tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145226403528712972024-03-13T01:07:57.491-07:00Security Cam 101Hopefully you can learn from this info on most of the stuff I've tried the last several years and not waste as much time and money as I have.Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-26599811748812042732022-10-31T11:10:00.006-07:002022-12-30T11:19:05.861-08:00Another attempt at a quick paste response to "I want something with good night vision"<p>Best color night vision is <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Hikvision" target="_blank">Hikvision</a>'s <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/color%20at%20night" target="_blank">ColorVu</a> G2s. If you want IR night vision there are more options. I prefer <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a> or <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">JideTech</a> myself but many use the same larger sensors. For IR get the largest sensor you can. 1/1.8 (like <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA" target="_blank">Dahua IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA</a>) of better if you can. Forget about stated LED ranges since you will want to turn those off anyway unless you like attaching bugs to your cams. <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IR%20Illuminator" target="_blank">Use seperate lighting like accent lights or IR floods mounted away from the cams</a>.</p><p>Plus of course match the specs to the distance and view angle you need. But keep in mind most fixed focus cams are focused for 10-30 feet, depending on model, so for over 50 feet plan on something you can focus for the target range either motorized (usually zoom models only) or manually. Don't assume fixed model are easily adjusted as most are glued in place these days.</p><p>What ever you get make sure they support ONVIF or at least RTSP so you can mix brands as needed.</p><p>To dig deeper look at <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/05/getting-cam-specs-easy-way.html">https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/05/getting-cam-specs-easy-way.html</a> for info about how to use an online GUI tool tha lets you set up virtual cams on your site to get an idea of what diff models will be able to see.</p>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-72308884157321508472022-09-28T07:02:00.005-07:002022-09-28T07:45:45.420-07:00DeepStack vs Sense AI and improving recognition.<p> First they both use:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> <a href="https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/yolo-explained-5b6f4564f31" target="_blank">YOLO models</a> to compare found objects to. </li><li>The <a href="https://www.codeproject.com/AI/docs/api/api_reference.html" target="_blank">Sense AI API</a> is a superset of the <a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/object-detection/index.html" target="_blank">DeepStack API</a> so something written for DeepStack should work with Sense AI too.</li><li>They use the same coding languages.</li></ul><p></p><p>The main diffs between <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/DeepStack" target="_blank">DeepStack</a> and <a href="https://www.codeproject.com/AI/index.aspx" target="_blank">Sense AI</a> are:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sense AI is considered to be the more stable and supported (going forward) version. Though as of this writing you can probably find a lot more about working with DeepStack.</li><li><a href="https://www.codeproject.com/AI/docs/api/api_reference.html" target="_blank">Sense AI will support more types of recognition and secondary operations like OCR</a>.</li><li>But <a href="https://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ListVersions.aspx?aid=5322557" target="_blank">Sense AI is basically beta at this time</a> so the real advantages are more subjective.</li></ul><p></p><p>As explained in my <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/DeepStack" target="_blank">DeepStack posts</a> a lot of your success depends on:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/object-detection/index.html?highlight=mode" target="_blank">Mode</a> engine is run at. Medium is default. High will yield better results but at a cost of higher load. The reverse is true of Low.</li><li>Mode model was created for. The model ought to be made for the same or higher mode than the engine will be run at to see improved performance.</li><li>Trigger image might not be the best for recognition. You will want to tweak number and frequency of images sent to the AI when triggered to get better confidence in what is detected.</li><li>Same goes for minimum confidence percentages. Too low and you will get lots of wrong detections. Too high and you will miss things. Best to start low and see what object you want to know about are detected as what and at what confidence.</li><li>How close objects used in training match the ones in images used in detection. This is the biggie and why so many look to create their own custom models. Both for object types not in the default model and to more closely match expected targets in lighting and coloring. You can find tools for simplifying making your own custom models in my <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/deepstack/wiki" target="_blank">deepstack repo</a>.</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-66709940067654666432021-12-17T13:43:00.019-08:002022-02-22T09:51:05.449-08:00DeepStack training<h2 style="text-align: left;">My test set</h2><p>My current test set can be downloaded from <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/RMRR.model" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Hardware</h2><div><p>This workstation is set up for video editing so it is pretty fast. It was in it:</p><p></p><ul><li>3.50 gigahertz AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core</li><li>64 GB of RAM</li><li>Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB [Hard drive]</li><li>NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080</li></ul></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Dataset prep</h2><div style="text-align: left;">If you are looking to prep your own dataset you might want to look at the utils I have <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/deepstack" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You may want to look at <a href="https://blog.roboflow.com/why-preprocess-augment/" target="_blank">Why Image Preprocessing and Augmentation Matter</a> as well.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Method Compare</h2><div>I used the original 91 pics with 194 labeled objects of 4 types of <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/RMRR.model" target="_blank">my test set:</a></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Colab 2.973 hours</li><li>Jupyter hybrid method 18 minutes</li><li>local 0.299 hours (just under 18 minutes)</li></ul><div>The models created appear to be the same. The latest model with the latest data set can be downloaded from <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/RMRR.model" target="_blank">here</a>.</div></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Local</h2><p>Start <a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/custom-models/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Took me a while to sort what I was doing wrong as the instructions can be a bit misleading and python being at least 20 something on the list of languages I use the most. I finally figured it out while trying to debug the "local Colab" / jupyter method.</p><p>Be sure to install CUDA and CUDNN not just one. Remember the versions.</p><p><a href="https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/" target="_blank">PyTorch</a></p><p>Instead of the suggested something like </p><p><b><i>pip3 install torch==1.10.0+cu113 torchvision==0.11.1+cu113 torchaudio===0.10.0+cu113 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu113/torch_stable.html</i></b></p><p>Instead try</p><p><i><b>pip3 install torch torchvision==0.10.1+cu111 torchaudio torchtext -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html</b></i></p><p>The <b>+cu111</b> bit seems to align to Cuda 11.1. Leaving off the other == bits lets it sort versions it needs itself.</p><p>Download training data to deepstack-trainer../deepstack/train</p><p>So assuming your workspace is C:\DeepStackWS</p><p>deepstack-trainer would cloned in C:\DeepStackWS\deepstack-trainer</p><p>and your training data would be in C:\DeepStackWS\deepstack\train</p><p>Then <b><i>cd deepstack-trainer</i></b> and run</p><p><i><b>python3 train.py --dataset-path </b></i><b><i>--exist-ok </i></b><i><b>"../deepstack"</b></i></p><p>Running this way not only avoids the notebook framework making automation easier but puts more progress info to the screen to see how things are going.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Options from train.py (with my notes)</h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>--model, default='yolov5m', help='yolo model to use' (best option most cases)</li><li>--classes,default='', help='model.yaml path'</li><li>--dataset-path, required=True, help='path to dataset folder' (Should contain at least a train folder. May also contain test and validate folders. If folders exist they should contain some image files and copy of classes.txt or programs will crash.)</li><li>--hyp, default='data/hyp.scratch.yaml', help='hyperparameters path'</li><li>--epochs, default=300</li><li>--batch-size, default=16, help='total batch size for all GPUs' (>16 did not work for me)</li><li>--img-size, default=[640, 640], help='[train, test] image sizes'</li><li>--rect, help='rectangular training'</li><li>--resume, default=False, help='resume most recent training'</li><li>--nosave, help='only save final checkpoint'</li><li>--notest, help='only test final epoch'</li><li>--noautoanchor, help='disable autoanchor check'</li><li>--evolve, help='evolve hyperparameters'</li><li>--bucket, default='', help='gsutil bucket'</li><li>--cache-images, help='cache images for faster training'</li><li>--image-weights, help='use weighted image selection for training'</li><li>--device, default='', help='cuda device, i.e. 0 or 0,1,2,3 or cpu'</li><li>--multi-scale, help='vary img-size +/- 50%%'</li><li>--single-cls, help='train as single-class dataset'</li><li>--adam, help='use torch.optim.Adam() optimizer'</li><li>--sync-bn, help='use SyncBatchNorm, only available in DDP mode'</li><li>--local_rank, default=-1, help='DDP parameter, do not modify'</li><li>--log-imgs, default=16, help='number of images for W&B logging, max 100'</li><li>--workers, default=8, help='maximum number of data loader workers' (>8 did not work for me)</li><li>--project, default='name folder dataset folders are in', help='save to project/name'</li><li>--name, default='exp', help='save to project/name'</li><li>--exist-ok, help='overwrite if not first run instead of making new folder' (runTrain.bat assumes this to copy model to DeepStack instance)</li></ul><p></p><div>Note increasing --batch-size or --workers caused and out of resources exception for me despite having plenty of unused RAM, GPU, CPU and HD. Though there maybe some missed option as Python only appears to be using 1 GB of RAM.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Gotchas</h3><div><h4 style="text-align: left;">C:/w/b/windows/pytorch/aten/src/ATen/native/cuda/IndexKernel.cu:97: block: [0,0,0], thread: [95,0,0] Assertion `index >= -sizes[i] && index < sizes[i] && "index out of bounds"` failed.</h4></div><div>This is caused by a bad mapping file with a class ID larger than the number of classes in the train\classes.txt file.</div><div><br /></div><div>Note there is a similar problem using the LabelImg program. It will crash if it reads a map file with an ID larger than the number of classes in labelImg\data\predefined_classes.txt</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Add debug</h3><div>If you are seeing another kind of crash or odd behaviour with train.py try changing the set_logging method in deepstack-trainer/utils/general.py to look like this</div><div><br /></div><div><div>def set_logging(rank=-1):</div><div> # logging.basicConfig(</div><div> # format="%(message)s",</div><div> # level=logging.INFO if rank in [-1, 0] else logging.WARN)</div><div> logging.basicConfig(</div><div> format="%(message)s",</div><div> level=logging.DEBUG)</div></div><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Colab Method</span></p><p>The DeepStack docs mention doing this but they kind of assume you know what you are doing with Colab.</p><p>Open <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1GNlu8MZl1EIal4HddnM40-F6g64Pk4H5?usp=sharing" target="_blank">My edited copy of their notebook for cloud training</a>. Notebook in this instance means project file not notes on how to do something which might be your first guess looking at it.</p><p>Click on copy to drive to get a copy you can edit.</p><p>I want to have my data and output persist between runs so I'm mounting my Google Drive for storage.</p><p>Go to / click in the mount drive section and press Shift-Enter to run it</p><p>Go to / click in the clone trainer section and press Shift-Enter to run it</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmk8tKuK_ZA4Y9oD39ctvYOkcxgASTtW6-pSWVBFASgQvePNH4LJy_Lnwm3O5VX__W_chnw8gNK7fSwvP8ufAVBiwHzYS0IYEJHZOwxNMgIsyP8pB7MScC2RdGsx9G2xKgIxp5z0BkQ/s1920/2021-12-07_14-26-25.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmk8tKuK_ZA4Y9oD39ctvYOkcxgASTtW6-pSWVBFASgQvePNH4LJy_Lnwm3O5VX__W_chnw8gNK7fSwvP8ufAVBiwHzYS0IYEJHZOwxNMgIsyP8pB7MScC2RdGsx9G2xKgIxp5z0BkQ/w640-h312/2021-12-07_14-26-25.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Section 1</td></tr></tbody></table>This takes a while. (Mine said 4 minutes.) <div>Note it loads old versions of packages so I was left with this error/result:</div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre;"><span style="color: red;">ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
torchtext 0.11.0 requires torch==1.10.0, but you have torch 1.7.0+cu110 which is incompatible.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre;">
Successfully installed dataclasses-0.6 torch-1.7.0+cu110 torchaudio-0.7.0 torchvision-0.8.1+cu110</span></div><div><br /><div>While this running you can work on preparing your data. See <a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/custom-models/datasetprep/index.html#preparing-your-dataset" target="_blank">Preparing Your Dataset</a>. If you just want to try it before creating your own data set you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g0cYaKyoMSB1TTS5BTaH3xgZ9WYicjrH?usp=sharing" target="_blank">find mine here</a>. It is the one I'll building on to detect the wildlife types I have here.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally run the Add Your Dataset section which will take a fair bit of time. My set of 91 images took ~30 seconds per run and the default is 300 runs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Note if you do not scroll the output often enough you will get a popup asking if you are still there. At which point I think it pauses your processing till you respond. So do not leave it to run overnight and expect to be done in the morning.</div><div><br /></div><div>I finally got this result</div><div><div><span style="color: #444444;"> <span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> Epoch gpu_mem box obj cls total targets img_size</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> 299/299 9.26G 0.01827 0.0114 0.001359 0.03103 59 640: 100% 6/6 [00:30<00:00, 5.07s/it]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 100% 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 2.16it/s]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> all 11 0 0 0 0 0</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/seaborn/matrix.py:198: RuntimeWarning: All-NaN slice encountered</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> vmin = np.nanmin(calc_data)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/seaborn/matrix.py:203: RuntimeWarning: All-NaN slice encountered</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> vmax = np.nanmax(calc_data)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">Exception in thread Thread-10:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">Traceback (most recent call last):</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 926, in _bootstrap_inner</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> self.run()</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 870, in run</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 122, in plot_images</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> colors = color_list() # list of colors</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 32, in color_list</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return [hex2rgb(h) for h in plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'].by_key()['color']]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 32, in <listcomp></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return [hex2rgb(h) for h in plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'].by_key()['color']]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 30, in hex2rgb</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return tuple(int(h[1 + i:1 + i + 2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 30, in <genexpr></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return tuple(int(h[1 + i:1 + i + 2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">TypeError: int() can't convert non-string with explicit base</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">Exception in thread Thread-11:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">Traceback (most recent call last):</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 926, in _bootstrap_inner</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> self.run()</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 870, in run</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 122, in plot_images</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> colors = color_list() # list of colors</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 32, in color_list</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return [hex2rgb(h) for h in plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'].by_key()['color']]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 32, in <listcomp></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return [hex2rgb(h) for h in plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'].by_key()['color']]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 30, in hex2rgb</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return tuple(int(h[1 + i:1 + i + 2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> File "/content/deepstack-trainer/utils/plots.py", line 30, in <genexpr></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"> return tuple(int(h[1 + i:1 + i + 2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">TypeError: int() can't convert non-string with explicit base</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">Optimizer stripped from train-runs/deepstack/exp/weights/last.pt, 43.4MB</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">Optimizer stripped from train-runs/deepstack/exp/weights/best.pt, 43.4MB</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444;">300 epochs completed in 2.973 hours.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>best.pt is the model file to deploy.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Option 3 local Colab</h2><p>The basic instructions are <a href="https://research.google.com/colaboratory/local-runtimes.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p>Note in step 3</p><p>jupyter notebook \</p><p> --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com' \</p><p> --port=8888 \</p><p> --NotebookApp.port_retries=0</p><p>Needs to be entered as one line and should be run from the deepstack-trainer folder.</p><p>jupyter notebook --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com' --port=8888 --NotebookApp.port_retries=0</p><p> Step 3.1 open <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1N35fAuqAJR6GF2aPKjX92IbSTdkwjIOo?usp=sharing" target="_blank">My edited copy of their notebook modified for local</a> then connect it to the local runtime using the localhost URL provided in step 3.</p><p>The output looked way different running with torch-1.9.1+cu111 torchaudio-0.9.1 torchtext-0.10.1 torchvision-0.10.1+cu111 (see below). It appears most of it goes to a log with this version so nothing appears to be happening till it is done. My test run that took almost 3 hours on Googles free service took only 18 minutes on my workstation and it was not even working hard. The CPU maxed at 40% and the GPU ~20% so you would think with a bit of tweaking I could get this a lot faster but so far it foes not seem so. </p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Analyzing anchors... anchors/target = 6.14, Best Possible Recall (BPR) = 1.0000</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0 0 9.47e-05 1.55e-05</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0 0 0.000156 2.51e-05</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0 0 0.000471 6.89e-05</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0 0 0.000664 9.94e-05</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0 0 0.00113 0.000169</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; 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color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.531 0.805 0.731 0.416</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.481 0.805 0.677 0.314</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Using torch 1.9.1+cu111 CUDA:0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, 10240MB)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Namespace(model='yolov5m', classes='', dataset_path='../deepstack/train', hyp='data/hyp.scratch.yaml', epochs=300, batch_size=16, img_size=[640, 640], rect=False, resume=False, nosave=False, notest=False, noautoanchor=False, evolve=False, bucket='', cache_images=False, image_weights=False, device='', multi_scale=False, single_cls=False, adam=False, sync_bn=False, local_rank=-1, log_imgs=16, workers=8, project='train-runs/train', name='exp', exist_ok=False, cfg='.\\models\\yolov5m.yaml', weights='yolov5m.pt', data={'train': '../deepstack/train', 'val': '../deepstack/train', 'nc': 5, 'names': ['pig', 'raccoon', 'coyote', 'squirrel', '']}, total_batch_size=16, world_size=1, global_rank=-1, save_dir='train-runs\\train\\exp2')</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Start Tensorboard with "tensorboard --logdir train-runs/train", view at http://localhost:6006/</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Hyperparameters {'lr0': 0.01, 'lrf': 0.2, 'momentum': 0.937, 'weight_decay': 0.0005, 'warmup_epochs': 3.0, 'warmup_momentum': 0.8, 'warmup_bias_lr': 0.1, 'box': 0.05, 'cls': 0.5, 'cls_pw': 1.0, 'obj': 1.0, 'obj_pw': 1.0, 'iou_t': 0.2, 'anchor_t': 4.0, 'fl_gamma': 0.0, 'hsv_h': 0.015, 'hsv_s': 0.7, 'hsv_v': 0.4, 'degrees': 0.0, 'translate': 0.1, 'scale': 0.5, 'shear': 0.0, 'perspective': 0.0, 'flipud': 0.0, 'fliplr': 0.5, 'mosaic': 1.0, 'mixup': 0.0}</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Overriding model.yaml nc=80 with nc=5</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> from n params module arguments </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; 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color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.552 1 0.964 0.679</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.602 1 0.989 0.744</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.647 1 0.99 0.773</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.532 1 0.981 0.659</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.639 1 0.992 0.735</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.744 1 0.995 0.806</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.746 1 0.995 0.771</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.749 1 0.994 0.678</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> all 91 194 0.744 1 0.995 0.733</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 10 -1 1 295680 models.common.Conv [768, 384, 1, 1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 11 -1 1 0 torch.nn.modules.upsampling.Upsample [None, 2, 'nearest'] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 12 [-1, 6] 1 0 models.common.Concat [1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 13 -1 1 1219968 models.common.BottleneckCSP [768, 384, 2, False] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 14 -1 1 74112 models.common.Conv [384, 192, 1, 1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 15 -1 1 0 torch.nn.modules.upsampling.Upsample [None, 2, 'nearest'] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 16 [-1, 4] 1 0 models.common.Concat [1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 17 -1 1 305856 models.common.BottleneckCSP [384, 192, 2, False] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 18 -1 1 332160 models.common.Conv [192, 192, 3, 2] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 19 [-1, 14] 1 0 models.common.Concat [1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 20 -1 1 1072512 models.common.BottleneckCSP [384, 384, 2, False] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 21 -1 1 1327872 models.common.Conv [384, 384, 3, 2] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 22 [-1, 10] 1 0 models.common.Concat [1] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 23 -1 1 4283136 models.common.BottleneckCSP [768, 768, 2, False] </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 24 [17, 20, 23] 1 40410 models.yolo.Detect [5, [[10, 13, 16, 30, 33, 23], [30, 61, 62, 45, 59, 119], [116, 90, 156, 198, 373, 326]], [192, 384, 768]]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Model Summary: 391 layers, 21501978 parameters, 21501978 gradients, 51.4 GFLOPS</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Transferred 506/514 items from yolov5m.pt</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Optimizer groups: 86 .bias, 94 conv.weight, 83 other</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Scanning '..\deepstack\train.cache' for images and labels... 90 found, 1 missing, 0 empty, 0 corrupted: 100%|##########| 91/91 [00:00<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Scanning '..\deepstack\train.cache' for images and labels... 90 found, 1 missing, 0 empty, 0 corrupted: 100%|##########| 91/91 [00:00<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Scanning '..\deepstack\train.cache' for images and labels... 90 found, 1 missing, 0 empty, 0 corrupted: 100%|##########| 91/91 [00:00<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Scanning '..\deepstack\train.cache' for images and labels... 90 found, 1 missing, 0 empty, 0 corrupted: 100%|##########| 91/91 [00:10<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Image sizes 640 train, 640 test</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Using 8 dataloader workers</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Logging results to train-runs\train\exp2</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Starting training for 300 epochs...