while looking at that last item, amazon prompted this item, which looks more promising, as it's made of silicone, and presumably pliable and trimmable: 4 pieces for $10, delivered tomorrow. So I ordered, and we'll see.
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    Few simple Q's about Dahua install junction box

    Does anyone know where to buy smaller split grommets for the hole at the bottom of the junction box? It was suggested in an earlier thread that I should look for a "cable gland," but I have dozens of cable glands in my toolbox, and they're typically for running an unterminated cable through a...
  13. TheWaterbug

    BI Finding Amcrest Cams, but not EmpireTech

    I fiddle with my cameras at my 3 sites over RDP all the time, and have never had a problem. But yes, anything that changes your computer's IP over RDP has the potential to lock you out and require a road trip to fix! This is one case where having a VM spun up in HyperV, with the host having 2...
  14. TheWaterbug

    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Yes! The camera unit and the chime unit come paired from the factory, and one will ring the other, OOTB!
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    Blue Iris over a VPN.

    Two cameras should be fine. They'd pull <<<<20 Mbps, and any decent hardware VPN should be capable of many times that. I have two Protectli FW4C boxes ($249/each) running a Site-to-Site IPSec tunnel between them, over 1000/1000 links, and I'm getting >> 500 Mbps, sustained. Your Ubiquiti boxes...
  16. TheWaterbug

    Point to Point Wireless Bridge Recomendations

    I've got Bridge C deployed, along with a camera pointing at the northern driveway off of Western. Distance is only 124' per DaftLogic, but there's a balcony in between, which puts a bunch of metal railings in the way: Does that matter at all? I suppose this is all academic, because I'm...
  17. TheWaterbug

    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Possible, but the cameras need to be high enough that vagrants can't reach them by standing on the bollards or the electrical panel :facepalm:: They haven't brought a ladder. Yet.
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    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    That also looks weird because my front plates were all bent up. Here's my first natural night-time entry, at a normal angle: Maybe I have the focus point correct, where the cars need to complete their turn before running into the curb that runs parallel to the driveway. If I focus further out...
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    Stack video frames to enhance face and catch Truck Thief?

    Good news! After I got all the wireless bridges configured and tested in my kitchen, I rigged everything up with a tripod, jumpstarter, and an inverter for a real-world test in front of 301: The tenant in 301 came out, and we talked, and he's actually negotiating with the landlord to move his...
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    True, but that's not the same thing as a true, standardized benchmark. I did email Ken, and he replied that this type of scriptability would be "frosting," and he's currently working on the cake. I told him we all want the cake! and that I'd ping him again after 6.0.1 is released.
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    I just ordered this, because I have a need for another low-end machine at work anyway, so I'm going to replace the i7-6700 box with this new-to-me i7-12700 box, and the i7-6700 will get handed down to the non-demanding application.
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    That's interesting, but it's really noisy data. Here's a sort of records with my CPU model, between 450 - 600 MP/s, which is what my BI reports: BI CPU utilization varies from 11% - 63%. Even if we remove those two suspect min/max numbers, there's still a range from 16% - 35%. Most are with...
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    That would be interesting to review, but everyone's cameras and configurations are different, so it's really hard to know what's apples to apples. A standard, scripted benchmark would ensure that we're comparing like for like. But it would depend on how scriptable BI is. Maybe I'll ask Ken.
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    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    Interesting! Searching Amazon for "renewed PC i7-12700" reveals this Lenovo Thinkcentre Neo 50S G4 SFF PC Core i7-12700 16GB RAM 256GB SSD W11P (Renewed) for $355 after coupon. I don't need internal storage, since all my video is stored on an external box, so the only thing I even might need...
  25. TheWaterbug

    My New Roof, in 2 Minutes!

    Camera: Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI, 5 MP (2960 × 1668) First 1/2 of video recorded continuously in Blue Iris 5.9.9.14, then decimated to 1 frame per minute and re-encoded to 30 fps in ffmpeg. Second 1/2 of video recorded 1 frame per minute through cron/curl "$IPAddress/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi" and...
  26. TheWaterbug

    Upgrading my machine - P cores and E cores?

    I'm still running an ancient i7-6700 in a renewed Optiplex 7040. With 28 cameras (on sub streams! ) plus a Wyze Docker Bridge VM, it idles at ~50%, but often redlines when I scrub through footage. What would be a reasonable upgrade amongst renewed PCs with Win11 Pro for less than $500? I...
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    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I strongly prefer DHCP reservations for just about anything other than a router or domain controller or other core infrastructure. Reservations allow me to: Preconfigure my DHCP server based on the MAC address on the product box, so it comes up from first power-up with a known address that I...
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    Who's ARPing my Camera?

    I haven't seen the problem since, so I'm checking that box for all of my cameras, now!!
  29. TheWaterbug

    SOLVED: Dahua IPC-HDW2231R-ZS loosing the plot!

    Is it 192.168.1.108? Or 192.168.1.251?
  30. TheWaterbug

    BIG Owl on my Trail

    Coyote With Injured Front Paw, 12/20/24 It's been 5 weeks since this injured coyote initially crossed my cameras, and for the first time s/he seems to be putting a little bit of weight on it. I cut ~30 seconds of dead time between the two animals, but these two are definitely traveling...
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