Evolv-ing Thread

[awsum140]

BI software isn't all that expensive, under $100, and support is inexpensive as well. A machine to run it on, assuming a dedicated machine, can be had as a re-furb for under $400. If you already have a decent i5 or i7 desktop collecting dust it doesn't cost anything. Adding drives for recording costs a couple of hundred bucks, but most packaged systems that use NVRs, like the Costco stuff, have too small a drive in them anyway. PoE switches aren't all that expensive, under $100 for unmanaged 8 port or $200 for a managed 24 port. The real killer is cameras. I have one that was almost $200, low light with a 12X varifocal lens, but the rest were in the $120 range. Keep in mind a varifocal is not a zoom. It's meant to be set at installation and left alone while a zoom is made for, more or less, continuous focal length changes. The pan-tilt-zoom stuff seems nice, especially with automated tracking and pre-set positioning, but they get expensive really fast, $350 and up to well over $1K-$5K depending on zoom and bells and whistles. Getting CAT5 or CAT6 out to them can be problematic, but it's a one time thing. I already had a good RJ crimper and cable tester from my networking days so I didn't need them and with years of experience with alarm system and network wiring it isn't hard to do.

I will say that I learned, the hard way, that buying "inexpensive" cameras is a waste of money. The video can show you what happened, but not who did it.

 

[SlickWilly]

FYI: Got an email from Wizard Labs, sale going on now, 50% off FlavourArt

Wizard Labs

 

[Rossum]

 

[SlickWilly]

I'm beat, got a lot of work done today, well a lot for me. Got a lot of stuff done around here then went to the cemetery to spruce up my parents and grand parents lots, I was sicken from the condition of the place, worst I've ever seen it. They had mowed in the last day or two and they must have let the grass get really, really high, it looked like a cut hay field. There were huge clumps of cut grass and it got thrown all over the headstones, it was so bad you couldn't read the names on most. All the plants and flowers left had been covered with cut grass. I came back home, got my weed wacker, rake and tools to clean it up. Dad's bronze service plaque was over grown and buried with weeds and grass, I used the weed wacker to cut the grass back to proper height then raked everything up, cleaned up around the plants, cleaned the headstone and plaque, put down new mulch and a couple flags, looks nice now, I know some of my aunts and uncles will be coming this weekend.

While I was there I saw a couple and their teen daughter walking around, back and forth, finally the lady came over and asked if I knew where the Ross lot was, unfortunately not. She was in tears, "I can't find my family's headstone, I can't read them unless I clean them off. How can they treat all these lots like this?" I felt really bad for them, she said they were from out of state, I don't think they ever found the lot, they were still looking an hour later when I got ready to leave. I can't believe on Memorial Day weekend they leave it in that condition.

 

[SlickWilly]

And Mom use to give me hell for sticking beans up my nose when I was a kid.

 

[awsum140]

I use ground coffee, better "buzz".

 

[dwcraig1]

To insure that the wick tails can make a nice easy bend downward with Aromizer v1 this is how I bend the coil's legs......just saying.

Not fired as yet so not quite finished, I use contact coils only.....still

 

[sabre66]

My friends use Dahua cameras I used to use Hikvision but now I'm all Avigilon and Axis on Avigilon VMS.

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[cigatron]

Someone recycled a bunch of plastic chairs in a groovy way.

 

[SlickWilly]

Someone recycled a bunch of plastic chairs in a groovy way.

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Love it, looks nice too! And all the gum under the seats will help hold it together.

 

[kiba]

I'm beat, got a lot of work done today, well a lot for me. Got a lot of stuff done around here then went to the cemetery to spruce up my parents and grand parents lots, I was sicken from the condition of the place, worst I've ever seen it. They had mowed in the last day or two and they must have let the grass get really, really high, it looked like a cut hay field. There were huge clumps of cut grass and it got thrown all over the headstones, it was so bad you couldn't read the names on most. All the plants and flowers left had been covered with cut grass. I came back home, got my weed wacker, rake and tools to clean it up. Dad's bronze service plaque was over grown and buried with weeds and grass, I used the weed wacker to cut the grass back to proper height then raked everything up, cleaned up around the plants, cleaned the headstone and plaque, put down new mulch and a couple flags, looks nice now, I know some of my aunts and uncles will be coming this weekend.

While I was there I saw a couple and their teen daughter walking around, back and forth, finally the lady came over and asked if I knew where the Ross lot was, unfortunately not. She was in tears, "I can't find my family's headstone, I can't read them unless I clean them off. How can they treat all these lots like this?" I felt really bad for them, she said they were from out of state, I don't think they ever found the lot, they were still looking an hour later when I got ready to leave. I can't believe on Memorial Day weekend they leave it in that condition.

Some of my family including my both two grandpa's are in arlington cemetery, from both sides, we go sometimes, it's kept up decent we were there last memorial day.... tbh I never liked visiting & I don't think my grandpa even wanted that from what he told me. personally idk if I want that for my loved ones I'd probably just rather them burn me, I'd rather remember my loved ones in my own way

Those cameras are great from I've read. Definitely in a higher league. Major league cost to get it all up and running too.
Arlo now offers 1080p cameras too but yes, wifi range is limited. Still, the cameras require no cables which makes it ideal for the common DIYer.
Apples to Oranges comparison though.

