Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

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Anybody have any experience with one of these cams? I think Avigilon makes it? / motorola maybe?

I have a friend that has one unopened he's willing to trade me for a couple hrs work. I'm gonna do it but seem to find very little info on this camera. He said it's an inexpensive model LPR i tried to google it but didn't find any good info. i think the sensor is 1/2.9 :( I didn't tell him id help him for free. ;)
 
I've got a feeling it "could be used as an lpr/anpr cam with the proper software, like BI code project? but.....may end up in my pile of cameras in the basement.
 
Sorry I don't know where to pick one up in your area. However to be honest, camera being 7 years old there are better options out there if your wanting to capture plates. Either way the options are not going to be cheap. I would just look in your market for a camera that would fit your needs. If Uniview is an option in your area then sure if that is what you want to buy.

For me in my area if I was in the market for a ANPR I would look at the Dahua or Amcrest 5x50mm white LED camera. Or Dual LED 8x32mm one in a bullet large format factor and the other in a larger format that has different mount options.. Both are about smae price at Amcrest just under 800 USD. I don't know what or where it would be in your area.. Again Dahua makes the camera. One of the reasons I personally like Amcrest is because they have been in business for years after splitting with Foscam and they own the brand. What I mean is they have Mac Addresses that are under their name and the WebUI has Amcrest in the Browser and don't just show a generic Ip Camera and Dahua Mac Addresses like some other OEM Dahua companies. I mean sure I own some IC-Realtime products that if you do a search for the Mac address it shows IC-Realtime owns it. But the camera housing the Ip Camera name rather then spending a little extra for what I feel is Proud Company badging.. Plus Amcrest name on the camera outside as well. Again not just showing a Generic Ip Camera.. Back years ago when something new was coming out businesses would get Product Samples that would not have name of company or Mac addresses of your company just offer IP Camera in WebUI and box, body branding as a way to know it was a product sample. So when I pay good money for a camera if I turn it on and See IP Camera in WebUI I feel like I got Ripped off.. So yeah I have a few cameras that show IP Camera that I paid more then I wish I had. But I needed them for a project and couldn't find anything from Amcrest at the time with the options I needed also Dahua offering was double what I paid. However now seems like the last couple of years that isn't the same. Now almost feels like Dahua is lower in cost then Amcrest or some other. Like my MD180 from Amcrest was over 900 USD when I bought it, Now no longer in stock and I see other places that offer for 1/2 the price and maybe even better options. Oh well.. Live and learn again something I needed for one of my locations. It is working doing what it was designed to do..

In theory same can be said for Uniview. There is some hardware out there that I paid top dollar for and a year later I found same hardware under different brand that is the same thing just 1/2 the cost lol. However now I am finding the costly bullet from Uniview for less then 1/2 of what I paid when it first came out and again needed for one of my Properties for a fixed reason so yeah I paid extra at the time. Year after I now wish I hadn't lol. Do a search for a Sharpshooter 4.0 that camera is same as another Uniview camera that has huge lens.. Awesome camera with presets in a Bullet zoom camera.. Only company I know of right now that offers such an option and one reason I am still using some Analog zoom cameras because they offer presets not just zoom and focus but holding presets.. SO at the time thought the Uniview was worth the price.. Just saying lol..
 
Sorry I don't know where to pick one up in your area. However to be honest, camera being 7 years old there are better options out there if your wanting to capture plates. Either way the options are not going to be cheap. I would just look in your market for a camera that would fit your needs. If Uniview is an option in your area then sure if that is what you want to buy.