</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Epoch gpu_mem box obj cls total targets img_size</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0%| | 0/6 [00:00<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.47G 0.1205 0.03857 0.05545 0.2145 64 640: 0%| | 0/6 [00:05<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.47G 0.1205 0.03857 0.05545 0.2145 64 640: 17%|#6 | 1/6 [00:05<00:27, 5.47s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1196 0.03985 0.05593 0.2154 68 640: 17%|#6 | 1/6 [00:05<00:27, 5.47s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1196 0.03985 0.05593 0.2154 68 640: 33%|###3 | 2/6 [00:05<00:09, 2.40s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1193 0.04018 0.05547 0.215 67 640: 33%|###3 | 2/6 [00:05<00:09, 2.40s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1193 0.04018 0.05547 0.215 67 640: 50%|##### | 3/6 [00:05<00:04, 1.42s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1196 0.03886 0.05546 0.214 53 640: 50%|##### | 3/6 [00:06<00:04, 1.42s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1196 0.03886 0.05546 0.214 53 640: 67%|######6 | 4/6 [00:06<00:01, 1.04it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1193 0.03866 0.05564 0.2136 60 640: 67%|######6 | 4/6 [00:06<00:01, 1.04it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 5.65G 0.1193 0.03866 0.05564 0.2136 60 640: 83%|########3 | 5/6 [00:06<00:00, 1.45it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 4.35G 0.1198 0.03696 0.05567 0.2124 23 640: 83%|########3 | 5/6 [00:08<00:00, 1.45it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 4.35G 0.1198 0.03696 0.05567 0.2124 23 640: 100%|##########| 6/6 [00:08<00:00, 1.20s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> 0/299 4.35G 0.1198 0.03696 0.05567 0.2124 23 640: 100%|##########| 6/6 [00:08<00:00, 1.44s/it]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 0%| | 0/6 [00:00<?, ?it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 17%|#6 | 1/6 [00:00<00:04, 1.17it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 33%|###3 | 2/6 [00:00<00:01, 2.32it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 50%|##### | 3/6 [00:01<00:00, 3.45it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 67%|######6 | 4/6 [00:01<00:00, 4.49it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 83%|########3 | 5/6 [00:01<00:00, 5.28it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 100%|##########| 6/6 [00:02<00:00, 2.23it/s]</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"> Class Images Targets P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 100%|##########| 6/6 [00:02<00:00, 2.59it/s]</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-20552145926605582322021-10-06T11:10:00.017-07:002022-01-30T19:21:15.806-08:00Quick Blue Iris with DeepStack debug<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;">Note this write refers to Blue Iris version 5.5.0.13 which is a beta release so there may be some differences to the version you are using.</span></span></h4><h2 style="text-align: left;">First things first</h2><div>Make sure you only have one or no custom model in the folder Blue Iris is looking for custom models in. The doc indicate multiples are supported but this appears to be wrong. If there is more than one it appears none of them work and in some versions even the non custom models stop working.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also if you are running DeepStack with <i><b>-e MODE=High </b></i>try <i><b>-e MODE=Medium</b></i> instead and see if that fixes things. I've was seeing random 500s in High mode though the system did not appear to be maxed out in any way. It was taking a lot longer to respond too. In Medium getting around 300 ms times while High was taking seconds. High mode will detect more objects though.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">DeepStack Windows native will not start from Blue Iris</h2><div>They changed the name of the program at one point. Check in \DeepStack\server for server.exe and deepstack.exe. Copy the one you have to the one you do not. That way what you versions of Blue Iris and DeepStack can talk.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Turn on DeepStack save details.</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To do real debug you need to turn on Save DeepStack analysis details for the camera. Open camera properties, go to the Trigger tab and click on Artificial Intelligence.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1BkZlzE53zLoDFKK1QBZHDMPKPRw1gUCI6_QMCWpwzKzMHSQGb0PnIRpn2e9phURvAxKLLaLWY0yWdyuhV-Tr-P7YSVAaud-XR6u5vwDtll46UtYr-MTBmcWhJxGUpY1Lcj9ahcZjg/s804/Screenshot+2021-10-06+094611.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="804" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1BkZlzE53zLoDFKK1QBZHDMPKPRw1gUCI6_QMCWpwzKzMHSQGb0PnIRpn2e9phURvAxKLLaLWY0yWdyuhV-Tr-P7YSVAaud-XR6u5vwDtll46UtYr-MTBmcWhJxGUpY1Lcj9ahcZjg/w640-h590/Screenshot+2021-10-06+094611.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AI options dialog</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This will create a ".dat" file in the Alerts folder for each alert with info about the frames DeepStack processed.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCVMQS89xFzL9KIGwiNBka8zTP751CGcRDN5vJdm61zp3FHjeTtmOezJG1qV5vUr7VjujGfPgjj_faR6nnQKWz-jJK_oR_FNDczk7Ak4asdmrUbiLkorEx2a3SHf5tIxrCC2Zhr_-Mw/s1289/Screenshot+2021-10-06+101128.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="1289" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCVMQS89xFzL9KIGwiNBka8zTP751CGcRDN5vJdm61zp3FHjeTtmOezJG1qV5vUr7VjujGfPgjj_faR6nnQKWz-jJK_oR_FNDczk7Ak4asdmrUbiLkorEx2a3SHf5tIxrCC2Zhr_-Mw/w640-h312/Screenshot+2021-10-06+101128.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alerts folder listing</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Find the alert pic.</h2><p>If you are here you are probably have this but if you are just not seeing an alert clip for something you know should be there start here. Open the cancelled alerts folder and find the alert picture you think should have triggered and alert. </p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Note if there is no alert you have a motion detection issue. DeepStack analysis below sends frames ignoring motion and object to detect settings for the camera.</span></b></span></p><p>If you have an alert that you think DeepStack should have triggered an notification for here are some simple things to check:</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Does the motion alert have a return 100 or -1 for the memo?</h2><p>If so DeepStack has crashed or hung. Either way it needs restarted.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Still getting a return 100 or -1 for the memo after restart?</h2><p>Ran into this the other day on one of my servers. After a restart DeepStack would work for a few minutes and the stop. Looked in the logs (<b><i>docker logs</i></b> for Docker installs) and found the return codes of 200 changed to a 400 then 500s. I tried several things. I backed out the last change, restarted and watched to see if I could sort an event causing the crash but it just kept working. So hard to say what to do other than keep restarting DeepStack till it stays running.</p><h2>Does the motion alert have a nothing found for the memo?</h2><p>Double click on the alert picture you want to debug and turn on analyze by right clicking in the playing clip and selecting.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CBMpD1DPb8287SwfLJJkyjsT9TOC2w83APZnF0pehX2QRDaVWzlqKEIZ9HpeWV8uTEdGasQhVFR1TACCipGm7VQzHT8RzS8YMLok4oTUJFFgiELlHCqg5_yTP1btOGg29TnOIRXrMA/s1920/Testing.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CBMpD1DPb8287SwfLJJkyjsT9TOC2w83APZnF0pehX2QRDaVWzlqKEIZ9HpeWV8uTEdGasQhVFR1TACCipGm7VQzHT8RzS8YMLok4oTUJFFgiELlHCqg5_yTP1btOGg29TnOIRXrMA/w640-h360/Testing.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Analyze options select </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>I find it helpful to turn on overlays as well.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TSwkZn0t3YPUCZicfV2J0b-mSxOVQqv-KDaKgxWPY7vdTeW3JnZqD4Ot0ljSN3jwk8st8GiCA9oSqSv8ucNGLrt0PbTe5gv17gPhB2F9TVUY4_0awq2IlzYd80Aw957mCtz5_s8GWg/s1920/Overlays.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TSwkZn0t3YPUCZicfV2J0b-mSxOVQqv-KDaKgxWPY7vdTeW3JnZqD4Ot0ljSN3jwk8st8GiCA9oSqSv8ucNGLrt0PbTe5gv17gPhB2F9TVUY4_0awq2IlzYd80Aw957mCtz5_s8GWg/w640-h360/Overlays.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overlay options selection</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><p>Next open the DeepStack console via the status icon.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUyfQqfl3Jsx-m0TQIlKACgH8JE-hOwnDwIhu0l-GeO45plvlM2IiMH4OWCmlCGKdE0Ggos_vBacMS3boLo14-bG3JvlmlLwamqceNvYINNXbUb2ak6y-Rl4889ImZrWb5uv7IUsQ7Q/s320/Screenshot+2021-10-06+103834B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="320" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUyfQqfl3Jsx-m0TQIlKACgH8JE-hOwnDwIhu0l-GeO45plvlM2IiMH4OWCmlCGKdE0Ggos_vBacMS3boLo14-bG3JvlmlLwamqceNvYINNXbUb2ak6y-Rl4889ImZrWb5uv7IUsQ7Q/s0/Screenshot+2021-10-06+103834B.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>You will want to restart playing the clip at this point and play it backwards. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Note the Alert picture appears to be the last frame of the clip just double clicking on that alert plays forward from that position.</span></b></span><br /><p>Stop when you get to the place where the thing was not detected that you think should have been.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4X_lC1guMyrTiPDJgPhyphenhyphenBkKabKiUjX5TLOTAB2zYxm_HXK0QJyKrZ1OcC5Kdtp-XA_1dIYPrZFKxPMsyyJ_Bmv5biTRO6wzCXrt5L46Dgcm2CRWsNxMtKaNevN0BwTwtH8_SardGwg/s1319/Screenshot+2021-10-06+112153.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="1319" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje4X_lC1guMyrTiPDJgPhyphenhyphenBkKabKiUjX5TLOTAB2zYxm_HXK0QJyKrZ1OcC5Kdtp-XA_1dIYPrZFKxPMsyyJ_Bmv5biTRO6wzCXrt5L46Dgcm2CRWsNxMtKaNevN0BwTwtH8_SardGwg/w640-h486/Screenshot+2021-10-06+112153.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">IDed frame</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Now you can compare the saved (.dat file) info against the IDed frame. In the above instance it IDed a "cat" at a few places but checking the 2 frames sent to DeepStack we see the alert clip does not necessarily match. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgblNP_nK4oiloKYI7VlgSsdKm23hYHwDWj3Iz35Lz-5eqw-Fi7JhJ1iuuQtFAM_Ez1yM4YOL6uH97jb5diBJSWcVK2XbeM7RmrPHlWW9G1e-sziD5ypJ05JiY0yiPZ6u7R3VlMrEx5AA/s1318/Screenshot+2021-10-06+105455.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1318" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgblNP_nK4oiloKYI7VlgSsdKm23hYHwDWj3Iz35Lz-5eqw-Fi7JhJ1iuuQtFAM_Ez1yM4YOL6uH97jb5diBJSWcVK2XbeM7RmrPHlWW9G1e-sziD5ypJ05JiY0yiPZ6u7R3VlMrEx5AA/w640-h488/Screenshot+2021-10-06+105455.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First DeepStack frame</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrz5zI6McUrxOb0xXLhn_JlzmLUYP76Dv5LQyXITtyFUZuL3DeJXO0RfNUkP5l8nroLuxWEqDytDzz5h0BbyNei9LZ85dq14mer9H1ZtRoeru2bfGZ6XSqq36O6qAcOdqqgqi2SLb3CQ/s1313/Screenshot+2021-10-06+105424.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="1313" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrz5zI6McUrxOb0xXLhn_JlzmLUYP76Dv5LQyXITtyFUZuL3DeJXO0RfNUkP5l8nroLuxWEqDytDzz5h0BbyNei9LZ85dq14mer9H1ZtRoeru2bfGZ6XSqq36O6qAcOdqqgqi2SLb3CQ/w640-h488/Screenshot+2021-10-06+105424.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second DeepStack frame</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Notice the above is the alert picture and that they are in reverse order in the listing.</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If I switch to Analyze with motion detector and play forward from a little before the first sent frame I can then see what motion triggered the alert. It appears to be about half a second after the first sent frame. It appears this is related to the make time and the first frame sent to DeepStack is from the start of the make time and the rectangle below is the end of the make time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhcezn0IpGLX5L5K1Ik2RbzgFWmSOY4R0_wIbCIzTS_o-V-jj7dRMKpObutB9l8kKPeULU2p9DDW_VyKASGu9eAiZGfUkazWwcVwclyChqsDsSDYaFvCgaP3NIzfv6dCa-o0nhYTSRQ/s517/Screenshot+2021-10-06+112920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="517" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhcezn0IpGLX5L5K1Ik2RbzgFWmSOY4R0_wIbCIzTS_o-V-jj7dRMKpObutB9l8kKPeULU2p9DDW_VyKASGu9eAiZGfUkazWwcVwclyChqsDsSDYaFvCgaP3NIzfv6dCa-o0nhYTSRQ/w640-h442/Screenshot+2021-10-06+112920.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>So at least one issue here is that the IDed frame from analyze came between the frames sent. So in some cases (but not this one) playing with the make and break times might help. </div><div><br /></div><div>In this case the camera is set to send a picture to DeepStack every 750ms for up to 30 images but BI appears to have only sent 2 frames 2.061 seconds apart. Though looking at the timestamps on the images shows about 4 seconds actually passed between them. This would seem to indicate something it wrong in Blue Iris.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then there is also the issue with DeepStack not seeing anything in the second sent frame. That would seem to indicate a model issue. Short of creating your own model there is little to be done about that.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">It IDed something else in the picture but not the thing I wanted.</h2><div>Again running analyze on the clip may help. For example in this image below from DeepStack analyze we see this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgroClGTCm_nwoU6KwG3xztvcZq3TSbVp4cYj8pAvafkAhZIQ4n-PLPrSeTrYUrW20LD7By3Lrmwoz9K0F699KGDOwJ5RVs52A2hqO-gemTQZeFrdIzG5njuhd9PGGK4i6UK5lNtsP0Ag/s1011/Screenshot+2021-10-06+122921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1011" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgroClGTCm_nwoU6KwG3xztvcZq3TSbVp4cYj8pAvafkAhZIQ4n-PLPrSeTrYUrW20LD7By3Lrmwoz9K0F699KGDOwJ5RVs52A2hqO-gemTQZeFrdIzG5njuhd9PGGK4i6UK5lNtsP0Ag/w640-h622/Screenshot+2021-10-06+122921.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>And from motion analyze we see this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmWNvtCE4gTzgIXLIQBEuQglE-GD-9aXz3HET6RfAYGAThqlb4OmRCHHDdN4T80arcVUeHqZqs41MzaJfIlU4uByd566_7GS7a87pqdMv4FUiZ_joDvX5gkB4HBx2qDu6zJ1tXnT4Yw/s1337/Screenshot+2021-10-06+125726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1337" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmWNvtCE4gTzgIXLIQBEuQglE-GD-9aXz3HET6RfAYGAThqlb4OmRCHHDdN4T80arcVUeHqZqs41MzaJfIlU4uByd566_7GS7a87pqdMv4FUiZ_joDvX5gkB4HBx2qDu6zJ1tXnT4Yw/w640-h364/Screenshot+2021-10-06+125726.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>You will note there are 6 raccoons in this shot. The lone one is mainly IDed from its tail. Two motion blocks are on a second raccoon by BI's motion detection and the reset are unseen. DeepStack seems to connect the lone raccoon to its tail to ID it as a cat but takes the 4 in a group, along with the dog house as one objects and IDs it as a dog. Note too the confidence was higher in the second clip but the results returned were from the first clip. I could see how this might been interpreted as a bug though whether to return the min, max, average, confirmed, first or last could be a matter of taste or best fit for a given target. This also might give some insight into tweaks in motion detection settings that might help you get better notifications.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Keeping an eye on DeepStack</h2><div>If you are running DeepStack in Docker the log output goes to the console so the easiest way to monitor DeepStack is to start it from the command line and leave the window open on the screen in a reduced state so it looks something like this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnwGafapfDtzWxQP6kwWM_4ILA5Zy-og5qZBI2VwUR6cYmkFwVFvlM-R3tc-vbNwI0lxjvmNfEuJCv-Dy2oXXsi_queMGMTYf-TNAc65Lf1V7Tg6tVaFTOFLvTIsMudu68S8IeVcGUw/s1920/Screenshot+2021-11-16+085900.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnwGafapfDtzWxQP6kwWM_4ILA5Zy-og5qZBI2VwUR6cYmkFwVFvlM-R3tc-vbNwI0lxjvmNfEuJCv-Dy2oXXsi_queMGMTYf-TNAc65Lf1V7Tg6tVaFTOFLvTIsMudu68S8IeVcGUw/w640-h360/Screenshot+2021-11-16+085900.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">DeepStack on Docker</h2><div><div>Stop instance named DSfaces</div><div><b><i>docker stop DSfaces</i></b></div><div><div><br /></div><div>List local instances and their status</div></div><div><b><i>docker ps -a</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Start instance named DSfaces. (note runs in background with no logs to screen)</div><div><b><i>docker start DSfaces</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Tails log if started with <b><i>docker start DSfaces</i></b></div><div><b><i>docker logs -f DSfaces</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Remove all non running Docker images</div><div><b><i>docker system prune --all --volumes --force</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Run DeepStack pulling new image if needed.</div><div><b><i>docker run -e VISION-FACE=True -e VISION-DETECTION=True -e VISION-SCENE=True -v localstorage:/datastore -e MODE=Medium -v /deepstack/mymodels:/modelstore/detection -v /deepstack/myfaces:/DeepStack/Faces --name DSfaces -p 82:5000 deepquestai/deepstack</i></b></div><div>Options are:</div><div><a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/face-recognition/index.html#" target="_blank">Do face detection</a></div><div><b><i>-e VISION-FACE=True </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/object-detection/index.html" target="_blank">Do object detection</a></div><div><b><i>-e VISION-DETECTION=True </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/scene-recognition/index.html" target="_blank">Do scene detection</a> Not very useful for a static camera. <a href="https://github.com/zhoubolei/places_devkit/blob/master/categories_places365.txt" target="_blank">Known places</a></div><div><i><b>-e VISION-SCENE=True </b></i></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/face-recognition/index.html#performance" target="_blank">Mode to run in</a>. Same as Blue Iris options</div><div><b><i>-e MODE=Medium </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/custom-models-samples/index.html" target="_blank">Where custom models are</a>. Note maps local path outside of Docker <b><i>/deepstack/mymodels</i></b> to container path <i><b>/modelstore/detection </b></i><b><i> </i></b></div><div><b><i>-v </i></b><i><b>/deepstack/mymodels:/modelstore/detection </b></i></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>Where known faces images are. Note maps local path outside of Docker</div><div><b><i>-v /deepstack/myfaces:/DeepStack/Faces </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>This specifies the local volume where DeepStack will store all data. Note maps local path outside of Docker</div><div><i><b>-v </b></i><b><i>/deepstack/</i></b><i><b>datastore</b></i><i><b>:/datastore </b></i></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>Name to use to interact with image. Random name is assigned if not given. Note will fail it image with that name already exists on your system.</div><div><b><i>--name DSfaces </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>External port:internal one. Internal is always 5000 and 82 is assumed external port by BI.</div><div><b><i>-p 82:5000 </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>Name of cloud image to use.</div><div><b><i>deepquestai/deepstack</i></b></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div>If using the gpu version you will want to use.</div><div><b><i>--gpus all deepquestai/deepstack:gpu</i></b></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div>Check free space on image is available</div><div><b><i><span style="background-color: white;">docker exec DSobjects df -k</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01;"># docker exec DSobjects df -k</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">overlay 3835070876 992674812 2842396064 26% /</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">tmpfs 65536 0 65536 0% /dev</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">tmpfs 16298888 0 16298888 0% /sys/fs/cgroup</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">shm 65536 0 65536 0% /dev/shm</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">/dev/mapper/centos-root 52403200 20850180 31553020 40% /DeepStack/MyModels</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">/dev/mapper/centos-home 3835070876 992674812 2842396064 26% /etc/hosts</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">tmpfs 16298888 0 16298888 0% /proc/asound</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">tmpfs 16298888 0 16298888 0% /proc/acpi</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">tmpfs 16298888 0 16298888 0% /proc/scsi</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #fcff01; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">tmpfs 16298888 0 16298888 0% /sys/firmware</span></div><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div><div>Log onto the container you look at files and processes. Note there is not much to see.</div><div><b><i>docker exec -it DSfaces /bin/bash</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>At the container's bash prompt try running this to see what files are recent and therefore maybe info worth lookin at.</div><div><b><i>find / -newer /sys/hypervisor -ls | grep -v /proc</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Sample shell script to check for image and if missing download auto download and start. Otherwise just restart current image and monitor log.</div><div><i><b>if [ -z "`docker ps -a | grep DSfaces`" ]</b></i></div><div><b><i>then</i></b></div><div><b><i> docker run -e VISION-FACE=True -e VISION-DETECTION=True -e VISION-SCENE=True -v localstorage:/datastore -e MODE=Medium -v /deepstack/mymodels:/modelstore/detection -v /deepstack/myfaces:/DeepStack/Faces --name DSfaces -p 82:5000 deepquestai/deepstack</i></b></div><div><b><i>else</i></b></div><div><b><i><span> </span><span> </span>docker start DSfaces</i></b></div><div><b><i><span> </span><span> </span>docker logs -f DSfaces</i></b></div><div><b><i>fi</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div>Sample shell script to auto download and start. Then if crashes, blows the local image, gets the image from the cloud and then runs it.</div><div><b><i>while [ 1 -eq 1 ]</i></b></div><div><b><i>do</i></b></div><div><b><i> sleep 10</i></b></div><div><b><i> docker system prune --all --volumes --force</i></b></div><div><b><i><span> </span><span> </span>docker run -e VISION-FACE=True -e VISION-DETECTION=True -e VISION-SCENE=True -v localstorage:/datastore -e MODE=Medium -v /deepstack/mymodels:/modelstore/detection -v /deepstack/myfaces:/DeepStack/Faces --name DSfaces -p 82:5000 deepquestai/deepstack</i></b></div><div><b><i>done</i></b></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div>To do a quick or extensive check of your DeepStack setup run fullTest from my <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/deepstack" target="_blank">DeepStack utils repo</a> which include some other sample tools.</div><div><br /></div><div>If all else fails try training your own model. I have <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2021/12/deepstack-training.html" target="_blank">step by step instructions here</a>.</div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-59965592214138988782021-08-26T11:02:00.002-07:002022-10-31T11:11:18.798-07:00Simple copy paste reply for "what cam / system should I get?" posts.<h3 style="text-align: left;">People seem to not read the links so I've made this reply to copy paste in.</h3><p><br /></p><p>The probs with asking for info like this are that setups can be VERY subjective as to what is good enough and you mostly get I like or hate X for replies even if you have specs for what you need.</p><p>First thing you need to think about is what is it you expect to see. For cameras there are <a href="https://www.cctv.supplies/dori-detection-observation-recognition-identification/" target="_blank">DORI (Detection, Observation, Recognition, Identification)</a> numbers that tell you at how many feet you can expect what level of detail you can see. So pick a level, Detection, Observation, Recognition or Identification that you can live with first or you are just wasting your time and money. If you really have no idea then stop here and get something cheap like a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Blink-Mini-plug-security-detection/dp/B07X6C9RMF" target="_blank">Blink Mini</a> to get a feel for what you can and can not see.</p><span data-outline-text="true">Before looking at brands sort the number cams and specs each needs to be to see that level of detail at the distance each camera is expected to monitor. Here are instructions for a free online tool that lets you virtually add cams to your site and play with specs to see coverage and expected results. <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/05/getting-cam-specs-easy-way.html">https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/05/getting-cam-specs-easy-way.html</a></span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Then you can make a plan for what you will need and not end up tossing stuff for upgrades.Remember you do not need to do it all cameras, lights and sensors at once so this can also help prioritize the order to add things. </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true"></span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Avoid WiFi wherever you can. Since you need to get power out there anyway you should look at <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Powerline" target="_blank">Ethernet Over Power adapters</a> where running Ethernet cable is not practical.</span><br /><span data-outline-text="true"></span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">That said the $100-200 per cam range seems to be the sweet spot for bang for the buck. Though as I've said some will be fine with cheaper and others will not consider any cam under $1K. So sorting what works for you is key. My "go tos" if you have a bit of light and your target is under 50 feet max are <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=colorvu" target="_blank">ColorVus.</a> For further I like <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=dahua" target="_blank">Dahua </a>varifocals (zooms). But <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/my-current-setup.html" target="_blank">I have a dozen brands, much less models in use.</a></span><br /><span data-outline-text="true"></span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">As far as a NVR you will want to make a list of features you want and then see which of the ones that has those looks easiest for you to work with. Personally I like <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=blue+iris" target="_blank">Blue Iris</a>. Mainly because it is so easy to interface with things like <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search?q=blue+iris" target="_blank">home automation</a> and <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/AI" target="_blank">AI systems</a>. Plus relatively simple to upgrade a PC to well beyond the limits of a standalone NVRs. But for example if you wanted <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/solutions/solutionsByApplication/797" target="_blank">camera and radar linkage</a> you might be better off with a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a> setup. Of course we are talking serious money there. Either way leave room to grow as odds are you will want to add to your system. </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true"></span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Even if you have the <a href="https://www.freedomvms.com/calculator/index.html" target="_blank">bandwidth </a>for <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2017/04/some-things-to-keep-in-mind-if-you-are.html" target="_blank">recording to the cloud </a>I would only plan on it as a backup. The ultimate setup would be recording 24/7 to a SD card in the cam and a local NVR then backing up alerts to the cloud. As a rule being able to record 24/7 means no battery powered cams.</span><div><span data-outline-text="true"><br /></span></div><div><span data-outline-text="true">Lastly think about supplemental lighting like accent lighting and or <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IR%20Illuminator" target="_blank">IR floods</a> as in camera lights tend to draw bugs and spiders. You will want to place these extra lights off axis from the cam to avoid glare issues too.</span></div><div><span data-outline-text="true"><br /></span></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-62607446169318352672021-07-14T09:54:00.011-07:002021-08-02T19:21:13.252-07:00Blue Iris with DeepStack Notes<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Been keeping notes of what I've see since DeepStack has been integrated with Blue Iris. Moving here for others to see. Hopefully to help them when encountering similar issues.</b></h4><h3 style="text-align: left;">Iris6: Updates so far: timestamp is when the version was backed up / replaced, not installed. </h3><p>C:\Program Files\Blue Iris 5\BlueIris_*.