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    Advice/Assistance on placement of cameras for floor plan

    Yes, pink marks the very good identifiable area. Can't go wider than 2.8, which is pretty wide to begin with. Any wider than that and you'd have fish-eye. The software works with what is put in. My software trial expired so I can't look into, but you're right, it probably does not factor the...
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    Advice/Assistance on placement of cameras for floor plan

    I think you are doing fantastic with the software. Plan looks really good. It is showing you how close to a camera which is mounted high, that there is no identifiable image captured within a few feet of the camera, as the camera is looking down. Then the sweet spot. And, that for the views...
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    2nd monitor

    As long as a program is single window, then higher resolution is the way to go. Easiest is a large 4k display / TV (a tv 4 times the size of the avg 24" 1920x1080 screen should yield the same pixel size and viewing comfort) which will quadruple the resolution of the screen that you are likely...
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    Hikvision Foggy as ***

    And even if it is not apparent during the daytime and you've thoroughly wiped the inside and outside of the bubble, when you finish up installing the dome, you can still get some foggy effect. I went through that with one of mine. Fine in the daytime. Fine with the dome off after dark. ... some...
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    nayr's home automation build out...

    PS: regarding the mobile nas. I have somewhat of a lite & portable version of what you're going for, in the form of a kingston mobilelite; which does wifi sharing of sd card and usb drives. I picked one up for easier mobile file access on the road with ios devices (no card slots :( tired...
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    Experimentation with snapshot-based video compression

    Sounds like mpeg, but, I think it is way cool one can do this type of stuff. Practical experimentation & learning. It is hard to invent something completely new, but may evolve into something practical.
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    Pir

    Thanks, as you can tell, I still have a lot to learn about this type of stuff. So, I will keep that board in mind, but 12v. Then try to grab some manuals and maybe a book, to connect some of the dots, to move towards practice, beyond ubderstanding things in principle.
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    Hello from the Netherlands

    Folks, we have ourselves a very " Handige Harry " ! ;) Concrete pedestals, tall antenna towers, restoring vehicles/vessels, upgrading engines, automating things, ... You must be (forum member) Nayr's twin from the Netherlands, which we did not know he had ;) :laugh: :p :o Can't wait to...
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    Pir

    I've had some thoughts about how/if/when this in the past, but when you say one sensor triggers both ... How do you trigger both a camera and high voltage light? How much voltage is allowed and required on the camera trigger?
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    nayr's home automation build out...

    Fantastic! You must be able to build and control just about anything with that much technical, hardware and software knowledge! :D Custom home automation to suit your needs! Love it! In car wifi, nas etc I can handle, though probably not as elegantly as you, and certainly not with custom...
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    Hello from the Netherlands

    Welkom, Vince! Fantastische projekten! Great skills and knowledge. Repurposing and automating manual camera lenses (I presume) and making them into remote operated PTZ on a huge antenna. You could work at mythbusters building stuff ;) What is the fourth thing?
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    No Signal sometimes with webcast

    Ok, maybe 640x480 at average settings. The resolution I mentioned isn't set in stone as far as max you can do, more of that's pretty much where it'll be guaranteed to work, and I would have to get a bandwidth calculator out; but the point is that 100KB/s is very limiting when it comes to...
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    Looking for some recomendations

    It sounds like you have things planned well. Recommend cat 6 solid copper. Unmanaged POE switch is fine. For consistency / aesthetics, two of the same cameras side by side would be better. Whether bullet (least expensive), turret (ball no dome) or dome (the direction the camera is aimed at is...
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    Sample night image quality - DS-2CD2032-I

    Another thing I didn't know existed! The things you learn on a coffee break! ;) When did they release those? Not something my regular big box hardware stores carry.
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    Sample night image quality - DS-2CD2032-I

    There exist screw in socket adapters which have an ambient light sensor, they're only a few $, as long as the bulb socket is protected from weather. It does raise / extend the bulb by about the length of the socket, but allows you to use any bulb incl LEDs (rather than the all in one CFL - which...
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    New setup - 2 computers, 6 cameras

    Welcome to the forum. You don't know about computers but already bought a motherboard??? ;) /couldn't resist ;) Most people here run Dahua or Hikvision cams. Agreeing with Cat 6 ethernet to the cams. Hikvision 2032 in 3mp can be sourced inexpensively, best bang for the buck, you can run...
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    Sample night image quality - DS-2CD2032-I

    Think those look fantastic. Better than without ambient light running on built-in IR which would give you some center vision. With your house / porch lights on, you have edge image to edge clarity there.
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    My Solar PV Installation

    Thank you for the generous offer, Andy. I'll gather some details and summarize for you what I've got going, tomorrow. Been a long day. Time for a shower and some zzz. And, maybe we can exchange email via pm. Would make it easier for me to send a few details as attachment your way, vs having to...
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    No Signal sometimes with webcast

    I got a sense that what the OP was primarily after, is that the owners / older family members can keep an eye on the store via live view, while the kids or employees are working.
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    I/O ports and lens size q's

    Cool unit! And thanks for linking your other thread, nayr. I think I must have been on the road when that was posted, as I missed it. And, it certainly has been something I want to explore further. I want to do PIR outside on one or two cameras to weed out false positives from video motion...
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    Thought this would be easy, I'm wrong! IP camera for indoor sports

    Obviously, if you just want local viewing from one camera onto several screens, a local IP camera feeding into a desktop or laptop and then duplicating that signal to some screens on the wall is easy. The online part becomes a bit more adventurous, as you get into broadcasting tv basically...
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    My Solar PV Installation

    Cool. I'd read before that off-axis works pretty well, due south isn't required, and facing sw can actually be better to deal with peak needs; but I hadn't seen it done like on your install. Probably due not seeing much solar in both places I frequent. Anyhow. Looking forward to hearing how it...
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    Ready to jump in, trying to avoid Costco systems!

    Welcome. Rolling your own certainly has its advantages. You are in control. Choice of cameras. Choice of recording system. Better quality recordings. And disadvantages, that you will be walking through a forest of options, and maybe spend more time educating yourself. But then you have the...
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    My Solar PV Installation

    Wait? You have panels in two directions? Which way is south?
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    PoE requirements for HIKvision

    Yes, certain routers can be re-purposed as switches, with a different firmware flash. Same thing with modems, some can be put into bridge mode, to have the router as a smarter appliance right behind them do all the heavy lifting. I just didn't think that putting flashed modems in buildings was...
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    My new FreeNAS box

    I just saw the $1k freenas mini by ixsystems. Diskless. Ouch! Last time I looked at freenas must have been when it was still in the rut after the lead developer leaving and before things got up to speed again with ixsystems.
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    My new FreeNAS box

    Thanks. Good to know. Never used ZFS myself, but yes, I can imagine that any error or corruption causes catastrophic data issues. Almost did a FreeNAS at some point but had a couple unanswered questions and decided to get another syno. Now I'm kind of back on the fence again. Tired of slow NAS...
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    2 Bullets + 1 Box

    I like HF when stuff is on sale in their flyer, for dumb hardware / hand tools. I haven't had good luck or been impressed with some of the powered hand tools. But I've bought plenty of spares of this and that since it is tough to fly with tools. Even if some stuff is more of disposable nature...
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    Moving IR from ptz

    Cool!
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    PoE requirements for HIKvision

    That's a different idea; running a series of re-purposed modems in bridge mode with and a usb hdd/pen drive for storage in each building? Why run modems in bridge mode, in each building? Are they going to get proper addressing? Why not a simple switch? Then where does the " if the hikvision...
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