For me in my area if I was in the market for a ANPR I would look at the Dahua or Amcrest 5x50mm white LED camera. Or Dual LED 8x32mm one in a bullet large format factor and the other in a larger format that has different mount options.. Both are about smae price at Amcrest just under 800 USD. I don't know what or where it would be in your area.. Again Dahua makes the camera. One of the reasons I personally like Amcrest is because they have been in business for years after splitting with Foscam and they own the brand. What I mean is they have Mac Addresses that are under their name and the WebUI has Amcrest in the Browser and don't just show a generic Ip Camera and Dahua Mac Addresses like some other OEM Dahua companies. I mean sure I own some IC-Realtime products that if you do a search for the Mac address it shows IC-Realtime owns it. But the camera housing the Ip Camera name rather then spending a little extra for what I feel is Proud Company badging.. Plus Amcrest name on the camera outside as well. Again not just showing a Generic Ip Camera.. Back years ago when something new was coming out businesses would get Product Samples that would not have name of company or Mac addresses of your company just offer IP Camera in WebUI and box, body branding as a way to know it was a product sample. So when I pay good money for a camera if I turn it on and See IP Camera in WebUI I feel like I got Ripped off.. So yeah I have a few cameras that show IP Camera that I paid more then I wish I had. But I needed them for a project and couldn't find anything from Amcrest at the time with the options I needed also Dahua offering was double what I paid. However now seems like the last couple of years that isn't the same. Now almost feels like Dahua is lower in cost then Amcrest or some other. Like my MD180 from Amcrest was over 900 USD when I bought it, Now no longer in stock and I see other places that offer for 1/2 the price and maybe even better options. Oh well.. Live and learn again something I needed for one of my locations. It is working doing what it was designed to do..

In theory same can be said for Uniview. There is some hardware out there that I paid top dollar for and a year later I found same hardware under different brand that is the same thing just 1/2 the cost lol. However now I am finding the costly bullet from Uniview for less then 1/2 of what I paid when it first came out and again needed for one of my Properties for a fixed reason so yeah I paid extra at the time. Year after I now wish I hadn't lol. Do a search for a Sharpshooter 4.0 that camera is same as another Uniview camera that has huge lens.. Awesome camera with presets in a Bullet zoom camera.. Only company I know of right now that offers such an option and one reason I am still using some Analog zoom cameras because they offer presets not just zoom and focus but holding presets.. SO at the time thought the Uniview was worth the price.. Just saying lol..
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Sorry I don't know where to pick one up in your area. However to be honest, camera being 7 years old there are better options out there if your wanting to capture plates. Either way the options are not going to be cheap. I would just look in your market for a camera that would fit your needs. If Uniview is an option in your area then sure if that is what you want to buy.

For me in my area if I was in the market for a ANPR I would look at the Dahua or Amcrest 5x50mm white LED camera. Or Dual LED 8x32mm one in a bullet large format factor and the other in a larger format that has different mount options.. Both are about smae price at Amcrest just under 800 USD. I don't know what or where it would be in your area.. Again Dahua makes the camera. One of the reasons I personally like Amcrest is because they have been in business for years after splitting with Foscam and they own the brand. What I mean is they have Mac Addresses that are under their name and the WebUI has Amcrest in the Browser and don't just show a generic Ip Camera and Dahua Mac Addresses like some other OEM Dahua companies. I mean sure I own some IC-Realtime products that if you do a search for the Mac address it shows IC-Realtime owns it. But the camera housing the Ip Camera name rather then spending a little extra for what I feel is Proud Company badging.. Plus Amcrest name on the camera outside as well. Again not just showing a Generic Ip Camera.. Back years ago when something new was coming out businesses would get Product Samples that would not have name of company or Mac addresses of your company just offer IP Camera in WebUI and box, body branding as a way to know it was a product sample. So when I pay good money for a camera if I turn it on and See IP Camera in WebUI I feel like I got Ripped off.. So yeah I have a few cameras that show IP Camera that I paid more then I wish I had. But I needed them for a project and couldn't find anything from Amcrest at the time with the options I needed also Dahua offering was double what I paid. However now seems like the last couple of years that isn't the same. Now almost feels like Dahua is lower in cost then Amcrest or some other. Like my MD180 from Amcrest was over 900 USD when I bought it, Now no longer in stock and I see other places that offer for 1/2 the price and maybe even better options. Oh well.. Live and learn again something I needed for one of my locations. It is working doing what it was designed to do..

In theory same can be said for Uniview. There is some hardware out there that I paid top dollar for and a year later I found same hardware under different brand that is the same thing just 1/2 the cost lol. However now I am finding the costly bullet from Uniview for less then 1/2 of what I paid when it first came out and again needed for one of my Properties for a fixed reason so yeah I paid extra at the time. Year after I now wish I hadn't lol. Do a search for a Sharpshooter 4.0 that camera is same as another Uniview camera that has huge lens.. Awesome camera with presets in a Bullet zoom camera.. Only company I know of right now that offers such an option and one reason I am still using some Analog zoom cameras because they offer presets not just zoom and focus but holding presets.. SO at the time thought the Uniview was worth the price.. Just saying lol..

