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I don't know how far away your neighbor's car is, but if my math is correct, and if the info I've researched is correct, then the absolute max distance that a license plate should be legible with that camera is somewhere between 60 and 70 feet in the best conditions. That's perfect lighting, plate d...

"The hook up" guy on Youtube seems absolutely enamored with his Reolink cams, and he's been through quite a few cameras! Maybe you can tweak a few settings to improve the quality for your specific location. ...

Pretty sure it picks up signals from the meter, it's not measuring the water flow itself. [quote]When water flows through a household water meter, a magnetic disc spins inside of the meter, which correlates directly to a water flow rate. The Flume sensor measures the magnetic field from the mete...

Same everything except day instead of night, though it is a dreary overcast day. Amcrest [img]https://i.imgur.com/FC3i1gO.jpg[/img] UniFi [img]https://i.imgur.com/agueKm1.jpg[/img] The Amcrest looks posterized or something and not at all natural. And I can't be sure, but again I th...

[quote]After a week of monitoring and 2300 gallons of water usage I can report the difference between the meter reading and the flume is 0.1 gallons. [/quote]That is fricking incredible and I never would have guessed it worked that well, happy to hear that it does! I don't think I can live withou...

Back with another head-to-head, this time the UniFi G3 Flex (1080p/2MP, $79) vs. the Amcrest IP5M-T1179EW (5MP, $50). Subject is a picnic table with a DeWalt impact driver on top, ~30' from the cameras. Very minimal lighting, night mode on both cameras. Amcrest [img]https://i.imgur.com/pWnBSMU...

[quote]No I don't believe you can.[/quote]So this is what some might call "a bad thing". ...

[quote]LIke being in an eco system where your whole digital life--frorm Computer to phone to pad to Watch to home speakers to even headphones smoothly and effortlessly integrate is such bad thing...[/quote]These things can be achieved with industry or open standards rather than proprietary methods. ...

[quote]Hate both Apple and Google as companies so I don't really know what to do.[/quote]frick it get a [link=(https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/)]Librem 5[/link]...

[quote]Not typically. RDP usually sets the remote PC at the windows login screen while being remoted in to[/quote]Does it? Sorry, I've been off Windows for 15 years. So it's a true remote login and not a screen share? Can IT still snoop?...

[quote]So if I’m using VPN they can’t sit at my desk and watch me work?[/quote]When you work from home, do you see the screen/icons/etc that are on your computer at work?...

If you remote desktop then yes the people at the machine can see. But typically when you connect via VPN it just gives you access to resources at work as if the computer you are using were there, so you aren't controlling another computer. ...

Can I ask why you want an AIO specifically? Space? Looks? I ask because you can get better value from separate monitor and computer. And there are some incredibly small desktop machines if space and noise are concerns. They can even mount to the back of a monitor to give you a pseudo-AIO. Also...

[quote]I have google wifi at my house. I have a detached garage with a puck in it. on the other side of the detached garage is a metal building. I have a puck in it. My ISP is 100/10. I get about 35mbps in the metal building.[/quote]That's pretty good and impressive actually. A lot of factors are at...

I'm really curious how well those work on different circuits and legs. Did it take some trial and error to find a good outlet to use inside the house?...

Two brick walls will likely degrade the signal pretty significantly. If you don't want to or can't run wire, the next best option is a point to point wireless link. There are tons of options here, and any of them should work fine over just 65' (some of them shoot for miles). Search google or...

Did you go to each device and "forget" the LAN network? You had to have input the password at some point....

:lol: I wasn't trying to bust your balls btw, I was just wondering if things have changed since I last researched it a few years back. I wish it was easy for anyone to spin up an email server, but unfortunately I think spammers have made that all but impossible to do without losing your sanity....

Alright, so I've got some time in with Protect at a relatively busy location. It's got 8 cameras recording always (and events generated on motion) running on a Cloud Key Plus with 5TB Seagate spinning drive. I'll start by saying the spinning HDD is absolutely the bottleneck by FAR, but for home ...

Well they did it, and it wasn't the first time. From what I understand, they've faced class action suits over this practice, but I guess the profits outweigh the legal costs. Edit: Slight correction I guess, the printer didn't actually "brick" the cartridges, it just refused to use them. But g...