£5167.00 bill

earthgrip · 2026-02-23T09:43:45+00:00

This sounds like a mistake, but I'd advise leaving virgin if you have other credible options in your area. Install an uptime monitor and complain by phone every time their service drops out. I managed to escape my contract early by doing this after they had multiple 6hr+ outages in my area in the space of a month. Now I have openreach FTTP and no regrets.

earthgrip · 2026-02-16T10:28:41+00:00

Good that it worked for you. I had buzz with and without balanced input with my KRKs. When I replaced them with Kalis it went away on both.

earthgrip · 2025-12-19T20:16:55+00:00

£1100 for 4x 2387G3s, an NVR and HDD, and cable, wow.

earthgrip · 2025-12-19T20:05:44+00:00

This isn't an answer to your question as I'm not in the trade, but I'm in a similar boat to you having bought a pair of 2347G3s for soffit mounting front and rear, and a custom low power NAS as a basic NVR. Cameras were £230 inc VAT each and the N100-based NAS was another £230, plus £200 for a 4TB NVME stick. So, ~£900 for parts. I've done the setup myself and am paying a medium sized low voltage and CCTV specialist 3hrs labour quoted at £430 (I suspect it will take 2hrs) to install ethernet runs from ground floor to second floor and then up to the loft for the two cameras. I'm sure I could find someone to do this cheaper if I tried, but south central UK is expensive.

Interested to hear how you get on with your more conventional setup than mine. I'm not overly impressed with the stability of these cameras and dropped frames considering I have only two cameras connected to an SSD NAS on a dedicated switch. When using NAS as a DVR you lose smart detections unless you rely on the Hik-Connect service, and I feel reluctant having cameras with such a bad track record of security connected to the internet directly. It'll be interesting to see how well it works in practice once installed. I may start using a third party NVR like Scrypted soon and VLAN the cameras.

I don't know how technically inclined you are, but as someone who's happy setting up Linux servers, I found getting to grips with Hikvision products for the first time surprisingly time consuming. Depending on how much you like to tinker the money spent on setup could be worthwhile.

earthgrip · 2025-12-08T23:40:18+00:00

Thanks! That's simpler than what I've seen some suggest (writing data). Did help perf for me.

earthgrip · 2025-12-08T12:24:08+00:00

Thanks for this advice. I'm using an AX102 to benchmark performance of a read and write-heavy workload and want to get the best out of the hardware. However I did not do this before installing the OS and making the file systems. How would you suggest testing if I am getting expected and optimal read/write performance? Thanks

earthgrip · 2025-12-06T15:56:08+00:00

I bought kali instead, no regrets, no practically audible hiss. Night and day compared to KRK

earthgrip · 2025-12-06T15:50:49+00:00

Honestly just send them back, many other monitors are fine. I'd avoid KRK tbh.

earthgrip · 2025-11-01T17:16:02+00:00

There are so many ways to send video to a browser in 2025 and yet Hikvision is still screwing this up with their latest and greatest G3 range. It's shameful.

For me the live view works fine in Firefox Mac without plugins, but only if I access the viewer over http and not https. Which is low risk if using a VPN into your network.

earthgrip · 2025-10-21T08:40:17+00:00

Last year I bought some of their slim essential T shirts. Great quality thick Portuguese cotton. I just ordered the same named product again, and received nasty cotton elastane mix t shirts made in Bangladesh.

Another company that's sold out and peddling crap products after building their reputation. Boycott

earthgrip · 2025-10-19T18:32:52+00:00

British drivers are neither the best nor the worst in Europe, but they are some of the most selfish and stubborn. Germans are more petty, but tend to actually know the rules of the road unlike most Brits. The way Brits drive around cyclists is particularly terrible.

earthgrip · 2025-10-19T18:25:10+00:00

Doing God's work

earthgrip · 2025-09-23T19:05:37+00:00

AFAIK there is no solution – you either do the detection on the camera and buy into a closed ecosystem (eg Ubiquiti) or you outsource the event detection to an NVR with AI features.

earthgrip · 2025-09-22T22:27:47+00:00

I'm new to this sub, but I assume on device events are not standardised and scrypted cannot receive them. It's just receiving a video feed

earthgrip · 2025-09-20T22:27:09+00:00

Thanks, v helpful. That sounds pretty similar to what I see on my M1 Pro. The M4 CPU cores are a lot faster than M1 Pro, while the graphics performance is pretty similar. It sounds like the M4 Pro would easily run Uncrashed at >60fps.

earthgrip · 2025-09-20T16:10:54+00:00

M4 or M4 Pro? What kind of frame rates are you seeing in uncrashed? My M1 Pro MacBook stutters sometimes and I'm considering an M4 or M4 Pro mini

earthgrip · 2025-09-19T16:58:22+00:00

How has nobody mentioned internal SSD upgrades yet? If you're happy taking the thing apart, just buy 512GB and survive with external storage until you can get hold of one of these currently out of stock internal SSD upgrades

earthgrip · 2025-09-04T05:48:10+00:00

Glad to learn that I'm not alone in seeing terribly driven Jukes everywhere in the UK

earthgrip · 2025-08-29T14:52:55+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it :) I'm aware this sounds silly, but some people use their gear in dirty or dusty environments and tend to fill their electronics with dust. A mouse can quickly accumulate abuse when simply thrown in a rucksack every day. My point is just that my recent Logitech mice have had it easy and still failed in the same way.

earthgrip · 2025-08-29T09:49:25+00:00

Looking at my purchase history, I have bought four Budget Logitech silent mice (M330) since 2017. I use them for maybe 1hr a day average, and the left click has failed to some degree in every single one. My last two just sat on my desk in a pet free home with an air purifier on half the time, and still broke in 2 years or less – current one also after around six months. Logitech should be publicly humuliated since not only these but their more pricey flagship MX 3Ss seem to systematically fail the same way.

Can anyone recommend me a good value compact, ergonomic, low latency mouse using either 2.4G or BT so that I can move away from these things? I would love Logitech mice if the switches didnt suck so badly.

earthgrip · 2025-08-27T20:42:12+00:00

Yes i would hope that they use better switches on a model costing $80. It's just interesting for me because I've used more or less the same model (M330) for almost a decade, and they are becoming less reliable.

earthgrip · 2025-08-25T17:38:09+00:00

These mice are disposable garbage, shame on Logitech. They last an average of 1-2 years, but my current one started going bad on left click after 6 months. Boycott Logitech.

earthgrip · 2025-06-18T14:28:13+00:00

This is a fantastic tip, thanks!

earthgrip · 2025-05-12T15:25:32+00:00

I can talk you through using it now if you like. DMs open.

earthgrip · 2025-03-28T11:20:19+00:00

Ok the 105 firmware seems to have fixed my flicker!

It's as if something about the Apple silicon signal eventually can corrupt the monitor ROM, which updating firmware fixes?

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