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17048024 Apr 23 2020 BlueIris_52601.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17048536 Apr 26 2020 BlueIris_52603.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17049048 May 16 2020 BlueIris_52712.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17873880 Apr 5 18:47 BlueIris_54102.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17875416 Apr 6 10:54 BlueIris_54200.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17877464 Apr 8 13:40 BlueIris_54202.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17885144 Apr 14 17:10 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.3.5">54305</a>.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17975256 Apr 17 16:09 BlueIris_54308.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17975256 Apr 20 17:40 BlueIris_54309.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17976280 Apr 22 19:00 BlueIris_54311.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17976280 Apr 25 14:54 BlueIris_54312.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17979864 May 6 22:02 BlueIris_54407.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17982424 May 13 13:57 BlueIris_54503.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17985496 May 19 16:21 BlueIris_54602.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17986008 May 20 14:05 BlueIris_54603.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17995736 Jun 2 17:58 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.7.7">54707</a>.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17995736 Jun 4 17:04 BlueIris_54708.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17996760 Jun 8 16:46 BlueIris_54709.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 17997784 Jun 11 17:04 BlueIris_54711.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 18009048 Jun 17 13:03 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.8.1">54801</a>.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 18323416 Jun 19 11:07 BlueIris_54802.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 18327000 Jun 26 11:09 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.9.1">54901</a>.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 18329048 Jun 28 19:03 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.9.2">54902</a>.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 18352088 Jul 8 17:25 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.9.6">54906</a>.exe</p><p>-rwxr-x---+ 1 Administrators avata 18358744 Jul 12 16:41 BlueIris_<a href="#5.4.9.7">54907</a>.exe</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Initial gotchas from testing with single indoor cam</h3><p><a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/hell-yeah-direct-deepstack-integration-5-4-0-march-31-2021.55404/" target="_blank">Hell Yeah! Direct Deepstack Integration - 5.4.0 - March 31, 2021</a></p><p>Testing with Amcrest 4k in living room, Blue Iris 5.4.2.2 and <a href="https://docs.deepstack.cc/windows/" target="_blank">DeepStack CPU version for Windows</a>. Doing basic test of walking the same path to see how various options affected detection.</p><p>Alerts must be enabled and set to triggered for AI to work even though no actions might exist.</p><p>Turning on any "advanced objection" (for instance to only check motion in zones) will limit to to ~30 secs min between AI calls.</p><p>Dropping the break to .1 secs still only got down to one pic per 1 sec make and only one AI recog/10 secs (even with make of .5 and breal of .1 only got 23 pics in ~30 seconds of action with only 2 of those AI rec pics. Though on one run I got 4 AI rec pics of 24 in 40 seconds of action.</p><p>Setting min time between alerts got me 4 of 23 in 37 secs of action.</p><p>Adding also on retriggers got 3 of 23 in 42 secs of action.</p><p>Switch from edge vector to simple algorithm and got 4 of 11 in 31 secs (Note 3 of the 4 were in a 9 sec window)</p><p>Switch back to edge vector and added hi-def and got 2 of 24 in 41 secs</p><p>Increased min obj size and contrast to 608/50 from 550/25 which got me 0 of 8 in 26 secs</p><p>Turned off hi-def and got 1 of 8 in 27 secs</p><p>Reduce contrast back to 25 got 2 of 18 in 33 secs</p><p>set min obj size to 401</p><p>Set to send 30 frames to AI per alert and set make to 30 sec. Got 0 of 1 frame IDed</p><p>Set break to 3 secs and got 3 of 3 frames IDed</p><p>Set break to 0.5 and got 6 of 15 frames IDed</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/12/2021 </h3><p style="text-align: left;">On version <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/hell-yeah-direct-deepstack-integration-5-4-0-march-31-2021.55404/page-17" id="5.4.3.5" target="_blank">5.4.3.5</a></p><p>Setup on most of the live outdoor cams on Iris6.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/17/2021 @ 16:54 Iris6</h3><p>Changed DeepStack from Medium to High</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqwrzYlMO-q5gMHGi8KMjq1axtC7J_UUmQz9kRLHHqBI6gQX9yNExhjAkkKAz92FRn4JAJIUW1Y_1yxW4VO1UdMtkAl2bZYp8VmJrlhjOHMW2iWMM7qVwElocuh3oc3hn4wY90xABsQ/s689/Screenshot+2021-04-17+165739.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="689" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqwrzYlMO-q5gMHGi8KMjq1axtC7J_UUmQz9kRLHHqBI6gQX9yNExhjAkkKAz92FRn4JAJIUW1Y_1yxW4VO1UdMtkAl2bZYp8VmJrlhjOHMW2iWMM7qVwElocuh3oc3hn4wY90xABsQ/w640-h616/Screenshot+2021-04-17+165739.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Upgrade to 5.4.3.8<p></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/20/2021 20:08</h3><p>Upgrade to 5.4.3.9</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/23/2021 19:32</h3><p>Upgrade 5.4.3.11</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/25/2021</h3><p>Upgrade 5.4.3.12</p><p>Seeing some issues with person detection.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDzN_QxoB1bLleRZc2TlXARcG5DRZa-19dKcHPJ3VapGQyKqWfEHpYMQl-2kqLfx3KSxqqRt1NJab5x9d8ahwPa3AQq3bWHKZo7fEE0pUqg05zJxjU-4zowrLfOQq_d2NZAf5u69iLg/s1920/Screenshot+2021-04-25+181835.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="1920" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDzN_QxoB1bLleRZc2TlXARcG5DRZa-19dKcHPJ3VapGQyKqWfEHpYMQl-2kqLfx3KSxqqRt1NJab5x9d8ahwPa3AQq3bWHKZo7fEE0pUqg05zJxjU-4zowrLfOQq_d2NZAf5u69iLg/w640-h332/Screenshot+2021-04-25+181835.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/27/2021 11:11</h3><p>Adding email and SMS alerts using sites gmail. Variables available are:</p><p>&ALERT_DB The DB record locator for the most recent alert image for the camera.</p><p>&ALERT_PATH The path to the most recent alert image on the camera. Note that alert images are not saved to disc by default;</p><p>this is controlled with a setting on the Trigger page in camera settings.</p><p>&CAM Camera’s short name</p><p>&FILE The path to the currently recording clip on the camera</p><p>&MOTION_RECT The coordinates of a rectangle enclosing the motion [left,top,right,bottom]; values are normalized 0-1.</p><p>&NAME Camera’s long name</p><p>&PLATE License plate captured with ALPR if configured</p><p>&PRESET The most recently used PTZ preset on the camera</p><p>&PROFILE The active profile number</p><p>&SERVER The system name as set on the Settings/About page</p><p>&TYPE The source of the camera trigger, for example MOTION_A, EXTERNAL, or DIO. The letters following MOTION refer to the motion zones. Most useful for knowing if motion or external sensor trigger</p><p>&WAN The current system WAN address as shown on the Settings/Web server page</p><p>%x, %X, etc. Date and time. See the table below for a full list of time formatting macros.</p><p>&MEMO info like object type and confidence %</p><p><br /></p><p>Email template</p><p>Blue Iris alert &MEMO on &CAM</p><p>Motion detected on camera: &CAM </p><p>Name: &NAME</p><p>Alert Type: &TYPE</p><p>Area: &MOTION_RECT</p><p>Profile: &PROFILE</p><p>Preset: &PRESET</p><p>Memo: &MEMO</p><p>plate: &PLATE</p><p>Select first 2 attaches</p><p><br /></p><p>SMS template</p><p>Blue Iris alert &MEMO</p><p>Motion detected on camera: &NAME</p><p>&TYPE</p><p>No attachments</p><p>Facial recognition seems iffy at best.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9E1Ghbv29zcoCFKwffNR1WifyKZRuvTruAW8kK3p23BYJIbaXxiVZfdTknfnLLhJ71CUb80_roO7GwM2qAHoctWTBVy1_aUUiKfymlt9Hua6fM-weQQ5fnQMGJ2qw8vWCfu9y-MDYA/s1506/Screenshot+2021-04-29+085719.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1506" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9E1Ghbv29zcoCFKwffNR1WifyKZRuvTruAW8kK3p23BYJIbaXxiVZfdTknfnLLhJ71CUb80_roO7GwM2qAHoctWTBVy1_aUUiKfymlt9Hua6fM-weQQ5fnQMGJ2qw8vWCfu9y-MDYA/w640-h346/Screenshot+2021-04-29+085719.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">4/31/20201 </h3><p>Upgrade 5.4.4.2</p><p>Added script and alert actions to copy confirmed alerts into folders by object found.</p><p>Note a space in the comma delimited list of object types will stop the AI from processing!</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/2/2021</h3><p>Add actions to copy alert files to folders based on object types detected.</p><p>Pics are in folders by type AI detected, not what is actually in the shot.</p><p>Known types</p><p>bird, cat, dog, horse, sheep, cow</p><p>lumped into other folder: elephant, bear, zebra, giraffe, person</p><p>See <a href="https://github.com/robmarkcole/HASS-Deepstack-object#:~:text=Deepstack%20is%20a%20service%20which%20runs%20in%20a,including%20people%20%28%20person%20%29%2C%20vehicles%20and%20animals">robmarkcole/HASS-Deepstack-object</a>.</p><p>Bumped min confidence to 60% on DAH412</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/3/2021</h3><p>Upgrade 5.4.4.2</p><p>noticed mouse was not in "animal" list but is in object type list so added things to look for on DAH412</p><p>Set min confidence to 60% on DAH628 to cut down on seeing a tree as a person</p><p>Added save flagged actions to AM476</p><p>AI set to detect </p><p>mouse,bird,cat,dog,horse,sheep,cow,elephant,bear,zebra,giraffe,person,car,truck,bus,bicycle,motorcycle</p><p><br /></p><p>copyPublic.bat script is</p><p>echo %* >> F:\BlueIris\cpLog.out</p><p>copy E:\BlueIris\Alerts\%2 C:\_dea\odrive\GD.video\cams\flagged\%1 2>&1 >> F:\BlueIris\cpLog.out</p><p>Note first line is just for a debug log</p><p>Action looks like </p><p> </p><p><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #444444;">Note this action on fires if the AI detects at least one of the Required AI objects. In this example elephant,bear,zebra,giraffe,person</span></b></p><p>other is the folder here and &ALERT_PATH is the filename of the marked up alert.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/4/2021 </h3><p style="text-align: left;">made aliases for scripts so could tell in actions windows which was which and moved the bat and log files to the flagged folder.</p><p>Added scripts and folders for bear and person.</p><p>Also added &MEMO to all the actions so will be in log.</p><p>C:\_dea\odrive\GD.video\cams\flagged\copyPerson.bat</p><p>person &ALERT_PATH &MEMO</p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/7/2021 10:16</h3><p>Upgrade to 5.4.4.7</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/8/2021 14:39</h3><p>Noticed a typo in copyPublic.bat script made on 5/4 broke all the saving of flagged alerts fail. Fixed it.</p><p>Also changed repost when triggered from every 10 sec to every 60 to try and stop Odrive warnings about long wait times.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/9/2021 13:10</h3><p>Removing "truck,bus,bicycle,motorcycle,car" from DAH616 AND IPcam124 now detection set to</p><p>mouse,bird,cat,dog,horse,sheep,cow,elephant,bear,zebra,giraffe,person:80</p><p>DAH628 changed to mouse,bird,cat,dog,horse,sheep,cow,elephant,bear,zebra,giraffe,person:70</p><p>Replacing dead DAH626 with DAH345 set to </p><p>mouse,bird,cat,dog,horse,sheep,cow,elephant,bear,zebra,giraffe,person @ 60%</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">5/14/2021 System hung ~4:42 AM</h3><p>rebooted and upgraded to 5.4.5.3 (note 5.4.4.8 is now listed as stable)</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">6/3/2021 </h3><p>upgrade to <a id="5.4.7.7">5.4.7.7</a> to get custom models support. (note almost no detected objects after)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5w5hURrrk_d-WMN4UnSq5Tjp9m4m4fWLU_WxtqqwVZ0rHjapmET832ycvyhPPmIDHNLmitOcg7xLdE5NtO2No6TrN44_dnGp_lrM4z0DxOFU0GVPKTQqrXThpWgYEbJOEWH0Pox3fQ/s685/Screenshot+2021-07-11+112007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="685" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5w5hURrrk_d-WMN4UnSq5Tjp9m4m4fWLU_WxtqqwVZ0rHjapmET832ycvyhPPmIDHNLmitOcg7xLdE5NtO2No6TrN44_dnGp_lrM4z0DxOFU0GVPKTQqrXThpWgYEbJOEWH0Pox3fQ/w640-h618/Screenshot+2021-07-11+112007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>,licence-plate,logo</p><p><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #444444;">Note: Turned out you can only have one custom model.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">6/5/2021</h3><p>upgrade 5.4.7.8 to try and sort almost nothing being detected. Helped but still detecting less than before. Seem to be getting fewer triggers causing fewer frames sent to AI.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">6/8/2021</h3><p>Increase extra frames to 30</p><p>upgrade 5.4.7.9 to try and sort almost nothing being detected. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">6/9/2021</h3><p>turned off custom models which helped on cams set to 10 sec end triggers so set all cams to 10 secs.</p><p>It appears the second model is causing the issues. Left just the logo model in the custom folder and things seem to be back to normal.</p><p>Also turning off ignore static objects as that seems to be causing issues.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-wqU5PNR6bcoAMq-dW0juCcGo7RrubuLLBpEz7O6yQqu9U3wShu5D7EnvEZ5ubL9jdq4_Yp0InUwwMYy5kdx5LPuHB6TESSPpdzSKlJ1VVZ2LDGvhx5Dt9iYzVNyTPkUrVci3LxfxA/s1379/Screenshot+2021-07-11+112150.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="1379" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-wqU5PNR6bcoAMq-dW0juCcGo7RrubuLLBpEz7O6yQqu9U3wShu5D7EnvEZ5ubL9jdq4_Yp0InUwwMYy5kdx5LPuHB6TESSPpdzSKlJ1VVZ2LDGvhx5Dt9iYzVNyTPkUrVci3LxfxA/w640-h304/Screenshot+2021-07-11+112150.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">6/15/2021 11:33</h3><p>switch custom model from logos to plates and upgrade to 5.4.7.11</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">6/18/2021</h3><p>update to <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/5-4-8-june-16-2021-a-deepstack-status-page-has-been-added.57050/" id="5.4.8.1">5.4.8.1</a>. Adds DeepStack stats dialog.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAybGx6NnXxOy4sw_qzPSrhykVa8j3tSHSS2qVDKX3cCo8Oj4ox5aS2e-RAMecQLwRgxG6uBy7UDyB-ITTXPp10kJO03XehxOmlrcfZfb7LZM4lJMqLNIorQ2a5EPG4u6YY7a5Zymj8A/s991/Screenshot+2021-06-19+145109.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="991" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAybGx6NnXxOy4sw_qzPSrhykVa8j3tSHSS2qVDKX3cCo8Oj4ox5aS2e-RAMecQLwRgxG6uBy7UDyB-ITTXPp10kJO03XehxOmlrcfZfb7LZM4lJMqLNIorQ2a5EPG4u6YY7a5Zymj8A/w640-h404/Screenshot+2021-06-19+145109.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCC2N71c9sbs5LmWGuCwdmaDo-R2outk0Ihw8kS-DHIzYiInIHjNuqIFgToxSEv4dawgKI-xr-CxUwlfzbWPAFc3KN01b9qdFSrzN1srTkqIJuoqbODYP5MwZ3noRFNPnPpkRpe1dPcA/s1036/Screenshot+2021-06-23+165645.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1590" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hyphenhyphenAQoscLvVLNizpc9k5s1T9sq0kBHJJHU9UnTGgyqqzvmCEy0jiTyY8Y_VZyDo5Yirv5Y5Sbuzxi8OwalqJKZPBcb7f_VQBCYF8h9EOaX_LhskWKmhw1JCrb2zREoUjOesCNJKKNZg/w640-h266/Screenshot+2021-07-11+112335.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">18:09</h3><p>update Iris6 to <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/5-4-9-june-25-2021.57227/page-11" id="5.4.9.2" target="_blank">5.4.9.2</a></p><p>Set up a flag archive script for logo objects</p><p>amazon,audi,bmw,chevrolet,chevrolet_text,fedex,ford,homedepot,homedepot_text,honda,honda_text,hyundai,hyundai_text,infiniti,infiniti_text,kia,lexus,mercedesbenz,mitsubishi,nike,nissan,porsche,renault,subaru,toyota,ups,volvo,walmart</p><p>Cloned cams from Iris4 (BI4) to Iris7 with BI5. <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/01/what-size-pc-do-i-need-for-blue-iris.html" target="_blank">Massive CPU reduction </a>so installed and setup DeepStack 5.3.9.2 Working well.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">7/10/2021</h3><p>update Iris6 and Iris7 to <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/5-4-9-june-25-2021.57227/page-11" id="5.4.9.6" target="_blank">5.4.9.6</a></p><p>Iris6:lmost no alerts much less IDed. Cancelled alerts say DeepStack -1. Tried rebooting and such.</p><p>Iris7: still working as before.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">7/12/2021 17:00</h3><p>update Iris6 to <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/5-4-9-june-25-2021.57227/page-11" id="5.4.9.7" target="_blank">5.4.9.7</a></p><p>Iris6: Still almost nothing getting IDed. Running a clip of me returning from the mailbox registered my face and nothing else. I've unchecked custom models, "default objects and face recog but that did not help. Cancelled alerts say DeepStack -1. Tried rebooting and such.</p><p>Iris7: still working as before.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">20:07 </h3><p>reverted to 5.4.8.2</p><p>Started see alerts almost immediately. Ran the clip through analyse again and is seeing multiple times.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMm1eJAE7n6nMfen5fazpSDoCfjYZ9iAk3BU9juI2CFxCQIs_ylTw3wtcS1vgshqr60B6z-B0EI-si3eIPb0y8cJJV8xLeP8Cua_6uj0uxbhuDOv33rgs9XK2B38OzQmVphCNSqf2rg/s1920/Screenshot+2021-07-13+193050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYMm1eJAE7n6nMfen5fazpSDoCfjYZ9iAk3BU9juI2CFxCQIs_ylTw3wtcS1vgshqr60B6z-B0EI-si3eIPb0y8cJJV8xLeP8Cua_6uj0uxbhuDOv33rgs9XK2B38OzQmVphCNSqf2rg/w640-h360/Screenshot+2021-07-13+193050.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPf5rShvQAhBG-26WY7EtYXyPGVsu71H_LLlUenwXviJPsnzw0D8gfjKoS3q33ZnsnlkdMsVEdniq5iOiozDa1cVydNH0mcokYqKF8njKoD4i0dUmfZkKlRz8BVOGrDdjlqFIqXbO2ww/s1920/Screenshot+2021-07-13+193156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPf5rShvQAhBG-26WY7EtYXyPGVsu71H_LLlUenwXviJPsnzw0D8gfjKoS3q33ZnsnlkdMsVEdniq5iOiozDa1cVydNH0mcokYqKF8njKoD4i0dUmfZkKlRz8BVOGrDdjlqFIqXbO2ww/w640-h360/Screenshot+2021-07-13+193156.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">7/14/2021 11:47</h3>Without changing anything IDs on Iris7 seem to have returned to normal.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFPCVwke2ZQ6b-nLQpdOU6O_jU7Zh5wfYklo_8ewPOljGHKCNM7tpbynEyrp5SR_tzlAmZnR4u1bQqD-o2gUP4Lkeu5qlCwRuYp4nymf-O3QPNuT3YOODMeWuEa07bBQaWg2T0PQ6O5g/s1920/Screenshot+2021-07-14+115108.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFPCVwke2ZQ6b-nLQpdOU6O_jU7Zh5wfYklo_8ewPOljGHKCNM7tpbynEyrp5SR_tzlAmZnR4u1bQqD-o2gUP4Lkeu5qlCwRuYp4nymf-O3QPNuT3YOODMeWuEa07bBQaWg2T0PQ6O5g/w640-h360/Screenshot+2021-07-14+115108.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div>8/1/2021</div><div>Update Iris5 to BI5 so now the 4 outdoor and 1 indoor cam servers are all on BI5.</div><div>Iris6 (south cams) has DeepStack on the same PC. Iris3 (central cams), Iris5 (north cams) and Iris7 (indoor cams) are pointed at docker instance of DeepStack on separate CentOS 7 server.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho7QE_nO10huRL81YI4femcj38MpBteZdUK5nmjLCwf603Zx-UQ5MGzL6Tq0j9zMrOLnjy-Itm4uUay9mHmTrEsFJwkHbj0AgrhcCCJt3bUpvGEgYR61Q1nE5HTKN2dbda7i31GAJngA/s1076/2021-08-02_20-52-44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1076" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho7QE_nO10huRL81YI4femcj38MpBteZdUK5nmjLCwf603Zx-UQ5MGzL6Tq0j9zMrOLnjy-Itm4uUay9mHmTrEsFJwkHbj0AgrhcCCJt3bUpvGEgYR61Q1nE5HTKN2dbda7i31GAJngA/w640-h360/2021-08-02_20-52-44.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Created generic shell script to use with Cygwin to sort flagged alerts into folders by the first thing found.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>##</div><div>## Usage: copySort.sh &ALERT_PATH &MEMO</div><div>## where &ALERT_PATH is like DAH412.20210731_143912.4034343.3.jpg</div><div>## and &MEMO is like person:93%,dog:81</div><div>##</div><div>set -x</div><div>export FLAGGED=/cygdrive/e/odrive/GD.video/cams/flagged</div><div>export ALERTS=/cygdrive/e/BlueIris/Alerts</div><div>echo "$*" >> /cygdrive/c/DeepStack/cpLog.out</div><div><br /></div><div>obj=`echo $2 | cut -f1 -d':'`</div><div>mkdir ${FLAGGED}/${obj}</div><div><br /></div><div>cp ${ALERTS}/$1 ${FLAGGED}/${obj} 2>&1 >> /cygdrive/c/DeepStack/cpLog.out</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Set script trigger to</div></div><div>C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -x C:\DeepStack\copySort.sh &ALERT_PATH &MEMO</div><div>Set objects on the Iris5 cams to mouse,bird,cat,dog,horse,sheep,cow,elephant,bear,zebra,giraffe,person @ 60% and 2 spare frames @ 1 fps. And truck,bus,bicycle,motorcycle,car to the cams looking at the driveway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJ8d7RTblyevRv02drnCbBR9Pp1wjHiMEmrAW-ygIw9gwDubEGLhlBLgL6rMHrOX7Am6ml0gXkjBtWHk7YnZ2t42_gpl6eyp8XvN3ly4Rf0EQt5bytC0-jnHwRo48_rShooWa_MxK1A/s975/Screenshot+2021-08-01+211842.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="975" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJ8d7RTblyevRv02drnCbBR9Pp1wjHiMEmrAW-ygIw9gwDubEGLhlBLgL6rMHrOX7Am6ml0gXkjBtWHk7YnZ2t42_gpl6eyp8XvN3ly4Rf0EQt5bytC0-jnHwRo48_rShooWa_MxK1A/w640-h458/Screenshot+2021-08-01+211842.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZS0yhwhgGlxaOFIKfJSR8s3pJu3V7wGze4oFvtR_Sdo_5Ot6UQkbdRM4vgjeCRLRhuhZoILNzDmVeY1pdK4ZNLNb504BWDqAuPRc7OtPnB_R8a8DykK91GTiRUkXjh-n1KidQIFm4Dg/s974/Screenshot+2021-08-01+212054.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="974" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZS0yhwhgGlxaOFIKfJSR8s3pJu3V7wGze4oFvtR_Sdo_5Ot6UQkbdRM4vgjeCRLRhuhZoILNzDmVeY1pdK4ZNLNb504BWDqAuPRc7OtPnB_R8a8DykK91GTiRUkXjh-n1KidQIFm4Dg/w640-h444/Screenshot+2021-08-01+212054.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Release notes from the help file:</h2><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.9 - June 25, 2021</h3><div>Specify a maximum trigger time [5.4.9.12].</div><div>Playback offsets for new alerts [5.4.9.11] will begin at the motion-leading position rather</div><div>than the beginning of the entire pre-trigger buffer.</div><div>Hold Control as you double-click to open an alert in order to position directly and then</div><div>pause at the AI-confirmed frame [5.4.9.11].</div><div>Specify zones used for DeepStack [5.4.9.9]</div><div>Specify known plates for Plate Recognizer for alert rules; “myplates” and “notmyplates”</div><div>objects may be applied to individual alert actions [5.4.9.9]</div><div>Enhanced synchronization between alert images and alert processing. Alert images are not</div><div>created until timer conditions are met on the Alert tab in camera settings. Processing of “re-</div><div>triggers” is improved following a cancelled alert.</div><div>Improved handing of DeepStack static objects and objects outside of detected motion areas.</div><div>On the DeepStack status page you may now choose to show/hide Blue Iris detected motion</div><div>rectangles, helpful for diagnosing objects which do not overlap these areas. Also you may</div><div>now drag & drop saved alert analysis “.dat” files into this window.</div><div>The “run a program or script” action is now “run a program or write to a file.” This will be</div><div>handy for external logging.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.8 - June 16, 2021</h3><div>RTMPS is now supported for Flash live video streams to Facebook, etc.</div><div>A DeepStack status page has been added. This allows you to inspect DeepStack results and</div><div>performance following an alert confirmation or when using the testing & tuning options in</div><div>the clip viewer.</div><div>You may now specify 2 objects together with “and” logic on the “to confirm” and “to cancel”</div><div>fields for DeepStack alert confirmation by combining them with a +. For example,</div><div>car+licenseplate.</div><div>An option to add motion overlays when re-encoding has been added to the Convert/Export</div><div>clip function.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.7 - May 25, 2021</h3><div>Support for DeepStack custom model files; specify the path on Settings/AI. Use a custom</div><div>folder name, not sharedfiles as this will conflict with DeepStack’s own models. [5.4.7.7]</div><div>select custom models per camera, per profile.</div><div>Support for Plate Recognizer’s Make/Model/Color analysis for cars.</div><div>A new option to only use Plate Recognizer for alerts where either DeepStack or Sentry has</div><div>confirmed a vehicle alert.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.6 - May 17, 2021</h3><div>As requested by several customers, a continuous + triggered recording mode is now offered</div><div>separately from the continuous + alerts mode. This mode ensures that the main stream is</div><div>also recorded for cancelled alerts as well as confirmed alerts.</div><div>Replacing the Analyze image with DeepStack option on the viewer’s right-click menu is a</div><div>Testing & tuning menu with an Analyze with DeepStack option. This option pushes</div><div>BVR video frames through DeepStack as quickly as possible (may not always update in real-</div><div>time unless you pause and step).</div><div>With dual-streaming and direct to disc enabled, main stream frames that are sent through</div><div>DeepStack when the camera is triggered are flagged in the BVR file. As these are played in</div><div>the viewer with the Analyze with DeepStack option enabled, the image border will be</div><div>shown in blue, allowing you to identify precisely which frames were used for the alert</div><div>confirmation. A catch-22 arises however if you are using the continuous + alerts recording</div><div>mode, as these frames are never actually recorded—use continuous or continuous + triggered if</div><div>you want to take advantage of this tuning feature.</div><div>When analyzing multiple frames with DeepStack against both “to confirm” and “to cancel”</div><div>object lists, an effort is made to choose the “best” confirmed image according to higher</div><div>confidences and the presence of (more) faces. By default, the alert will continue with a</div><div>single found “to confirm” object, but you can force continued analysis by placing any object</div><div>label in the “to cancel” box (even one that will never be found).</div><div>The “to confirm” and “to cancel” boxes may now contain labels ending with the * wildcard.</div><div>This is handy if you have multiple faces for a single person—you might use chris* for</div><div>example to match defined faces for chris_1, chris_2, chris_side, etc.</div><div>A new right-click option in the Alerts list allows you to manually cancel and confirm alerts.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.5 - May 10, 2021</h3><div>(5.4.5.3) The pre-trigger image is now used as the first image sent to AI for alert confirmation.</div><div>This is an image captured at first motion rather than at the moment of trigger, so it may be</div><div>earlier in time by as much as the motion sensor’s make time.</div><div>When recording continuously (including the new continuous + alerts mode), physical</div><div>recording is delayed by the duration of the pre-trigger buffer. This allows the opportunity to</div><div>record the main stream frames in the pre-trigger buffer as required. In addition, this means</div><div>that if you manually record or start/stop using the traffic signal icon, the pre-trigger buffer</div><div>will now also be recorded.</div><div>By default, the main stream is decoded when a camera is in full-screen or “solo” in the</div><div>window. A new option on the camera right-click menu allows you to disable this and force</div><div>the continued use of the sub-stream in these cases.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;">5.4.4 - April 27, 2021</h4><div>(5.4.4.3) face recognition must now substantially overlap a “person” object detection. Too</div><div>many false-positive “unknown” faces result otherwise. A new macro &JSON may be used</div><div>for access to raw DeepStack object detection data during an alert.