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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Maybe not. But when I walk through it, it triggers. I know right away because I have the camera set to play a barking dog audio when it's triggered.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    It's the 4k-x. The rule sensitivity was on 10, but global was on 8. I cranked it up to 10, and while I was in there turned the placebo target filter setting off again. I'm not holding out any hope of it working better. If the target filters were really off, I don't think the overhead view...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Failed experiment. The deer in the picture walked the entire width of the camera view with no triggers. I did get a few triggers from tall blowing grass.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Well that's a damned if you do, damned if you don't choice! Keep the nicer image, or maybe detect animals while messing up the image, and if you don't like it, can't go back. My instinct is to chicken out, at least for now. I'm using both tripwire and intrusion. For the heck of it, I just...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Hmmm, your 4k-x firmware is 3 years newer than mine. I'd like to try it, but your version 2.840.0000000.28R is newer than what's on Andy's web site 2.840.0000000.26. Do you remember where you got it from?
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Andy, the cameras I mentioned as well as others will not turn off the target filter. The user interface has a switch to turn it off, it gets turned off in the camera's config file, but the object filters do not get turned off. Animals can walk through the field of view all day long and never...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Are you saying that the new cameras will actually turn off the target filter, unlike the 5442s, 5842s, T180s etc. that won't turn it off?
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    Would a Properly Wired House for Security Cameras Increase its Value?

    IMO this is the answer. When my house was new 16 years ago, the only wiring was 2 telephone outlets and a lot of cable TV coax. Regular people are supposed to use only wifi and cordless phones. I can hardly think of anybody I know who connects their computer with a network cable. Cameras...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Andy, my standard question, will these cameras be able to detect animals?
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    Hearing Aids...

    Of all the junk mail I get, hearing aid promotions is by far the biggest single category. They even come enclosed with our telephone bill. Probably all of the old farts here have had friends who have gone through multiple "world's best" hearing aids. No direct help, just agreeing with the BS...
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    Putin, for Ukraine peace, wants a pledge to halt NATO enlargement, sources say Kremlin Issues Outline Of Putin's Truce Demands, Warns "Peace Tomorrow Will Be Even More Painful" "Multiple Russian sources cited in the reaport said Putin wants a "written" pledge by major Western powers not to...
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    Would a Properly Wired House for Security Cameras Increase its Value?

    I have no doubt that my network wiring has code violations. The obvious one is that buried outdoor wires aren't 2 feet down. When I sell, my plan is to pull all of the cameras and leave the wiring. The new owner can then take the responsibility of using it if he chooses.
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    Need to buy a camera system to detect 1" long insects in a room with no lights.

    There are several things at play here, and just focusing on resolution could actually hurt in low light situations. Your's isn't the worst low light situation because what you're looking at is fairly close to the IR lights, but their intensity is minuscule compared to daylight. Years ago I...
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    Funny / Satire

    Should we change the thread title to funny-satire-gross?
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    Need to buy a camera system to detect 1" long insects in a room with no lights.

    With Dahua, this is a case where a lower end camera is a better choice because the better cameras won't trigger IVS on anything but humans and vehicles. Pus, while basic motion detection is close to useless for most cases because of horrendous false triggering, it might work ok in your...
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    2025 Memorial Day Sales, Last Deal Before Tariffs Pricing

    Having painted nearly all of my cameras, I'll say that the factory does a whole lot nicer job than I do.
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    Can 1 cat5e power two ip cams?

    I'll add that this one likely does not work with an NVR POE port. (But I don't have an NVR with POE ports so I could be wrong on this.) Also, with this type of device, you're treading very close to the port power limit with a 15 watt (non-POE+) port when the camera IR lights are running full...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Here's another shocker that is hard to believe ;) Medicare insurers face lawsuit over kickback scheme
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    More Mama Fox Videos

    The fox also got the rooster (we're out on the country). The rooster, who often attacked people, was perfectly happy to let the fox get the 4 gals first while he stood away and watched. When the fox finally went for him, he tried to fly over the 3' fence but was too fat to make it.
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    More Mama Fox Videos

    Mama fox moving one of my chickens for dinner in the den.
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    Notes from the Swamp

    Not exactly what you'd conclude from the title, but it IS a genuine swamp. Trump Overshadowed by 7’9 Florida Gator During Viral Oval Office Meeting
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    Cable termination at camera end

    I don't think there's a "correct" answer for this. The single biggest failure point I've seen in electronics has been at connectors, leading to my own standard practice of minimizing connectors whenever feasible. On the other hand, I've found RJ45s to be extremely reliable. I've never had one...
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    Cable termination at camera end

    Incorrect understanding. For conductor type there are 3 types of RJ45s: solid wire, stranded wire, and both solid and stranded. Just make sure you don't use a stranded-only RJ45.
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    Blue Iris no longer respecting storage limits

    Just in case this applies, I've found that if a BI settings menu is left displayed, BI will blow right through the storage limits. I don't have a list of which menus, but know for sure if you leave the storage window open it happens for sure, on my version at least.
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    Die Young TikTok Craze

    There are lots of narrow houses on parts the Oregon coast, some as narrow as 10 feet. It's just from cramming as many beachfront lots as possible. Don't need wide FOV cameras for them!
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    Money & Economics

    The press can't seem to decide which version of the truth they want to send out.
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    Money & Economics

    And just to spin it in the anti-Trump direction:
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    Most of the bot posts are well written, to the point where I'm impressed. What makes them easy to spot is context. Usually they're the first post from a new member, combined with replying to an old thread, pushing a product, or going off with too many technical details.
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    Mama Fox Likes New Fence -- May 10, 2025

    I didn't feel that way about the one who killed our chickens a few years ago!
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    Great, this could lead to a lot more bot posts here. A much smaller forum I am a moderator for is set that the first post from a new member must be approved before appearing in the forum. If the new user looks legit, his status is changed to unmoderated.
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