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    Computer monitor vs tv + remote viewing

    My first tablet was an iPad 2. When I outgrew it’s memory, I went to a Surface Pro 3. Liked it’s versatility, but operationally it was clunky compared to my iPad. Shortly after the warranty expired, so did the Surface Pro 3. It just plain refused to wake up or start up, no matter what technique...
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    Computer monitor vs tv + remote viewing

    I just timed my iPad at 3.4 seconds from clicking on the Home Screen to launch Chrome until the live display of my cameras came up. I did have to click on “login” to UI3; it’s set to login automatically, and it often does, but that can add 2 seconds or so, and it doesn’t always do it. I have...
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    Blue Iris crashes when replaying from timeline (Windows 10)

    I’m just a noobie to BI, but do you have all 10 cameras in the viewer window? Remember that when you do replay or go further back on the timeline, BI has to read data from as many files as you have cams in the viewer. When you double click on an alert or other clip, you are only asking it to...
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    Computer monitor vs tv + remote viewing

    Yes, I have brought up UI3 on our Samsung TV’s browser. Viewing is fine, but the interface for control is clunky. UI3 in Chrome on my iPad is much easier to use, and way faster to launch.
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    How to remotely view cam's and use NVR from portable devices?

    Are you trying to log in using a wired or wireless connection?
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    Fixed lens out of focus, with every re-start?

    It sounds like you have been mostly looking at only once per day. Does it get direct sunlight on it? Is it possible that temperature changes are causing the distance between the lens and sensor to vary just enough to cause the problem? Sounds like maybe a poorly designed camera.
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    How does an IoT device receive a command from the internet?

    Okay, that makes sense. I guess what you are saying is that, even if I send a request from my phone from outside my LAN, the packet(s) sent from the device’s “endpoint” (or what I called the manufacturer’s server), contain a frame or frames that signal to my router that the packet was requested...
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    How does an IoT device receive a command from the internet?

    Thank you everyone for your responses. Somehow, though, it’s just not “clicking” for me as to how this is working. If you’ll indulge me just a little bit more, maybe I should simplify my question thusly: Why do I have to open a port to communicate with my RaspPi or BI server from outside my...
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    How does an IoT device receive a command from the internet?

    Thanks, Holbs. I see the potential there, but I’m not at that level yet. Are you implying/suggesting that yes, there are packets passing through (there must be, since the stuff works) that my router doesn’t log because it’s allowed?
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    How does an IoT device receive a command from the internet?

    Thanks. I have no desire to block the device, which would keep it from functioning. If it creates a secure tunnel to the endpoint, then it shouldn’t be susceptible to hacking unless the endpoint is hacked, right? And shouldn’t my router log those endpoint accesses when they occur? I can see...
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    How does an IoT device receive a command from the internet?

    I have done a bunch of searching, but have not found a clear explanation of how a device like a wireless thermostat or a wireless light switch receives a command to change its state. I ask this because I know from general experience that my router firewall does not allow packets from the...
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    Christian Vaccine Exemption Form

    My wife tells me the Watchtower Society is promoting the vaccines
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    Christian Vaccine Exemption Form

    I don’t mean to be argumentative either. If there’s going to be a discussion, all sides should be heard. I did not mention that COVID has occurred within our family. In March, my 38 yo son-in-law (unvaccinated at the time) contracted COVID. So did my 10 yo granddaughter. SIL recovered within in...
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    Christian Vaccine Exemption Form

    45 years ago, when I was still in college, my father underwent gastric surgery. Several months later, his doctor told him it was vital that he get the swine flu vaccine. He did, and two weeks later, he started losing feeling in his hands and feet. It progressed to where he was hospitalized and...
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    Planned obsolescence on cheap IP cameras?

    I hope that neither you nor anyone else who has segregated their cameras from their main LAN think that I am questioning your decision or wisdom in so doing. I am not questioning that. I sincerely appreciate the knowledge, opinions, and experience that are shared so freely here. We all make...
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    Planned obsolescence on cheap IP cameras?

    Has anyone here heard of the “Eli Whitney Syndrome?” The only reference to it that I found on the net attributed it to Pat Bedard, race car driver and longtime writer/editor for Car and Driver magazine, which is almost certainly where I heard of it. Eli Whitney Syndrome (I’ll call it EWS)refers...
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    Planned obsolescence on cheap IP cameras?

    If you were concerned that this might happen, it might be good to set up an IP reservation for that device, and block its Internet access, since it sounds like it “un-isolated” itself.
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    Planned obsolescence on cheap IP cameras?

    How would they get a firmware update if they were isolated from the outside world on a different network?
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    How to remotely view cam's and use NVR from portable devices?

    Great guidance from wittaj! When I set up OpenVPN on my Netgear router, I found a how-to on the Netgear support forum. It was very simple. I only ran into difficulties when it came time to add my certificates to the OVPN client for my iPhone. My router had produced 3 separate certificate files...
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    Is two NIC’s to segregate cams from internet a tin foil hat?

    Just a single NIC. I’m evaluating whether I want to go to the trouble of dual NICs or not.
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