</div><div>When the continuous+alerts record mode is used with a dual-streaming camera along with</div><div>direct-to-disc, the result is a BVR file which will contain the sub-stream continuously</div><div>recorded, but the main-stream only recorded when the camera is in a triggered state.</div><div>During main-stream playback, the sub-stream will be upsampled whenever the main-stream</div><div>is not available.</div><div>The DeepStack detect/ignore static objects option will now force a re-analysis of the image each</div><div>10 minutes when not triggered in order to refresh the static objects collection.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.3 - April 9, 2021</h3><div>(5.4.3.5) Minimum confidence may be overridden by appending a : and the number to any</div><div>label placed in the “to confirm” or “to cancel” boxes on Trigger/AI as well as on each alert</div><div>action by, for example person:80,car:70.</div><div>DeepStack objects recognized only when substantially overlapping areas where Blue Iris is</div><div>also tracking objects in order to reduce the detection of static objects.</div><div>Require AI objects or use them to skip individual alert actions.</div><div>Motion detection updates to produce fewer/larger object rectangles with more effective</div><div>edge-vector tracking.</div><div>DeepStack “mode” setting. Processing time added to object detection log entries.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.2 - April 6, 2021</h3><div>A new action set “immediate actions” has been added to the Trigger tab in camera settings.</div><div>This action set runs before alert AI confirmation.</div><div>You may now specify up to 999 images to be sent through DeepStack for alert confirmation</div><div>(or until the trigger ends).</div><div>By popular demand, you may now delay recording or snapshots until alerted rather than</div><div>starting immediately upon a trigger. This allows the AI time to analyze the trigger before</div><div>recording begins.</div><div>With a new option on Settings/AI you may now select to save unknown faces to a specific</div><div>folder for later review or import.</div><div>At startup and after PTZ movement, DeepStack will now analyze the scene for initial objects</div><div>in order to prevent alerts on static objects.</div><div>The marked-up alert image is now re-saved to the database so that it will appear on the</div><div>alerts list.</div><div>With a right-click option in the Viewer, you may run a snapshot through DeepStack for</div><div>analysis. This will eventually be expanded to include BVR content.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.1 - April 3, 2021</h3><div>Support for DeepStack facial recognition. Maintain the face list from the AI page in</div><div>Settings.</div><div>Alerts may now be cancelled with specific DeepStack labels. It’s now possible to Alert only</div><div>when “unknown” faces appear or only when there is NOT a dog present, etc.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5.4.0 - March 31, 2021</h3><div>Support for DeepStack integration (without the separate AI Tools package) via new Settings</div><div>AI page. DeepStack may be used for object classification to confirm alerts containing</div><div>persons, vehicles, pets, and more.</div><div>Plate Recognizer ALPR configuration has been moved to the new Settings AI page. You will</div><div>need to reconfigure this integration, now done globally.</div><div>Support for legacy SeaIO devices from SeaLevel.</div><div>Test button added and UI updates to the camera Schedule/Events page.</div><div>You may now select to use a specific global schedule on the camera Schedule page.</div><div>“Use defaults” button added to the video encoding configuration pages.</div><div>Updated Apple push notification service which will expire February 28, 2021; use 5.3.9.10</div><div>or newer for uninterrupted push notifications from the iOS app. The new expiration is</div><div><br /></div></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-86227003488786873412021-02-23T12:27:00.004-08:002021-02-23T12:27:55.408-08:00Uncheck preserve time order unless you need the 000 image to always be the latest.<p>Not sure how but somehow I seemed to miss what Post tab, check Post JPEGs, check Maintain a ring of [some number], check preserve time order actually does. The default seems to be checked though I notice it is unchecked on some of my cams which I guess is why I had not noticed that when checked it renames all the posts in the ring so the newest is 000. Similar to log file rings if you are familiar. Now this is great if you want to use the 000 image on a web page or app to show the latest and only keeping a few. Not so great if your ring is a larger number like 10K or you are, as I was just trying to do, generate a time lapse from them. Since the file names keep changing it gets messy real fast. Especially if you are trying to save off some before they cycle off and then add the newer ones. I saw names changing mid copy for instance. Even worse if you are syncing those images to the cloud since it is not only having to process uploads but name changes. Assuming you upload app even recognizes name changes of course and is not reuploading each file multiple times. Not sure what CPU load this having but considering I have some rings set to 10K on servers that are about max safe CPU it is probably not insignificant. </p><p>So make sure "preserve time order" is unchecked unless you really need that image order.</p><p>While here you might want to think about "Also post No Signal images". Again checking this might make sense for a local display of the latest image but in most cases it is a waste of resources.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQU6s3KANKKYxg_rMyiLfkOZLsxS0NyMxC5l43sbombONrzMf7FPYZwDfXBzINo_DEktx2TmFaBv2g_zpvyyi-hs_5a-toC8ZQEGHHB5uKLVucqidWKXlZHSAgTi__zSPP5DTBCBH9nQ/s621/Screenshot+2021-02-23+140818.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="621" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQU6s3KANKKYxg_rMyiLfkOZLsxS0NyMxC5l43sbombONrzMf7FPYZwDfXBzINo_DEktx2TmFaBv2g_zpvyyi-hs_5a-toC8ZQEGHHB5uKLVucqidWKXlZHSAgTi__zSPP5DTBCBH9nQ/w640-h610/Screenshot+2021-02-23+140818.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>For more on optimizing your Blue Iris server performance check out <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/wiki/optimizing-blue-iris-s-cpu-usage/" target="_blank">Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage</a><p></p>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-72911102060263057482020-10-11T19:31:00.000-07:002020-10-11T19:31:03.647-07:00View Blue Iris on Roku<p> </p><p>Stumbled on <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/able-to-view-all-live-cameras-groups-on-roku.19539/" target="_blank">this article about viewing your Blue Iris web console view from a Roku</a>.</p><p>Basically what you need is the <a href="https://channelstore.roku.com/details/b0d7e5a97716f695a3c4af1abe3c33b1/ip-camera-viewer-basic" target="_blank">IP Camera Viewer - Basic app</a>. <b style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;">Note upgrade to the <a href="https://channelstore.roku.com/details/4d75a841b5ca64054d0d577cd68aa043/ip-camera-viewer-pro" target="_blank">Pro version</a> to get more than 1 view and a split screen view.</span></b></p><p>In Blue Iris, go to global settings-> webserver-> 'advanced'. In the first box, enter the IP address(es) of the devices which should have unchallenged access to the BI server as admin. Place a carrot symbol (^) in front of each IP address:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_9cE5AeAue1CMV0lO0yyUypwEJGE-HBB3QHsXzi6LOsttd-J8XuV9ffU1mZ2KClpPLd9cgFrt3k1_CRGdA6N2TAhwQx6FIPqgUJdIbjaCBq3JkaZ0Z2AxQatr5VYv64SMvhLSKSQvw/s705/Screenshot+2020-10-11+130718.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="705" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_9cE5AeAue1CMV0lO0yyUypwEJGE-HBB3QHsXzi6LOsttd-J8XuV9ffU1mZ2KClpPLd9cgFrt3k1_CRGdA6N2TAhwQx6FIPqgUJdIbjaCBq3JkaZ0Z2AxQatr5VYv64SMvhLSKSQvw/w640-h588/Screenshot+2020-10-11+130718.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>While I was in there I also upped the quality a bit since the default is 50% @ 720p. Still does not look quite as good as on the console but good probably good enough especially if you use limited views. (See below.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaawcrLVSVCI0JoR4JiilX-He_BB7pzkDlUHXvQliIwr8yqHTHbZOIdHDtl7KkFPx3wsBMDHVQ3B9a88KCyoEy06hL6CH2zUCdI01VqpipfuBkOiUXwTqj1vOpJco1NP23_JCa2STSw/s729/Screenshot+2020-10-11+130559.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="729" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaawcrLVSVCI0JoR4JiilX-He_BB7pzkDlUHXvQliIwr8yqHTHbZOIdHDtl7KkFPx3wsBMDHVQ3B9a88KCyoEy06hL6CH2zUCdI01VqpipfuBkOiUXwTqj1vOpJco1NP23_JCa2STSw/w640-h580/Screenshot+2020-10-11+130559.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>If you invested in the in the Pro version (as I did after about 5 minutes) you can set up the "cams" (actually Blue Iris group views) from a web browser which is a lot easier than an on screen keyboard.</p><p><b style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;">Note Easy Web Admin only works while selected on the Roku</span></b></p><p>From the browser to looks like this</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGImKEyYgzAgZM7Mi9CswkuimMcNzpij23kHuzkoqvowwWoWNneIcoViLjOmWmwbOsZsqC5mMk0Xdx3s_eAT0vlIK5rJqbAVGQUO-_eBjSZj1BLkMcPFmTtE0mpS-dzUSQIomO6vPeQ/s1011/2020-10-11_13-10-35.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="1011" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGImKEyYgzAgZM7Mi9CswkuimMcNzpij23kHuzkoqvowwWoWNneIcoViLjOmWmwbOsZsqC5mMk0Xdx3s_eAT0vlIK5rJqbAVGQUO-_eBjSZj1BLkMcPFmTtE0mpS-dzUSQIomO6vPeQ/w640-h452/2020-10-11_13-10-35.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Click on add new cam. Give it a name, the IP of your server, the port (probably 80 for most people) and the Stream URL which is /mjpg/[group name]. Not if you want to see all cams create a group like I have here called _all and add all your cams to that group.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOWB89BT6-Ktow7WhxrLr4hmCtWiQHiIXaMurxIy6puXJXqlvheOY2n4w72DzB0ujiMZ8n8MGa-tbRLSMYDtQ-g-IdD6ueERMu0UYT-eOci4Qgr1nt0usIuOC3ueH_WOZs3zhrWZsZQ/s1024/2020-10-11_13-08-59.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="1024" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOWB89BT6-Ktow7WhxrLr4hmCtWiQHiIXaMurxIy6puXJXqlvheOY2n4w72DzB0ujiMZ8n8MGa-tbRLSMYDtQ-g-IdD6ueERMu0UYT-eOci4Qgr1nt0usIuOC3ueH_WOZs3zhrWZsZQ/w640-h396/2020-10-11_13-08-59.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>If for some reason you get a time out message go out and back into the Easy Web Admin in the Roku and reload the page in the browser and it will resubmit after clicking OK.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8gqmu5GkBW40lePFYe2KvOpAK9evM-l74IHpy6FBcQGxKTcnraIyC4rb3YuxB6GMhQa834zywHy8Zc3hnAvcsoW69lK7eNve-jfuXBKlosuB1yGsWt7IeKsQBj0XmHonI8AGPziRz5w/s1920/2020-10-11_13-22-48.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1920" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8gqmu5GkBW40lePFYe2KvOpAK9evM-l74IHpy6FBcQGxKTcnraIyC4rb3YuxB6GMhQa834zywHy8Zc3hnAvcsoW69lK7eNve-jfuXBKlosuB1yGsWt7IeKsQBj0XmHonI8AGPziRz5w/w640-h350/2020-10-11_13-22-48.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Sadly the only way to edit a cam and to change settings like split screen view is in the Roku app.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9IfEcZ4w9SDLaRFYGfbZfzZnVu1eOkOWg-rqHtTTCR9K3B5PqFqvu2KUW5H0iiu3HlBMMhL_a4qGuKne8KfUW3xsFgm4dilCr98qqueoHhnHgyqhiY_vw3lD7D7h7r_ecTEFciqa6lA/s4624/20201011_205200_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9IfEcZ4w9SDLaRFYGfbZfzZnVu1eOkOWg-rqHtTTCR9K3B5PqFqvu2KUW5H0iiu3HlBMMhL_a4qGuKne8KfUW3xsFgm4dilCr98qqueoHhnHgyqhiY_vw3lD7D7h7r_ecTEFciqa6lA/w640-h480/20201011_205200_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camera settings screen<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGETNo_ba8bfB0teQnLRpTdBR76kzlcYGfDNk1Cm460Cn6drDouixuVpeBPyZjghOQzU-cQjpbEJhtw4vE52C2KL6Kb12RUB1pLUeIhmg5QVHTaBH8TSgv8tHZNpPUDeda3dIUdFVdAw/s4624/20201011_204532_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGETNo_ba8bfB0teQnLRpTdBR76kzlcYGfDNk1Cm460Cn6drDouixuVpeBPyZjghOQzU-cQjpbEJhtw4vE52C2KL6Kb12RUB1pLUeIhmg5QVHTaBH8TSgv8tHZNpPUDeda3dIUdFVdAw/w640-h480/20201011_204532_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">General setting screen which includes the split screen config<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvQdmGyquMboL8qGCj0EUc2UmTOJsJwkeQMLEVhJ2Pu7aD5d_n3ufU6qOhpHvRmEcuzRU2XZ6GmEr9zQ_-6bMaAFS6nhsQABY-y3mpC5fbPlrsIqdaooRLgJmMAYIcxSSYCsYFInIqQ/s4624/20201011_204727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvQdmGyquMboL8qGCj0EUc2UmTOJsJwkeQMLEVhJ2Pu7aD5d_n3ufU6qOhpHvRmEcuzRU2XZ6GmEr9zQ_-6bMaAFS6nhsQABY-y3mpC5fbPlrsIqdaooRLgJmMAYIcxSSYCsYFInIqQ/w640-h480/20201011_204727.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Settings page 2</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvQdmGyquMboL8qGCj0EUc2UmTOJsJwkeQMLEVhJ2Pu7aD5d_n3ufU6qOhpHvRmEcuzRU2XZ6GmEr9zQ_-6bMaAFS6nhsQABY-y3mpC5fbPlrsIqdaooRLgJmMAYIcxSSYCsYFInIqQ/s4624/20201011_204727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Since I have 4 consoles the split screen works perfect for me. That is what it looks like with all my active cams but not the weather graphics and cloned cams.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPz21hDKHr6IAbc5ZAiBatSFDTdOOchE3YwwyR2kNNPmhgWcfI4ogTsejh95BkX5fMKWzhv-BvoEt3m2F8qA6MrTjbpOJ5V5l0A14KihwyZa0BUwjYuFtQlu5GngJX1x2aZhyphenhyphenGD3c3lw/s4624/20201011_205348_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPz21hDKHr6IAbc5ZAiBatSFDTdOOchE3YwwyR2kNNPmhgWcfI4ogTsejh95BkX5fMKWzhv-BvoEt3m2F8qA6MrTjbpOJ5V5l0A14KihwyZa0BUwjYuFtQlu5GngJX1x2aZhyphenhyphenGD3c3lw/w640-h480/20201011_205348_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Though for general use I'll be setting the split screen to just show the yard cams and the house interior cams.</div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-43272896782438661262020-09-17T12:57:00.003-07:002020-09-18T07:15:24.792-07:00Syncing time<h2 style="text-align: left;">The issue</h2><p>One of the things suggested to save CPU on Blue Iris is to turn on the in camera overlay instead of having Blue Iris add it while viewing. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Note this works most of the time but some instances in camera overlays mess with tools like LPR.</span></b></span> But many of the clocks seemed to refuse to keep time. At first I thought it was the local ntp servers having problems and <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/ntpChk" target="_blank">wrote a quick tool</a> to test all my ntp server options. The real issue is I'm finding different models of cameras work with only some ntp servers. In a perfect world this would not be an issue but in the real world they are often off a bit from each other and for syncing of video you want them a close as possible. And it also means you need to know which cam works with which and set them to ones as close in time as possible. Plus I want to avoid uploading packets where possible given my network connection is 900 down with only 40 up and I'm backing up to the cloud contentiously. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Main options I have to work with are:</h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://gist.github.com/mutin-sa/eea1c396b1e610a2da1e5550d94b0453" target="_blank">internet time servers</a> (time.windows.com for instance)</li><li>ntpd on <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> router box <b>192.168.0.1 </b>using 0.opnsense.pool.ntp.org as source</li><li><a href="http://techtips.tv/windows/configure-ntp-server-on-windows-10-client-or-windows-server-2019/" target="_blank">Windows time server</a> on a Blue Iris server <b>10.10.3.48 </b>using 192.168.0.1 as source</li><li><a href="https://www.timesynctool.com/" target="_blank">NetTime</a> on a Blue Iris server <b>10.10.3.46 </b>using 192.168.0.1 as source</li><li>ntp service running on IoT <a href="https://unifi-network.ui.com/" target="_blank">Unifi</a> network gateway <b>10.10.0.1 </b>using 192.168.0.1 as source</li></ul><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Note just setting the time server you want to use on a Windows 10 PC gets complicated. Microsoft <i>really </i>wants you to use time.windows.com. <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/how-manage-time-servers-windows-10" target="_blank">Detailed instructions to change the server can be found here.</a></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEIjKUf2Ve3vf2OML6Lu6J_9N-Z5JlnkyaKghbMWD7SD2tFU31t6RMzcMR-RBSveCqpjatWJ7_8QRcH-yUwo_S6tw_p3dt2aM9h6JrSUI9wGDtc5RUmZiYcJ_RubTtYf7zw5-p6-y9pQ/s1066/2020-09-17_12-19-26.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="1066" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEIjKUf2Ve3vf2OML6Lu6J_9N-Z5JlnkyaKghbMWD7SD2tFU31t6RMzcMR-RBSveCqpjatWJ7_8QRcH-yUwo_S6tw_p3dt2aM9h6JrSUI9wGDtc5RUmZiYcJ_RubTtYf7zw5-p6-y9pQ/w640-h548/2020-09-17_12-19-26.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">What worked with what</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Hikvision" target="_blank">Hikvision</a></h3><p><b>System->System Settings->Time Settings</b> (<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/ColorVu" target="_blank">ColorVu</a>)</p><p><b>Basic Configuration->System->Time Settings</b> (older cams)</p><p>Would not even ping most of these. In the end the only one it would connect to was the <a href="http://techtips.tv/windows/configure-ntp-server-on-windows-10-client-or-windows-server-2019/" target="_blank">Windows time server</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLyuY6XeC6C7J_hfH8NdxQvz78PoY6rXuwS7jNv66tZFM0mAf83jexXqrGOV3A9TQNB8lZnYLw59YRd46Z_Y2SUzn-S1terFFlazPga9ilXIsiKnsM6vQVHxcEMEy46cnsPJfJr-13JA/s871/Screenshot+2020-09-17+150142.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ColorVu screen shot" border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="871" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLyuY6XeC6C7J_hfH8NdxQvz78PoY6rXuwS7jNv66tZFM0mAf83jexXqrGOV3A9TQNB8lZnYLw59YRd46Z_Y2SUzn-S1terFFlazPga9ilXIsiKnsM6vQVHxcEMEy46cnsPJfJr-13JA/w640-h404/Screenshot+2020-09-17+150142.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLhZf9TDlaPFCrPcN5FtuIIQtngAXRh7_nvBLN_Wov9Pe8zm9D1nHU-xIFe4nc4TUhJldtZWm5ar9mFAoQ3_NbJZTV9tXGJ9Pnt5qi4G_34MKT9TdN3pdGjuPJRVOtLEIX5LrIDaMPRg/s990/Screenshot+2020-09-17+153105.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="990" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLhZf9TDlaPFCrPcN5FtuIIQtngAXRh7_nvBLN_Wov9Pe8zm9D1nHU-xIFe4nc4TUhJldtZWm5ar9mFAoQ3_NbJZTV9tXGJ9Pnt5qi4G_34MKT9TdN3pdGjuPJRVOtLEIX5LrIDaMPRg/w640-h350/Screenshot+2020-09-17+153105.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Reolink" target="_blank">Reolink</a></h3><p><b>Network->Advanced->NTP</b></p><p>Only seems to like the <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> box. Takes 3 screens to set all the time options.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilrWj-6vRAWF7xSotyTocBogJHl8aTC2J3pJh8nuJBa8wk5jHWYPYyjCneaSdR7YYtS9jqp4sT3BVUeN-5td7tTxbv1BfsTkWGaz4YiVqGcXxWH6Ci9h6uYlEbPyb0ubolWabftpoxWA/s993/Screenshot+2020-09-17+151120.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="993" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilrWj-6vRAWF7xSotyTocBogJHl8aTC2J3pJh8nuJBa8wk5jHWYPYyjCneaSdR7YYtS9jqp4sT3BVUeN-5td7tTxbv1BfsTkWGaz4YiVqGcXxWH6Ci9h6uYlEbPyb0ubolWabftpoxWA/w640-h384/Screenshot+2020-09-17+151120.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-p1MiU84LESYlFg3cpGcbcaWFZ0y9I2Nwoy3Xge3v2Uc8lBGSlOBfzWVSl_dyoN5mh0kZ8k9PpatmNYVCZjg2PPkqkdK5mZFfXk1JmreJ6GE85EEk3bp0UEH5kdhyphenhyphenBQImqoZZl5Gokw/s1046/Screenshot+2020-09-17+154712.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1046" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-p1MiU84LESYlFg3cpGcbcaWFZ0y9I2Nwoy3Xge3v2Uc8lBGSlOBfzWVSl_dyoN5mh0kZ8k9PpatmNYVCZjg2PPkqkdK5mZFfXk1JmreJ6GE85EEk3bp0UEH5kdhyphenhyphenBQImqoZZl5Gokw/w640-h420/Screenshot+2020-09-17+154712.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoU50kSJXcHqUyJGsmuqNDlouT1oi93ZpDjJuNvBJcLvtXcVfsR1ae6ZRkVCTPDMvR2logBDZq1F_41j79sKAMiTJJAZYakTpyEDQAuZ7ilGWNJ0FjD4FQbfuff5tvB3ZAtiBi_94eWQ/s1022/Screenshot+2020-09-17+154744.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="1022" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoU50kSJXcHqUyJGsmuqNDlouT1oi93ZpDjJuNvBJcLvtXcVfsR1ae6ZRkVCTPDMvR2logBDZq1F_41j79sKAMiTJJAZYakTpyEDQAuZ7ilGWNJ0FjD4FQbfuff5tvB3ZAtiBi_94eWQ/w640-h486/Screenshot+2020-09-17+154744.png" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Amcrest" target="_blank">Amcrest</a></h3><p><b>System->General->Date & Time</b></p><p>Hard to say since there is no test button. You just set it and hope. I'll set them to diff servers and see what keeps time. Though it looks like it might do a sync on save so you can see if something works if the time was off. After a day it appears <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> did not seem to work as the time was WAY off.</p><p>Used <a href="http://techtips.tv/windows/configure-ntp-server-on-windows-10-client-or-windows-server-2019/" target="_blank">Windows time server</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN78HoaDDqO8QxA5tGpTbhdDwhMzPmQB_xU7142RzBLI22tHaRflVwVWFHKtl32lQYmWqltb92kgRXxF4Ih0gq488E0tCo5A_mJSc5z5yL8JhbT3r8boda4L-v-t7WGEpFohZNcUjvQQ/s769/Screenshot+2020-09-17+120502.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="769" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN78HoaDDqO8QxA5tGpTbhdDwhMzPmQB_xU7142RzBLI22tHaRflVwVWFHKtl32lQYmWqltb92kgRXxF4Ih0gq488E0tCo5A_mJSc5z5yL8JhbT3r8boda4L-v-t7WGEpFohZNcUjvQQ/w640-h436/Screenshot+2020-09-17+120502.png" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a></h3><p><b>System->General->Date & Time</b></p><p>Like Amcrest (<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/09/fact-check-amcrest-cameras-are-dahua.html" target="_blank">some claim the Dahua makes many of Amcrest cams and the software is very similar</a>) it is hard to say since there is no test button. You just set it and hope. I'll set them to diff servers and see what keeps time. Though it looks like it might do a sync on save so you can see if something works if the time was off. After a day it appears <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> did not seem to work as the time was WAY off.</p><p>Used <a href="http://techtips.tv/windows/configure-ntp-server-on-windows-10-client-or-windows-server-2019/" target="_blank">Windows time server</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2igGciF-ytCxz2K2rV-JDu6O92ruGfQZStNSTqJrh5K5av57Wdk6eZZo3oZI1NEbn23GPTWcQXe3jhiopz3G0fLEdrowrHB4yxpl4iluMRZyiMdWLsZG4AjqHFYCvzYMeLwRzFsmLA/s794/Screenshot+2020-09-17+120733.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="794" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2igGciF-ytCxz2K2rV-JDu6O92ruGfQZStNSTqJrh5K5av57Wdk6eZZo3oZI1NEbn23GPTWcQXe3jhiopz3G0fLEdrowrHB4yxpl4iluMRZyiMdWLsZG4AjqHFYCvzYMeLwRzFsmLA/w640-h450/Screenshot+2020-09-17+120733.png" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/JideTech" target="_blank">JideTech</a></h3><p><b>System->Time</b></p><p>Not sure if this is working or not. Comes set to time.windows.com which seemed to be working. When I set it to a local one it changed the date to 2036 and stayed there till I "Synced with PC time". Then tried to dup and could not. Set to <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> box. After a few days the time seems to be hold so think is OK. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Note there is no option to set DST start and stop. </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKzVMz9U_SdshQPR884JyE_W3cEf5tzZMBjSIbx3u3UD0_B9318f1OappYkQQUJebsDSWevuOkNpomUDIy4Y9DzZPHQbAKCXu-h3tvwi5x8VfRrO7HcmVOmumA_PXwPiCi1aLNSOaNQ/s833/Screenshot+2020-09-17+115238.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="833" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKzVMz9U_SdshQPR884JyE_W3cEf5tzZMBjSIbx3u3UD0_B9318f1OappYkQQUJebsDSWevuOkNpomUDIy4Y9DzZPHQbAKCXu-h3tvwi5x8VfRrO7HcmVOmumA_PXwPiCi1aLNSOaNQ/w640-h422/Screenshot+2020-09-17+115238.png" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Foscam" target="_blank">Foscam</a></h3><div>Basic Settings->Camera Time</div><div><a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> seems to work OK. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Note this old enough there is no option to set DST start and stop.</b></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL2XLZ0D08ID0hV3Dwjm7wAxLvww2Aum-GLKH4lV60fI4CknMtz-fvBy4kWTXcGKSuYgWJ5lgjc-a7ZIknTz7OQ-BdkI5RA9nrQF6O3hnf0MuFIiMBA2Vn156qa3g7yeCm0uAtIAd7Gg/s1114/Screenshot+2020-09-17+154114.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="1114" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL2XLZ0D08ID0hV3Dwjm7wAxLvww2Aum-GLKH4lV60fI4CknMtz-fvBy4kWTXcGKSuYgWJ5lgjc-a7ZIknTz7OQ-BdkI5RA9nrQF6O3hnf0MuFIiMBA2Vn156qa3g7yeCm0uAtIAd7Gg/w640-h330/Screenshot+2020-09-17+154114.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Escam" target="_blank">Escam</a></h3><div>Again <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OPNsense</a> seems to work OK. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOvFSAIE0EyuLvjyzDDQ4ME86TwzSy99zzl3mOptJWNBmm3mhipKsh2kCLQErDIVTEludHgXJwpCZw4d8OUyCK8Tq1mxe8rj7lLAIxy-Yng6Dsfiu6fjOWho_q5S1em6Pw8xwuk-S4g/s542/Screenshot+2020-09-17+160146.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="542" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOvFSAIE0EyuLvjyzDDQ4ME86TwzSy99zzl3mOptJWNBmm3mhipKsh2kCLQErDIVTEludHgXJwpCZw4d8OUyCK8Tq1mxe8rj7lLAIxy-Yng6Dsfiu6fjOWho_q5S1em6Pw8xwuk-S4g/w640-h624/Screenshot+2020-09-17+160146.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBJIDcvi78fRUWxS6DSSt6IkqU1jtA6otwnZQEmx9dXtANbPzeLFMwpUJWIlUuKjm1AXBtPeEIs1QjToS15RpqZSevDjqPTrF8gfSWSOX0iAyacD2Nb0nF65FxE9je0j_mKmusNBhNw/s550/Screenshot+2020-09-17+160847.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="550" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBJIDcvi78fRUWxS6DSSt6IkqU1jtA6otwnZQEmx9dXtANbPzeLFMwpUJWIlUuKjm1AXBtPeEIs1QjToS15RpqZSevDjqPTrF8gfSWSOX0iAyacD2Nb0nF65FxE9je0j_mKmusNBhNw/w640-h620/Screenshot+2020-09-17+160847.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-40798550859606257572020-09-15T16:54:00.001-07:002020-09-17T12:56:47.416-07:00Quick outdoor audio compare<h2 style="text-align: left;">Overview</h2><p>Been seeing posts wanting cams with audio lately. My <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQt4NWvc9ot5D4o72GJV7fyY5dG2V6QI" target="_blank">Ring compares playlist</a> has some examples of the diff between a ColorVu and a Ring doorbell that contain audio but when outside doing a bit of weeding around the bird feeder and hearing coyotes playing near by I thought I'd grab the footage form 3 near by cameras to show the diff between them.