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Does anyone have any recommendations for hooking up sirens to Ethernet/WiFi? I am running Blue Iris and want to be able to trigger an audio alarm inside and outside the house. I have seen USB-connected relays but I am running Blue Iris in a VM and want to avoid host USB passthrough. That means TCP/IP control, but the all in one cards are way overpriced. I've also looked into smart outlets but they all seem to only connect to companion apps or Alexa, which rules out the PC script support that I'd need. My backup plan is to get a RPi and relay board and just make it myself, but if there is a cheaper option requiring less effort I'm all ears.

So my camera apparently decided to finally start working... problem solved, I guess?

I decided to climb back up to the roof and hit the hardware-reset button. This caused the camera to request an IP, however I'm not able to ping it or access port 85 - all signs point to it being disconnected again. I'll see what happens when the DHCP lease expires.

I can't seem to access my new Q-See QCN8030D POE IP camera over my home network. I have an identical camera I set up about year ago, as well as several Swann devices that all work fine. When I plugged in the device to my switch, the link light turns on, but my router doesn't assign it an IP. I've tried the usual suspects for static IPs (192.168.1.108 and 192.0.0.64) but I always get "destination unreachable". I've tried Q-See's "Config Tool" but that only discovers my existing camera, and the "QC View" app just says "Failed to start searching device!" and can't even find the working camera. I know the camera is at least powered on and doing something, because my switch reports that it is receiving about 5 valid packets per minute from the port that the camera's attached to. Unfortunately I don't have a way to actually figure out what it's saying. Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas?