Recent content by flint350

Well, I can't get E-PTZ to work in a recording either through the NVR or in SmartPSS. It does work in the Webview of the camera as asked by jayson436 and it also works as a zoom in Live View. But for me, not in the recording of the NVR.

Yes, I know, that is the clunky part I was referring to. Plus, while I like SmartPSS, it doesn't allow direct access to the E-PTZ features of 1 of my cameras which is one of the reasons I was thinking about BI. I also used to do the cameras-into-switch route and may well return to it. After I...

While I also use SmartPSS extensively with my NVR 5208-16-4K, the one thing I don't like about it is having all cameras on its subnet (10.1.1.1 vs PC 192.168.1). This limits easy direct access to each camera for configuration. It can be done but is clunky IMO. The other day I wanted to evaluate...

Yes, Dahua NVR 5208 and Smart PSS. The stretch to full window works well if you're not too picky. As for why the camera has an 'odd' aspect ratio, I imagine it's mostly due to using two inexpensive lens to keep the price point reasonable. The much more costly panoramic models with 4 X 2MP...

In Smart PSS, you can choose to use either "original scale" or "full window" scale. I find that the scaling works pretty well and leave the "full window" size. It somewhat mitigates the bowing and looks fine on my 32" monitor. Examples from today - 1st is "original scale" from the 4096 X 1800...

Possibly I missed it, but I don't see any way to access E-PTZ within Smart PSS which is what I use to access all cameras (6) on my Dahua NVR. If that is true, I was thinking of the possibility of setting up a record stream from the camera via nfs to my local NAS (wdmycloud). Hopefully it could...

I'm no expert on SmartPSS (nor much else), but I think it depends on how you interface with the cameras. Either through an NVR or individually. Through the NVR, right clicking acts as you indicate. If you have imported the cameras directly - that is, as individual ip cams and not as sub channels...

I notice that even when I turn off the IR in settings, I am still seeing the red lights on the camera at night. I tried "off" and now I'm going to try IR manual and set both settings to "0". The IR isn't needed in my situation and it attracts bugs which set off recording.

The cables use were/are commercially made, good quality ethernet cables and since the issue remains despite changing cables, I eliminated the cable as the problem. As for SmartPSS, I have been using the main stream on all camera, not substream. This has not been an issue in the past, or even...

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I use SmartPSS on a dedicated PC to monitor my 5 cameras. My 42212TNI is going briefly offline and back on throughout the day. SmartPSS shows "device offline" then "failed to open video" then the feed comes right back. It had one of the older cat5e cables in my install, so I thought that was the...

Images of what? The camera itself or the view it sees?

The DORI distances on my 4MP version are approx. 1.5x those of the thread's 2MP version, so probably not useful to you (833ft vs 528ft, for example at Identify). The furthest area of interest to me is a stop sign at the far end of my cul-de-sac for potential license plate or person ID and is...

Here's a couple of shots of mine, temporarily mounted right next to the 180° camera. Hope this helps.

Oops...sorry about that, fixed. Thanks Here's the night video, but reviewing it, I realized I hadn't dialed in the exposure/noise settings as much as I had t thought. The tracking was what I was looking for. I have since changed the noise/exposure/ir settings and the image should improve in the...