Evolv-ing Thread

[awsum140]

I sprang for a new camera to replace the POS Reolink I bought years ago, before I knew any better. A Dahua T5442TM-AS. They're both 4MP with the Reostink having a varifocal lens while the Dahua has a fixed, 3.6mm, lens. Pardon the pun, but the difference is like night and day. I can leave the Dahua in color mode at night with just the ambient light from the street lights. The Reostink was, basically, blind at night even with its own IR lghts on and a couple of auxiliary IRs I installed trying to get a decent picture from it. The difference is sensor size and sensor quality.

 

[CMD-Ky]

I sprang for a new camera to replace the POS Reolink I bought years ago, before I knew any better. A Dahua T5442TM-AS. They're both 4MP with the Reostink having a varifocal lens while the Dahua has a fixed, 3.6mm, lens. Pardon the pun, but the difference is like night and day. I can leave the Dahua in color mode at night with just the ambient light from the street lights. The Reostink was, basically, blind at night even with its own IR lghts on and a couple of auxiliary IRs I installed trying to get a decent picture from it. The difference is sensor size and sensor quality.

I would like to "like" this post but it is over my head. I have not a clue. [but wish I did]

 

[awsum140]

I took it easy and din't get into sensor size versus pixel size versus light received by each pixel on the sensor. A fixed lens, typically, has a somewhat lower F stop than a varifocal which is a slight advantage as well.

 

[SlickWilly]

I sprang for a new camera to replace the POS Reolink I bought years ago, before I knew any better. A Dahua T5442TM-AS. They're both 4MP with the Reostink having a varifocal lens while the Dahua has a fixed, 3.6mm, lens. Pardon the pun, but the difference is like night and day. I can leave the Dahua in color mode at night with just the ambient light from the street lights. The Reostink was, basically, blind at night even with its own IR lghts on and a couple of auxiliary IRs I installed trying to get a decent picture from it. The difference is sensor size and sensor quality.

That's pretty darn good if you can leave it in color mode at night! A few of my neighbors and some of the town folk take great offense to my security cams out front, been thinking about replacing them with some pin hole camera's that no one can see. I don't get it, I have them covering the two entrances to my driveways, not their property! They sure seem to pay an awful lot of attention to what Wilson does. Small town gossiper's, they need to get a hobby, or a life! LoL

 

[SlickWilly]

and here i thought christmas was over

Nah, nothing like that. It's just tools, for fixing stuff. Ho Ho Ho!

 

[Blitzdonlife]

Played around with escribe today for a couple of hours. This is my first dna mod, so I'm climbing the learning curve, but it's fun. Figured out how to add replay to a theme that didn't have it before. Neat how many things you can customize.

 

[SlickWilly]

I would like to "like" this post but it is over my head. I have not a clue. [but wish I did]

Don't worry, they are over everyone's head. LoL

 

[SlickWilly]

Played around with escribe today for a couple of hours. This a my first dna mod, so I'm climbing the learning curve, but it's fun. Figured out how to add replay to a theme that didn't have it before. Neat how many things you can customize.

It is amazing the features they put into these boards. All I own is mods that have Evolv boards, I'll be a customer for life. And if you ever have a problem, their customer service is top notch.

 

[BillW50]

Been fighting the last day and a half trying to get Win 10 to dual boot with Win 7, followed the instructions to a T and it just won't work, even did another clean install of 10. I have to jump into BIOS during boot and manually tell it which drive to boot, sick of fighting it, I'll just jump into BIOS each time.

Oh did you set each of them up in their own primary partition? If so, Windows dual-boot can't use them that way, but your BIOS often can. And if both Windows were installed using a C boot drive, that could be another problem. It can work though if the other operating system sees the other as something else.

 

[Blitzdonlife]

It is amazing the features they put into these boards. All I own is mods that have Evolv boards, I'll be a customer for life. And if you ever have a problem, their customer service is top notch.

I thought it was all hype before I got this one, but now that I have one I wish I had more of them.

 

[SlickWilly]

Oh did you set each of them up in their own primary partition? If so, Windows dual-boot can't use them that way, but your BIOS often can. And if both Windows were installed using a C boot drive, that could be another problem. It can work though if the other operating system sees the other as something else.

I have 7 and 10 each on their own SSD drives. I may be able to sort it out later, I just got frustrated that it didn't work as they said it would and I walked away from it. At least I can boot into the one I want and really it's not a big deal to hit F12 during boot up, just irks me it doesn't work the way it should. Over the next few weeks I'll slowly set up 10 the way I want it and migrate into it so I probably won't need 7 after a while anyways, but I'll just leave it there in case I ever want to use it.

 

[awsum140]

Hey Willie, are your cameras bullets, turrets or domes? I've been sold on turrets for a while and most people don't even notice them at all. Low profile and smooth shape versus the angular box sticking out that a bullet is. A turret is, basically, a dome without the dome.

 

[BillW50]

I bought two pair of 16GB RAM for two HP 2in1 15 inch touch screen laptops that each only had 4GB. Why they sell Windows 10 x64 machines with just 4GB I'll never know. That only leaves like 1GB for your applications and you can't do much with that. And the machines with 8GB of RAM, they increase the price to like 200 bucks more!

Anyway one of them is one model year newer than the other. I just removed the bottom and everything is right there on the 2019 model. Hard drive, RAM, M.2 slot, etc. The earlier 2018 model, you need to remove the keyboard and the motherboard just to get to the RAM slots. They sure didn't make that one easy.

And dang, I flip the mother board over and there is an unused M.2 slot. I wish I knew it was there before I tore it apart. As I would have added a SSD. Night and day difference though with 16GB. Both of them are both quite usable now. I am not sure what I did to the 2018 touchpad, but it is dead now. You practically need tiny Chinese fingers just to get those ribbon cables on in that tight space. But it isn't a big deal with a touch screen and a mouse anyway.

 

[dwcraig1]

Last night I fired up the surveillance system laptop and was noting boot time, ect. It has been updated to Windows 10 running a 5400 rpm platter. It takes a good 3 minutes to be usable. So then I look at Task Manager and find 19 instances of CCleaner listed but using no resources. So I uninstall CCleaner, no change in boot time though.
My personal Win 10 laptop with SSD boots in maybe 30 seconds, didn't measure it though, maybe I will tonight.

 

[SlickWilly]

Hey Willie, are your cameras bullets, turrets or domes? I've been sold on turrets for a while and most people don't even notice them at all. Low profile and smooth shape versus the angular box sticking out that a bullet is. A turret is, basically, a dome without the dome.

Bullet cams, problem is they all know the cams are there so unless it's something really tiny they'll see them, they'll be looking.

 

[dwcraig1]

Cameras has come a long way in the past few years.

 

[dwcraig1]

My laptop with SSD boots in 15 seconds.

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[BillW50]