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    Bush Cam 1.0

    And here I am just trying to advance the art of camera weirdness... :cool:
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    Bush Cam 1.0

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    Bush Cam 1.0

    I needed a stealthy cam down low. Over the last few years, the trees on our street have grown so that they block my view of some areas. With some testing, I found that a camera close to the ground could see under the tree branches. I started testing using plastic flowerpots as a cover -...
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    Panasonic wv-sc385 PTZ security camera won't stay in focus beyond 9x optical zoom

    I have two Panasonic WV-SC385 cams, both about 15 years old. I bought them on Ebay at different times. I use them because they have excellent, very fast PTZ response, sharp 18X optical zoom and good low-light color imaging. They're great for zooming in on distant activity. I've been using #1...
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    ONVIF camera list empty when installing new camera

    I run my cams at 5-6 FPS up to 10 FPS for important areas. I find that's plenty for security ID work - like getting 5-10 photos per second that I can step through, email to the police or neighborhood watch. I'm also using VBR (variable bit rate) on nearly all of the cams now. Most of the time...
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    ONVIF camera list empty when installing new camera

    OK, problem solved. As I suspected, it was related to converting from an older Win 10 server to a newer Win 11 server. Here's what I found: all of my (20+) cameras are hardwired POE. Most of them plug directly into a 48 port 100 MBS Cisco switch. A few PTZ cams require POE+; they plug into a...
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    ONVIF camera list empty when installing new camera

    All of the cameras I've bought for the last few years have been ONVIF compatible. I just leave them as ONVIF in BI. I have some older cams that are pre-ONVIF. I use cam-specific protocols for them. I meant that I always set my cameras to static once they're defined in BI.
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    ONVIF camera list empty when installing new camera

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    ONVIF camera list empty when installing new camera

    I've been using BI for about 5 years. I have 20+ POE cameras of various types and everything has been very stable for several years. I add or upgrade about 2 new cameras a year. Recently I bought a new 4K noname turret camera from Amazon. I have another identical camera and its been running...
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    Running 20+ cameras on a Dell Mini Tower i7-4770

    I thought this might be of interest. I've been adding cameras gradually for about 5 years. I'm currently running 25 cameras of various ages and brands. Most are Amcrest 5mp turrets, but others include some older model 3mp Panasonic PTZ cams, 5x of Boavision 2mp mini PTz cams (digital zoom only)...
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    UI3 Convert / Export not creating output file

    I'm trying to extract a clip using UI3. I've done this many times without problems, but recently no output file is being created. It goes through all of the expected steps, but there's no output file. I thought that the file might be going to some obscure folder, but I used Everthing.exe (a very...
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    Local murder captured on video (not my video)

    Since there seems to be some interest in this story, here is a follow-up news report: https://www.chesterfield.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3315
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    Local murder captured on video (not my video)

    To avoid possible confusion, this was in Midlothian, VA, about 12 miles west of Richmond, VA (not Midlothian, TX) ;-)
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    How can I keep the spiders from sabotaging my driveway cam?

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    Local murder captured on video (not my video)

    This is a sad story of a homeowner in our county who was shot and killed in his own driveway exactly a year ago last Halloween night. The perp was rummaging through a car belonging to the homeowner's girlfriend. The victim worked a very early shift and was leaving for work around 3:30 am when...
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