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">The 3 cameras are:</h2><p><span data-sheets-formula="=HYPERLINK("https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WFFF5LG","IPC-HDW4631C-A")" data-sheets-hyperlink="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WFFF5LG" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":1049597,"3":{"1":0},"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"9":0,"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"23":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IPC-HDW4631C-A"}" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;"><a class="in-cell-link" href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WFFF5LG" target="_blank">Dahua IPC-HDW4631C-A</a> </span><span data-sheets-formula="=HYPERLINK("https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WFFF5LG","IPC-HDW4631C-A")" data-sheets-hyperlink="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WFFF5LG" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":1049597,"3":{"1":0},"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"9":0,"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"23":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IPC-HDW4631C-A"}" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">mounted under the window AC unit</span></p><p><span data-sheets-formula="=HYPERLINK("https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNFSWCS","RLC-511-5MP")" data-sheets-hyperlink="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNFSWCS" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":1317823,"3":{"1":0},"4":[null,2,16777215],"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"11":0,"12":0,"14":[null,2,1136076],"15":"arial, sans-serif","21":1,"23":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RLC-511-5MP"}" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;"><a class="in-cell-link" href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNFSWCS" target="_blank">Reolink RLC-511-5MP</a> </span><span data-sheets-formula="=HYPERLINK("https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNFSWCS","RLC-511-5MP")" data-sheets-hyperlink="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GNFSWCS" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":1317823,"3":{"1":0},"4":[null,2,16777215],"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"11":0,"12":0,"14":[null,2,1136076],"15":"arial, sans-serif","21":1,"23":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RLC-511-5MP"}" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">mounted on side window frame</span></p><p><span data-sheets-formula="=HYPERLINK("https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WLWJ/","DS-2CD2347G1-LU")" data-sheets-hyperlink="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WLWJ/" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":1049597,"3":{"1":0},"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"9":0,"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"23":1}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"DS-2CD2347G1-LU"}" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;"><a class="in-cell-link" href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WLWJ/" target="_blank">Hikvision (ColorVu) DS-2CD2347G1-LU</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;">(far one) mounted on the soffit at the corner of the roof</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRFVyStw00T3SRf-a5u_r3fMJAaN4YceLeJ6j-VFltyCinC9zEzWCLhy1fk2a32KWju-QPtc9E_tC3EwcatRkeqUfHEMsYovjSpJF5tyBpPGQGt0rQwpTymlEdR8j7a1nRxlb4wEnrw/s4160/20200915_145110_Burst01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Placement of cameras" border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRFVyStw00T3SRf-a5u_r3fMJAaN4YceLeJ6j-VFltyCinC9zEzWCLhy1fk2a32KWju-QPtc9E_tC3EwcatRkeqUfHEMsYovjSpJF5tyBpPGQGt0rQwpTymlEdR8j7a1nRxlb4wEnrw/w480-h640/20200915_145110_Burst01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">The links to the videos are:</h3><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cvLHPQhaK0" target="_blank">Dahua video</a></li><li>The Reolink video</li><li>The Hikvision/ColorVu video</li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">If you watch the lower timestamp you should hear:</h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Various bird calls and till 11:28:40</li><li>@11:28:40 you should hear my footsteps and the hedge trimmer starting up.</li><li>@11:29:37 you should hear me walking through the dried "weeds" crunching them and a jet passing overhead. Then me tossing the branches into a pile off screen.</li><li>@11:29:58 I start using the hedge trimmer again.</li><li>@11:30:07 I stop and you can hear what sounds like coyotes yapping a few hundred yards away.</li><li> @11:30:23 you should hear me say "listen to that" (meaning the coyotes) in a normal speaking voice.</li></ul><p></p><p>It is totally calm so there is no wind noise to deal with. I should probably do another sample with speaking when there is wind and when the house main AC unit (around the far side of the house) is running. I'm amazed how loud that AC unit sounds on footage compared to when I'm in the yard.</p><p><br /></p>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-34258062974543306402020-09-12T20:07:00.002-07:002020-09-12T20:08:17.269-07:00Fact check: Amcrest cameras are Dahua rebrands.<p> I hear people say this a lot but when you try and ping them down they never seem to be able to tell you which model is which. There are post like <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/how-to-upgrade-amcrest-lorex-to-dahua-firmware-and-get-all-dahua-features.44864/" target="_blank">this one where people claim they have up Dahua firmware on some models of Amcrest cameras</a> which they think implies <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a> made them but they do not know which model. Usually I just don't have the time to look into it with so little to go in. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/homedefense/comments/fcvgd8/is_this_amcrest_camera_a_rebranded_dahua/" target="_blank">This one claims to have upgraded an Amcrest model I have</a>, the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IP8M-2496" target="_blank">Amcrest IP8M-2496EB</a>, so I thought I'd take a it to see if I could actually find a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a> model of that cam and if the Amcrest was any cheap or if there was any other reason to buy the Amcrest of just getting the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a> (if there was on). The firmware mentioned, <a href="https://dahuawiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=20&offset=20&profile=default&search=DH_IPC-HX5X3X-Rhea_MultiLang_NP_Stream&searchToken=ctcwsop7hlk8y8vmycbn2p2r4" target="_blank">DH_IPC-HX5X3X-Rhea_MultiLang_NP_Stream3_V2.800.0000014.0.R.191203.zip, is used by a few models</a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://dahuawiki.com/Cameras" target="_blank">Dahua wiki </a>shows 3 8MP bullet models including the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2" target="_blank">IPC-HFW2831T</a> which is one of my current favs. Nothing that looks close to the Amcrest. But I'm not finding my <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA" target="_blank">Dahua 6MP model</a> there either so not definitive.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBv6Tz09z_6XEyx3Tf6dyfLsIK4OjQ4RtBfwdr-R5FtIlfjjri5Sl4pW29kv4LRwZoVMFpFiagSTOVh8goLB5MDfkIlB_K1cbXLY0bWbn2jXHzKQ-iQwyvEnGvhxnf_2Go2gnr5CsgbA/s1028/2020-09-12_19-52-05.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="1028" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBv6Tz09z_6XEyx3Tf6dyfLsIK4OjQ4RtBfwdr-R5FtIlfjjri5Sl4pW29kv4LRwZoVMFpFiagSTOVh8goLB5MDfkIlB_K1cbXLY0bWbn2jXHzKQ-iQwyvEnGvhxnf_2Go2gnr5CsgbA/w781-h430/2020-09-12_19-52-05.png" width="781" /></a></div><br /><p>A look at the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua" target="_blank">Dahua</a> product selector seems a bit more promising as it has my <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA" target="_blank">4631</a> listed but still nothing that looks like the Amcrest. However the <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Cameras/Pro-Series/8-MP/IPC-HFW4831E-SE?us" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4831E-SE</a> is close and the specs match. The actual case is just a bit different.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fNup3-xHh0DbDpN5_jy7r-ZMLl8HGf8Z9NLRdOa95zefIF0nYp2CehLy2a3IKE8mLlJhPc_jkcHS_o8IwXw8xW948gB_kjp8oWzEr-1d6kJmyHC5AHZf9KBRAG8hP2ScY6XDz7hGEA/s1920/2020-09-12_20-06-20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fNup3-xHh0DbDpN5_jy7r-ZMLl8HGf8Z9NLRdOa95zefIF0nYp2CehLy2a3IKE8mLlJhPc_jkcHS_o8IwXw8xW948gB_kjp8oWzEr-1d6kJmyHC5AHZf9KBRAG8hP2ScY6XDz7hGEA/w781-h380/2020-09-12_20-06-20.png" width="781" /></a></div><br /><p>A quick google search shows the <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Cameras/Pro-Series/8-MP/IPC-HFW4831E-SE?us" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4831E-SE</a> can be had for as little as $150 The <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IP8M-2496" target="_blank">Amcrest IP8M-2496EB</a> can be had for as little $95. So I guess the main factor is price. But as my tests have shown you are generally better off with the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA" target="_blank">6MP Dahua IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA</a> for as little as $110 and get a serious zoom and audio too for that extra $15. There does not appear to be an Amcrest equiv of the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA" target="_blank">6MP Dahua IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA</a>.</p><p>If you want to compare the camera software features between the 2 8MP cameras you can get the <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/download/DH-IPC-HFW4831E-SE_Operation_Manual__201706261.pdf" target="_blank">Dahua manual here</a> and the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L4FGi53l8zGQxQuIsBXf3WUOrxf192ze/view" target="_blank">Amcrest IP8M-2496EB manual here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>So lets try another. The <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IP4M-1026" target="_blank">Amcrest IP4M-1026 </a> which has similar low light performance to the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HDW4631C-A" target="_blank">Dahua 6MP IPC-HDW4631C-A</a> Note you get 20% more rez plus audio for just $10 more than the Amcrest. The Amcrest it pretty distinctive with its angled shade and case. None of the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HDW4631C-A" target="_blank">Dahuas </a>look anything like it. Same goes for the "eyeball" version <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=IP4M-1055E" target="_blank">IP4M-1055E</a>. The closest <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HDW4631C-A" target="_blank">Dahua </a>match appears to be the <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Cameras/Lite-Series/Full-color/IPC-HDW2439T-AS-LED-S2" target="_blank">IPC-HDW2439T-AS-LED-S2</a> which appears to be cheaper than the Amcrest.</p><p>So we are 1 for 3 which means some of them my indeed be made by the same people that make some of the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HDW4631C-A" target="_blank">Dahua </a>cams. If <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HDW4631C-A" target="_blank">Dahua </a>makes all of its models is still a bit unclear. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/banned-chinese-security-cameras-are-almost-impossible-to-remove" target="_blank">The Chinese supply chain seems to cross a lot.</a> But I don't think it matters all that much. Once you sort the specs you want for a cam you can see what models of what brands match up and then see if any one has loaded a more feature rich firmware on it or even give it a try yourself. It seems that in many cases the loader with not load something that will brick the cam though in some cases you might lose a feature you liked and not be able to go back.</p><p>You might also want to look at this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahua_Technology" target="_blank">Wikipedia entry which outlines known Dahua security issues</a>.</p><p><br /></p>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-51583716021910898812020-08-29T14:35:00.012-07:002020-11-15T19:30:03.988-08:00Dahua IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2 vs IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA<h2 style="text-align: left;">Mention in here:</h2><p><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BRG3JST/" target="_blank">8MP PoE Security IP Camera - OEM IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2 2.7~13.5mm Vari-Focal Lens 5X Optical Zoom, Ultra 4K Bullet Outdoor Starlight Camera with 196.85ft Night Vision,SD Card Slot,H.265,IP67</a> <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/soft/20181225/DH-IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS_Datasheet_20181224.pdf" target="_blank">Specs sheet</a></p><p><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082W9LJV9" target="_blank">6MP Outdoor POE Bullet IP Camera IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA, 2.7-13.5mm Motorized Varifocal Lens, 5X Optical Zoom Security Camera with Built-in Mic, IR 197ft Night Vision, Smart H.265 WDR, SD Card Slot, IP67</a></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Overview</h2><p>First note, oddly they seem to use diff and conflicting plugins so you can only view the stream from one or the other in IE at the same time.</p><p>Second I had a 256 GB SD card from my old LG V30 phone that I had previously used in the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/08/serenelife-ipcamod47-hard-pass.html" target="_blank">SereneLife IPCAMOD47 failure</a> which I tried to use in the IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2 after formatting it but it appeared as 2 drives and failed to format. I did not have a second to 256 GB to try so it might have chosen that time to go bad. Sticking the 256 GB SD back in a Windows 10 PC it says only 47 MB like the second drive listed in the camera now. Sticking a 128 GB into it seems to work OK. I was able to recover the 256 GB SD with SD formatter.</p><p>Third you will notice (if you click on the images) the form factors between the 4Ks (3840x2160, Aspect ratio = 1.78) and the 6MP (3072x2048, Aspect ratio = 1.5) are quite diff. Most of the 4K's added pixels are in adding width not height which might factor into you choice.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">The tests</h2><p>One of my Reolink 511s is starting to have moisture issues so I thought it would be a good time to upgrade the <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082W9LJV9" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA</a> with a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BRG3JST/" target="_blank">IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2</a> and use the <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082W9LJV9" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA</a> to replace the 511. Before that though I wanted to do a quick compare so stick the <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BRG3JST/" target="_blank">IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2</a> next to <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082W9LJV9" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA</a> and captured some video and snapshots from them and the Amcrest IP8M-2496 in the same location to get both zoomed and wide compares. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Videos</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">Daytime</h3><p>These videos the Dahuas start off on max zoom. You can see me stepping off and dropping eye charts at about 50, 100 feet and at the gate about 188 feet from the camera array. There is an old license plate on the cart I'm pulling for reference too. At about 1:24 PM I start back from the gate. About 1:40 PM both Dahua cameras are zoomed to max view angle to compare with the Amcrest. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/oDlRi9Cc12E" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA video</a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/fjf_4TsusYk" target="_blank">IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2 video</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7L-8-Jy_rI" target="_blank">IP8M-2496 video</a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Nighttime with IR</h3><p>The 6MP looks slightly better to me. Start with just IR lights on (note mainly from IR flood). Shortly after the start the white driveway lights come on the go off just before the end of the video. The driveway lights have almost no affect on the video detail. Passing cars give indications of motion blur affects from the slow shutter speed.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/dxOFreXFdtg" target="_blank">IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2 video</a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Zn7ntdYpCXU" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA video</a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Nighttime low light color</h3><p>The 8MP does way better here. Both cams are set to manual 1/12 exposure, color mode and 0-100 gain range. Otherwise all default settings. Start with just IR lights on, mainly from IR flood, but they seem to have no real affect unlike the HikVision ColorVus that tend to get a purple tint when IR floods are on. About 9:38 PM the white driveway lights come on making a dramatic change in both videos. </p><p>For instance the old school house across the street lit by its own security light is about all you can make out on the 6MP though if you look real close can see where the sky is slightly lighter the trees and shadow on the ground. After the driveway lights come on the detail is better but 50 foot detail is still not as good as in IR night vision. Though past 50 feet it was better in color mode.</p><p>By contrast the 8MP actually appears to be in color though again the details are few. You can kind of make out the eye chart silhouette and moon shadows. After the driveway lights come on the detail is almost that of day time. </p><p>Passing cars give indications of motion blur affects from the slow shutter speed. Shortly before the end of the video the driveway lights go back off again showing how quickly the cameras adapt.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/dxOFreXFdtg" target="_blank">IPC-HFW2831T-ZAS-S2 video</a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Xo9bXgBvI-w" target="_blank">IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA video</a></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">In pics</h2><p>The UPS box is at about 160 feet.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpr2OXApjcK2HiD6K3FumunSB7k1J7kPN8gV8wjUXFP3yp7eDoGDQAO5n4zeRlrscBVxUdlfMyNcuDG4fXvq_PA7uCT6vK75Lk8D3whmcMzqOGcMkQyKCTP2MYmrY1vUUmyQwAqu6K6g/s1050/2020-08-29_17-10-36.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="1050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpr2OXApjcK2HiD6K3FumunSB7k1J7kPN8gV8wjUXFP3yp7eDoGDQAO5n4zeRlrscBVxUdlfMyNcuDG4fXvq_PA7uCT6vK75Lk8D3whmcMzqOGcMkQyKCTP2MYmrY1vUUmyQwAqu6K6g/s640/2020-08-29_17-10-36.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>You can watch the videos to see how fast the zooms and focusing work but are some quick snaps to see how the cams compare in max zoom. The <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q5732cSrphIwoN4-oXwK3vPir89AtzYGQmSCJ9WNPZQ" target="_blank">calculated DORI numbers</a> are</p><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUa8ZrVy2FWdGNFLfBJ4AMkvbYNVBefRDbmYqTeQUee8zM7d7S5DWeB8WC46tmKitN5HjFcdc4O7AyOIc2873-j37NlsTlfBqotgQvIAVrtj5hfx2vZTOiVRTOnATs9P_3128zwLgJig/s1127/2020-08-29_17-46-46.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="1127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUa8ZrVy2FWdGNFLfBJ4AMkvbYNVBefRDbmYqTeQUee8zM7d7S5DWeB8WC46tmKitN5HjFcdc4O7AyOIc2873-j37NlsTlfBqotgQvIAVrtj5hfx2vZTOiVRTOnATs9P_3128zwLgJig/s640/2020-08-29_17-46-46.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Click on an image to see close to full screen and rapidly switch between.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_GzpE_wsCgtU5s9CN7gPVrwSvqjJIwq7Al0hJ3-O37ZXI9kaqkk__4vswkKJBrgdYyqQ9OBDMMRNXYJt_E2AaEFv5oZ9icH9dpCZI0QICMJDr-fHfbv0g6liaGZbWJu1bzwUcvdEiZQ/s3072/DAH695.20200829_132307842_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_GzpE_wsCgtU5s9CN7gPVrwSvqjJIwq7Al0hJ3-O37ZXI9kaqkk__4vswkKJBrgdYyqQ9OBDMMRNXYJt_E2AaEFv5oZ9icH9dpCZI0QICMJDr-fHfbv0g6liaGZbWJu1bzwUcvdEiZQ/s640/DAH695.20200829_132307842_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 6MP camera view<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3cvrTWNJEij6nCkTuOhTIwYIomrklbvwSf8DoEhR1qvGolq-XPTtTwAPkX7JEJjyELpRVWas25fptaFAjMwR6fKon1rp9IvZJ6Cz1KmHlKZOHZuXN317s75Ef1Qalfk9UhzNdtocsw/s3840/DAH834.20200829_132307593_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3cvrTWNJEij6nCkTuOhTIwYIomrklbvwSf8DoEhR1qvGolq-XPTtTwAPkX7JEJjyELpRVWas25fptaFAjMwR6fKon1rp9IvZJ6Cz1KmHlKZOHZuXN317s75Ef1Qalfk9UhzNdtocsw/s640/DAH834.20200829_132307593_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 8MP/4K camera view<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Just to drive home the diff distance makes, here are views from the cameras mounted about 20 feet from the UPS box. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiym5TcjHY1ITCVheFTDWUQMUM7n63NYCGuodFdAzMrC8HpLxgFMP40L3x5Ijp-_zworBHNwKcFutkaD_6ruNceeCVe-pAxeV2z983iLxevKHYaDo8Dau5MG047D0DB8SMs6hinv13KOg/s3072/DAH616.20200829_132306758_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiym5TcjHY1ITCVheFTDWUQMUM7n63NYCGuodFdAzMrC8HpLxgFMP40L3x5Ijp-_zworBHNwKcFutkaD_6ruNceeCVe-pAxeV2z983iLxevKHYaDo8Dau5MG047D0DB8SMs6hinv13KOg/s640/DAH616.20200829_132306758_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from another Dahua 6MP in widest view mode.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYZT4SyZwRNE357LZ_sCApCKROOM1ae7wFK2_vj-BNsEPIlG_-5f-EwUInaXfOXnnE_pMqjMDLxdCikYCJtH_dGCGtynHbIUIUgTsmj7UuXgQSNZkv3VDCV4z1GTdjlt7dEpSSSlaPQ/s1280/IPcam124.20200829_132306628_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYZT4SyZwRNE357LZ_sCApCKROOM1ae7wFK2_vj-BNsEPIlG_-5f-EwUInaXfOXnnE_pMqjMDLxdCikYCJtH_dGCGtynHbIUIUgTsmj7UuXgQSNZkv3VDCV4z1GTdjlt7dEpSSSlaPQ/s640/IPcam124.20200829_132306628_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from an old Foscam FI9804WS 720p cam.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I used the 6MP Dahua and will use the new 8MP cam in max zoom but while I have them all together I though I'd get some wide angle view compares as well. Not e how much the auto focus improves the detail. The 50 foot chart is clearer even to the 6MP camera than the fixed Amcrest 4K. The Dahua 4K is even better. Granted it is also almost twice the cost of the Amcrest.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdHipqGPOVw4ia_JKKvCRs-yWUqyfu21m-4-uCvHdRFrZgf4F1kFanvE2c7uXlK1bElL0aIxUp3MxAw7YG0hQT0pLjuQmcJU3oX09a-u6Vuf9Xlk_-2zIyTVkEoXMU_RZAYY7JZfyTw/s3072/DAH695.20200829_134208714_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdHipqGPOVw4ia_JKKvCRs-yWUqyfu21m-4-uCvHdRFrZgf4F1kFanvE2c7uXlK1bElL0aIxUp3MxAw7YG0hQT0pLjuQmcJU3oX09a-u6Vuf9Xlk_-2zIyTVkEoXMU_RZAYY7JZfyTw/s640/DAH695.20200829_134208714_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dahua 6MP in widest view<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QilYFMrDoYMLmhi_ULTJXBhgIHR950q0Prp9KLbpRfzldjxmwF1ugqmo_aIc9f-is8hrtQH4WCrgzBMsM7Nzf9BCti-g44SBYnUgV2W6ZfX_PwVYRorhKYDNzXiAAwxdl7zosGuWTg/s3840/AM476.20200829_134207811_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QilYFMrDoYMLmhi_ULTJXBhgIHR950q0Prp9KLbpRfzldjxmwF1ugqmo_aIc9f-is8hrtQH4WCrgzBMsM7Nzf9BCti-g44SBYnUgV2W6ZfX_PwVYRorhKYDNzXiAAwxdl7zosGuWTg/s640/AM476.20200829_134207811_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Amcrest 8MP/4K wide angle view<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNcAST8wsTmYG4XacZ5WW5yBXsx4NZrHtIO0s6dgcIe-N8toy3m5sWFzrpijgauhZ9m2Co6qI8TL-MQqZzYp_-igMhkSPcxJ6vKqLiijzQVjiKobXq3O8tKjT_DLoFQ11NCr0fRZAkA/s3840/DAH834.20200829_134207451_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNcAST8wsTmYG4XacZ5WW5yBXsx4NZrHtIO0s6dgcIe-N8toy3m5sWFzrpijgauhZ9m2Co6qI8TL-MQqZzYp_-igMhkSPcxJ6vKqLiijzQVjiKobXq3O8tKjT_DLoFQ11NCr0fRZAkA/s640/DAH834.20200829_134207451_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dahua 8MP/4K in widest view</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><h3>Nighttime with IR</h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnhoYD2vYQ_olh-91B5D8wEbmXGITvoUfV62YCFtkNnKNT8pn4SMD_Y2DbR-dsTWBImAEhyLUgx7NchlcsGRHRvkM5e-EHGEklvzBwmjVGd3Xnb0e6meFjkwPwVYptzw9u_KCh7xjog/s3072/DAH695.20200829_215718547_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnhoYD2vYQ_olh-91B5D8wEbmXGITvoUfV62YCFtkNnKNT8pn4SMD_Y2DbR-dsTWBImAEhyLUgx7NchlcsGRHRvkM5e-EHGEklvzBwmjVGd3Xnb0e6meFjkwPwVYptzw9u_KCh7xjog/w640-h426/DAH695.20200829_215718547_1.jpg" title="6MP just IR" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6MP just IR<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK1sStH1ehnOES02yt7vvUgOzNrrb0f7AFsiHLv6zmhqiaSDH5z3HXudZWqfH6xB4hiPuAzthhENDiGQpEuLpja7G1nW5BJJeId0NtCD3RazOciREdKv_6yXco424qkTnlQShcR7sqcg/s3072/DAH695.20200829_220119334_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK1sStH1ehnOES02yt7vvUgOzNrrb0f7AFsiHLv6zmhqiaSDH5z3HXudZWqfH6xB4hiPuAzthhENDiGQpEuLpja7G1nW5BJJeId0NtCD3RazOciREdKv_6yXco424qkTnlQShcR7sqcg/s640/DAH695.20200829_220119334_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6MP in IR mode with driveway lights on.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwm_CcRcsVO1s9vEQbJRtOC4LrUPbLUJl4H-60r_khLSIwllSDP9LL56GInPz6wzQKzMa9TRbVrcJLPea9IAByggKoHXJtr_UWJnj7Fjcg3a-eWtUc5cQEqBmGNirybMvPJsY2zD6BXQ/s3840/DAH834.20200829_221452398_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwm_CcRcsVO1s9vEQbJRtOC4LrUPbLUJl4H-60r_khLSIwllSDP9LL56GInPz6wzQKzMa9TRbVrcJLPea9IAByggKoHXJtr_UWJnj7Fjcg3a-eWtUc5cQEqBmGNirybMvPJsY2zD6BXQ/s640/DAH834.20200829_221452398_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8MP just IR<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kwSgW49S5S9VgVAf_jDWCfyslOpnBEccuRsrAywRawRnKeg8NPyOrjk4L9K_rQ_1aFBGlJOvwBWSZZh6qZxfIsnkUvkd5f09Uzc0WCSQ_Iqs2j9ETRjlsMdZhN22PSo9fqxztuKpAg/s3840/DAH834.20200829_221541555_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kwSgW49S5S9VgVAf_jDWCfyslOpnBEccuRsrAywRawRnKeg8NPyOrjk4L9K_rQ_1aFBGlJOvwBWSZZh6qZxfIsnkUvkd5f09Uzc0WCSQ_Iqs2j9ETRjlsMdZhN22PSo9fqxztuKpAg/s640/DAH834.20200829_221541555_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8MP in IR mode with driveway lights on.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3>Nighttime low light color</h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92BxSB8QEIE70gc2b-P2cc99LfewIgdSVnjLO5bTm2amKCuisbYAb4DY_11rq4bQC5jST8PbmgEmav8s0E6QdXZpa27nZer2QXmnqQaArqsPjqhnAdq3iJYtzUVStzqH3eodqdqVkWg/s3072/DAH695.20200829_213030082_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92BxSB8QEIE70gc2b-P2cc99LfewIgdSVnjLO5bTm2amKCuisbYAb4DY_11rq4bQC5jST8PbmgEmav8s0E6QdXZpa27nZer2QXmnqQaArqsPjqhnAdq3iJYtzUVStzqH3eodqdqVkWg/s640/DAH695.20200829_213030082_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6MP color mode.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUNsoWyhB2E1oEvwCTBT-7olBMGE7TZTwMKWMxCT_m5QIHDltA3MbPgtTEpCKRAkw_-I63gsntdxUdBCulMjKr8O6IQah1Wt-HtCvR5gKL4AF99fT_EQ2oWr_jMhx8zutYrA4mWn2dog/s3072/DAH695.20200829_213924898_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUNsoWyhB2E1oEvwCTBT-7olBMGE7TZTwMKWMxCT_m5QIHDltA3MbPgtTEpCKRAkw_-I63gsntdxUdBCulMjKr8O6IQah1Wt-HtCvR5gKL4AF99fT_EQ2oWr_jMhx8zutYrA4mWn2dog/s640/DAH695.20200829_213924898_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6MP in color mode with driveway lights on.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhdtbb5G7K2qN2T2Hy8OkJZIKeZ2S5Fal-C7_vPskU3vewZQazFtoR2JeYWGyOTP36mx2V5Uo0Ik1Tyr10y6lFwUYhCsnktLct8fJVfhSzpw0kM3O6l7z6UvKfwMbW3-j58gLVEaGBQ/s3840/DAH834.20200829_213435703_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhdtbb5G7K2qN2T2Hy8OkJZIKeZ2S5Fal-C7_vPskU3vewZQazFtoR2JeYWGyOTP36mx2V5Uo0Ik1Tyr10y6lFwUYhCsnktLct8fJVfhSzpw0kM3O6l7z6UvKfwMbW3-j58gLVEaGBQ/s640/DAH834.20200829_213435703_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8 color mode<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnv9Bk5IhaZOVE8XTQVSx5bfwe8UnbqEVp7k8FGciLuMS4PYJz8hlvkqv0bwF_jPS-4gBznO6aXoisKF9VgjujKQUdrctMFclaR8N_jXETq0lCyScgk1Haw_DUmHlhatmKDMHa0_iD3g/s3840/DAH834.20200829_213844062_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnv9Bk5IhaZOVE8XTQVSx5bfwe8UnbqEVp7k8FGciLuMS4PYJz8hlvkqv0bwF_jPS-4gBznO6aXoisKF9VgjujKQUdrctMFclaR8N_jXETq0lCyScgk1Haw_DUmHlhatmKDMHa0_iD3g/s640/DAH834.20200829_213844062_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8MP in color mode with driveway lights on.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><p><br /></p></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-25370853659552567102020-08-28T10:04:00.001-07:002020-08-28T10:08:47.048-07:00SereneLife IPCAMOD47 - hard pass<p><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0821HKPV5" target="_blank">Outdoor PTZ IP Security Camera - 4X Optical Zoom - Starlight Night Vision 2mp HD 1080p Home Wireless WiFi Video Surveillance - Two Way Audio, Cloud Storage, Alexa Show - SereneLife IPCAMOD47</a></p><p>Note description says 36mm lens but I think they mean 3.6 mm lens and it is fixed, not zoom (see below).</p><p><a href="https://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/IPCAMOD47/WiFi-IP-Security-Camera---Outdoor-PTZ-and-4x-Optical-Zoom-Home-Surveillance-Camera,-Two-Way-Audio-and-Supports-WiFi-Connection,-Works-with-Alexa-for-HomeOffice,-etc" target="_blank">Manual and specs can be found here</a></p><p>When I went back looking for an alternate to this I'm wondering if I meant to order <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/BOAVISION-Outdoor-Wireless-Security-Protocol/dp/B07ZF7DT6P/" target="_blank">this 5 MP cam</a> given it looks exactly the same though has totally diff specs and only $20 more. Already boxed this one up to go back. Below is why.