Thanks Mark,
First, I might have been unclear about FR: The camera does not support FR and I've never been able to use FR by the camera. sorry for that.
What I could get before camera reset was FD+SMD+IVS by the camera (the FR was always by the recorder) but it was unreliable.
currently, I'm testing the first 3 cams only and I'm getting IVS and SMD by the camera and FR+FD by the recorder. The Smart Plan is set on IVS.
To get the SMD working together with the rest of the features, I had to disable the FD; enable the SMD and re-enable the FD.
=> After you disable the FD to get the SMD working, try to re-enable it. it works.
I could not add the "video metadata" to that list of AI features. I had to skip one of them and I couldn't find what it's good for (it does enables me to search human detection but can't see how different it is from SMD.
I was wondering what is the video metadata is good for. Maybe I've missed something here.
I cannot see myself working with the NVR without PC or laptop. TV is great for viewing events.
There are lots of missing features for the web interface. Another example is the "Alarm Info" that becomes like log with the web interface and enables to to view the videos when you connect directly.
Yes, following a person that hangs around for few seconds before deciding if it's a stranger is essential. I do not become a stranger if one of the FD images is unclear and I don't mind waiting few seconds before system decides.
BUT more important is to combine the FR feature with IVS event: if a person walks down the street and does not brake any rule it's fine. If they entered my property after midnight, it's good enough reason to set off the alarm.
And if that person was detected as a family member, you may make an exception. That's what I could expect. otherwise, as a standalone feature, it's not reliable enough and if it's not related to an IVS rule it's useless.
Database: more than 10 years ago, when I using Picasa's face recognition, it would check for identical faces though all of the thousands of pictures, try to match it and it would only let me confirm that the list indeed belongs to the same person.
Not only that, it was machine learning: the more pictures of me founded, the better it knew to identify me.
With Dahua, not only that I need to add each image to the DB separately, there could be 20 pictures of my daughter, each one with the same name and personal data and they'd all be different people for the NVR.
The least I'd expect is an option to mark few different pictures and to add them all to the same person that exists already in the DB.
10 years after the world, I could even expect the machine to suggest and work as Picasa did years ago. I would also expect it to use it for a machine learning and to improve the identification of a known person that often appears in front of the camera.
Not sure if I've mentioned it, but I had one morning a disk error. Turned out that in order to re-mount the (two new WD purple) disks, I had to format and loose the data. In that particular episode, I didn't have essential data but.....
As for the new F/W, not only I do not see your video bug, I do not (yet) see any other difference between the 200617 and the 200707
