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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    It's a 5842-Z S2. It's pretty much a junk camera for me because it won't detect animals, but occasionally I find a temporary use where the higher resolution is handy. Right now it's mounted to a 2x4 sticking out of a bucket filled with rocks, and its wire runs through the tall grass.
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    Poor quality cable or rj45 connectors?

    Cables built to the standard are the same for both modes. Most modern switches do not support Mode B. I've never heard of a switch supporting Mode B, although at least one must certainly exist. OK, so you're using an injector, where 7/8 DO matter. One remote possibility is a mistake I made...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    The old dog learns another BI trick. It seemed very logical to me that if my UI3 display was 1080p, then a data rate higher than 1080p would be a waste. Wrong! Each faster speed shows an image detail improvement, even going from 2160 to 4320. However, from poking around, the very best...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Time to take a stand! Are you with him, or with me? As politicians like to say, if you're not with me, you're against me, blah, blah, blah! But if he's right, a lot of us will have more money for cameras. This stuff is such a mess. In the no tax on tips section the bill says: In...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Well dang, even knowing it's there I still can't find it in the help. The setting is called "Playback Controls: Skip 1 Frame Buttons", and even after searching for all the keywords I can't find it.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I've skimmed the house bill and sure can't find this. https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1/BILLS-119hr1eh.pdf The summary list of tax cuts is: PART2—ADDITIONAL TAX RELIEF FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES AND WORKERS Sec. 110101. No tax on tips. Sec. 110102. No tax on overtime. Sec. 110103. Enhanced...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Good thing Dear Leader never exaggerates!
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    Doesn't have to be if the contributors stay objective. The platforms are different, and at least with BI and NVR, neither one does every single thing better than the other. This makes one better for some people and the other better for other people, based on their needs and preferences. The...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    This one looks like total fake news. "Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is now in effect, after SCOTUS decision." The ruling was stayed for 30 days, so forget the "now" part. It is NOT in effect at this time. The whole mess is bouncing back to lower courts. SCOTUS did...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    What I think of your wildlife is slow, geblunk, geblunk, at least before they're ready to chomp down on somebody :) Even the little ducks didn't exactly race out of their house. I wonder if any of them made it, talk about diving into the pit full of gators. I occasionally get a pretty good...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    I run 10 fps, so that factors into the big picture. BI is a continuous recording with an index file for the events. At first years ago I thought it was clever that Dahua leveraged the linux file system for tracking the events. I've since changed my mind because there are too many unintended...
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    Poor quality cable or rj45 connectors?

    Not true for pretty much every POE switch in existence. They use Mode A.
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    This could be one of the times I could learn something. Bigred, could you walk me through an easier way to single step through an event in SmartPSS? The way I do it is to find the event on the timeline, zoom the timeline, start playback just before the event and single step until it quits...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    This is just editorial opinion after just having found in the BI instructions how to make something work right, that is totally easy in SmartPSS because it's the default. Comparing viewing between SmartPSS and UI3, with SmartPSS it's like crawling on the hot desert floor, compared to happily...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    That's going to be at least a partial explanation. When I crank the bitrate up to 8k/4320 the image definitely improves. I think SmartPSS still looks sharper but can't really tell right now because the light level is a lot lower and even the SmartPSS image looks lousy compared to this morning...
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    Poor quality cable or rj45 connectors?

    Good idea, but the test itself will a waste of time if the camera is plugged into a POE switch, where pins 7 and 8 won't be used.
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    Wow, fair and balanced. Never get away with that in the politics thread!
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    I'm not claiming that you can't accomplish these tasks with SmartPSS, it's just that there is a very significant difference in the time and effort involved. Here's an example where zoom is useful, even when displaying a single camera on full screen. (snips from SmartPSS). To illustrate...
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    Andy's NVR vs Blue Iris?

    Lots of ways to define performance so I'm not going to use that broad brush. For me the big difference between the NVR and BI is in ease of use and productivity. That's not the whole story however because I rarely use the native interfaces on either one, instead using SmartPSS and UI3. So I'm...
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    Smart PSS lite computer requirements

    There was a significant performance increase with the 8th generation Intel processors. One approximate way to look it it is that a 8th gen i5 has roughly the performance of an earlier i7. I'd be surprised if SmartPSS Lite didn't work well on your laptop, but of course the only way to know for...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Thanks. For all the time I've wasted trying to figure this out, I should have asked a long time ago.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Is there a way to single step a playback in UI3?
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    It's starting to feel like we're all suckers being worked by a sleazy used car salesman.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "I DARE you to show me where it slashes taxes on Social Security" It's in plain view right after the pledge to not get involved in any wars, and just before the plan to audit Ft. Knox. I'd come over and point it out except I'm scared of gators.
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    EmpireTech 10th Anniversary (Summer+Prime Day)Sales

    You buy one or more tickets, then sit glued to the computer the day the winners are posted, and end up with either an up day, or a down day. Andy posts the prize list before the lottery, and how many tickets will be issued. You can number crunch your odds of winning and see either how much...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    When I first heard the report that the sites were obliterated, or whatever, I yelled out "how the hell do you know that"?
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    I bet a lot of you belong to the "HVAC crapped out at the worst time" club.

    Sheesh, always somebody there to spoil the fun.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Please, please, PLEASE, include Oregon.
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    Static or DHCP for IP cams?

    I can't imagine keeping track of the cameras without static addresses. It's not like there's a DNS server to follow them around.
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    Dahua Remote Access

    I think so, for 2 things. One that Dahua has trended to be more security consious, and the other is the realization that P2P in itself isn't inherently insecure, but instead dependent on the implementation.
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