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    Easiest Way to Secure Camera System

    In other words, with VPN setup, you don't have to forward ports to get access to your NVR. A forwarded port is like a hole in you firewall, a bad guy can get in there. So, with VPN, bad guys can't (or at least its much harder) get inside your home network from outside. Your NVR and cameras...
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    Easiest Way to Secure Camera System

    I have a AT68U, and have never had any reason to complain about its speed. During the summer, two teenage girls test my network with video chatting and youtube and whatever else they do lol. There is a tmobile version which tmobile gives away to their customers, so you can find this cheap on...
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    Easiest Way to Secure Camera System

    It's definitely there now, you can see it in my screen caps. Sometimes Asus documentation is not the greatest, and yeah that stuff is outdated.
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    Easiest Way to Secure Camera System

    A point of confusion is who is the VPN server and who is the client. The VPN services you pay for, they are the server and your router is the client. In that GLI help page, it was instructions to setup the router as a VPN client. For our purposes, your router should be the VPN server. Your...
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    New installation advice for house and dock

    Get a turret for spiders, they have less problems with spider webs. My standard advice for new installations is to get one starlight turret, mount it on a 2x4 with a long piece of ethernet cable, and try it out, in the places you are considering mounting cams. Try during the day and night, and...
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    Sweet! LTS is releasing an ONVIF compatible doorbell with SD card slot and 940nm IR

    Thanks for the new night pics. Wow, IR by itself is still really bad, guess that's no surprise. Not sure how they expect to sell these if you want to use this as your main front door camera, which I would expect is most people.
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    Sweet! LTS is releasing an ONVIF compatible doorbell with SD card slot and 940nm IR

    It would be great if you could capture some night time pics with porch lights on, and off. I typically do not turn on the porch light. For me, I'm thinking this would be to get notification, act as an intercom if needed, and to be able to see who's ringing the bell when it rings. BTW, with the...
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    Sweet! LTS is releasing an ONVIF compatible doorbell with SD card slot and 940nm IR

    Curious to see what the night time pics look like now.
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    Sweet! LTS is releasing an ONVIF compatible doorbell with SD card slot and 940nm IR

    Seems like the search for a good doorbell cam continues... :(
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    Sweet! LTS is releasing an ONVIF compatible doorbell with SD card slot and 940nm IR

    Notice a slight resemblance to this? ;) Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. Brand new I guess, couldn't find it on aliexpress. edit: oops, missed the fenderman link in the beginning of this thread, well at least I'm subscribed now Randy
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    Temperature Overlay in Dahua Cameras

    Hi David I have no idea what or how Nayr did that. All of my domoticz scripts are in dzvents, which is similar to lua but different lol. So I'm not used to how to call domoticz variables and stuff from scripts because dzvents does it differently. I think the key to Nayr's script is this line...
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    Cool Hack using Powerline Adaptors

    At 12V, you have to worry more about power and heat sinking. It was a linear reg, so it has to dissipate the power, 12v-3.3v = 8.7V times 1/3 of an amp. So you need to dissipate about 3 watts. At 5v, its only 1.7v times 1/3 of an amp.
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    Comparison of IPC-HFW5231E-Z and IPC-HFW4431R-Z

    I have one IPC-HFW4431R-Z, first camera I bought. Installed it on the corner of my house. When I installed it, I didn't have a front door camera, so I was trying to cover both the front entrance and driveway, and have it zoomed towards the front door. I have a three car garage, and the front...
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    Running Ethernet Cables Outside

    This was probably the hard way, but I did 8 feet of conduit at a time, pulling the cable through each piece of conduit, then mounting it. I suppose it would have been much easier to run a sting through the conduit, and then pull the cable through, but it worked. I also used the 90 degree bends...
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    Why isn't there much love for LaView (Hikvision / LTS Systems)?

    FWIW, seems like a lot of my neighbors have domes. They do look nice, just wondering how long before they fog up from uv exposure. But these are the same neighbors that have their cams too high, so they are getting good top of head recordings lol
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    Why isn't there much love for LaView (Hikvision / LTS Systems)?

    You really should not mix cameras and NVRs So if you have a Dahua NVR, stick to Dahua cams.
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    VPN Primer for Noobs

    I have an S6, and remember having to do something "special" on it before openvpn worked. See this Samsung S6 6.0 Energy options break VPN · Issue #471 · schwabe/ics-openvpn · GitHub
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    4K NVR

    BI is pretty easy to setup for continuous recording. Give it a go. In the long run, you may also want to consider electricity costs. My e3 PC uses about 20 watts if I remember correctly. Maybe 30. This PC is on 24/7, so the electricity cost does add up. If your E5 consumes a lot of watts, may...
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    4K NVR

    I do have a xeon that supports quicksync, and with two cams it may not matter. But like aristobrat said, try the demo version on the PC, you have nothing to lose. BTW, you didn't say if you had picked, or bought your cams yet. I recommend looking at the dahua starlights, Dahua Starlight...
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    Surveillance on Home broadband

    I have all of my cameras, and my BI PC (NVR) connected to the same, managed, POE switch. This POE switch is also connected to my router to give the BI PC access to my normal network. So this switch has one port to the router, one to the BI PC, and the rest to my cameras, nothing else...
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    4K NVR

    I run a Xeon E3-1225 V3 with 6 cams, most of them are 2mp. I'm fine, way less then 50% CPU load. I suspect with two cams you will be fine, but lots of factors. Win 10, think I have 8gb of ram. Will this PC be dedicated to BI? That is advised. What version of the xeon? For 2 cams, probably...
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    Running Ethernet Cables Outside

    If you pull the cable through the hole, unterminated, then you can drill a much smaller hole. I bought some long multi purpose bits from HD made by Bosch that can go through a stucco wall, and for my house were long enough to go all the way through. Harbor freight sells long bits too, but the...
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    New Home - First Security System

    I've used this alarm forum Electronic Home Security Systems, Alarms and Devices - DoItYourself.com Community Forums Also, do you understand that if you turn on lights based on a camera trigger, you're going to mess up that camera's exposure until it adjusts to the light, and you may miss what...
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    To Port Forward or Not To Port Forward?

    I thought he meant the router lol.
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    Hiding/Running Ethernet Outside Suggestion

    FWIW, I used EMT conduit for external wiring for my cams. More work and cost, but wire is not exposed to elements or bad guys.
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    Motion-activated Security Lights...

    The problem with adding motion sensor lights where you have cameras is if they turn on when a bad guy is in the picture, the lights will mess up the exposure until the camera adjusts, and he may be out of frame by then.
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    how not to

    Slightly off topic, but I made some changes to the wiring of my pool equipment lately to add some automation. Some of the existing wiring was pretty poorly done. I actually found water inside waterproof conduit that I was changing out. Professionals are on the clock, and have to get the job...
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    Thoughts on camera locations

    I would move it over like you had thought, at least a foot away from the light, but I don't have that issue so not really sure. Also, if you put that camera too high, you will get IR reflection off of the eaves. I think my "driveway" camera is over a foot below the top of the wall, and I was...
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    how not to

    How high up is it? Out of reach I hope lol
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    DIY: Warehouse Security Cameras

    You would need to make sure that the bullet's range, 7-35mm will work for all of the locations. The turret Dahua Starlight Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) goes much wider angle.
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