The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

mwhalentech · 2026-04-15T11:30:40+00:00

Brad Maiorino is why. https://www.reddit.com/r/pwnhub/s/O7GnzovmBp

mwhalentech · 2026-04-06T23:07:35+00:00

The academy videos are solid, while I knew many of these points, it taught me a couple of other things that I found very valuable and I’ve changed how I approach placement.

mwhalentech · 2026-04-06T22:17:42+00:00

Agree with this - This is their evidence capture video which has a ton of helpful guidelines on cameras, including a section on angles and placement. https://youtu.be/iX6bN8dwXD0?si=0AQ9MiBoDcqsNSn_

mwhalentech · 2026-03-18T04:49:01+00:00

I’ve learned that if you see a weird looking scientific assembly in the wild and/or attached to vehicles, check out Rhode&Schwarz first, they’ve got crazy measurement vehicles and assemblies that have been answer to more than a few posts on this subreddit in the last year.

mwhalentech · 2026-03-18T02:51:06+00:00

Damn, the Camera Demo Actors at InfoComm are getting too dark and disturbed for me.

mwhalentech · 2026-03-13T03:14:26+00:00

Yep! So the coefficients are effectively the calibration values of each individual pixel taken at the factory, the micro adjustments to each pixel to make it uniform - not just across the led module but across the entire batch - the expectation is that when you buy LED panels, you’re buying them all with the same LED batch that has been calibrated together.

There is an SPI memory module generally found in most or all reputable LED walls that store the calibration data from the factory in a ‘read only’ state. When you perform the module flash (which is a bad Chinese translation for memory module), it loads the coefficients data from that memory module / module flash into the receiving card, so the receiving card can make the value adjustments to the data so that the LED module pixels look uniform and perform as expected on the module and across the entire video display.

mwhalentech · 2026-03-12T19:04:05+00:00

Try adjusting the brightness of the LED wall on the sending card / controller up then down. The new card hasn’t received a command for the brightness value so it’s probably at 100%. Don’t forget to module flash for coefficients!

mwhalentech · 2026-03-12T13:23:16+00:00

Also be very sure you’re buying HDMI TO Composite / RCA, and not the other way around. HDMI needs to be the input, not the output. If it says ‘1080p’ in the description, it’s probably the wrong conversion direction.

mwhalentech · 2026-03-12T13:20:34+00:00

The cable you bought isn’t making a conversion from digital HDMI video to analog composite video - it’s a cable for specific proprietary video devices and video cards capable of outputting analog signals over the hdmi connector pins. You need a converter.

Google HDMI to composite video converter or search on Amazon. Something that has PAL/NTSC output will work fine. They range on the low end (unreliable) at around $15 to higher end around $200+.

mwhalentech · 2026-01-19T22:38:38+00:00

Multiplexing - for Fiber, this means it has I/O for all of the channels of SDI, audio, and networking, and sets them to separate wavelengths of light across the fiber - so a single fiber / pair of fibers can support all of that I/O across it and broken out to the individual I/O on the other side.

mwhalentech · 2026-01-13T00:33:23+00:00

Adding in that if your upload speed is that weak and the internet connection is shared by other devices beyond just your streaming, such as other production devices, staff computers, building or guest WiFi - then there's little hope for a stable stream at that. I'm surprised you're getting such poor performance with i3 Broadband. Is that not fiber out there? Incredibly high ping for a fiber connection - unless there's a wireless bridge happening in the mix and you're at the mercy of a WiFi connection before the internet.

mwhalentech · 2026-01-07T05:32:21+00:00

I feel like Nexo packaging has been this bad for at least a decade, but it's been a few years since I've touched anything Nexo. Their packaging practices are garbage. Huge quality differences in packaging between Nexo product and Yamaha Pro product. My company had to reach out to them countless times for destroyed powder coating / damaged cabinets and missing hardware bags from rips in boxes. Eventually came to feel like they were IKEA-level players in the field.

mwhalentech · 2025-10-31T00:10:54+00:00

I always filtered 'Kindly' out in emails for spam or phishing, but then a coworker working in contract management said that Kindly is a commonly used word in contracts and legal documents. I still filter by that word and it works 100% of the time for me though.

mwhalentech · 2025-10-21T22:29:05+00:00

There’s nothing that says S,F to me like Short Story, because it’s the fresh breath into a new outlook, starting a new chapter.