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Cons:</h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Appears the only way to set up is via phone while cam is wired</li><li>In cam web interface is only available after setup via phone. In fact it does not even seem to get an IP address from DHCP till after you set it up via phone by scanning a tiny, hard to scan QR code.</li><li>Requires creating account to use app needed to setup</li><li>Zoom appears to be only digital and no zoom controls in web interface.</li><li>No common protocol support so forget using an NVR including Blue Iris.</li><li>Even less feature controls than any of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q5732cSrphIwoN4-oXwK3vPir89AtzYGQmSCJ9WNPZQ" target="_blank">dozens of cams I've tried</a> (See screen shots below)</li><li>Web interface wants plugin for IE that antivirus blocks from installing (see screen shots below) though plug does not actually seem to be needed. On Chrome you get not video at all though it does not ask you to install the plugin</li><li>Phone lost connection and would not reconnect despite web interface still working.</li><li>Mute speaker and mic controls in web interface do not seem to work. You will need to mute your PC to avoid feedback during viewing via the web app if cam is within ear shot</li><li>Takes long time to boot up and be ready</li><li>NTP requests to odd server triggers IPS alerts but you can at least change it. (See screenshot) </li><li>Time defaults to 1971 and no option to sync with PC. Only can turn off sync and set manually at which point sync turns back on when saved</li><li><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Note factory reset does not seem to actually reset all settings.</span></b></span></li><li>Firmware update gets flagged as network Trojan though <b><i>probably </i></b>mistakenly.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDY59XYRRK7TNU7fR77PCTIKSKuUwsTtKbw4pIA9Ah3xoRslusdlAqYCNAMyseZTMa7NvEtbbIOyvTtHmBDevJWeff8xcylpVLjfDa7q4c7cUYF-atgBiz9wBRoLz9Ug9wxL6j0_mZQ/s561/2020-08-28_11-12-41.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="87" data-original-width="561" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDY59XYRRK7TNU7fR77PCTIKSKuUwsTtKbw4pIA9Ah3xoRslusdlAqYCNAMyseZTMa7NvEtbbIOyvTtHmBDevJWeff8xcylpVLjfDa7q4c7cUYF-atgBiz9wBRoLz9Ug9wxL6j0_mZQ/s0/2020-08-28_11-12-41.png" /></a></div><br /></li></ul><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Pros:</h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Has motion triggered lights</li><li>512 GB SD card support per manual though ad says 128 GB max. Seemed to work with a 256 GB SD fine. Though when I pulled the SD card when getting it ready to send back I did not find any video files on the SD. Just a "backup" file. Though I did see clips in playback interface. </li><li>Default login appears to be random string though you do not seem to be able to change it</li></ul><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Stuff that would be pros but did not get to try</h2><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>2 way audio</li><li>Alexa support</li><li>Starlight sensor for color night vision</li></ul><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Screen shots</h2><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bYlr-C-vx2QfzFNRz2IrnyWOGj_lbFkmgl7SEN8vorve4J9xvApz4Z0trxbOpe4UTg8KxarujEUkVIEelGwiU481jpl9kbtJUnfhYfr_q5rO3o4OhcO3UrJTD5g7CnQ0Kc5lzs9g5g/s1920/2020-08-28_10-15-44.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bYlr-C-vx2QfzFNRz2IrnyWOGj_lbFkmgl7SEN8vorve4J9xvApz4Z0trxbOpe4UTg8KxarujEUkVIEelGwiU481jpl9kbtJUnfhYfr_q5rO3o4OhcO3UrJTD5g7CnQ0Kc5lzs9g5g/s640/2020-08-28_10-15-44.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Network options<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6IGYvWW99uZZb-HLWY1c5sKo2bnwVGkT9YsEm7Uu7G5x5dbsfXmruxYxC_HpqwXewlNVch14RAUCZSXqchfFR_nlSYKIitH-ZjAsUzTOiXwtoqP0UjkwXGV0eSV_DgxkLn4RftFEcgQ/s1920/2020-08-28_10-15-53.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6IGYvWW99uZZb-HLWY1c5sKo2bnwVGkT9YsEm7Uu7G5x5dbsfXmruxYxC_HpqwXewlNVch14RAUCZSXqchfFR_nlSYKIitH-ZjAsUzTOiXwtoqP0UjkwXGV0eSV_DgxkLn4RftFEcgQ/s640/2020-08-28_10-15-53.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On screen display settings. If you turn on Display name you get a prompt that only takes letters, not numbers.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikQQcPHUTO3JkM6ZoKfrARl6Dv0a9wnhyphenhyphenItb4GIVgul4vQAdBZIJfliCOWBgrxJofR3LrFQQDZuWO3BfvofUlMIohgYPgm202dA8oFNZfBBRW2-klm4G52SJUoDy7CydAjr26Dl3y56Q/s1920/2020-08-28_10-16-02.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikQQcPHUTO3JkM6ZoKfrARl6Dv0a9wnhyphenhyphenItb4GIVgul4vQAdBZIJfliCOWBgrxJofR3LrFQQDZuWO3BfvofUlMIohgYPgm202dA8oFNZfBBRW2-klm4G52SJUoDy7CydAjr26Dl3y56Q/s640/2020-08-28_10-16-02.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SD card screen<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3L338juPTC7eXPNVzPIWY-q-2-7TQX6t6KkgX60gOj89RAwXAvFxUZWpujeeTT0wHYmZUXzBpQuL9PN7SJtRY02LlRAXsa-oew2gos2wBl5xNc8P-0O0HzhprogAaLkG29pH68RUag/s1920/2020-08-28_10-16-22.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3L338juPTC7eXPNVzPIWY-q-2-7TQX6t6KkgX60gOj89RAwXAvFxUZWpujeeTT0wHYmZUXzBpQuL9PN7SJtRY02LlRAXsa-oew2gos2wBl5xNc8P-0O0HzhprogAaLkG29pH68RUag/s640/2020-08-28_10-16-22.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motion settings page 1<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvC7Q7IkIxMjm0z4LqRYN7BUSlv1BlyQg2yihBthi_38545nNojuKX7z9I8SzmKKRyURic94uaBvPl_4L843S-GvpHoRn8FrZfV3s7ktpMUHpaK-Qu9X8gctgT4VMCPbnKLD2gONOoDw/s1920/2020-08-28_10-16-37.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvC7Q7IkIxMjm0z4LqRYN7BUSlv1BlyQg2yihBthi_38545nNojuKX7z9I8SzmKKRyURic94uaBvPl_4L843S-GvpHoRn8FrZfV3s7ktpMUHpaK-Qu9X8gctgT4VMCPbnKLD2gONOoDw/s640/2020-08-28_10-16-37.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motion settings page 2 though both would fit on one easy.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzMdgUaVbKIQO6P-mPLFLls34CcQdtWRl9v7ObILXhA98rzZxwFNYPp1wJXcXkjW8NyjtODr_qajFHv0_krjgEz7VbY4V21bmBFX_NsZWo9PqqVOSLVqchr5oL-s8XTab7NhbXTDWWQ/s1920/2020-08-28_10-16-44.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzMdgUaVbKIQO6P-mPLFLls34CcQdtWRl9v7ObILXhA98rzZxwFNYPp1wJXcXkjW8NyjtODr_qajFHv0_krjgEz7VbY4V21bmBFX_NsZWo9PqqVOSLVqchr5oL-s8XTab7NhbXTDWWQ/s640/2020-08-28_10-16-44.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recording schedule screen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76-fSV0MTOVczQw5SQEgE2KObRmNaOCGOyRI2eXkUarZtGQFlhSSMHPF1e5nJ_fCgV3Gf8jg8bH-9-UuvPomhBw4AOIricnlpBkqU3K9tOUVMZSadU9_TzSL5qgVFLWXPyDltiDM7jg/s1920/2020-08-28_10-17-41.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76-fSV0MTOVczQw5SQEgE2KObRmNaOCGOyRI2eXkUarZtGQFlhSSMHPF1e5nJ_fCgV3Gf8jg8bH-9-UuvPomhBw4AOIricnlpBkqU3K9tOUVMZSadU9_TzSL5qgVFLWXPyDltiDM7jg/s640/2020-08-28_10-17-41.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maint screen<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_giSu8vteWlrar3a5XzinJiNjsIvSlkCxxYKdbrMmrIzobKopSq7Vd9Cu0rA3wtMsS1u86G6za_N00Oz3U7hnLv8tW1tvSYwLDWx2h4RT5AM_tr8jzYSQs-nkWkb3Pj33krgUsUwPw/s1920/2020-08-28_10-17-49.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_giSu8vteWlrar3a5XzinJiNjsIvSlkCxxYKdbrMmrIzobKopSq7Vd9Cu0rA3wtMsS1u86G6za_N00Oz3U7hnLv8tW1tvSYwLDWx2h4RT5AM_tr8jzYSQs-nkWkb3Pj33krgUsUwPw/s640/2020-08-28_10-17-49.png" width="640" /></a><br />Other screen which is volume settings.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2f9QQIUbKxagwmJP8kHmWhZrD028FSvgoLamkwDrcf8S6DYSf_xz8HuUF7GsRTRopcYcT3HOCA69d4Q2bzhPbTSLhukBqoJLcEVndR9QuDtLuH7SQ_zlUGma1o0gmkrvvAabbBxJDIg/s1920/2020-08-28_10-20-01.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2f9QQIUbKxagwmJP8kHmWhZrD028FSvgoLamkwDrcf8S6DYSf_xz8HuUF7GsRTRopcYcT3HOCA69d4Q2bzhPbTSLhukBqoJLcEVndR9QuDtLuH7SQ_zlUGma1o0gmkrvvAabbBxJDIg/s640/2020-08-28_10-20-01.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WiFi setup pops up right after first login</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCa1CnRUwBhqqbjePsPC8v5IUWutBmwLH8mxQqMejvj99gV7mwDLx0EKTybdcpWFMS1FMJbHVDaZc01Y8kBtYOrS51B-VVLWgScLycmr__-u41flauwQ9NvWzeDOXlR_9pvYLOEurZNw/s1920/2020-08-28_10-22-03.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCa1CnRUwBhqqbjePsPC8v5IUWutBmwLH8mxQqMejvj99gV7mwDLx0EKTybdcpWFMS1FMJbHVDaZc01Y8kBtYOrS51B-VVLWgScLycmr__-u41flauwQ9NvWzeDOXlR_9pvYLOEurZNw/s640/2020-08-28_10-22-03.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No video/audio stream on Chrome. Pan tilt controls also appear to be dead.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqd6KpdhacrYFBXgrWBpM63wzW9MsnLJPu9it2zy1o6tS_UMOKWL939KUX-hQ7oB9KJmyMhXPFyahnhyphenhyphen95lYpwH6Y13m661k8y2hXGuoXBaD3QIxkfjnINFARDs4Cda8rwglP33MrXWQ/s1920/2020-08-28_10-22-53.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqd6KpdhacrYFBXgrWBpM63wzW9MsnLJPu9it2zy1o6tS_UMOKWL939KUX-hQ7oB9KJmyMhXPFyahnhyphenhyphen95lYpwH6Y13m661k8y2hXGuoXBaD3QIxkfjnINFARDs4Cda8rwglP33MrXWQ/s640/2020-08-28_10-22-53.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yet Chrome did get a pic from the camera. It just goes blank when you click the play button. Note it does not auto play.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQqLlkO1bAKLJH06DK4f-Vs9gpDMSYcFdNQe39LDma4n7gWDNXVlQGXZF_N2xegSH0z8KfL7nmbisbG_B3G1rGNqej63lZDU3X51B4xmkeVc79AB9XVUJ0NVAKSd4nwA5zJv5fvNhu6Q/s1920/2020-08-28_10-24-21.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQqLlkO1bAKLJH06DK4f-Vs9gpDMSYcFdNQe39LDma4n7gWDNXVlQGXZF_N2xegSH0z8KfL7nmbisbG_B3G1rGNqej63lZDU3X51B4xmkeVc79AB9XVUJ0NVAKSd4nwA5zJv5fvNhu6Q/s640/2020-08-28_10-24-21.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On IE you get prompted to install a plugin</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8wIpxY-C9unQS10qwvEiHNZw_U6bHk5lJ5k0mw4MDmuH9gRg-omePdBhl8Suowtv0RI-fh6ox8_QDhy_0VhOnwuOVZ8bnZjYtMa3OEgsRN9AGMB5m1w-1CgLI_cTPKCWxCoRwaS8mnA/s1920/2020-08-28_10-24-49.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8wIpxY-C9unQS10qwvEiHNZw_U6bHk5lJ5k0mw4MDmuH9gRg-omePdBhl8Suowtv0RI-fh6ox8_QDhy_0VhOnwuOVZ8bnZjYtMa3OEgsRN9AGMB5m1w-1CgLI_cTPKCWxCoRwaS8mnA/s640/2020-08-28_10-24-49.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">IE after ignoring plugin install request<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvn2R4lSesZz2OzhfXGgUrgcP6vbGybSMkd1cMcfTeM-mwtKr8vtg0aXjFkPObVdkdccMtvGveOmw5459Hn-YLFIWRPMU_SjT47dZU66q1vjtKlhtirnEY5mx5VNNABk1gzQgVj9foxQ/s1920/2020-08-28_10-25-52.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvn2R4lSesZz2OzhfXGgUrgcP6vbGybSMkd1cMcfTeM-mwtKr8vtg0aXjFkPObVdkdccMtvGveOmw5459Hn-YLFIWRPMU_SjT47dZU66q1vjtKlhtirnEY5mx5VNNABk1gzQgVj9foxQ/s640/2020-08-28_10-25-52.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time setting screen. Note the odd ntp server.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONmEQvWqthUqAd950QoHFHGjxAn2an_i_1CHELqbJdKAsP9PBNs3NX-Zhxio0AwGO9g-UV6ZHG5AuNn3viheG_EKB59FJEJINWXr4QXiw2f8l4oW_wZbDeyNOSJkUsI_wAVhUNl_4AA/s1917/Annotation+2020-08-28+102509.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1917" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONmEQvWqthUqAd950QoHFHGjxAn2an_i_1CHELqbJdKAsP9PBNs3NX-Zhxio0AwGO9g-UV6ZHG5AuNn3viheG_EKB59FJEJINWXr4QXiw2f8l4oW_wZbDeyNOSJkUsI_wAVhUNl_4AA/s640/Annotation+2020-08-28+102509.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical download option. At least the plugin comes from the same place as the firmware update</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7hWQgr_AgG3YPOyu_tKSYN8aClRCTaa-K9MKO2bFMA71_GegQseuHh2up-iLhPVxHI1Cq3R-C8xlupiNHF80I7WxJo5TaMJ9-lggnxmV5f6_LWq7E90fnEtq65OvhWvwtVds7c7Aiw/s1163/Annotation+2020-08-28+102510.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="1163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7hWQgr_AgG3YPOyu_tKSYN8aClRCTaa-K9MKO2bFMA71_GegQseuHh2up-iLhPVxHI1Cq3R-C8xlupiNHF80I7WxJo5TaMJ9-lggnxmV5f6_LWq7E90fnEtq65OvhWvwtVds7c7Aiw/s640/Annotation+2020-08-28+102510.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Should you click Run here you will most likely get a nasty message from your anti virus program that just says I'm not letting you do this.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-60103257950335703612020-06-25T14:32:00.003-07:002022-10-31T11:12:09.813-07:00Buying a camera is kind of like buying an outfitI've tried to make the point so many times that you need to match the cam to the thing you want to monitor with posts like <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/05/getting-cam-specs-easy-way.html" target="_blank">Getting cam specs the easy way</a> and <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/12/answer-to-i-just-want-decent-system.html" target="_blank">Answer to: I just want a decent system</a> but I found myself thinking this morning this analogy might finally get through.<br />
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But that is really my first point. The importance of how an outfit makes you look <b>varies a lot</b> between people. Some want to be dressed to the nines and others are good with thread bare and holes or even an birthday suit. In the same same way with cams some may want to ID passers by while others are cool to just know <b>something </b>is right outside the door. And just cause something is labeled one size fits all does not mean they actually fit all, much less that most would be happy with the fit. </div>
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Also odds are no one has your same style requirements so when asking for advice, gather data not shopping lists. You do not want to find out something you assumed is actually not and have to toss it or make due till you can afford to replace it.</div>
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BTW Personally I'm the t-shirt and jeans type and I also tend to go for cams in $50 to $150 range. Nothing fancy but I expect a fair bit for my money too. I'll use a $25 <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Wyze" target="_blank">Wyze cam</a> to monitor a mouse trap, a gauge, a closet or maybe even a larger area like a storage room temporarily for example but not my yard.</div>
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While most could probably wear a "large" size shirt, to get the look you want probably means getting a shirt size that matches your body size. As with clothes, the size might not be quite the same fit across brands but it is a good starting point. And if you do not know your size, guessing larger is <b>usually </b>the safer bet. Also one of the most important factors to consider. Though some of the below might alter what is the best fit. Especially view angle.</div>
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For instance will shorts, long pants or even a skirt / kilt / robe work best for the result you are looking for? The view angle too needs to fit what you want to cover (or not), may need to be changeable (zoom) and will probably be a compromise. See <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=14522640352871297#focus">Focus options are kind of like feel / comfort</a>. Resolution and view angle along with distance to target give you the pixels per inch at target which is <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/doing-math-on-pixels-per-inch-at.html" target="_blank">the most important spec if you want to be able to pull a recognizable face or plate from your video</a>. Can I get that in English you ask? I'll do you one better. <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/05/getting-cam-specs-easy-way.html" target="_blank">Here are step be step instructions on how to use a web based tool to sort out what resolution and view angle you need to get detail you want at a distance</a>. Even better the tool lets you stick cameras on a Google map of your site and drag the target and view width. Could it really get any simpler?</div>
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Layers give you weather options but may mean you are carrying a lot of extra clothes around all day or running back forth to storage. In a similar way Pan Tilt Zoom (<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/PTZ" target="_blank">PTZ</a>) cams are great for looking around but generally not a good a way to reduce the number of cams you need or save money. Forget "smart tracking" unless you are talking a multicam linked system costing a <b>TON</b> and installed by pros. Even then you are talking coverage with fixed cams telling <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/PTZ" target="_blank">PTZ</a>s where to zoom in for close ups. And each <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/PTZ" target="_blank">PTZ</a> can only track one object (hopefully a person) at a time. So you factor your ROI there.</div>
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That said I find getting an indoor cam to <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/06/averting-your-eyes.html" target="_blank">avert its eyes under certain conditions</a> is kind of cool. From the number of people I've seen asking how to do it, a fair number must feel the same. Granted using a fixed cam with a smart plug might be simpler but I had the spare cam and like I said, it is kind of cool. I also have Wyze <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/PTL" target="_blank">PTL</a> sitting in my to-do pile with a remote control truck for doing things like inspecting the crawl space under the shop. Point is there are reasons for having one. Just make sure your reason will actually yield the results you want.</div>
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Are you going camping, partying or to a meeting? In the same way the lighting required / options should match. If you have a bit of light on the target area to work with there are some incredible <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/color%20at%20night" target="_blank">color at night</a> options now. Seriously you will probably not believe the videos are real. But they only work to a point and have no IR (night vision) back up option so you might need to go with an IR camera instead or in parallel and possibly even <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IR%20Illuminator" target="_blank">IR floods </a>to see what you want at night. <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RQ8BV7N">Accent lights are an option</a> to still go with the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/color%20at%20night" target="_blank">color at night</a> cams if you are OK with that. Sometimes you will prefer no visible light and IR will do that for you. <b style="background-color: yellow;"><font color="#000000">Note IR LEDs are going to show and will give away their location.</font></b> One side note here is to think about glare. For instance a light bright enough to light up and area 100 feet away is also going to make a bug near the cam flare like the sun at the right angle. And will draw bugs as well which is another reason to think about not using a light or IR source near the cam much less built into one. And a good reason to pay a bit more for better low light performance to reduce the supplemental lighting needed.</div>
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You can go with the soft track suit (fixed focus). Or you can try and really look sharp at a high cost in time and money. Same is true with cams. You probably know <b><i>enhance </i></b>like in so many shows and movies is not a real thing no matter what rez your cams are. Though I am seeing a lot of people asking about 4K cams <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/11/reolink-511-vs-amcrest-ip8m-2496-5mp.html" target="_blank">despite the fact that they often yield lower quality video with a larger resource hit for what the person is trying to monitor</a>. </div>
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Does your outfit need to make a statement? Rich, Goth, nerd ect.? Maybe even have an actual statement on it like many of my t-shirts? Or the ultimate, with scrolling and or audio responding full color LEDs? (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=led+shirt" target="_blank">Yes this a thing</a>.)</div>
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Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-26655183007192753192020-06-23T09:47:00.006-07:002021-09-07T14:11:48.117-07:00Averting your eyes<div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Note you need to have your preset setup in the camera BEFORE you do the inspect to add it or this will not work. If you set them up after rerun inspect again to read them in.</b></span></span></div><div><br /></div>Seen a few ask how do I get my PTL/PTZ change where is is looking based on X. Of course the simplest way is to got into a camera's properties and just trigger on time by creating a schedule.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGIbvCDymVw_JqvRhtqBi1U33faO1X5-McSSG7Wchz-l8MRx1J-uaZYLEveUk7mP_MPb6JnElzAkf-W11oMvZExVvJwWQSG9i_V9Zzxw4UcEUhcASnAgbxTTtKgVQ0SoHIPirDx6F9Cg/s622/Annotation+2020-06-23+104239.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="622" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGIbvCDymVw_JqvRhtqBi1U33faO1X5-McSSG7Wchz-l8MRx1J-uaZYLEveUk7mP_MPb6JnElzAkf-W11oMvZExVvJwWQSG9i_V9Zzxw4UcEUhcASnAgbxTTtKgVQ0SoHIPirDx6F9Cg/w500-h475/Annotation+2020-06-23+104239.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Profile schedule. Note relative to sunrise/sunset option.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>And tell the the camera to go to a preset then the profile changes.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZQeh-aV0YEXMY-wAq7lFnl4Uecp56u1aXo2zQTcuMaQh-gyZ84QXRFySt7lGGruRZ_XlXlSXkztxA2hHCL1ZrPa73q2ELrOiMar6ykZO6ESwwlZCGdvZTQa8Pzh0tA78yOT89zEW_g/s710/Annotation+2020-06-23+104240.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="710" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZQeh-aV0YEXMY-wAq7lFnl4Uecp56u1aXo2zQTcuMaQh-gyZ84QXRFySt7lGGruRZ_XlXlSXkztxA2hHCL1ZrPa73q2ELrOiMar6ykZO6ESwwlZCGdvZTQa8Pzh0tA78yOT89zEW_g/w500-h423/Annotation+2020-06-23+104240.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click edit schedule to add actions to profiles<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFA1DEtq6OsxOFYACSx1N8rHOlNSu6SqS-rS3UXzleKU_2mZyGja_WsrKto84shPVGzDmDsDHqYMtZeTOEyweVJOthNUiIDiHz3v80DJ75ovyg2i7XCWHL33SQquS0YSyF5pGA2EMlg/s722/Annotation+2020-06-23+104241.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="722" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFA1DEtq6OsxOFYACSx1N8rHOlNSu6SqS-rS3UXzleKU_2mZyGja_WsrKto84shPVGzDmDsDHqYMtZeTOEyweVJOthNUiIDiHz3v80DJ75ovyg2i7XCWHL33SQquS0YSyF5pGA2EMlg/w500-h416/Annotation+2020-06-23+104241.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Add / edit action looks like this.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Note there are a lot of actions you can do on profile change if your camera supports them</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8_kYSIWFojSPsk8II4v9egWG-UbDbXYw8MoeKA0a2zhznfhyphenhyphenVJnu8z0Wbcepy-QH745kWWsm0HXkiJFBdPkrk2QtjCRsDE1SOfTnxzYunmyyvrvag3UkAi5mqL05EfXKlJJSecaxCA/s1474/2020-06-23_11-09-48.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="337" height="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8_kYSIWFojSPsk8II4v9egWG-UbDbXYw8MoeKA0a2zhznfhyphenhyphenVJnu8z0Wbcepy-QH745kWWsm0HXkiJFBdPkrk2QtjCRsDE1SOfTnxzYunmyyvrvag3UkAi5mqL05EfXKlJJSecaxCA/w223-h976/2020-06-23_11-09-48.png" width="223" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><font color="#444444" style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b>Update gotcha: Note when the profile switches it switches for ALL cams so if you are not using the defaults on any cam you will need to make those changes on the other profile(s) to keep them running. For example if you record continuously (and you should) by default all the cams will switch to record "when triggered" unless you go fix that setting for all the cams in all the profiles you intend to use. </b></font></div><div><font color="#444444" style="background-color: #fcff01;"><b>And if you use anything other than the default / first storage location you will need to change that too.</b></font></div><div><br /></div><div>Once you have the above you can get fancier. For example I work from home and have a switched stream that broadcasts to the whole site which lets me continue watching a show or listening to a podcast or monitoring if something running on a computer is done and also shows me triggered cams if for instance a delivery arrives. Anyway tied to this the TV in the master math comes on if I enter the bedroom or server room (has door linking it to the path) AND the alarm is not set. There is another event (what <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search/label/Homeseer" target="_blank">Homeseer</a> calls routines) to turn off the TV if either of those doors close AND the alarm is not set. This made a great place to include setting the PTL cam in the bedroom for checking out what the cats are up to. So when and event turns the bath TV on it also turns the camera to look at the ceiling. When an event turns the TV off it swings back to looking at the cat feeder. This is how I did it in <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search/label/Homeseer" target="_blank">Homeseer</a> but you should be able to do something similar with about any home automation as it is basically just calling a URL. you can write something like this:</div><div>//Start BI profile #7</div><div><b><i>curl http://user:password@192.168.1.200:8030/admin?profile=7</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Where</div><div>IP Address for Blue Iris = 192.168.1.200</div><div>Blue Iris port = 8030</div><div>Blue Iris Profile = 7</div><div>(user:password@ can be omitted if you are not using authentication for your Blue Iris web server)</div><div><br /></div><div>Since, as I mentioned above, I do a few Blue Iris things from <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search/label/Homeseer" target="_blank">Homeseer</a> I have <a href="https://github.com/avatar42/Homeseer/blob/master/scripts/BlueIris.vb" target="_blank">a script to keep everything in one place</a>. And in that same spirit, a couple of events to make adding the profile changes to events easy.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZNCTl2drSmAD58FY_grSzv3088b1FHj02ypyeTUV1LjebZEGzElPG-LPPP67TcadAbtAlmwrNhxj4Y-R1aQTlQbDCZLrg_GThnmbieKPr-KileDqPQbXHJ4gBhJ2ngm7P8-vpGeZbCQ/s1477/2020-06-23_11-36-27.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1477" data-original-width="962" height="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZNCTl2drSmAD58FY_grSzv3088b1FHj02ypyeTUV1LjebZEGzElPG-LPPP67TcadAbtAlmwrNhxj4Y-R1aQTlQbDCZLrg_GThnmbieKPr-KileDqPQbXHJ4gBhJ2ngm7P8-vpGeZbCQ/w631-h976/2020-06-23_11-36-27.png" width="631" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Profile change events<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div>Note kind of thinking it might be a good idea to set a light on in then cats profile event as well but that is probably overkill. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then call those events from the door monitoring events</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNoYllCITCI4B-y7zkHBIHn9aX5jHGsEUL74XX7hKk42nXn-_Mxd26Tgt6hoCFmOrR4kahn6Z7q7lcMdEpyksfKxE62dx8NZ6KpMWHwv0diNhGvm1CQEgduFY2tfjb7xIF0wVukbPzQ/s1000/2020-06-23_10-26-22.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1000" height="569" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNoYllCITCI4B-y7zkHBIHn9aX5jHGsEUL74XX7hKk42nXn-_Mxd26Tgt6hoCFmOrR4kahn6Z7q7lcMdEpyksfKxE62dx8NZ6KpMWHwv0diNhGvm1CQEgduFY2tfjb7xIF0wVukbPzQ/w625-h569/2020-06-23_10-26-22.png" width="625" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Call profile change events from door monitoring events<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Then just cause I like to be thorough and have backups I added calling the switch to private event to the alarm setting / disarming events as well. That way I'm sure the cam is looking at the ceiling if I'm getting in or out of bed.</div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1xFClhNnR9OpBMH-Fc82nrrxPHZ3NqA6WPumIGPE_W9G1l5SuyEAZLc9vRCMx6eyiy9nHDR0erqaWWM6aYCnqjegG8jMA0i3OuMY39yL866IG8bDHel88pVLaJ6ZguZmnH1gbreABw/s1631/2020-06-23_11-33-53.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1631" data-original-width="1011" height="976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1xFClhNnR9OpBMH-Fc82nrrxPHZ3NqA6WPumIGPE_W9G1l5SuyEAZLc9vRCMx6eyiy9nHDR0erqaWWM6aYCnqjegG8jMA0i3OuMY39yL866IG8bDHel88pVLaJ6ZguZmnH1gbreABw/w594-h976/2020-06-23_11-33-53.png" width="594" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Related events<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-298093732759262032020-05-05T14:32:00.002-07:002022-10-31T11:12:18.407-07:00Getting cam specs the easy way.Goto <a href="https://calculator.ipvm.com/">IPVM</a><br />
