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All, Was browsing the Dahua website and came across the IPC-HDW5242T-ZE-MF. See IPC-HDW5242T-ZE-MF The specs look like the new 1/1.8" sensor but varifocal and 2mp. Could this be the ultimate night time camera? IPC-HDW5242T-ZE-MF 2MP IR Vari-focal Eyeball WizMind Network Camera...

Thank you so much for your hard work - although it doesn't make the decision necessarily easier as the answer, as always, is "it depends" :). One thing I was thinking while reading through all of it was - what if you set the stream resolution to 1920x1080, so 2MP. Would you take advantage of...

You do realize that anybody can open your gate with a piece of cardboard with your license plate number written on it... :P

(I've been lurking so far because I'm in the market for some more cams. Haven't been paying attention for about a year and was wondering if there's a good 5231 replacement) With 8mbit h265 the compression artefacts are mostly gone and I'm actually pretty impressed with this cam. This, combined...

So I'm not 100% sure about this, but I've been looking at MPC (Media Player Classic) source code, and from what I gather the Intel driver doesn't actually support H265 decoding directly although the CPU does support it. Decoding through DirectX does support H265 - but BlueIris doesn't support...

Doesn't work - if you rename the short camera name, you actually have to rename the files (and then regenerate DB). I went through this just last week :).

In a Windows command prompt, you can do ren camera_a* camera_b* in each of your folders where BI stores data (if you renamed the short camera name from camera_a to camera_b). You might need to rebuild the database after that (right click on the clip overview on the right if I recall correctly).

Same here, except that it even starts out-of-focus. Manually focus, leave it for a while, come back and it's out of focus. But only when zoomed in quite a bit.

Interested, will send PM.

Agreed. @EMPIRETECANDY, if you happen to talk to a Dahua rep, maybe you could ask for an option to disable autofocus as a quick fix for all the focus issues? If nobody asks it definitely won't happen ;)

I just got one that has focus issues, too. Autofocus doesn't actually focus properly when zoomed in more than 80%. Halfway zoomed in no issue. Manual adjusting still gives a clear image. Haven't had it running long enough to see if it loses focus. New firmware (201711) seemed to make it a little...

Similar issue here, bench testing one I just got (Z12E), outside during bright daylight. Focus seems to work fine, except when zoomed in 80% or more the autofocus consistently fails to properly focus. Adapting the focus manually a few clicks gets a supersharp image, but changing the zoom...

No.

Looks good! I've got an ambitious project, but I think it can be done... to get the angle to the road as narrow as possible, I'm looking at about 225ft distance. All the way zoomed in, that's still almost 100ppf, so in theory that should be enough. See attached screenshot from IPVM calculator...

That's good information, I'm sure that it'll come in handy for me at some point. Thanks for sharing.