That's what I have (arlo's), three inside my small place & one that was outside but I'd had to take it down to remount it, they work pretty well but do have their shortcomings. They work decently well behind the vpn layer which I use for all the smart home stuff without a ton of lag. The nighthawk router & access point I have have the option to do an encrypted channel with them but I have not tried it to see exactly what it is.

What I do is I trigger them via ifttt commands to the motion detectors so I won't need a separate rackof external HD's, we get a lot of cat videos though

Well, another one of those days. My surveillance software crashed at about 12:30 today. It checks for updates and, if there is one, installs it and restarts itself at 12:30 every day. It did update, but didn't restart. As soon as I noticed it I restarted the surveillance software and all was fine.

Fast forward to after dinner. I went in and wanted to look at a video from two days ago from a specific camera. The program crashed again just getting the timeline up. This time I rebooted the machine. It started loading windows, then went into the drive light flashing about 10 times a minute and stayed like that. I let it sit like that for almost a half hour. Keep in mind this is an i7-6700K based machine so boot time is under a minute normally. Every time that's happened before it's been from a failed SSD drive. So, I powered the machine down and restarted again. This time I got the Winderz repair screen, so I said go ahead and bring it up. It's been sitting, apparently trying to load repair tools, for almost an hour now.

I have a sinking feeling another SSD drive has bit the dust. Unfortunately, this time, it's the boot drive. I think I'll go back to platter based drives. All of the Samsung EVO drives I've bought have failed and none is over two years old and don't get a lot of read/write activity.

To add insult to injury I just started a test install of Acronis backup on this craptop but haven't backed up that machine yet. My plan is to rebuild Mrs. Awsum's desktop, which she never uses, and use that as a backup server for all the machines. I booted that today and found out how far technology has come in ten years and how much Winderz has changed since XP, and it was pretty much "state of the art" when I built it.

I prefer the m.2/optane it just works so fast compared to the old clunkers that I won't mind if it only lasts a year, I don't use the Samsung though poor heat dissipation on all their products, I use corsair only for when I can... Anyways I have two of the Intel optane (boot), several of the force LE 490gb ones (gaming HD) & a couple of regular force LE sata ssd's for regular storage... had the corsair ones 3years so far not a single problem in either rig.

The mp/force m.2 stuff from corsair are imo (built - to last - wise) better than anything else bc they're the only ones with the phison heat dissipation spread out the entire pcb evenly while they also have a heavy duty heat sink on top of that.

The Samsung one, which is slightly faster I wanted to try one, it had a peice of tin foil on top & heat would build up right at the terminal. It was bad I had to sell it. If you can find a thermal image of one you'll see what I mean.

 

[SlickWilly]

Some of my family including my both two grandpa's are in arlington cemetery, from both sides, we go sometimes, it's kept up decent we were there last memorial day.... tbh I never liked visiting & I don't think my grandpa even wanted that from what he told me. personally idk if I want that for my loved ones I'd probably just rather them burn me, I'd rather remember my loved ones in my own way

I agree with you, Dad long ago bought a lot and head stone, but during his last few months he decided and told me wanted to be cremated, we granted his wish. When we met at the cemetery to place his ashes at his headstone to our surprise he had picked a poem and ask it be read to us, this is it.

Native American Poetry

I'm not here

Don't stand by my grave and weep
For I am not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamonds glint on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autums rain
When you awaken in mornings hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quite birds in circle flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there, I did not die.

I am the only one left here where Mom and Dad are buried, after they past my siblings slowly went their own way and moved away so I'm the caretaker. I was Dad's caretaker during his battle with the cancer, I was with him when the doctors told him, I helped him get all his affairs in order, I took him to his treatments, what ever he needed me to do I was there for him. From the day I sat there and heard what the doctor was telling him until he past there wasn't a day I didn't spend some time with him, it was damn hard but we also had the time to say all the things we wanted to say to each other, there was nothing left unsaid, a lot of people don't get that opportunity. There are no regrets, I was proud to walk the road with him, proud to be his son, I'm proud to care for his lot and keep it nice, I know he would have done the same for me. Sometimes it's hard when I'm there but I try to remember, he's not there, he's waiting for me elsewhere.

That said, I will never put my family through the pain I went through then and still carry with me, I don't want them to have those memories of me, I rather they just remember the good times.

 

[dwcraig1]

Tonight I made and installed the 2nd coil in my 2nd Aromamizer(pictured above). This is the first time in probably a couple of years that I didn't lightly torch the wire prior to coiling.
Just for the record the wire used was CrazyWires SS430, seems pretty soft. I didn't wick it though, just put it away for future use.

 

[dwcraig1]

Can someone tell me why this is being said?
"This Salted Edition is made with nicotine salts and are ONLY for closed loop systems like the Suorin Air, Vagon and Drop. DO NOT use this juice in your regular sub ohm vape devices!"

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[Steamer861]

 

[cigatron]

Can someone tell me why this is being said?
"This Salted Edition is made with nicotine salts and are ONLY for closed loop systems like the Suorin Air, Vagon and Drop. DO NOT use this juice in your regular sub ohm vape devices!"

Could it be because nic salts have a very low to non existent throat hit and vaping them in an atty that produces tons of vapor could easily over-nic someone? The nic in those nic salts can really sneak up on ya. Don't ask.

 

[SlickWilly]

 

[SlickWilly]