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Sorry folks - to answer my own question - I read the thread about unbricking with tftp and it covers this - so its just the boot loader doing its normal thing. It just struck me as odd as I saw traffic from an unused IP at 3 am ! Which I now know is when it does it does it's weekly scheduled...

I have a Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-Z with a fixed 192.168.1.x IP address and when it reboots (either manual or scheduled) it momentarily gives itself a new ip address that is +1 from the fixed ip. Then it tries to make a UDP connection to 192.168.254.254 on port 69 and 9999 Whats it doing ?

Or could it be example/sample data (e.g. a sales demo loop) on the DVR itself as part of the firmare ?

I don't know where you are but in the UK when notified the local council often will remove it within 24 hours (or faster if obscene/offensive) if its on public property, or can remove it and bill the property owner in some cases. If that was on my street I'd report it as a racial epithet and...

The Ring Alarm will finally be available in the UK in 2 weeks. I've been following this thread since last year so I'm glad the wait is over ! Prices seem similar to America - Monitoring is £8 a month or £80 a year which I expect I'll sign up for.

A box stuck on with a grab adhesive probably wouldn't go anywhere.

The wyze page is a bit confusing at the 1st link in the instructions is to the older firmware, and the one at the bottom of the page is the newer one. I think this is the one you want, https://wyze.com/firmware/demo_V2_beta2.zip

You can see the rtsp address including the user/pass as part of the URL in the Wyze phone app in Camera Settings->Advanced Settings->RTSP e.g. rtsp://youruser:yourpassword:192.168.1.1/live

I wasn't using DST - the cameras are connected to Blue Iris and are just using the camera's native overlays. I've got it all working now using ntp on a Raspberry Pi. Whats interesting is how bad all the cameras are at NTP - both Dahua and Hik. With the Hik cameras if you use the 'test' button...

I don't allow my Dahua HDW5231R-Z to connect to the Internet so I have to use a local time server. My Synology NAS runs a time server which works fine with the Hik cameras, but with the Dahua the clock will flick foward 1 hour and then back an hour, and sometimes it will just gain another hour...

I certainly wouldn't use a doorbell camera as the only camera in an area, but where it really shines is that they are usually mounted so low down compared to other cameras that they get a good face image even if someone is wearing a hat or a hood. Even with a glitchy camera (i.e. every doorbell...

I'm getting the same issue - I've tried a couple of different browsers and the issue persists, so I guess its server-side.

I've now upgraded the firmware to the beta V2 - 4.28.4.40 and its significantly better. No more dropped frames and stable so far !

I'm seeing quite a lot of dropped frames with the Wyze V2 using rtsp. Pretty much every 10 seconds it will skip an entire second of video. This doesn't happen with the video via the app so I'm guessing the rtsp is still very much beta buggy.

It can be a nightmare - when I did my house I discovered all my internal and external walls are solid - literally no gaps what-so-ever (UK 1980 build). I ended up using D-line decorative trunking to run the wires.