Recent content by fnhanks

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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    Right, you’re proving my point? In Andy’s original post, before he edited it, he called out that the lowlight performance was better on the 5442 than this newer camera. Hence my disappointment that this “almost 3 year old product” is outperforming this brand new one. Like Andy called out...
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    That’s odd as my new TIOC is significantly better than my 5442 (s3 variant) at low light. This seems to be worse and makes this whole new lineup worthless to me.
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    How does the existing dual lens compare to the current TIOC one? I have one of those and it's honestly been nothing short of incredible for lowlight performance and overall image quality. I'm spoiled now and don't really want to buy any other cameras that would be a downgrade.
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    Looking at the marketing materials, looks like no dual/panorama variant coming under the updated WizColor line, right? Really wanting to grab a dual lens one, but can wait for a bit if there’s a better variant coming other than the current : IPC-Color4K-T180 4K Full-Color 1/1.8
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Dang. Is it common with this specific camera or did I just get lucky with all my other ones? Is there anything you can do about it, aside from exchange?
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Anyone seen a black blob on the images of their camera or other Dahua for that matter? I have 12 cameras from Andy, and this is the first one that has seemingly some sort of black speck inside the lens. I mounted the camera in late December after our daughter was born, and I just now noticed...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Yea, if I was going to replace it with anything, it was going to be a Noctua. Has anyone done a fan replacement for this camera or know the right fan size? Are they all fairly standard? I want to try and get all the information first before I go up and pull the camera down, as I want to know...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    I enabled the overlay and mine is sitting at 131* F (55* C). While it's indoors, I am using the recessed mount, so it's half in the attic, although under 18" of blown in insulation. Looking at the Dahua datasheet, it says the operating temperature is up to 65* C, so I've got 10* of headroom...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    Is there a way to modify the RPM via a resistor? Is there a way to check the temp inside? Would like to understand how hot it’s running first to see if disabling the fan (or reducing RPM) would actually be prudent. Have you done this? Any instructions / schematics / pictures? Anything would be...
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    Review-SD4A425DB-HNY 1/2.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight Auto-tracking MiniPTZ

    For those that have one of these installed, how loud is yours? I had one that I had mounted outdoors (and love!), but we recently mounted another one indoors in a room that has 14' ceilings, as my wife wanted a PTZ that we could zoom extremely close, as we have a crib in the room and it's...
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    Day / Night profile switching

    These both are incredibly helpful. Thanks!
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    Day / Night profile switching

    Isn't "general" just another profile, just like "day" and "night"? The way you wrote it, you make it sound like "general" is equivalent to the "day/night" profile that the non-PTZ cameras have, but when configuring profiles you can actually select a "general" profile instead of a day or night...
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    Day / Night profile switching

    Tried both cameras via internet explorer (not edge) and the settings unfortunately are the same. No option to have an auto-changing profile:
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    Day / Night profile switching

    The camera has all the profiles, but how do you have it configured to actually switch profiles automatically based on luminance, NOT scheduling? Are you referring to this setting (screenshot below)? As this has nothing to do with profile changing based on my understanding and the documentation.
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    Day / Night profile switching

    I have 1x PTZ1A4M-4X-S2 and 2x PTZ425DB-AT. I'm using chrome to configure everything. To clarify, they all have profiles, it's just that none of these have a way to switch between profiles other than a basic schedule which is insufficient. At this point, I'm going to have to potentially use...