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    Traffic Camera Captures the Ground Crumbling Below Cars at a Stoplight

    Seems too perfect of straight lines not to be a man-made phenomenon. Sure looks like a culvert under that spot that collapsed
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    Electrical Inspection Wall Of Shame

    But it has "Stab LOK" so it must be good, right? Buzzwords always make things fancier (pinky in the air)
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    Challenging camera use case, Is it possible under $1,000

    Attached is a photo or two from one of my B52IR-Z12E 2mp cameras. One is at 155 feet and the other is at close to 170 feet. Zoom is pretty much maxed out. I would guestimate that at 300 feet, the images will be close to half the size
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    Challenging camera use case, Is it possible under $1,000

    In my opinion, the closer the camera is to the target, the better the chance of getting a good identifiable image, especially at night. Not sure if mounting a camera near the road is an option or not, but that would be the ideal installation. A bullet or PTZ camera will have a better chance of...
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    Electrical Inspection Wall Of Shame

    Probably only one phase of the 240 or only 120 volts. The sink is ground and the stove feed has had the ground swapped with one of the phases. That will wake you up
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    eBay now removing listings on Dahua cameras due to national security?

    I received the same "canned" AI response when I appealed - word for word
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    Notes from the Swamp

    What is the draw to Kayaking? Too much risk involved, especially if they knew what lives there. Nature lovers. I wonder how loving they would be to come face to face with Alli? I'll stand of firm ground.
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    IVS and Video Meta data?

    Understood. I was just curious if both can be used together and the limitations. When I have some time, I would be curious on how to set up and display the screens with the detections with thumbnails. I presume that info (thumbnails) is written to the NVR drive(s)?
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    IVS and Video Meta data?

    Have 2 of the older NVR5216-16P-4KS2E. Do they have meta data?
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    IVS and Video Meta data?

    I trying to implement the features on an IPC-B54IR-ZE. Not sure if it's an S2 or S3. I don't know if the Dahua 5216 NVR has video meta data. I haven't messed with the NVR settings, as I was trying to contain all rules to the camera to lighten the load of the NVR and maintain bandwidth
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    IVS and Video Meta data?

    Can IVS and Video Metadata be used together on Camera AI web 5.0? Trying to set up trip wires and still have meta data shown on screen - how?
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    IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3 optimisation for night time LPR

    As far as I know, all of my replies were on topic if we're discussing the settings of a camera to achieve a readable license plate image. But that's fine, I'll bow out on this. Have fun
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    IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3 optimisation for night time LPR

    With your reasoning what's the point of having cameras at all? Anything worth something to the user will require time invested regardless. I have worked in the electronics industry most of my life and there's not much out there that doesn't require some sort of setup to meet the conditions...
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    IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3 optimisation for night time LPR

    Personally, it's not critical for my use to have automatic plate logging. Plate identification is really only useful in conjunction with an event, otherwise, why would an average person need it in a normal residential area? It's all about identifying and providing as much information as possible...
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    Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

    Yeah, 8 to 80 mm, that's a long lens. Though I suspect the mounting needs to be robust at 80mm to prevent jitter and blurry images from movement.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Surely out of my price range. Why would I need it anyway? It would be fun blasting the laser IR at a certain area in the neighborhood, but other than that - no real practical purpose for me
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    I would bet on that. Likely in the 2K range I would guess
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Out of stupid curiosity, is there a price yet? I'm afraid to ask
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    New Computer introduced at CES

    I'm with you. All my computers are Dell. I bought a refurbished HP Win XP Pro tower 5 years ago for my other editing suite to have available 5.25" bays for pull out rack drives and it's been nothing but problems - no preview on capture, cannot control sound in editing programs - a real heap. It...
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    New Computer introduced at CES

    In my experience, I'll stay FAR away from HP products. No thanks
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    new PoE doorbell? Vue Doorbell

    Probably a monthly monitoring service
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    That's true. Is there a link to it somewhere? I don't want to order the wrong item. Much appreciated
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    That type of setup has too many moving parts for me. I use NVRs, as for me, they require the least amount of maintenance to keep the system operational. Yeah, it is nowhere near as feature rich as Blue Iris, but I have enough things to eat up my time, and most of the features wouldn't apply to...
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    NVR has internet access for notification and playback of events when away from home. All cameras are connected directly to the built in POE ports. Unless I did something wrong in setup, if I enable Onvif for a non-Dahua camera for compatibility, it uses an outside port. I believe 35000.
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    My only experience with using "Onvif" selection to make a camera compatible with the NVR was that the camera became visible to the outside world. It was no longer hidden by the NVR due to the port used. I definitely need to avoid that practice for security reasons. I would probably need...
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    New Reolink Wired POE Doorbell Cam ?

    Is this still the go to POE doorbell camera to get? I have a Dahua NVR and Andy cams
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    What mic are you using?
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    I didn't think this camera had sound. Was a mic added externally or dubbed in from another camera? Also, what firmware are you using on this camera?
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    Review- EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 4mp Varifocal Turret

    You could also test with the camera mounted to a junction as that would increase the distance from the soffit. I would also experiment with moving the camera location as close as possible to the outside edge of the soffit. Those 2 things should help make a significant improvement
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    Viofo randomly shuts off?

    Have had Viofo for years. They seem to work best with Samsung high endurance SD cards. I believe Viofo specifically recommends Samsung over SanDisk
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