NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I have Amazon cloud cams at my house. If you can get past the whole amazon thing, theyre pretty good for the money. I got them 1/2 price on gold box

 

We use the nest cameras and like them a lot. The only downside is you cant backup yourself, have to use their cloud solution.

 

With the cloud cams, you can download anything that shows up as motion and i think i saw a script in git that will do it automagically if youre into that sort of thing

 

by the way, the Chamberlain thermal motion sensors are working good. 30 ft range on motion detect. All wireless with good range to base unit. I try to set them just high enough so deer can't set them off. Affordable on Amazon. Has never failed to detect deliveries and people coming home from school/work.

 

after the season is over we might be able to go help with a coyote problem on a farm in central WA. Was talking to a guy about it. They hate em of course.

 

Looking for ones with local storage myself. Mostly cause I prefer continuous recording. I also hate having to rely on internet/cloud storage when I have my own server to backup to at home (and backup selectively from there).

Should add that these woud be outdoors with no real access to power outlets so looking more at PoE cameras

 

yeah with the nest camera, you can like teach it the difference between humans and dogs or some shit idk haven't needed to do that yet. I do like the fact that I can hear and talk over the camera as well.

 

I would highly recommend using ubiquity cameras then. Good build and you can roll your own dvr. They are roughly the same cost as a lot of the managed mainstream cameras too and you dont have to pay for the service

 

They are one I have been looking into. Though really it seems like their cameras are meh. Just have to decide if I'm wanting to go with a setup like Blue Iris management or go with a premade setup

The other setup is a LeChange branded setup that uses Donhua cameras which are pretty well liked...Donhau is the OEM and just rebrands from others.

 

I had a ring flood lamp cam. Can view it on the smart phone, talk/listen to audio live through the smart phone and it stores everything in the cloud for you. I think I got mine for around 240 originally.

 

I set my company's cameras up we us FLIR. I really like the system up to 16 cameras view able on smart phones and computers.

 

Anyone know anything about Procomp's old explorer series light bars? Decent or chinese junk (i know all light bars are made in china but some are great, some are terrible..)?

 

Looking at their stuff, it looks to be from the "good" end of the Chinese light bar spectrum. If you're interested in any of their lights, shoot me a link to which one(s) you're thinking about and I'll send you a link to the non-branded version of the same light, which will be half the price for the exact same thing.

(I spend way too much time nerding out about light bars and know more about them than any normal person should LOL)

 

It looks like it's a discontinued single row 20" Pro comp bar. Someone is selling it local for 80 bucks. I looked at some rigids and Bajas and cant justify the purchase of something that I barely use.

 

If you need a slim 20" I'd go with one of these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/20inch-180...-Spot-Flood-Combo-6000K-SUV-JEEP/162643753707

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Slim-20inc...bo-Driving-Fog-Lamp-Bumper-21-22/292656121025

 

any recommendations for a smallish bar (10") for the rear with dust lights etc?

 

Costco has a deal right now, 4 wired cameras and two WiFi ones, my parents run them and have been very happy so far

 

Something like these?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SINGLE-ROW...-BAR-Combo-Offroad-11-12-10-JEEP/162813810658

https://www.ebay.com/itm/10-inch-12...Fog-Driving-Tractor-Jeep-4X4-ATV/192253320909
(this one has projector lenses on it, so it actually has a bit of a cutoff to the beam, which is nice)

This one does red or white light
https://www.ebay.com/itm/7-5inch-36...Dual-Color-Switched-Warning-Lamp/222761458761

 

Thanks man. I normally get free stuff from auxbeam, but I haven't done a review in a while so doubt they'll send me anything more until I review my pods (which I haven't wired up yet lol).

 

Thanks Jeremy @Skootter14 for selling your bumper to me. I ended up hacking up my original bumper to fill the gap between the grill and bumper and it turned out pretty good. Now I have an excuse to buy more lights.

Speaking of lights, looks I need new ballasts for the HIDs...