Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

Gimmons said:
I'm using Blue Iris. I just got three of them. I'm hoping to set it up for alpr using code project and BI, but I am still fiddling with it.
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You may want to leave the stock firmware on the one you are going to use for LPR unless you have a reason to upgrade. The Vigilant firmware was probably made specifically for LPR--I am not sure what the difference would be, but I would think the IR lamps work differently?

I am planning to test out the firmware on a camera I won't be using for LPR and see if it behaves differently.
 
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I'd be interested if you're able to find any LPR features. I looked on Vigilant's website. They seem very law enforcement oriented. It would be great if there were some LPR AI loaded in the camera and just waiting for some secret access code to come to life.
 
gregtec5 said:
@PeteJ are you using blue iris to do the recording and outlining of the plate?
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Yes, BI to take the video feed from the camera and send that to CPAI for AI processing. Then if a plate is found, have BI send that data to ALPR Database so that it can be searched. It takes a little effort to get all that going, so it works pretty well.

MikeLud1

Thread 'Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR'

CodeProject.AI version 2.0 was released Jan 16, 2023 with my ALPR module, this thread is for all topic CodeProject.AI ALPR.

To setup the ALPR you need one of the Object Detection module's and License Plate Reader module installed, You need to be on the current version of Blue Iris, below are my BI AI settings

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algertc

Thread 'Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!'

Hello everyone

I created this project as an alternative to the super expensive options from PlateMinder and Rekor. This still depends on your own CodeProject or DeepStack AI, but offers a nice all-in-one solution to actually use and make sense of the data, which is half the point of having the AI read the plates to begin with. It has been working great for me so far, really huge upgrade, so I wanted to share it.

I know there was a NodeRed app created a while ago that had some of this functionality. I took some inspiration from that and tried to bring it to the next level.

Would love to...
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Don't try to get ALPR database working until you've got CPAI working first.
 
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Gimmons said:
I'd be interested if you're able to find any LPR features. I looked on Vigilant's website. They seem very law enforcement oriented. It would be great if there were some LPR AI loaded in the camera and just waiting for some secret access code to come to life.
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So Vigilant is no longer around, they got acquired by Motorola. That's why these cameras are so cheap on ebay, and if you got a lot of time on your hands, you can probably piece together all of the original HW and SW to get a system working as it was intended---cameras mounted on a police cruiser, but it's probably not worth the effort.

The LPR features I am referring to is all of the little things that make reading a license plate possible--high shutter speed, fixed focus, strong IR, decent lens, etc.

Here is an example of a plate read from a Vigilant LPR camera [not the $35 one] at around 95ft at dusk using the IR sensor on a moving vehicle with very little ambient light.

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Only the newest version of the camera has onboard AI--and these go for around $3K each and you need the software from Morotola to go around with it. But you can get very good results with open source tools written by members here.
 
PeteJ said:
Did you actually try it to see if it works? I can't get audio on mine to work, I don't think the camera actually has a mic.
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Hmmm. There's an Audio setting in the setup:

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but I think you're right--the output seems to have no actual audio content. ffprobe reports:

Code: 
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/steven/Downloads/Vigilant1.20250511_202835-202847.979.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
    encoder         : Lavf58.45.100
  Duration: 00:00:13.41, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3923 kb/s
  Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080, 3920 kb/s, 24.76 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn (default)
      Metadata:
        handler_name    : VideoHandler
        vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
  Stream #0:1[0x2](und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 8000 Hz, mono, fltp, 0 kb/s (default)
      Metadata:
        handler_name    : SoundHandler
        vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]

This Vigilant datasheet makes no mention of any audio function, but the Uniview datasheet for the same (?) camera shows something:

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So maybe the circuit/CPU board supports audio, but there's no included hardware. The wire bundle label does show audio I/O wires, presumably for the Line level I/Os as shown in the Settings, above:

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My knee-jerk reaction to say Yes was probably me mis-remembering my experience with my spiffy new PTZ camera, which definitely has audio in, because I can hear the motors whirring when it PTZs.
 
PeteJ said:
Updated my post to indicate which is which.
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$35 camera looks good!

Too bad y'all bought the rest of those eBay units; otherwise I would have picked up a bunch of them, just to have some inventory.
 
TheWaterbug said:
$35 camera looks good!

Too bad y'all bought the rest of those eBay units; otherwise I would have picked up a bunch of them, just to have some inventory.
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Actually there's another listing for another bunch of these. As low as $21.31/each, but there's $10 shipping, but that's still less than the $33.24 I paid last time. I just ordered a few more. I have no need for these, but I can't resist! Once I've set them for DHCP and updated their firmware, they'll be worth at least $34 each!!
 
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TheWaterbug said:
Hmmm. There's an Audio setting in the setup:

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but I think you're right--the output seems to have no actual audio content. ffprobe reports:

Code: 
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/Users/steven/Downloads/Vigilant1.20250511_202835-202847.979.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : isom
    minor_version   : 512
    compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
    encoder         : Lavf58.45.100
  Duration: 00:00:13.41, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3923 kb/s
  Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080, 3920 kb/s, 24.76 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn (default)
      Metadata:
        handler_name    : VideoHandler
        vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]
  Stream #0:1[0x2](und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 8000 Hz, mono, fltp, 0 kb/s (default)
      Metadata:
        handler_name    : SoundHandler
        vendor_id       : [0][0][0][0]

This Vigilant datasheet makes no mention of any audio function, but the Uniview datasheet for the same (?) camera shows something:

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So maybe the circuit/CPU board supports audio, but there's no included hardware. The wire bundle label does show audio I/O wires, presumably for the Line level I/Os as shown in the Settings, above:

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My knee-jerk reaction to say Yes was probably me mis-remembering my experience with my spiffy new PTZ camera, which definitely has audio in, because I can hear the motors whirring when it PTZs.
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Thanks, it's been a while since I've used a camera w/o audio. I was hoping that it was the Vigilant firmware that disabled the audio, since they didn't need it, but the mic was on board, but looks like their standard firmware doesn't enable it either. What's kind of interesting as I was poking around was that the client ID was still set as FF, I wonder if changing that to a different value would enable it.
 
PeteJ said:
Thanks, it's been a while since I've used a camera w/o audio. I was hoping that it was the Vigilant firmware that disabled the audio, since they didn't need it, but the mic was on board, but looks like their standard firmware doesn't enable it either. What's kind of interesting as I was poking around was that the client ID was still set as FF, I wonder if changing that to a different value would enable it.
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If you can figure out how to enable audio, these would be worth at least $40 apiece!!!
 
I am unfamiliar with with analog audio at the electrical level--does a line-in audio circuit know if anything is connected? Or is it just sampling a voltage on a wire, regardless of what's happening?

If I were to solder an RCA jack onto brown/brown-white pair, and then pipe in some music at line levels, would that work?

How about a line-in mic? How does a line-in mic get powered?
 
Hmmm. A long time ago I bought one of these:

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for use with my RLC-423S BeeCam, because YouTube Stream Now requires an audio track*, but I never hooked it up because it was too much trouble to extract my BeeCam wiring from the box I crammed it into, so it's sitting in a box somewhere in my junk room. I should go find it.


* I worked around that issue by adding a classical music track.
 
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Line in required the signal to be around 1V or so, so you cannot just wire up a condenser mic to it, the signal level is too low. The device you have could be used as test to see if line in actually works. If it does, then there are "mic modules with line out" on amazon for about $4/each. These however will require 5V to power it, which is not available on the external side of the camera.

That's why if there is an internal mic to this, it'd be much easier.
 
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