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Will windows 10 be like that in November ‘25? One wonders if there isn’t a little department in the basement at Microsoft churning out the viruses that will force us all to abandon W10 when they decide it’s time.

You might think about getting a one or two watt led bulb for the lamp and just leaving it on all night. You would be able to keep the camera in color mode, and I’ve read, at least, that lights are a deterrent.

I shot this one and a bunch more in Italy in 2018.

There’s a HIK password reset tool somewhere on the Ipcamtalk site. I’m not familiar with Hik cameras, but if you can’t find the pw, you should be able to use the tool to do a hard reset.

Not at all. Just saying in the time we’ve taken to discuss it, he could have mounted it and seen if it’s an actual problem for his situation.

Might have to do a hard reset on the camera if you can’t recover the pw.

You can get a blank plate to fit that junction box at the hardware store. Mount the camera base to the plate and try it. One test is worth a thousand theories.

I bought a dji drone to get aerial shots on a trip a few years ago, and it really ups the look of home movies when you can open with a wide aerial shot. I think the regulation has gone too far, especially for small ones that can’t do much damage if they fall.

If you try the camera in both spots and aren’t happy, think about using it somewhere else and putting a wide angle camera on the corner between the doors. Dahua 4k-t color, or IPC-HDBW5441F-AS-E2 boobie cam, perhaps. The 4k-t color would be my first choice.

Let us wish them well. How cool would it be if some cutting edge tech thing were actually manufactured in the US?

People / cars should not normally be coming within 10 feet or so of your entrance gate. I’m presuming authorized cars stop at a key pad or something and wait while the gate opens. So if your camera allows a trip wire zone between the normal place cars stop and the gate, you should be able to...

OBS studio would work. Kind of overkill. One of my favorite programs. Works on any of the big 3 operating systems. You didn’t mention what operating system, or perhaps I missed it. If linux, this is a pretty good viewing program: https://snapcraft.io/cctv-viewer If windows, get Blue Iris.

I went through this process a year ago, and wrote up my results. You might find them helpful. https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/lessons-learned-setting-up-ivs-june-2023.70696/#post-776020

Plenty of info here. Welcome.

I’ve noticed several of these in commercial use since I started paying attention. The fact that they’re inexpensive and generic isn’t necessarily a disqualification.

Yes, these are definitely on the simple/cheap end. I mention them more for future readers than the OP. They are controlling a fairly low security area, where the ups guy can drop packages, and they are effective at keeping riff-raff and porch pirates out. They’re sturdy and made for exterior...

I put in a couple of these to control our garden gates. The’ve been in for a year or two with no problems. I believe they will communicate with a server (Wiegand output?) to do audits, though I didn’t do that. I installed them myself so no great complexity. https://a.co/d/3BpWfDX...

I have the Dahua 4kt as my street camera. It isn’t terribly distorted when aimed slightly below horizontal. I like it very much because it gives excellent low light color footage, and the motion detection is very good, with few false positives when set correctly. I don’t know the other cameras.

Wonderful, if that's all you need. But if you get a second camera, you may want to switch between them. You may want to add in audio from a separate mic. You may want to use color correction that isn't built into your camera. Even if you don't want to do these things, someone else reading...

OBS is one of those amazing programs that is good for a lot more than any individual user employs it. That it is also free is hard to believe. OBS runs on sources and scenes. A camera is a type of source. A simple scene might have a single source. Once you have a scene, you can set up a...

OBS https://obsproject.com/download

I like light better than IR. I think it lets them know you're watching.

I'm not an electrician, but I believe they discourage multiple grounds, and want all the grounded loads to go to a single earth ground, often the cold water main, or a copper grounding rod. Apparently there is enough difference in the resistance of soil (especially if one area is wetter than...

Blue Iris on a ten year old Windows workstation is about as cheap as it gets.

Excellent discussion.

Welcome to the pond, GilFrog.

That's where building a solar light from components has an advantage. You can size the panel and battery to keep the light on through a Winter night.

Nice. That adds some curb appeal. I think 120v a/c is the way to go for most things. 12v is fiddly, but sometimes if something is remote or has to be independent from the grid, it's the best solution. It's also good from a permitting perspective sometimes.

Hi Fred, welcome. Sorry you're obliged to do the cameras, but you've done well to start with research and not just throwing money at a box-o-cameras from the local warehouse store. Don't be put off by the networking. You'll pick it up as you go, as most of us have. Just keep repeating...

Yes, quite right. They're a mix of 4k-t to 720p door stations. Most running around 2k resolution. The processor is an i5 6500. Still, I think a g4 should have no trouble with what he's doing.