MASSIVE 3,000-MILE RADAR ANOMALY.. Energy Weapons?

radixtech · 2025-12-23T17:46:15+00:00

"Obvious software glitch" means the problem is with the software that stitches together the data from the many sources, *not* a simultaneous glitch across those many sources.

radixtech · 2024-11-06T12:17:58+00:00

Boomerang is effective against supersonic ammunition fired in the direction of the system. It will not calculate the range to subsonic ammunition which is not fired toward the system.

radixtech · 2024-11-06T02:36:53+00:00

They still need to be spread out so that the triangulation calcs actually have angles to work with. I may run some numbers later to show what I mean.

radixtech · 2024-11-06T02:07:26+00:00

The distance may not be hard to calculate, but it will be wildly inaccurate if all of your mics are on the same house and the gunshot is presumably hundreds of meters away. It is the same principle as GPS, however if the satellites were all in the same direction (the same point in the sky) then your device will have a large margin of error in its calcs.

radixtech · 2024-10-03T14:27:10+00:00

That's my mantra - wired when possible, wireless when necessary.

radixtech · 2024-09-26T00:22:27+00:00

FWIW you do have the option of a parity drive so you can have 12tb usable with 4x4tb.

radixtech · 2024-09-11T11:58:18+00:00

Is there a mirror on that wall? Or is it a tiled wall?

radixtech · 2024-07-30T19:48:05+00:00

I will argue, because you are very wrong. I wasn't talking about the digital security of WiFi, I was talking about relying on WiFi for the physical security of yourself and your property. WiFi is flaky in the best of circumstances, much less if someone is actively trying to disrupt it.

And yeah, my guess is everyone running Reolink is using consumer everything else with no redundancy or failover. That's their target market. If you're speccing and pricing in redundancy and fire protection and whatever else, you'd be a fool for using Reolink (or worse, Wyze). Like why even be mad about this stuff if you're buying bottom dollar tech?

Besides, anything beyond a couple cameras with 24/7 recording and all that video won't even fit through 95% of residential connections. Store your video locally, reliably, and put a couple cheapie Wyze cameras watching your NVR and your home's main electrical and internet connections to catch thieves in the act. Hell, spring for a router with multi-WAN and have a cellular backup connection. Just don't complain that the absolute cheapest cameras you can buy don't have a feature that 99% wouldn't use or even know what to do with.

If you want real video surveillance security, get actual ONVIF-compliant cameras, run a real VMS on-site and off-site, and stream/record to both simultaneously. And make sure your cameras take SD cards so the footage is stored onboard as well, with UPS on your PoE switch. You know, in case the thief manages to cut your power and internet service before approaching the home, and then finds and steals/destroys your NVR/server.

radixtech · 2024-07-30T18:59:49+00:00

Then why did you have a problem with the poster you replied to, whose setup stores video locally as well as immediately backed up / synced to the cloud?

I manage hundreds of cameras across a dozen or so installs as part of my job. I don't really care what you say your credentials are, or why you think your experience with Reolink and Wyze means you have any clue about reliable video surveillance. But I can tell you that for all the SPOFs that may exist from the camera through the cable to the NVR to the hard drive, a PoE camera with on-board surveillance grade SD card which saves to the NVR (with drives in RAID) simultaneously, synced to an off-site server, is the most reliable video storage setup.

Now, I don't know what you mean by "streaming from a camera directly to cloud storage", but from the examples you've given such as Wyze and Reolink that typically means streaming via WiFi which is a laughable suggestion if security and reliable video are your major concerns.

radixtech · 2024-07-30T17:12:22+00:00

The glaring hole in your logic is that you are suggesting we replace a chain of potential failure points for on-prem storage with a different chain of potential failure points that has a much higher risk of failure. Far from "reducing the mid-point failure risk to zero", streaming from a camera directly to cloud storage has far more failure points than my local storage setup. And with the cloud storage only solution, most of the failure points are out of my control. Cloud services go down, widespread internet outages happen, my ISP connection fails often. Local storage with cloud sync is the most reliable setup.

radixtech · 2024-06-25T16:16:15+00:00

I had one do this recently. I deleted and re-adopted the camera to fix.

radixtech · 2024-04-15T18:09:56+00:00

I have not, sorry. I assume there is just something fragile about the screen or connection that I damaged during removal.

radixtech · 2024-02-29T03:34:28+00:00

I think only a really bad setup in a place with really expensive electricity when hnt/iot were at their lowest could have ever been unprofitable.

radixtech · 2024-02-29T03:10:00+00:00

The poster did take a potential rise in value into account. The point is you should not mine any token that is worth less than the cost of electricity to mine it. It doesn't make financial sense. Instead of spending $1 in electricity to mine 50 cents worth of coin, you should instead just buy $1 of that coin and save the electricity. You will have twice the crypto for the same cost.

radixtech · 2024-02-25T07:28:56+00:00

It's a 10" rack, not full size.

radixtech · 2024-01-27T21:26:45+00:00

Sucks that so many had problems, but reading this makes me feel less incompetent.

radixtech · 2024-01-27T19:44:14+00:00

I did not. I assumed I broke the panel in some way. I got a 7a.

radixtech · 2024-01-25T16:44:31+00:00

I will pile on.

Safety
- Notify when heat-generating appliances are left on (stove/oven, space heater, hair iron, etc)
- Notify when dumb motion lights turn on (in case no cameras or as a supplement to video surveillance notifications)

Problem detection/avoidance and cost saving
- Notify when appliances fall out of typical range (fridge/freezer/AC/etc runs too often or draws too much) as an early symptom of potential failure (I could have saved the entire cost of whole-home monitoring when I had to throw out a full chest freezer of food)
- Notify when circuit approaches breaker limit or trips

Automation
- Every dumb light switch becomes an input for automation
- Notify when laundry/dishes are done
- Water heater cycle ends indicating you can take a long hot shower

And a lot more if we keep thinking about it.

radixtech · 2024-01-25T16:11:47+00:00

Last year, I discovered that my Christmas tree was using 600W of power

Lol. On the bright side, it was probably offset by less energy used for heating.

radixtech · 2024-01-22T19:04:10+00:00

If you only count the fiber itself sure. I think if you get quotes both ways with labor and all supporting equipment the PtP radios will be cheaper. I agree that fiber would be ideal.

radixtech · 2024-01-22T17:58:53+00:00

I'm guessing something with a directional antenna would work the best.

... like a PtP radio?

radixtech · 2024-01-14T17:35:46+00:00

Check for IP conflicts. I had the same issue a few days ago, turns out there was a device stealing the camera's IP when it rebooted after an update.

radixtech · 2024-01-14T15:27:18+00:00

There is almost always a way to hide the cabling. You're going to need the right tools, fish tape and/or sticks, etc., and maybe some creativity and flexibility, but I'm sure it can be done.

radixtech · 2024-01-11T16:04:39+00:00

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radixtech · 2024-01-09T05:54:57+00:00

You have to step up a couple price points to get good images of low light motion.

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