Recent content by gmorganVA

Quick update: Working with Andy (my camera needed an open the camera and push the button hard reset) I got my IPC-HDW5231R-ZE working with Surveillance Station 8.2.8-6335 (Synology). I did not use ONVIF, was able to get things connected up using the Dahua specific profile for this camera. Now...

How did you get your Dahua camera to connect up to Surveillance Station? I keep getting test connection failures. When I scan for devices my camera shows up in the list but I cannot get SS to connect. I saw one post about changing all the stream parameters to very specific values in the...

I replied to another thread about this same topic but hadn't had time to do more research. I'm planning to install my first outdoor camera and know enough to be concerned about grounding and surges. Don't want to learn the hard way so trying to get ahead of this before it is an issue. Looking...

I am new to this forum, but am wondering if the intent of grounding (in the case where the camera is on a pole or other detached structure) is to prevent inductive coupling causing dangerous voltage traveling down the wire and frying your network gear (lightning - doesn't have to be a direct...

Introduction: Based on great write-ups (been reading the Cliff Notes and linked articles) in this forum have picked up a single Dahua camera from EmpireTech, some network gear from Ubiquiti (have grander plans for improving my home network beyond the addition of IP based surveillance gear), and...