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    WTS SOLD EmpireTech IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3

    The shipping cost also works against selling used cameras. Hard to spend less than 20 bucks for this, a significant percentage for a camera costing $100 or less. Andy likely has a contract to ship for half of this or less.
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    How do you make those videos? Is there something like a screenshot video recorder? Anyway, there's one killer feature in BI'S UI3 that the NVR/smartPSS can't come close to matching. The trigger thumbnails are stacked vertically on the left edge of the screen, and just by hovering over one it...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Realizing this will help you understand what's behind all of the disagreeable things I post. I'm also a nutcase from Chicago, although I don't think the left wing type. Notice I said "from", and I do have an impressive history of ruining cities. After Chicago I went to Houston, then Austin...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    I use the digital zoom a lot, mostly for keeping track of various animals. I guess a gator would be filling the whole frame anyway :). Use it also occasionally to look at passing vehicles. With the 5442 series, digital zoom is actually useful. We're in a secluded spot and 95% of my triggers...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    With BI's UI3, the mouse wheel is always enabled for zoom and the zoomed image can be dragged (panned) with the mouse. Unless there's something I haven't found, in smartPSS, doing this first requires pressing the "+" button and drawing a rectangle, all of which gets reset when crossing a...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    Does UI3 have single step capability? If it does, could you point me to it? smartPSS can play and single step backward. The one maddening thing that makes playback and stepping a lot more difficult is that every time the playback hits a trigger, any zoom and pan is lost. Makes for a lot of...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    Just a high-level list: BI does better: Real time camera viewing, scanning through clips, timeline playback. NVR does better: Easier initial setup, shows IVS trigger lines, works better for nitpicking clips like single stepping and saving snapshots. Important note, I do not use the native UI...
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    Blue Iris Dahua NVR

    I don't use both for redundancy, but because one does some things better, and the other does other things better.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I referenced ZH because the 2nd article that mangled the headline cited ZH as their source.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I tried to be clear that I was talking about ONLY the headlines. More people IMO read only the headline and believe that's the story. If the headline does not give a timeline, it's reasonable to assume it's current information. Neither headline reveals what it specifically says is a year old...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Evolution of false click-bait headlines by conservative media: 1. Zerohedge publishes story titled Fetterman Ex-Chief Of Staff Sounded Mental Health Alarm To Senator's Doctor Fetterman Ex-Chief Of Staff Sounded Mental Health Alarm To Senator's Doctor | ZeroHedge 2. Story contains line saying...
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    Close Call

    I appreciate you didn't copy the "crash landing" part. From what can bee seen in the video, the aircraft looks undamaged. A similar bogus headline is about a couple of goarounds at DCA (Regan) last Thursday. Some posts and stories are calling them "close calls", when the reality was that ATC...
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    How about 300bps acoustic coupler and 33ASR teletype, with the mass storage being 10 cps paper tape?
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    I remembered I had written a document to help windows users use the mac. This was my intro: At a high level, Mac OS is the same thing as Windows. It's just that some of the details are different. It could be analogous to switching to a 2nd car after using the first one for many...
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    Who here uses a Mac (all Apple devices in general), and why? Seriously...

    I had to set up and use a mac for our church. There's a lot of things I don't like about the hardware and macOS. Then again, there's a lot of things I don't like about windows, it's just that they're a normal part of life to me and all of the apple weirdness was new. In the end, I see it as...
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    Review-EmpireTech IPC-B52IR-X3 1/2.8" CMOS 3 × 2 MP bullet cam

    Notice below that 2 NVR channels have the same IP address, but different remote channel settings (this is for a 2-channel thermal camera).
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    125,000 New Yorkers Fled for Florida the Last 5 Years, Taking $14 Billion With Them This is how the libs take over states. Same way the muslims take over countries. Same principle as a long time ago when I bought a house on a view hill, others moved there for the view, planted trees, and in a...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I'm part of a church group that's mostly somewhat cranky old men. A few years ago all except I were singing the praises of the covid shot and racing who could get the first one, or the highest number of boosters. I had it explained to me how the genetic stuff doesn't leave the vicinity of the...
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    It's bad optics that the main ipcamtalk.com page has a "buy now" button for BI, that leads to "out of stock".
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I've concluded that this is what it takes to have an even chance against the dems. They are such polished liars and deceptionists that anybody giving them any respect gets rolled over and buried.
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    Money & Economics

    Kind of makes sense with expanding government having been responsible for a lot of the prior growth.
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    Best rat trap

    Cats didn't do squat for me with rats. The biggest they'd take on is mouse and chipmunk. I've had the best luck with the cheap old fashioned spring trap, learning a few tricks along the way. A few are to block off the back and sides so the rat has to approach the trap from the front, put a...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I don't understand how the EU censorship act can kill US social media. They don't have any jurisdiction to regulate US companies. They can say ISPs have to block it in the EU, say it's illegal for their citizens to look at it, but I don't see how they can kill it from existing outside their...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Have you checked the refurbished list?
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    New vehicles are crap and private equity groups are the reason

    My newest car is a 2019 subaru. Mechanically it is being a very good platform, and the CVT at least so far, works well. What's crap about it is the electronics, both in design and bugginess. The GPS is the worst I've had, with even the ~$159 garmin being better. Can't use the GPS without the...
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    Notes from the Swamp

    bigred, do you have a front door camera? “I heard a knock at the door and then nothing else,” Nathalie Gaines, who lives in Lake Mary, Florida, told Fox 35 in Orlando. “I waited a while and then I hear it again.” After she looked at the camera, she realized, “There was a full-blown alligator...
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    Not my point. Amazon spying and harvesting of data is among the best in the world. Right up there with google.
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    Does this mean the HD for BI storage is kaput?

    I'd start with verifying that BIOS sees the device. If not, no sense wasting time with windows. If not in BIOS, next step is to reseat the connectors. If no luck there, I'd plug it into a USB-to-SATA gadget and see if that finds it.
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    So instead of dahua spying on us, amazon can, and they have a lot more experience at it! Maybe ads will start popping up when viewing cameras remotely?
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    Be careful if you activate PTP on your NVR

    P2P is neither inherently secure or inherently insecure. It's all up to the quality of its implementation and the trustworthiness of whoever is able to see your data. Since P2P requires contact with a server somewhere, whoever has access to that server could misuse the information passing...
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