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<li>Find your house</li>
<li>stick a virtual cam on it</li>
<li>Move the person icon to the middle of where you want focus</li>
<li>pull in the sides of the triangle</li>
<li>see what it says <b>Distance </b>and <b>HFoV</b></li>
<li>You can then play with resolutions to get a basic idea of the detail you would see if a person was standing at that location.</li>
<li>You now have the spec you need for that cam.</li>
<li>Repeat till you have everything you want covered, covered.</li>
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What you end up looks something like this (totally random house in Australia)<br />
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<b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Now granted you will probably need to round those to standard value or plan on getting zoomables to get the view angles you want. </span></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Note too if a cam just says view angle instead of horizontal view angle it probably means diagonal which is a bit larger.</span></b>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-73407536991802394172020-04-12T14:46:00.003-07:002021-01-20T10:49:42.724-08:00WU style time lapse with Blue IrisI've been exporting the occasional video at 60x but I wanted a more automatic and less resource intensive method and would let me do full of half day videos. Something akin to what <a href="https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KTXLEAND28">Weather Underground</a> used to create from uploaded pics or <a href="https://map.bloomsky.com/weather-stations/eaB1rJytnpS5mJWm">Bloomsky</a> still does. Neither supported higher rez images though and <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/color%20at%20night">I really wanted to be able to use Hikvision ColorVus to support night shots that you could make out constellations in when the skies were clear</a>.<br />
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I was kind of surprised this was not as simple as I thought. Or I should say the first posts I found using the Alt/time lapse frame rate looked like they should work but what you get is a video that plays in real time but only updates the frames based on this setting.<br />
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Then there are those that <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/time-lapse-recording-bi5.43742/">suggest post batch converting</a> which would work in theory but consume a ton of resources.<br />
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But what seems to get you closest to a frame every X minute with a "normal" playback uploadable to to YoutTube is the "Periodic, each" recording.<br />
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The simplest way to do this is clone a cam.<br />
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You will probably want to disable audio and motion detection<br />
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Setting the rate to a frame every 15 seconds for 0.1 seconds yields a file at 22.07 fps the runs about 4 1/2 minutes for a 10 hour recording.<br />
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The result looks like <a href="https://youtu.be/I5sRqQU8ev0">this though this is not quite 12 hours long</a>. YouTube seems see this as a 50 fps video yet the run time has not changed. Note <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171">their docs say this frame rate is not supported</a> so some more experimenting will need to be done to get it into a supported frame rate but it is working for now.<br />
Since it is a clone of another cam you will probably want it to be hidden as well.<br />
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<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Update 7/25/2020 issue stitching.</h3><div>I was doing second attempt at a merge but this time with time lapses. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niimi0mub2w" target="_blank">see first attempt here using exported video</a>) It seems the way Blue Iris is creating the time lapses, despite the identical settings, can have two of the above style time lapses out of sync be as much as 30 minutes even after syncing start time and adjusting the fps of the longer one to match the sorter. I was planning on moving my 4 sky cams onto a pole to better capture <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQt4NWvc9os0hrYsqUkdwMlmwAhxovHo" target="_blank">sunrises and sunsets</a> anyway. Now that I see time lapse merges it not going to work I have added motivation the get that done. Though for the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQt4NWvc9ossBsRCkNLqdhokRilLmfwY" target="_blank">comet time lapses</a> the direction was perfect. Though again would have been nice to be a bit higher.</div><div><br /></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-39996339041811872712020-04-07T10:24:00.005-07:002023-04-25T19:19:32.473-07:00Weather on Blue IrisUpdated from the instructions in <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/more-animated-weather-radar-loops-as-a-blue-iris-camera.30192">this post</a>, which is outdated now.<br />
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First, please note that to display an animated GIF image as a camera, your Blue Iris must be version 4.7.6.2 or above. Images here are from Blue Iris 5.<br />
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The method below is used to determine the URL for an animated 'PNG' of the desired weather radar loop on Intellicast as follows:<br />
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2) Go to the dropdown menu to the left under 'Region' and select the desired region to be displayed.<br />
3) Toward the right, click on 'Play Animation'.<br />
4a) In IE, right-click on the image and select inspect element to see the URL. You are looking for something like this <span style="background-color: yellow;">https://s.w-x.co/staticmaps/wu/wxtype/county_loc/sat/animate.png</span><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php/112467-Storm-Tracking-Maps" target="_blank">Other map options.</a></div><div><br />
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Note it does not visibly affect the load on the server either.<div><br /></div><div>You might also want to look at <a href="https://trafficview.org/" target="_blank">Trafficview cams</a> though most of the feeds in my area were down when I checked. There may also be feeds from your local DOT, like <a href="https://www.txdot.gov/discover/live-traffic-cameras.html" target="_blank">this one for Texas</a>. You might also find some feeds by searching for the town or highway name like <a href="https://www.navbug.com/texas/cedar_park-traffic-cameras.htm" target="_blank">these for Cedar Park</a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-42021791205273267772020-04-04T09:23:00.005-07:002020-08-26T06:08:05.709-07:00ColorVu supplemental light off/on axis tests As I mentioned in my review <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/02/nellys-h-series-ip-cameras-hikvision.html">HikVision ColorVu cameras</a> the supplemental light is really too bright to use in most cases but it is also lights up pretty much 180 by 180 degrees, which is also an issue if anything is close, so enabling it on a sky cam might be helpful to other near by cams.<br />
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Off axis test. </h3>
It is raining with heavy clouds taking the moon out of the picture. The supplemental light settings at times (bottom time stamp) are:<br />
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<li>8:48 change from 50 to 100</li>
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The ColurVu is mounted on the edge of the roof above the bird feeder.<br />
The trees seen to light up on the edge of the view are about 50 feet from the cam on the left to about 33 feet center. The rain helps show some of the limitations of illumination from a camera instead of off axis. Camera is <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WLWJ">2.8mm OEM of the Hikvision DS-2CD2347G1-LU I bought off Amazon</a>. (<a href="https://youtu.be/PO3H69gpuQY">video</a>)<br />
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The <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Amcrest">Amcrest </a>is mounted on the barn 43 feet from the ColorVu. Camera is a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IP4M-1026">IP4M-1026</a> pushed to the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/viewing-night-sky-in-color-with-amcrest.html">max 1/3 second exposure and max gain</a>. (<a href="https://youtu.be/OY8kUjxH3-Y">video</a>)<br />
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<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua">Dahua</a> mounted about 4 feet behind the ColorVu on the soffit. Camera is a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/IPC-HDW4631C-A">IPC-HDW4631C-A</a> also pushed to the <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/viewing-night-sky-in-color-with-amcrest.html">max 1/3 second exposure and max gain</a>. (<a href="https://youtu.be/OY8kUjxH3-Y">video</a>)<br />
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Cameras are all in the same places as off axis test but ColorVu is angled down to roughly match the view form the Dahua. Also since there is more light I also tested motion with my black dog and me moving about. <a href="https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/moon-phase-day-15-march-2020">Moon would have been down to about last quarter</a> but as the lack of any shadows shows it was pretty much obscured by clouds.<br />
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<li>at 8:43 the back door light is turned off and after a few seconds the ColorVu light comes on auto. Note black dog near far corner of house and the kind of purple tint the IR floods give the ColorVu video before the supplemental light kicks in.</li>
<li>at 8:44 I turn the ColorVu light off. A few seconds after that I come out to get the ladder with a hat light on so I can see what I'm doing. Note the blur and low frame rate.</li>
<li>at 8:46 I go back inside then come back out to walk carefully past with the hat light off</li>
<li>at 8:47 I come back, ( I forgot my keys) with the hat light on cause it really is too dark to be walking safely with it off, then go off to feed.</li>
<li>at 8:48 my white dog appears at the far corner of the house and wanders about for around 5 minutes. </li>
<li>at 8:53 I come back from feeding, turn my hat light off and wander carefully into the yard a bit to test for motion blur. Note I have to turn my hat light back on to see where I'm stepping part of the time.</li>
<li>at 8:55 go back in triggering the back door light to come on.</li>
<li>at 8:56 I come back out to do another motion test with the back door light on. Then plug a hole something dug next to the bird feeder.</li>
<li>at 8:57 I go back in. Not the cats lurking on the walk way.</li>
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Amcrest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaXnh33ObR4">video</a><br />
Dahua <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg4d2qhLNak">video</a><br />
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Cameras are all in the same places as off axis test but ColorVu is angled down to roughly match the view form the Dahua. ColorVu camera has the supplemental light set to a fixed value of 10. For this view 10 seemed to be the max I could run the supplemental light at without causing glare that would diminish the view of the stars and distance trees.<br />
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22:21 to 22:25 White dog starts by the back door and then wanders the yard.<br />
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ColorVu <a href="https://youtu.be/lCgVVdySYiM">video</a><br />
Amcrest <a href="https://youtu.be/EfbIS8ekdb8">video</a><br />
Dahua <a href="https://youtu.be/hZKQUVJUbgc">video</a><br />
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<br />Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-58401261252271127102020-03-18T12:54:00.001-07:002022-10-31T11:12:41.072-07:00Answer: I'm having trouble with my WiFi security camera and need help/advice.WiFi cams are just not reliable. Anyone that tells you diff is just not monitoring them that close. I work from home and <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/my-current-setup.html">have 4 dedicated monitors plus automation monitoring my systems</a> which makes it painfully clear to me when a camera (and a lot of other devices) are having an issue.<br />
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Better WiFi might help but not solve it</h3>
It is important to note it is not just WiFi strength.<b> </b>My level WiFi coverage of 10 AP is extreme for the few acres I'm covering but to align all my cams <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search/label/Unifi">I need solid WiFi</a> for my tablets over a good bit of my property plus I have a fair number of non cam devices that require WiFi like <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search?q=weather">weather monitoring</a>, <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/2017/06/added-rachio-smart-sprinkler-controller.html">irrigation </a>and even some <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search/label/Smart%20Plugs">remote smart plugs</a> and <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/2018/11/lifx-after-year.html">lights </a>where <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search/label/Z-Wave">Z-wave</a> and <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/search?q=Zigbee">ZigBee </a>are not practical.<br />
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Then there is interference </h3>
With interference on the rise from neighbors WiFi and other devices, multiple APs are becoming common and pretty much guarantees at least a few dropped frames from lost packets. Even out here on the edge of town. Here is an example of some of the APs in my logs of neighboring APs from just just one day of the cars passing by over 200 feet from the nearest AP of mine.<br />
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Some cams will stick to a channel or an even an AP till restarted. </h3>
From <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/my-current-setup.html">my personal experience with multiple models of cams from over a dozen brands</a>, if, for one of a multitude of reasons, they lose connection for a second they might:<br />
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<li>Wait for THAT AP to be reachable again. </li>
<li>Switch to the nearest AP on that channel even if the signal is too weak to be usable. You can work around this one a bit if <a href="https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/221321728-UniFi-Understanding-and-Implementing-Minimum-RSSI">your network supports min RSSI</a>.</li>
<li>Not even notice the disconnect for X amount of time</li>
<li>I've even seen the occasional reboot though it is hard to say which was the cause and which the effect there.</li>
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Rarely is it anything close to a quick automatic reconnect.</div>
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But does it matter?</h3>
Granted in most cases we are just talking a few short outages which you might never notice if you you were not sitting in front of the consoles or checking the footage. Note too that depending on your NVR software and settings WiFi issues, <b>might manifest as low frame rate or hung video</b> for awhile before disconnects get long enough to get an offline indication on a console much less a notification. A few dropped frames may not seem like a big deal but if you are trying to get a usable shot of a face or plate it could mean everything.<br />
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The WiFi range of cameras varies wildly too. </h3>
<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2018/09/running-camera-on-battery.html">Off the same AP and the same time I've have had WiFi cameras "work" 200 feet away while others could not connect 50 feet down the same line of sight.</a> The <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Wyze">Wyze</a> cams are so bad about dropping offline I have <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/2018/11/etekcity-wifi-smart-plug.html">scripts for repower them via smart plugs</a> if they are offline more than a couple minutes.<br />
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But if you really must</h3>
Sometimes WiFi really is the only practical option but if you are talking security find some way to use a wired cam even if it means <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2018/11/option-c-ethernet-over-power-lines.html">Ethernet Over Power</a> or <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0161G653W">point to point wireless</a>. If WiFi is your only option I strongly recommend putting them on <a href="https://automation.rmrr42.com/2018/11/etekcity-wifi-smart-plug.html">smart plugs and setting up scripts to restart them</a> as needed.<br />
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Plus this</h3>
Then there is the whole other discussion on <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=24%2F7">recording 24/7 vs on motion</a> much less <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2017/04/some-things-to-keep-in-mind-if-you-are.html">only to the cloud</a> when the camera having the issue is battery powered and or recording to the cloud such as <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Ring">Ring</a>, Nest, <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Wyze">Wyze</a>, Arlo ect.<br />
<br />Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-49733702591895246552020-02-20T12:49:00.000-08:002020-04-29T06:34:54.696-07:00Possible issue with Blue Iris 5People are reporting seeing issues with Blue Iris 5 and certain brands of cameras disconnecting. <a href="https://blueirissoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=322">Reolink</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/blueirisuser2usersupport/permalink/550348625688394/">Unifi cams</a> are what I'm mainly hearing. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/blueirisuser2usersupport/permalink/426286948094563/">Possibly Door bird too.</a> It seems very similar <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/camera-dropping-out-when-used-with-blue-iris-but-works-when-viewed-through-foscam-pag.4556/page-3">this issue from back in the early days of BI4</a>.<br />
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As I said in a previous post I upgraded one of my servers to handle more cams. Main changes are newer i7 CPU, more RAM, BI5 instead of BI4 and GTX 1050Ti instead of GTX 730 GPU.<br />
I still have the BI4 box running in parallel because the BI5 box is having issues these with just the 2 Reolinks. A RLC-511-5MP and a RLC-422W-5MP. The other 9 cams on that server are fine. So are the 2 Reolinks viewed from the old BI4 server.<br />
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What I'm seeing on the BI5 server:<br />
After restarting Blue Iris, the Reolink cam windows are often black till I open each camera's settings and save.<br />
Random video corruption and disconnects. (See below.)<br />
Note the corruption is in the recordings, not just the console display.<br />
Changing the video settings often sorts it for awhile but sometimes I need to reboot the cam to get it working again.<br />
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Some of the things I've tried:<br />
Both Generic ONVIF and Reolink video settings<br />
Diff frame rates<br />
Overlays on and off<br />
Limited decoding on and off<br />
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The only thing that seems to make a diff is GPU settings. With Nvidia I see what is best described as multi colored vertical lines covering the lower third to half of the video.<br />
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With Intel it pixelates instead of the lines.<br />
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With no hardware acceleration it usually appears OK for a bit then the video hangs without the camera ever being reported as offline or disconnected. Though sometimes the bottom is grey which makes me think parts of the frame might not always be getting sent. As in a a camera issue but it just the Reolinks and just on Blue Iris 5. For instance a snap of the same time from the original Blue Iris 4 server of that same cam looks like this.<br />
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Trying to pull the same from the BI5 recording I get<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the timestamp is not the same because there seems to be dropped frames for a few seconds where the 14:22:33 frames should be so playback hangs on this frame for a bit.</td></tr>
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<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/01/evalplate-recognizer-in-blue-iris-5.html">Update 2/25/2020 There seems to be an issue with motion detection dying too.</a></h3>
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Update 4/28/2020 Might be a work around for the video issue. </h3>
First I noticed a similar issue playing back some <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua">Dahua</a> videos. I noticed those cams had the "Smart Codec" turned on. And was set to VBR. I turned off "Smart Codec" and set to CBR and that seems to have sorted the issue.<br />
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Then I came across an old article that said to use the "Base" H.264 profile instead of the default "Main" or "High". I've stuck a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Reolink">Reolink</a> on my <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Blue%20Iris%205">BI5</a> server (just pointed at a clock for now) to see how it goes. Seems to be working so far but then it could go days between showing on the console sometimes. Note too I've upgraded BI5 since I last had a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Reolink">Reolink</a> on that server. Currently on <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Blue%20Iris%205">BI5</a> <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/downloads/categories/blue-iris-updates.5/">v5.2.6.3</a> 64 bit.<br />
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<br />Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-66130966391832582342020-02-07T18:54:00.002-08:002020-05-08T12:09:33.478-07:00HikVision ColorVu cameras<a href="https://support.nellyssecurity.com/hc/en-us/sections/360006060814-H-Series-IP-Camera-Quick-Start-Guides">Quick starts</a><br />
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Videos in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQt4NWvc9oufqBNQBqDTKKAwH_1kpF_O">Hikvision</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQt4NWvc9ousBS0omle8kRGXDmIKyLOM">Color night vision</a> playlists<br />
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For a compare against the Darkfighter models look at <a href="https://youtu.be/6HXMT8J8A7Q?t=1297">this review video from dvs</a>.<br />
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The first one I bought was the <a href="https://www.nellyssecurity.com/4mp-extreme-low-light-ip-poe-weatherproof-turret-camera-w-integrated-flood-light-microphone-nsc-nitecolor-dm2.html">OEM version of the DS-2CD2347G1-LU from Nelly's Security</a>. Note there is a DS-2CD2347G1-L that appears to be the same thing without audio for about the same price from most sellers. <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WLWJ">Later I ordered a 2.8 mm version that had just listed on Amazon.</a><br />
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First thing you should not is the cams come with a static IP set of 192.168.1.64. This means you either need to have a 192.168.1.X network or a Windows PC you can run <a href="https://support.nellyssecurity.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040983754-Assigning-An-IP-Address-Using-a-Windows-PC">their tool</a> on.<br />
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Next these are huge.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Here is the HikVision turret model (left) next the the Amcrest (right).</span></td></tr>
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If you look close you will notice UP is marked on the case. A nice feature. I usually end up drawing an line on these so I know which way is up out in the field.<br />
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To install an SD card (128GB max) or adjust the rotation of the camera takes an <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Craftsman-Tools-Torx-Screwdriver-41473/dp/B01M3453NL">Torx-10 screwdriver</a>. Though realistically if you are going to be doing this kind of stuff you should just break down and get driver and set of bits that include straight, Phillips, hex and Torx bits of various sizes. Maybe even <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Kaisi-Precision-Screwdriver-Professional-Electronics/dp/B07ZB7FMLB">an all in set</a>.<br />
<b>Update</b> I found the L shaped Torx it comes with under the packing so you don't need to get one though having a set with screwdriver like grips might make you life easier.<br />
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For a quick test I just swapped in place of the west Amcrest skycam. The difference was amazing. For this compare shot I set them all to an exposure of 1/12 and gain of 0-100.<br />
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Now this how sensitive the HikVision is. Here I set the Amcrest and Dahua exposure to 1/3 which causes ghosting see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGrks9Fy_Ac">this video</a>, but the HikVision is at 1/30 (double the frame rate).<br />
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You can also compare the above Amcrest 1/3 exposure video to <a href="https://youtu.be/l9BJzddNEaA">this 1/12 exposure video from the HikVision</a> and this <a href="https://youtu.be/7_iM5x_H7Rg">Dahua one</a>.<br />
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Here is the odd thing. It actually looks darker during the day which is why I did the above video with exposure 1/12. For example here is the next day.<br />
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The Amcrest and Dahua are using profile scheduling to switch to automatic exposure for the daytime. The HikVision is still set to exposure 1/30 (it does not have an automatic setting). It does have profile scheduling but it would appear to be unneeded so far. I checked to make sure it was not switching the exposure based on profile.<br />
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Though if you are looking to grab hummingbird stills from the video it appears switching to 1/100000 is doable even on an overcast day like today.<br />
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Three days later and an even tougher test. While the moon is technically up you can not tell where the clouds are so thick. Not just dark but but air so heavy with moisture it is almost fog.<br />
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Here the old cams are set on auto but and the HikVision is still has exposure set to 1/12<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original Amcrest is lower left, the Dahua upper left and the HikVision on the right.</td></tr>
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Cranking the old cams down to an exposure of 1/3 it looks better.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original Amcrest is lower left, the Dahua upper left and the HikVision on the right.</td></tr>