Your experiences are much different than most here.....maybe we are doing it wrong LOL.

Nobody here would suggest an Amcrest white LED for LPR - while we would love to capture color plates, we don't want to blind drivers either.

Everybody here recommends infrared for LPR at night simply because most here do not have enough white light to capture plates in color.

Are you saying you are using a white LED camera to capture plates? Please provide some examples.


Most of us consider Amcrest (made by Dahua) to be the lower end consumer brand camera that uses cheaper materials and internals such as shoving higher MP on sensors designed for lower MP. They do offer a 1-800 number though, although most of us here know more than the rep on the other end simply going down a checklist sheet.

And the few times that Amcrest does provide the exact same Dahua model, it is usually 2-3 times the cost of the the camera offered by trusted member Empiretech here.

Empiretech (Andy) sells International Dahua cameras, most of the time without the logo. Depending on where you live, we get them 2-5 times cheaper than the cost of a camera with the Dahua logo on it because we don't have to pay authorized dealer markups.

I paint my cameras, so I don't care about the logo.

But if you are that over the top about the firmware saying Dahua instead of the generic IPC, then flash it with the international firmware. Many people do.

Andy is probably the biggest 3rd party reseller.

Dahua invites him several times a year to their HQ, including just in the past few weeks.

Dahua contributes to the lottery and sale Andy puts on that is coming up next week.

You can update the firmware on Andy's cameras and NVRs from the Dahua website, thus proving they are real Dahua. But you will find that the firmware we get from him is actually better and more recent than what is on the Dahua website because many members here provide feedback to Andy and then Dahua makes modifications to the firmware and sends back to him and then he sends out to his customers. These have been great improvements that Dahua doesn't even update their firmware and add to their website. So many of us are running a newer firmware than those that purchase Dahua cameras through professional installers. Smart IR on the 5442 series is one such improvement. Autotracking on the 49225 and 49425 PTZ is another. We got the next version of AI SMD 3.0 prior to anyone else as well. We got animal detection before anyone also.

Look at the threads here where members are actually testing firmware and improving it for Dahua - find a Dahua dealer with that type of relationship that Andy has with Dahua - I don't think you will find it. Look at the Dahua 4k camera on the 1/1.2" sensor as an example - Dahua provides cameras to Andy to sell before Dahua even made it available and look at all the improvements being made to the firmware from input from customers right here on this site. And the kicker is, we are not Dahua's target market - it is the professional installers...
 
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Sorry I wasn't saying that Empire cameras are not quality and that they don't get feedback.. I was making my own feelings known about how or what I feel about Amcrest and why I prefer Amcerst over some other brands, I don't have any of Andy's cameras and I can't say anything bad nor was I.. I believe I mentioned the issue was with Ic Realtime having Ip Camera Badging with Mac addresses that come back as Ic Realtime so they are 1/2 way there lol..

About the ANPR camera I was mentioning what was offered by what I know to be better quality then the LPR that I do use.. I also said that Amcrest has 2 offerings that are ANPR and that one has dual lights and another was White Leds not that I prefer one over the other.. But to be honest both of them omit light seeing the LEDs in RED are of a different format then the normal IR and so there is a up close Red light if someone was to look..

About animals. I think that is great it came from the Forum of users that want something and working with a vender was able to get it.. I don't know when it was added but Dahua has had that option since 2024 with AcuPick 2.0 but my guess is they were asking about a different use for ANPR or LPR.. So I was trying to offer some ideas of what I feel is better camera then that Uniview camera from 2018.. I have my reasons that I don't like Uniview lol hahaha.. Even though I have more then my share of them in one format or another..
 
Oh so you are talking about one like this with the visible infrared and white LED:


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Then that is it. Yes. That is the camera that Amcrest has as well. I don't know the camera from EmpireTech but that is it. Again better camera then the camera they were asking about.. Is Amcrest not someone that works with the Ipcamtalk forum? Again sorry wasn't saying Amcrest was better then EmpireTech. Amcrest is what I know.
 
Yes that is a better camera than they were asking about!

Amcrest is a vendor here as well. But they tend to cater to the budget conscious consumer with lower prices and 1-800 numbers, but that usually comes with cheaper materials and lower quality sensors, although they do sell a few higher end models as well. They fill a role.

Most here prefer the pro-sumer line like EmpireTech that has cameras on ideal MP/sensor ratios and better build quality.
 
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