Platerecognizer correct setup help

[gvbhunt]

Howdy! SO this is the issue that I am having right now. I have a free account on platerecognizer to test out functionality, I have my API key. Under Settings/AI under ALPR i have chosen Plate Recognizer and configured it with my API key and a correct region. This part is working as I do see the calls incrementing up. I have around a dozen cameras and about 4 that view the street (but only one camera that is really looking at the street, the rest just see it off in the distance). On THAT camera under Camera Settings under Alert, under AI configuration I have ALPR enabled and checked for only confirmed vehicle alerts. This is the ONLY camera out of the 12 with ALPR enabled. ALPR IS working, I can see plates in the alert when they are recognized. I THINK I have everything setup correct. If I go to the Platerecognizer website I can see the images it uploads and it properly tags some of them with license plates. Out of all that, the issue is that it is sending alerts to platerecognizer from cameras that do not have ALPR enabled causing my number of calls to go up and I cannot figure out why. I would think that it would only send them off from the cameras that have ALPR enabled. Am I missing something? 2500 calls to platerecognizer a month seems like a lot but when it is sending images of birds and wasps(that deepstack thinks are birds) and all kinds of other crap to analyze then it will be well over a hundred per day. Has anyone else seen this happen?

Sorry for the speech, and yea I know TLDR!

Thanks!
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[TimG]

I haven't used Platerecognizer, as I use the CodeProject AI (CPAI) with the free ALPR model. Any reason you want Platerecognizer and DeepStack rather than CPAI with MikeLuds ALPR ?

I can see the Platerecognizer general settings in BI5 and the enable box per camera in camera settings. Are you saying even cameras that are not individually enabled are sending images to Platerecognizer ?

[MikeLud]

I haven't used Platerecognizer, as I use the CodeProject AI (CPAI) with the free ALPR model. Any reason you want Platerecognizer and DeepStack rather than CPAI with MikeLuds ALPR ?

I can see the Platerecognizer general settings in BI5 and the enable box per camera in camera settings. Are you saying even cameras that are not individually enabled are sending images to Platerecognizer ?

Tim, I am not sure if you have seen the ALPR Dashboard that works with my ALPR and Blue Iris, links are below. In my opinion, it has exceeded any of the commercial ALPRs in terms of record keeping. I have been collaborating with the developer to improve it.

https://github.com/algertc/ALPR-Database/tree/main

https://hub.docker.com/r/algertc/alpr-dashboard

https://alprdatabase.featurebase.app/roadmap

https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/full-alpr ... ris.79082/

[gvbhunt]

I haven't used Platerecognizer, as I use the CodeProject AI (CPAI) with the free ALPR model. Any reason you want Platerecognizer and DeepStack rather than CPAI with MikeLuds ALPR ?

I can see the Platerecognizer general settings in BI5 and the enable box per camera in camera settings. Are you saying even cameras that are not individually enabled are sending images to Platerecognizer ?

Honestly, I had Deepstack setup a long time ago and my NVR was going to not have internet access and Deepstack is basically self contained, thats really the only reason. And yes, that is exactly what happened. I enabled and disabled it on each camera and after a few reboots it finally started working this morning. It is only sending it out on the one camera now. Not sure what the deal was but it seems to bet working normal, and pretty well I might add.

[gvbhunt]

I might need to do some looking. I did not know that Codeproject AI was offline as well. I guess I need to look into it and see if it is GPU only or if it uses CPU.

[TimG]

CPAI works well with my GTX1650 and an i7-8700k but would be sluggish with cpu only. I'm sure DeepStack (DS) would suffer the same way and I remember it was like witchcraft trying to get DS working with a gpu.

Anyway, MikeLud is the creator of the custom models for CPAI and DS before that, and you can find his info on Github if you are interested.

[gvbhunt]

Awesome, thank you!