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    iVMS 4200 - Main View - Option to set live view cameras to sub-stream greyed out?!

    I've wondered about that at one point as it seems when you tap through it just enlarges the sub stream, right? I don't think there is a preference for it. I think that may hinge on the auto stream type to do it on the fly, but then based on network and system capacities that seems to stay in...
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    Hik DS-2CD2732F-IS recording and IR question

    Was that a short circuit? Or other problem? That caused the chip to burn? I am not personally near my camera, so I can not take a picture of the chip.
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    Residential Setup - input?

    Great idea not to wait for a real package. I started out with a big box store $100 foscam PTZ behind the window, to get something going in the daytime, while I was studying up on ipcams. But you're farther along in your research than I was at the time, and you could probably be up and running...
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    ? on Aliexpress Camera

    That may explain how my DHL order went out after the weekend, than before, that they don't do DHL in-house. I thought it a bit odd, but figured I missed the cutoff time. So, it looks like they box it up business day 1 and then get it on to a 3rd party. We get used to thinking businesses are...
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    Residential Setup - input?

    That's terrible. New property and already getting hit? Ouch. I guess, as with most packages, no signature was required. You may have to consider a package drop box. As a camera does not prevent mail & packages from walking away. Maybe as in another mail theft the thief opened the package...
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    ? on Aliexpress Camera

    There could be a technicality between "shipped" on aliexpress as in order processed; and shipment created in DHL. Maybe cctv needs an extra camera or two in a certain lens size to fulfill your order? That they're waiting on to come in or go pickup? I think you should hear something back...
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    seeking advice for NVR server

    You are correct, that if you can leverage in-camera, all it needs to do is write the streams. Recording with in-camera is nominal on a core i3 i5 system. Sorry for the confusion, when I was speaking in general, that most of the software will not do in-camera motion detection, so then the CPU...
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    Night Vision Question(s)

    The point really is that can research yourself crazy, but for all of us IR is where it is at for surveillance at home, and extending on what nayr said, if you have an outdoor camera with built-in IR leds, it will have a means of controlling them, turning them off for instance also should you...
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    Cannot find ip cam on the internet

    Side note: One should not start the DHCP Pool with the fourth number .1 which is reserved for the router. Make it at least 192.168.1.2. Or maybe start at 192.168.1.10. Residential routers typically start at .100. Not that that matters, whether .10 or .100, but you should leave .1 for the router.
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    Night Vision Question(s)

    I'll start by going the easy route and sharing a URL, rather than type out something that's going to be less concise :) http://www.hownightvisionworks.com As Nayr said, IR is pretty much the only homeowner option. And, I'd say with a preference to softer broader illumination rather than...
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    Residential Setup - input?

    Do you need infrared lighting? Only the top and bottom one have infrared.
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    Recommendations for a better camera

    You're fine. VLC stands for Video Lan Client, a pretty wellknown cross platform multimedia player. http://www.videolan.org I think that should be a great camera. It was on my top 5 short list until we settled on the smaller bullets and domes. We wanted things to be as unobtrusive as possible...
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    iVMS4200 Auto-Start after Reboot

    We must have been typing at the same time. I tried to get the client to startup as well, since I view remotely, but the traditional way of creating a symlink in the startup folder didn't work.
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    iVMS4200 Auto-Start after Reboot

    It may help to add a ups power supply to keep things humming along when the power goes out. If you don't have classic shell ... keyboard windows key + R, type CMD, enter or OK Regarding win 8.1 logon. Start > Run > netplwiz Select User Account. Deselect has to logon with username and...
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    Recommendations for a better camera

    Well if the rain isn't an issue, then the computer is! Not quite sure if VLC is giving me a true 1:1 on the larger resolutions as then it shows some narrow size letterboxed 4:3 image ... either funny stuff with hikvision codec and/or benefit of running betas I guess. So, I will redo this better...
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    Recommendations for a better camera

    Tiger, I will see to whip up a couple samples momentarily. Thought about it yesterday but rain was a bit of an issue.
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    ? on Aliexpress Camera

    Knock on wood! Looking forward to hearing positive news. I am genuinely curious. I've had some $$$ experiences between EU-US-CAN (USPS, UPS, FedEx), so I've grown more cautious and less adventurous about importing and exporting. Actually I think I decided my last shipment out of the country...
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    seeking advice for NVR server

    How many virtual machines can the system handle? As I think using a virtual machine to run surveillance software would just be unnecessary overhead, and depending on which surveillance software you decide on and which detection methods you want or need, cpu cycles are all it needs and always...
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    Dahua 3MP 3.6MM Mini Pan/Tilt Video (ipc-hdb4300f-pt)

    Good job on secruring things and prevention. I was just thinking about two mini domes. I like things to be discete myself ... which is why my first camera is next to invisble. I just need to move forward and do the same with a few more. And if there were some bracket like the idea that was...
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    Opinions?

    nokian ftw ;) http://www.worldcarfans.com/111030931030/nokian-tires-audi-rs6-beats-bentley-ice-speed-world-record
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    Recommendations for a better camera

    I actually posted about that window up as well ;) Figure if you were to go higher resolution, that people's faces will be 50% bigger to double in size if you go 2mp or 3mp (just rough math in pixels going up from 720) I have a couple 720p foscams and a several 3mp hikvisions, the latter which I...
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    Dahua 3MP 3.6MM Mini Pan/Tilt Video (ipc-hdb4300f-pt)

    I've thought about a bin or trunk for packages to keep them out of street view and weathet at my previous residence. Of course you are the specialist to wire a contact sensor and camera in there to verify who is delivering the package and which package is in the trunk ;) But couldn't you do...
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    NVR run 3rd party Software?

    BlueIris runs on personal computers running windows. NVR systems will run their own brand's firmware. Cameras can be plugged directly into the nvr, if it has power over internet. Unless you have something more proprietary that requires a specific injector.
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    Opinions?

    :saturn: :satellite: :saturn: :encouragement: Thumbs up for those advanced car engineering skills. That's not just being able to fix a car any more when you do those upgrades and transplants. Sadly, for me, car mechanics is another thing that is on my to learn list.
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    Home Intercom Advice

    That's what rubs me wrong with the different plans, now more service for 4 for the price of 2, but you have to be out of comtract, pay full price for your phone, and we already did that for one to keep the unlimited data. It is just all a huge ripoff. I know about retention and switching every...
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    Opinions?

    Sweet. Never had that much hp under foot. 300 seems eh plenty ;) I've actually thought a couple times about getting a dash cam because I've had a few close calls, where a vehicle came at me, and had I or my vehicle not been able to avoid the accident, it would have been good and possibly...
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    Opinions?

    I wish there wasn't such a flappy paddle fad. I have no use for them other than for racing, but they put them on freaking anything with wheels now, from compacts to minivans and trucks. I've got flappy paddles on my SUV?! Where on the work van the audio controls are :( And whenever I back up...
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    Home Intercom Advice

    Thanks. Pretty cool stuff! For the time being I'll stick to the "works-right-out-of-the-box-phones" ;) Maybe when I get caught up on all other projects, to dos, wants and the honey-do list :D
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    Recommendations for a better camera

    1920x1080 or better 3MP 2048x1536 (at 12mm) will give a fair bit of extra detail for the same width / field of view. Any $100-200 3MP camera should do better. Tough call whether that really would be enough to identify somebody. Higher frames per second and clarity and bandwidth would certainly...
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    Economic solution to view IP CAMs on TVs

    True. Ultimately, between all the various scenarios I had drawn out and/or read about, even ignoring cost as a factor pro/con; that is why I went as KISS and foolproof as possible. I just copy the primary / main view screen. So, no extra streaming or serving load on the pcnvr. No extra...
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