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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    File names in Windows are case-insensitive, so if you're running CodeProject AI on Windows, it doesn't matter. Are you using a Coral TPU, a GPU, or the CPU?
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    Not safe to by Hikvision equipment since banned in US?

    Yeah, that will work fine. I'm using Blue Iris for my NVR, and have automations configured in both Home Assistant and Node-RED. Blue Iris can send MQTT events on alerts (i.e. when motion is detected), then Home Assistant and Node-RED can listen for that. I think there's a Home Assistant custom...
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    Not safe to by Hikvision equipment since banned in US?

    Check if your motherboard has two Ethernet ports - some of the higher-end ones do. If not, buy another NIC. A Gigabit NIC is around $15 (e.g. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/900387-REG/TP_Link_tg_3468_32_Bit_Gigabit_PCIE_Network.html) but these days you may as well buy a 2.5Gbps NIC since...
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    Not safe to by Hikvision equipment since banned in US?

    Z-Wave and Zigbee are essentially automatically secure, as there's no way the devices can directly reach the internet. Z-Wave and Zigbee are totally separate networks. Proprietary controllers / gateways can access the internet, but the best practice for Zigbee is to use a PoE Zigbee coordinator...
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    Not safe to by Hikvision equipment since banned in US?

    This is a good diagram. You'll also want to enable Windows' NTP server, update the firewall on the BI PC to allow the cams to connect to UDP port 123 (NTP), and configure the cameras to use it as their NTP server, so they can keep their time in sync, otherwise they'll drift over time. By...
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    Not safe to by Hikvision equipment since banned in US?

    This is a good idea, but using a separate VLAN is still useful even if you have two network cards. For example, if you want to use the same network switch for other devices too. Configure the switch ports used by the cameras, and the switch port used by the second network card, to use the camera...
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    Not safe to by Hikvision equipment since banned in US?

    Setting an invalid gateway really doesn't do anything useful. It's just a false sense of security. If you're trying to protect against the camera running malicious software, an invalid gateway would be trivially bypassed by the malware by just scanning the network for routers. Also, setting an...
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    EmpireTech latest New firmware, Device Guide video, Manual WEB5.0

    I saw that but I was confused about the dates. It says "2022-08-18 / 2023-12-21" which I assume means 2022-08-18 for smart IR and 2023-12-21 for non smart IR. Is there a reason the smart IR firmware is so much older?
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    EmpireTech latest New firmware, Device Guide video, Manual WEB5.0

    @EMPIRETECANDY What's the latest firmware for IPC-T5442T-ZE? I have a camera with version "V2.840.0000000.25.R, Build Date: 2023-04-25" that does not have "Smart IR", and another one with "V2.840.15OG00D.0.R, Build Date: 2022-08-18" that does have "Smart IR". Is there a newer build that has...
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    Dahua restarting / losing network link every 5-10 seconds

    I've got four other cameras - the two Dahuas and two indoor Amcrest ones with PoE splitters. Pulling <20W total and the switch supports 250W so I'm nowhere near the limit. I tried using a separate PoE switch with nothing else attached except my computer and the camera, and could still repro...
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    Dahua restarting / losing network link every 5-10 seconds

    I purchased three IPC-T5442T-ZE cameras from Andy in October 2022. I installed two of them in 2023 and they're working very well - no problems at all. I was trying to install the third one today, but I'm encountering issues while bench testing it. I haven't used that one before - it's brand new...
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    I disabled ONVIF authentication (in Network -> Access Platform for my cameras) so I could access the camera via ONVIF Device Manager and set the time there. Now I can't work out what's going on. As I write this, it's 11:54 AM here. Enabling the "Automatically adjust for daylight saving time...
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    It looks like the cameras are using UTC even though they have the correct time zone set. The authentication issue happens in ONVIF Device Manager too.
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    I started seeing this too. I checked that the time on all cameras is correct - The cameras sync their time using the NTP server on my Windows Server 2022 VM that runs Blue Iris, so they've always got exactly the same time. I also checked that the DST settings on the cameras are set correctly for...
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    I get very few false alerts with smart motion, and I use CodeProjectAI with a Google Coral to avoid them.
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    I found it easier to use Node-RED than Home Assistant for camera notifications. My flow is pretty basic but you could do different things depending on the camera. This is how my MQTT payload is configured in Blue Iris: Topic: BlueIris/&CAM/alert-image-b64 Payload...
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    Hmm, I'll have to double-check, but I think the Dahua person detection does fire this ONVIF event. Do you have both "Video Detection" and "Smart Video Detection" enabled on the cameras? BOTH have to be enabled for it to work - it won't work with just Smart Video Detection enabled.
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    Frigate uses "tiny" models and a lot of people still find value in it. Some even use Frigate and BI concurrently for whatever reason.
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    I haven't measured the temperature of mine but I don't think they get too hot. Idle power consumption is ~400mW and maximum is 2W, so there shouldn't be a lot of heat to dissipate. If you look at table 2 in the data sheet: https://coral.ai/static/files/Coral-M2-datasheet.pdf It shows that the...
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    I've got the dual-edge one: https://coral.ai/products/m2-accelerator-dual-edgetpu/ I use it with this PCIe adapter: https://www.makerfabs.com/dual-edge-tpu-adapter.html Works great. The two TPUs are exposed as two separate PCIe devices, so you can use them in two different VMs if you wanted to.
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    My guess is that the Coral TPU detector is using a smaller model size. You can't change the model size for the Coral at the moment, but my guess is that it's using either a tiny or small model. Frigate uses a tiny model and thus is much less accurate with its default config. The API is...
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    Even though DeepStack support in Blue Iris is deprecated, it still works even in the latest version.
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    The Coral USB should work in a VM. The M.2 Coral definitely works - I'm running Blue Iris in a Windows Server 2022 VM running in KVM via Proxmox. Works fine.
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    I use Node-RED for my notifications and it works well. The function node is: I like it because you're not restrained in what you can do compared to configuring alerts in a UI. It's just JavaScript code so you can easily modify the code to do whatever you want.
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    Ah, OK. Thanks for the info! I ended up switching to using &JSON instead. Here's my JS code that I use in a Node-RED function node:
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    Ohhh! Now I understand. Sorry I misread your comment the first time - thanks for editing it to add more detail. This works. It still adds IsMotion="true" to the memo in some cases (which I really don't need in there and would like to get rid of), but at least it doesn't truncate the...
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    I want the event, I just need the AI detection info for my alerts.
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    5.7.5 - April 20, 2023 - Onvif updates

    I just updated and this change seems to have broke some of my notifications due to the format of the &MEMO macro changing. I have alerts configured to send an MQTT request with this payload: {"id":"&ALERT_DB","object":"&MEMO","camera":"&CAM","name":"&NAME","img":"&ALERT_JPEG"} &MEMO used to...
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    CodeProject.AI Version 2.0

    Has anyone here tried the beta version of CodeProject AI that supports the Google Coral TPU?
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    NVR vs Blue Iris

    Did you check all the cables coming from the PSU? The SATA power cable might be hiding somewhere :) Just make sure it's a SATA splitter (not a Molex to SATA one - Molex adapters have a tendency to melt) and that it's a good brand name like Cable Matters, StarTech, Monoprice, etc. Don't go cheap...
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