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  1. guykuo

    Great Horned Owl Momma Provides. Owlettes Feed, Nap and Dance

    Great Horned Owl momma doing well this year with two fledges instead of the usual singlet she brings around. Was lucky enough to capture her bringing a mouse to fledge after she had already provided for the other. Two hours of captures intermittently remote controlling my PTZ while 30 miles...
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    Fireball March 28, 2026 Washington State

    One of my skycams was lucky enough to capture a few frames of the March 28, 2026 8:34:24 PM DST fireball over Washington state. Finally had time to review footage from that time and found it.
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    OMG Thermal!

    The foe of many a camera here - thermal or otherwise.
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    OMG Thermal!

    Fog on my thermals doesn’t look like that. Too discrete and motion looks like animal or insect grooming itself.
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    Coyotes Living Their Best Life

    George and Gracie go zoom zoom zoom then hunt in the meadow.
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    Natural Gas Generators

    Our original whole house generator was a Kohler. Its higher requirement for NG delivery pressure forced us to also put in a new gas main and a huge regulator. That generator lasted about 12 years, but eventually succumbed to increasing instability in its RPM and could not rely on it to start or...
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    Natural Gas Generators

    One of the first things we do when power does go out is turn off landscaping lights. Also, don't want to be THAT HOUSE with its Christmas lights on while everyone else scrambles just to keep a phone charged.
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    Natural Gas Generators

    A couple one to two week long outages were a lot easier to get through with our whole house generator. We continue with out lives pretty much as normal and our freezers stay frozen. Automatic switchover in 20 seconds is lovely, but still need a bunch of UPS units to let the computers and camera...
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    New Year's Eve Driver Error

    After their Sheriff's visit, the responsible driver and his son visited to apologize and promised to pay for damage repairs to our satisfaction. I'm not sure they quite realize how expensive it is going to be making restitution for twenty year old tree and hedge that were both grown and...
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    New Year's Eve Driver Error

    Drove off. Nothing next morning either. Had to make report to Sheriffs to find their identity
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    New Year's Eve Driver Error

    He has a minor leg fracture, but can ambulate pretty well in a boot walker. Yes, she would have been badly injured if she got ahead of that door.
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    New Year's Eve Driver Error

    This was our final "present" from 2025 Had to use county Sheriff to get actual identity. Thanks to our camera system, got the make, model, and license. Dispatcher assumed we would be typical and have zero info about what caused our damages. She was pretty amazed that we already had that info...
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    We are lucky enough to be above the river valley. Just a few miles away, roads are covered with water. Can't get to towns east of us due mud slides and real reis of trees falling on cars. Amazing few power outages. So, could be worse.
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    External mic. One has to ask Andy about his special firmware with animal tracking. It isn’t one he allows to be posted or shared.
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    Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X Animal Tracking Example

    Andy;s animal tracking firmware isn't perfect, but often better than no tracking. Here is a striking example of PTZ automatic tracking of a coyote. Exposure does get a bit overblown at closes approach, but overall it is pretty good for a camera that would otherwise not track animals
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    OMG Thermal!

    Coyote leaves a "deposit" from which thermal easily picks up heat. Sorry buddy, burying it didn't hide it.
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    Incredible light show tonight in Iowa

    Wow! What a sight there. I would have loved your clear sky for this show. Super reds in your picts. Red is from about 200 miles up in atmosphere. Here, near Seattle, I barely got a couple hours before clouds and blocked everything. Caught a fireball, though.
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    Bunny of Disappointment

    It looked like an easy meal.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    It was via UPS. Tracking simply stopped at Salt Lake City after seeing. On the Way Delay Salt Lake City, UT, United States 08/13/2025, 3:37 P.M. No sign of it since. So, obviously I can't do my planned comparison.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Ugh! Camera shipment lost in limbo. Andy has started investigation for its location.
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    Cable length in junction box

    I agree with looney2ns that cat 7 is a poor choice for this application. None of the cameras are 10 gbe data rate and thicker, stiffer cable make things more difficult to fit everything in junction box. I recommend leaving enough ethernet cable for at least two more episodes of cutting off and...
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    Triple Headed, Pole Top, Turret Cam Mount

    Just a very thin ring of plumber's under base of camera mount is all I did. The entry hole for the pig tail isn't further sealed. I treat the inside connections with silicone grease, like any other camera connection. Despite rain and wind exposure for several years in my dual camera mounts...
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    CBR vs VBR recorded video quality

    H264 CBR here on 30+ cameras, all set at a high enough bitrate to get clean imaging. I also run a periodic script to set bitrate on my cameras in case a power off/on resets the rates. Dahuas seem to revert to a ridiculous, lower bitrate if they lose power despite setting (and storing) bitrate...
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    IR Hot Spotting Low Tech Fix

    A demo video showing what six layers of frosted 3M Scotch tape does on a PTZ that has bad hotspotting. I layer the tape on a piece of glass, lift off glass, trim to size and then apply over IR emitters.
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    IR Hot Spotting Low Tech Fix

    BTW, if you ever need to remove old Scotch tape that is too brittle to peel, coat the tape with some Purell hand sanitizer and cover the gel with a piece of plastic wrap. Let the gelled alcohol soak in for 20-30 minutes. Thereafter, everyone pretty much wipes off without any effort. The key is...
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    IR Hot Spotting Low Tech Fix

    Several of my cameras had pretty severe IR hot spotting. My fix was 4 to 5 layers of 3M Scotch Tape over the IR emitters. Super simple, reversible, quick, and cheap. Put several layers just over the emitter's, not the rest of the optical cover. Add more layers until the IR is diffused the amount...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    I got confirmation! So, my comparison definitely happening
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    I may have ordered one from Andy's site, but by some odd quirk of the order system, I don't have a confirmation. Presuming a camera arrives, it will definitely get compared against my S3's
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    PTZ Mounting Arm Mod to Make Life Easier

    Ever had trouble pulling cables in/out of the PTZ mounting arms like PFB303W? I often struggled getting camera cables fed through without it getting stuck. No more.... The solution is simple and quick. Take a round profile metal file and smooth out the sharp edge at the inner 90 degree bend...
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    PTZ5A4M-25X Tracking issues - Dahua SD5A425GA-HNR

    The hunting is annoying and really makes my wife angry. I get to hear about it even when I wasn't there.
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