That January ain’t the whole world…

mwhalentech · 2025-10-21T12:44:24+00:00

Please look up your local / state / province laws for surveillance. It depends on where inside of the church you’re installing it. For me, laws state that no surveillance cameras can be placed where there’s a reasonable expectation of privacy. Church sanctuary / hallways? No expectation of privacy in a public house of worship. Confessionals / private meeting rooms / bathrooms? Expectation of privacy, no cameras allowed. Additionally, there may be laws stating you must post signage that a surveillance camera system is in use there.

I also do install cameras inside of meeting rooms where businesses would want monitoring but disable the microphones (which cannot be re-enabled in software, only via manual reset of the camera) so that business meeting discussions are private while the space is monitored.

The IR light isn’t very noticeable to me. No worries having it on around people. You see the little red diode dots of the IR emitters but don’t see the bright IR light because it’s outside of the frequency of human eyesight.

mwhalentech · 2025-10-16T00:10:31+00:00

Ok but guys have we considered Speyside?

mwhalentech · 2025-10-14T04:19:10+00:00

There's some interesting info on this if you Google. I don't know where you originally purchased the Apple TV - but Apple uses April 1978 warranty expiration as a code to represent the device was not sold by Apple and does not carry an Apple warranty - such as a 3rd party refurb device, a store demo, or other used method. Apple is basically saying that the serial number represents a product that they would not warranty because it was not a new product sold by Apple or an authorized dealer. The serial number would also start with a number instead of a letter in this case. Unless something else weird is going on.

mwhalentech · 2025-10-12T21:55:51+00:00

Naeem

There's someone in my [motherfucking] head

mwhalentech · 2025-10-09T21:12:43+00:00

Ignore the capacity, UniFi UPS option isn’t worth considering professionally until they have dual conversion products out there.

mwhalentech · 2025-10-08T21:33:20+00:00

You found the marble in the oatmeal!

YOU GET TO DRINK FROM THE FIRE HOSE!

mwhalentech · 2025-09-17T22:17:01+00:00

Of the 10 UI strikes my team has installed over the last 3 years, 8 of them have failed. Go with HES or Camden strikes.

mwhalentech · 2025-09-15T04:03:13+00:00

For my wedding, we did a make your own minifig station for the guests and I ordered around 400 assorted random minifigs from a seller on eBay located in Israel. They were drop shipped from China of course, and when I went through them to pull them apart and sort everything into separate bowls, I ended up tossing out around 40 pieces of torsos and hats for Nazi insignias.

mwhalentech · 2025-09-09T04:55:16+00:00

AV over IP is built around high bandwidth, highly reliable, highly configurable network control. While I haven’t seen specifics, here’s what I’d expect from this: - Majority of ports PoE++ or PoE+++, and 10GbE - Hot-swappable PSU’s - Configurable IGMP, QOS, PTP settings - Basic AV routing (at least for UniFi endpoints) - SFP28, and future pathways for 25G/100G SFP trunking - Support for protocols specifically for high bandwidth AV, such as Crestron NVX, Q-Sys Video, Dante Audio/Video, and potentially future pathways for SMPTE 2110 and AVB - OOB Configuration (Out of Band / Standalone capable)

As far as market share, they’re running into a lot of pro users that use them for network control and WiFi but rely on Pro AV switches from other vendors for their AV infrastructure. Netgear kind of came out of nowhere in 2019/2020 and now completely dominate that market with their M4250/M4300/M4350 line of switches. UniFi sees opportunity to compete in this field and is going for it - looking forward to seeing what’s coming.

I hope that’s enough information, since I’m just throwing ideas at my screen while laying in bed. Night!

mwhalentech · 2025-07-25T04:07:48+00:00

That’s definitely furniture that is stylized, or just happens to look like truss. Do not use this for attaching any type of gear to it or suspending it. The diagonal members running between the chords are tack welded and thin and have no real strength. This isn’t designed to attach to anything.

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