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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    I'm a bit sad to think that driving on the open highway may become an expensive luxury, but having had a long commute in a big city for about 40 years, I'd have been the first to sign up for a self-driving car if they were better than humans. As I get older, I also value the extra years of...
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    Malibu Fires

    Wife and I drove down Pacific Coast Hwy to see her friend a couple of weeks ago. There were still burned cars on the roadside. It's like they want the horror to last and last.
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    DMSS not loading on external wifi

    Interesting possibility. I don't know what the IP subnet is in Mexico, but I can change the local one. I'll try and report back. Thanks.
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    DMSS not loading on external wifi

    Yes to all: Can see live video and video alerts on phone data both at home and abroad. On wifi only the occasional thumbnail from one of four cameras comes through.
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    DMSS not loading on external wifi

    I'm having the same problem. I had four cameras and a dahua nvr installed in a house in Mexico. Here in California, I loaded dmss on my iphone and was able to see the nvr and cameras, but the video wouldn't load. I can see whether things are on or offline, adjust settings...basically...
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    FYI: FBI disrupts Chinese cyber operation

    Probably one of ours. The Chinese ones are likely a little more subtle. They could do way better than this clunky bot. Have a look at Qwen:
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    Mystery DVR video file... need a player

    From Brave Browser's ai bot:
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    I bet a lot of you belong to the "HVAC crapped out at the worst time" club.

    I grew up in one of the hottest parts of Los Angeles. Until 1973, we had swamp coolers that maybe brought the temperature down to the 80s. When I was a kid, we didn't really notice, You don't sweat when you only weigh 60 pounds or so, and there wasn't a lot of A/C around, certainly not in the...
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    I took a little time to see what Qwen does. Wow. Unbelievable. Here's a general video: , Apparently it's good at OCR. So instead of trying to extract a license plate from three or four frame grabs from a four second video, as BI/Codeproject AI is doing, Qwen can look at every frame. It...
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    One thing I love about algertc's alpr database is that I can run it, Blue Iris and Codeproject AI all on a very low power pc, though I may have to add a gpu. I wonder how much bloat would be involved in making the analysis more powerful?
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    A little digging suggests some methods: Levenshtein distance Description: This algorithm calculates the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions, substitutions) required to change one string into another. You can set a threshold to determine if two license plates are...
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    I'd like to send the computer through the database to clean up misread plates. Things like Bxxxnnn which should be 8xxxnnn. This should be easy for ai given that a common pattern for recent plates is (7, 8 or 9) xxx(letters) nnn (numbers). Also, if it saw 10 reads of a plate, say 8xxxnnn...
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    Unshielded CAT5 cable in EMT conduit outside?

    If you have time, haunt the government liquidation sites. They almost give it away, but I don't see it that often within a driveable radius. If you don't need a whole reel, look on Craigslist. Some guy who bought 1000 feet has 700 left he wants to get rid of. There's always a few of those...
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    how to block wind rumble physically - wheres mic

    Maybe glue a bit of fur over the hole.
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    Owl Giving a Ride

    Talk about yer night vision...Owls!
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    Hmmm. How accurate is that?
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    What could be the role of old-school motion-detector lights in the security camera world?

    Your neighbors will hate you if the wind makes your lights flash on and off all night.
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    Firmware update – if to do, and how

    There are a lot of horror stories about cameras losing features etc. and plain old bricked cameras with updated firmware. Consensus says don't update without a good reason. I'd trust an Andy update over a factory update, as he is responsive in a way Dahua isn't. Also, search the update in the...
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    Unshielded CAT5 cable in EMT conduit outside?

    Also, use Cat6 or better. Even if some corrosion starts, it will take longer to disrupt the signal with thicker wires than with wimpy cat 5.
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    Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!

    Try running the following commands in the db container (per janhaus): Code: psql -d postgres -U postgres -f /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/schema.sql Code: psql -d postgres -U postgres -f /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/migrations.sql If you get an error because there was no schema or migration file...
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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

    Just a post mortem comment to help anyone in the same boat. When I ran the first command: psql -d postgres -U postgres -f /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/schema.sql I got a bunch of messages telling me that a bunch of files were already there. When I ran the second command: psql -d postgres -U...
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    Yes, I have read posts about custom models that ID various trucks, and perhaps uniforms? Still waiting for the "pre-crime" custom model that tells me the guy walking around outside has larceny in his heart. I'm sure the wait won't be long However precisely we can discriminate among the data...
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    BYOB - Build Your Own Beijing | Crazy, game-changing things you can do with latest AI

    I've noticed that each improvement in the amount of information available creates a need for a corresponding degree of analysis. When I first set up cameras, it was a big deal just to be able to look at what was happening, but soon I needed to set up alerts so I could know when something...
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    Blue Iris Control Room App/Client app

    My server is hard to reach, so I use windows remote desktop to access it. Every once in a while it balks at connecting, but 95 percent of the time it's transparent. When it balks, I plug a keyboard and monitor in to the server and it wakes up, then remote desktop works again.
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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

    Here's perhaps the problem. The db1 log shows the following error, apparently repeating with each new jpeg: 2025-05-24 19:22:02.967 PDT [11662] ERROR: there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification 2025-05-24 19:14:28.945 PDT [11662] STATEMENT: WITH...
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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

    I tried following Janhaus's instructions, running psql -d postgres -U postgres -f /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/schema.sql and the equivalent migrations commands inside the database container, and got a message that everything after ...-initdb was a superfluous argument and would be ignored. I...
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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

    Looks like the same thing. I know I read that before but my mind glazed over. I started this thread because I found the first one unwieldy. I'll try it and report. Thanks VideoDad.
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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

    I'm still struggling. I've fixed a few errors, so the lpr-app-1 container is receiving an image and data from BI/Code Project. The log for lpr-app-1 shows an error which seems to postgres trying to resolve a conflict. Here's what I think is the relevant bit. I'd love it if someone could tell...
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    Algertc ALPR database and VPNs

    I've been trying to setup algertc's ALPR database to handle the lpr data from Blue Iris with no luck. My first setup had the database running on my BI computer. The program seemed to be installed correctly, and I could see jpeg images and thumbnails going to the correct folders in the...
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