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Turning on the back door light ~45 feet from the barn in the picture with the old cams still at 1/3.<br />
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Smart features:</h3>
While not applicable to what I'm currently using these cams for they do have extensive motion and other alerts built right into the camera.<br />
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Alerts:</h4>
Motion detection, video tampering detection, network disconnected, IP address conflict, illegal login, HDD full, HDD error<br />
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Behavior Analysis</h4>
Line crossing detection, intrusion detection, object removal detection, unattended baggage detection<br />
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Region Of Interest</h4>
1 fixed region for main stream and sub-stream separately<br />
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Exception Detection</h4>
Scene change detection<br />
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Note the Smart Supplement Light setting in Display setting is for the IR LEDs and so does nothing here.<br />
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Day/Night Switch is what tells to be in color or B&W mode at "night"<br />
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The Smart Supplement Light white LEDs are controlled on this page under System Settings.<br />
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Note the light is unfortunately almost useless in most cases as the the ideal setting to avoid blacking out background detail seems to be 4-5 and it will not reliably switch on below 5. Even at 5, it lights up well beyond the view of the cams to what looks real close to 180 degrees which has both good and bad features. For instance, properly placed it not only assists its view when ambient light falls below what is needed but also can assist <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/color%20at%20night">other low light cams </a>that need just a bit more help that then ColorVus. Check out <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/04/colorvu-supplemental-light-off-axis-test.html">ColorVu supplemental light off/on axis tests</a>.<br />
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2.8 mm version</h3>
The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082K9WLWJ">HS-VUT04G1-IA 2.8 mm version</a> is virtual identical to the one form Nelly's.<br />
Firmware on the Nelly's cams was V5.6.2 build 191111<br />
Firmware on the 2.8mm was V5.6.2 build 190701<br />
Nelly's has firmware downloads and support on their site. The vendor looked a bit sketchy so I stuck the cam on my test network for a couple days to see if it was going to do anything odd but it seems clean with no out bound traffic. I also upgraded the monitoring on my main network which did highlight an issue with my one <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/GW%20Security">GW Security camera</a>. Fortunately already being blocked. But now I'll be more likely to alerts if anything else tries something.<br />
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Anyway before I swapped the 2.8 mm in as the SE sky cam I set it up for a few minutes just below the 4 mm to get some shots of the the diff the view angle makes.<br />
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Just 109 degrees versus 94 degrees but if you are looking to stitch them together and or get a bit more vertical coverage like me that diff can be a deal breaker.<br />
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One last thing about these that is nice. The POE connection seal which seems to be getting to be standard now. (The <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua">Dahua</a>s and the latest <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Amcrest">Amcrest</a>s came with matching ones.) It allows a RJ45 through yet seals air tight which makes swapping them out easy.<br />
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Added a second 2.8 mm to replace the 4 mm so they match. Just ordered a 3rd so I can get a panorama from almost due east to about due north. Unfortunately I do not have a good spot for the north west quarter.<br />
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Update 4/6/2020</h3>
I'm up to 6 of these now. The one on the driveway is the 4 mm version. The rest are the 2.8 mm versions.<br />
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Might be hard to tell but the above is from 9:24 PM with little bit of moon light you can see on the top center. For compare here are all the cams on that server. Note the 2 other color cams are <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Amcrest">Amcrest</a>s (top row) and a <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search/label/Dahua">Dahua</a> (bird feeder) with the exposure set to 1/3 and the gain to 100.<br />
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<br />Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-46275233213719055222020-01-29T18:33:00.002-08:002021-08-26T10:37:16.313-07:00Eval:Plate Recognizer in Blue Iris 5<br />
Cams used in the post:<br />
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<li>DAH695 and DAH616: <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Outdoor-IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA-Motorized-2-7-13-5mm-Optical/dp/B07TK9VC97">VIKVIZ (Dahua OEM) 6MP PoE IP Camera Outdoor, Bullet Security Camera Video Surveillance with 2.7-13.5mm 5X Optical Zoom,197ft Night Vision,Built-in Audio Input,SD Slot,H.265,Onvif,IP67 (IPC-HFW4631H-ZSA)</a></li>
<li>Reo588: <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Reolink-Security-Optical-Outdoor-RLC-511/dp/B07GNFSWCS">Reolink PoE Camera 5MP Super HD 4X Optical Zoom Outdoor Indoor IP Security IR Night Vision Motion Detection RLC-511</a></li>
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Caveats:</h3>
The <a href="http://platerecognizer.com/">LPR partnered with Blue Iris 5</a> is cloud based meaning it uploads triggered pic to a server which is hampered by timing of triggers on top of the quality of the image sent. <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/01/some-quick-thoughts-on-license-plate.html">Positioning of the cam, lighting and speed of the vehicle will of course factor in</a>. <a href="https://platerecognizer.com/blog/camera-setup/">More here</a>. A better solution, if you have the cash, might be <a href="https://www.openalpr.com/">OpenLPR</a> which works on streaming video to a local server. Prices range from $5/cam/month to $1995/cam/month. Though I'm thinking the best solution is a <a href="https://www.nellyssecurity.com/blog/articles/video-surveillance/best-license-plate-recognition-camera-nsc-lpr832-bt1">cam designed for player reading that has LPR in the cam</a>. That will set you back at least $500 though. Still could be cheaper in the long run and more practical than sending video to a server to process.<br />
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Note <a href="https://blueirissoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445">I and many others have been seeing the web server crash a lot with Blue Iris 5</a> Going to be waiting to upgrade any more servers till that gets sorts. But till then I though I'd look at the new AI built-ins.<br />
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You should turn off any overlays from the camera so the it does not see them as the plate number. And even then there might be issues.<br />
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Note only one of these is a license plate. And looking at the uploaded images it appears to have completely missed me going and returning twice today though the config looks unchanged from the last time it worked.<br />
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Setup:</h3>
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<a href="https://platerecognizer.com/vms/blueiris/">BI5 plate recognizer setup instructions.</a> Set up was quick and easy.<br />
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First look:</h3>
Given I'm just looking to log cars coming in my gate I figured <a href="https://platerecognizer.com/pricing/">their free tier</a> might be enough. Gets a bit pricey for watching a neighborhood gate or parking lot.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Note the timestamps on the cam pics are UTC like the plate log.</span></b></span><br />
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The first thing that hit me was I need to dial my triggers way back so it will only be sending things that are probably cars to stay in the free range. Even though I thought I'd dialed it back pretty good I had 41 alerts in the first 2 1/2 hours I had it turned on. It did get the plate on my while I was pulling out with the trash but not when I pushed it back up the driveway.<br />
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It did not get the one off a truck that pulled in to turn around after dark either. Though in that case it probably could not have been able to make out the plate since I could not. Should have uploaded a pic though. It think because it did not quite cross zones.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think the dividing line was just this side of the tires.</td></tr>
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So I adjusted the zones again (replaced right 1/3 of 2 full width zones with a third to trigger on people using the turnaround like the truck) and turned it off for the night.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">now with 3 zones. 2 on left 1 on right.</td></tr>
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I might want to swap to the gate cam instead as it could see the plate on the truck well from its angle and distance. Though that also means it will be tough not to trip with passing traffic. Especially at night with headlights shining off the gate and trees.<br />
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Update 2/4/2020:</h3>
Totally missed a neighbor's visit both coming and going in the middle of the day. Plus even weirder it thinks it made out the cameras name as a plate on my work glove as I passed. Again times are UTC where local is UTC-6<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice no car pics for 2/3 though it did see me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me carrying a chainsaw. I guess my movement triggered the LPR and the only text it found was the cameras name overlay.</td></tr>
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The neighbor did trigger the BI motion detection 6 times. You can see the first image here along with the 6 clip blank clip icons o the left. (The blank icons is another random issue I've been seeing in BI5.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note I pixelated the plate here. It was perfectly clear.</td></tr>
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It got me thinking the one trigger point might not be enough so I reduced the 3 zones I have and added 3 more to hopefully trigger earlier and more often in case they are getting dropped or something. Unfortunately all the zones you are not currently editing show up as the same color so they look like one but there are 6, A thru F.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basically 4 strip zones to catch "vertical" movement and 2 block sections on right to catch going into turn around or on up drive.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the crossings set up like this. (Note F was added between the road and A which starts at the gate.)</td></tr>
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I also cranked the sensitivity a bit from min object size of 675 to 525 which should be about the size of a car at the gate.<br />
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One think I did not mention earlier is there is also a motion detector at the gate that triggers the driveway cams as well. It is a bit laggy but unaffected by the headlights going by. So at night I only use that to trigger the LPR by setting a separate profile and scheduling the switch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note no motion sensing selected but the LPR AI is configured for this profile as well.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the relative to sunrise/sunset option and you can click on "Days" button to select a group of days or a single day.</td></tr>
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<h3>
Update 2/7/2020:</h3>
Another gotcha. Not sure how but it appears my LPR config disappeared from both profiles. It posted a pic at 7:28 AM UTC (1:28 AM local the schedule is using) but when I looked to see how it did with today's FedEx delivery there was nothing. And when I checked my settings in BI5 I found the LPR disabled with no config info. The global profile override schedule was still in place. I then noticed the profile number was not in place on the frame as it had been when the schedule was working. Trying to go into the cameras motion detection config seemed to make the app unresponsive till I tried to close the app at which time the motion detection config dialog appeared.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note blank clips and motion detection preview window</td></tr>
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Restarting the console told me an update was ready so I let that install. After the profile indicator was back on the camera frame. The LPR config was still there. Makes me think a subsystem died or such. Note the clip images were still black so I did a DB repair which sorted that. However I found the active part of zone F was inverted. I'll have to keep a closer eye on this and see if there is some more monitoring I can setup.<br />
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Update 2/25/2020 New Issue.</h3>
Seem to have found a new issue with BI5. Looks like my motion detection quit working on all cams about 3 days ago. Not positive but I think a Blue Iris subsystem died without notification. This is VERY bad. Not only has no LPR posts been made for 3 days but no video was marked with motion events either from BI motion detection or by external triggers. Rebooted box and motion detection is working again but not sure how I can even monitor for this yet.<br />
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Update 3/13/2020 swapped out Reolink with Dahua</h3>
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Moved the 2 Reolink to other locations / servers since BI5 does not seem to like them which seem to have sorted the corrupted and hung video issues. I also let me add trip line triggers from in cam detection to help reduce lag. Unfortunately it has not done much for improving detection as you can see here.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The shot on March 13, 2020, 12:03 a.m. UTC looks almost perfect those the plate was still not clear enough for it to work. </span></td></tr>
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I think that is about it for this LPR. There are some other options to try on my todo list.</div>
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Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-29893521500099336012020-01-16T12:52:00.006-08:002022-10-31T11:12:55.899-07:00What size PC do I need for Blue Iris?I would always suggest you get the fastest CPU and GPU you can afford with enough hard disk space to save about a week's worth of 24/7 video (<a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/search?q=24%2F7">you should always record 24/7</a>). To figure the HD space is not that hard. <a href="https://www.freedomvms.com/calculator/index.html">Just use this tool.</a> It will also tell you how much bandwidth you would need to get to the NVR or <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2017/04/some-things-to-keep-in-mind-if-you-are.html">cloud storage</a>.<br />
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You should also look at <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/wiki/optimizing-blue-iris-s-cpu-usage">Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage</a> to get the most out of the hardware you have.<br />
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But if you are trying to sort the minimum CPU and GPU you can get away with or trying to justify the cost of an upgrade I should note it is almost impossible to get a definitive improvement number of X setup over Y unless you have both running side my side looking at the same cams. Things like the amount of motion the cams are seeing, overlays and other features in use factor in too. However this page <a href="https://biupdatehelper.hopto.org/default.html#stats">Blue Iris Performance Statistics</a> has a sortable and filterable table of config and load data collected from around 1400 user servers. <div><br /></div><div>On IP cam talk there is <a href="https://ipcamtalk.com/wiki/choosing-hardware-for-blue-iris/" target="_blank">Choosing Hardware for Blue Iris</a> though it recommends 6th gen and older though I'd say 8th gen is probably the best bang for the buck since it has <a href="https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6700/3940vs3515" target="_blank">12 threads instead of 8</a> and the cost diff is often less than $100. Plus you are talking a lot newer hardware so it will probably be working longer. See update below about a 10th gen I found on Prime day for an 8th gen price.<br /><div><br /></div><div>But that still just gets you in the ballpark.<br />
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For instance I have this <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2C6LQ0">i7-4790</a> I bought used almost 5 years ago now with 10 outdoor cams that was running 50-60% CPU when I looked at it the other day when it was relatively calm. Today it looks like this, maxing out about 72%<br />
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I built a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CKF6MRK">i7-8700</a> with those same 10 cams to replace the 4790 PC. Even after adding another 6MP cam it was running 20-30% CPU during the same period as the above. Today it is maxing about 21%<br />
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While both have the same configs for the cams in common but even without the extra cam that is not definitive for the CPU because the newer machine also has a better GPU (730 vs 1050), twice the RAM and is running BI5 instead of 4. Though the newer system actually appears to be using the GPU where the older one does not. (<a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix">The 730 does not appear to be supported for much.</a>) Below are my other 3 servers to give an idea how motion, CPU and GPU factor in. All use an SSD for the Blue Iris DB and close to the same HDs for recording so the storage should not be much of a factor between setups. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: #444444;">Note you can look at the motion column in the cam listings to get an idea of the amount of motion each cam relative to others on that server is seeing though the numbers are not relative between servers / consoles since the counts all start at server reboot. Also in almost all cases other than cam 93 the ones showing NoSignal counts are WiFi cams.</span><br />
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This one is close to max with 9 outdoor and 3 indoor cams on it.<br />
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This one pretty maxed at 15 outdoor cams on it. <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Note I noticed the next day, after rebooting for updates, it was using the GPU pretty heavy. Similar CPU load though.</span></span><br />
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And just to show the diff motion can make, this one with 23 active and 1 offline indoor cams that could handle a few more.<br />
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<br />Update time to shuffle cams again. Having 27 indoor cams pushing almost 1000 MP/s is maxing Iris4<br />
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvT3ma28e6ulbGwOaQFuPW8MbqLKLrCryAo6AhuLW5LqCdWFyEp4QuBAfRHpyiHV4qhTql5JjA91CgPvnJUhKqqBqVs2M_F4tD3S8BNBBSRphCVoGeqVBTRg8xlg04vxNtpAQpNSztQ/s1920/Screenshot+2020-09-15+102216.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvT3ma28e6ulbGwOaQFuPW8MbqLKLrCryAo6AhuLW5LqCdWFyEp4QuBAfRHpyiHV4qhTql5JjA91CgPvnJUhKqqBqVs2M_F4tD3S8BNBBSRphCVoGeqVBTRg8xlg04vxNtpAQpNSztQ/w640-h360/Screenshot+2020-09-15+102216.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Update 7/5/2021:</div><div><div>Wow you wonder how much diff an upgrade can make. I got a PC with a 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10700 8-Core Processor running at 2.8Ghz with just the onboard Intel 630 graphics to start with on Prime Day. Cost less than the last 8th gen i7 I bought with half the RAM. Installed latest BI 5.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is replacing 6th gen i7 4-Core at 3.4Ghz with a Geforce 730 running BI 4 (Iris 4 above) with a bit more optimization and less cams from previous tests. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700-vs-Intel-Core-i7-10700/3515vs4077" target="_blank">CPU Benchmark compare</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Same RAM and SSD C drive with spinning for storage. </div><div><br /></div><div>I imported settings from the old to the new so they are identical and running side by side processing exactly the same streams from 22 active indoor cams.</div><div><br /></div><div>Old system 13 to 34% CPU for Blue Iris</div><div>New system 3 to 4%!</div></div><div>Note the % reported by BI is lower than Task Manager by around 3% on both.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67CzEgxEJ5xehPFEiAaR6M6TY-xV6JFR7BHeDjYz0euTaaXZvPMrkkmUiT7SVppVaf4X8QRHqEvQxPrlE5rs8qF4UkHMJVRCxjb2HcAR9gQKHdUAUWfJxJDtVdOtKHb8HCs3r4F51cA/s1360/Screenshot+2021-07-05+142816.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1360" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67CzEgxEJ5xehPFEiAaR6M6TY-xV6JFR7BHeDjYz0euTaaXZvPMrkkmUiT7SVppVaf4X8QRHqEvQxPrlE5rs8qF4UkHMJVRCxjb2HcAR9gQKHdUAUWfJxJDtVdOtKHb8HCs3r4F51cA/w640-h362/Screenshot+2021-07-05+142816.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iris7 load picture</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I should be able to pull the other indoor cams back onto this server and even run DeepStack on it without maxing it out.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is shot with all the indoor cams back on the server. Though the Wyze cams are getting almost impossible to keep online these days. I'm going to have to replace them all.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifyLsrV0xBb59g0hRjrdFYKIxlBLSQ9528JyPqRox4S2yUPVt03-MFNcyF7pbQS4184QsHiu3d3nMpuysD-g8gneKSXqdrNHwK4yHdkvwv6crLlRd4TsZge972ibCLQnZ9tJIOY_q00A/s1920/Screenshot+2021-11-06+111413.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifyLsrV0xBb59g0hRjrdFYKIxlBLSQ9528JyPqRox4S2yUPVt03-MFNcyF7pbQS4184QsHiu3d3nMpuysD-g8gneKSXqdrNHwK4yHdkvwv6crLlRd4TsZge972ibCLQnZ9tJIOY_q00A/w640-h360/Screenshot+2021-11-06+111413.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iris 7 load picture with all indoor cams on it</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Almost 1100 MP/s and peaking at around 14% load. Note I could be running DeepStack on here as well but I went with onw DeepStack on my main Linux server for all 5 BI servers to only have one to easily monitor.</div><div><br /></div>Avatar42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989695403513365236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14522640352871297.post-71583816555166425352020-01-11T09:27:00.003-08:002021-08-26T10:38:29.531-07:00Some quick thoughts on license plate reading.Prob is, thanks to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk">TV, movies</a> and even <a href="https://qz.com/1540488/in-just-two-years-9000-of-these-cameras-were-installed-to-spy-on-your-car/">media</a>, people think they should be able to log plates passing with something like a Ring doorbell cam so more and more people seem to be wanting to do this l<a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr">ike local governments are</a>. But that is <a href="https://www.a1securitycameras.com/license-plate-recognition-cameras/?mode=6&sort=priceasc&limit=100">probably out of your price range</a>. If you just want to be able grab shots of plates coming through a gate or other narrow / slow moving space it is not that complicated. <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2018/03/draftmicroseven-6-22mm-3mp-manual-zoom.html">I've been able to pull plates of people coming up my driveway at 100 feet with fairly cheap cams</a>.<br />
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When it comes to reading plates you need:</h3>
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At least 7 pixels per inch at the target distance. (that is rez AND lens view angle)</h4>
In my post <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/doing-math-on-pixels-per-inch-at.html">Doing the math on pixels per inch at a distance for your cam</a> I pointed out the math involved in getting the min number of pixels to be able to make out a plate.<br />
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The camera focused for that distance</h4>
Most cams are fixed focus and have the lens glued in place so you can not adjust it much less swap it out. To give you and idea watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB_pBWN-BKw">this video of a guy that swapping out the lens in a Wyze cam</a>. Sadly <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2017/01/hikvision-ds-2cd2035-i.html">higher priced brands do similar</a>. You might want to look at <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/01/a-quick-compare-of-focus.html">my compare between static and auto focus versions of a some Reolink cams</a>.<br />
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Enough contrast to make those pixels usable.</h4>
See <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/08/viewing-night-sky-in-color-with-amcrest.html">this post on low light</a> which helps get you a bit more.<br />
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And if the target is moving, a high enough frame rate and shutter speed to minimize motion blur and get a frame in the target range.</h4>
There is some good info <a href="https://umbrellatech.co/license-plate-recognition-vs-license-plate-capturing-cameras/">here about frame rates and such needed</a>.<br />
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And if you are looking to read them at night you need to think about reflections.</h4>
<a href="https://www.nellyssecurity.com/blog/articles/video-surveillance/best-license-plate-recognition-camera-nsc-lpr832-bt1">Nelly's Security has a nice post about this</a>.<br />
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It should be obvious but no tracking or battery powered cams.</h4>
But if you need convincing <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2019/12/pan-tilt-and-zoom-worth-money.html">read this</a>.<br />
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Then there are plugin options</h3>
Like <a href="https://platerecognizer.com/blueiris/">this one for Blue Iris</a> that is on my eval to-do list. Though so far <a href="https://securitycam101.rmrr42.com/2020/01/evalplate-recognizer-in-blue-iris-5.html">I'm not impressed</a>.<br />
<a href="https://www.openalpr.com/">OpenALPR </a>which has and open API and cloud based services.<br />
This post shows <a href="https://community.smartthings.com/t/blueiris-machine-learning-for-vehicle-and-people-detection-webcore-make-your-ip-cameras-smarter/168624">how to link Blue Iris and SmartThings through a learning AI system for alerts</a>.<br />
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Keep in mind a system using triggered pics means you are betting the camera will trigger and send the best image of the video to send which gets iffier as vehicle speed increases. Better systems do recog in cam or stream or push video to a LPR system to let it grab the best image or use multiple images to increase accuracy.<br />
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