Recent content by IPCamDude

Thank you! Packages are usually dropped right at the front door unless the delivery guy is in a hurry in which case they usually just leave it in front of the 1-car garage. I do have a doorbell cam that catches any front door activity but do want to add another camera there at the front door to...

Hello gentlemen. Well life happened and with moving into the new place and everything else I have not had a chance to start the camera project. I'm hoping to change that now and wanted to get some feedback from the community regarding some camera positioning based upon my floorplan. Following...

Great suggestion mat200, makes perfect sense. Thank you so much for taking the time to help!

Great replies @aristobrat and @looney2ns, thanks very much. I will be using Blue Iris with the Dahuas that I get -- do you guys know how the built-in microphone works with Blue Iris? Are you able to just pull up a camera and hear anything that the camera's microphone is picking up? Is audio...

Hi guys, Had one more question. By focusing on night-time quality on the Dahua Starlight IPC-HDW5231R-ZE varifocal turrets am I really losing out a lot on daytime quality? If I am going to have enough lighting around the house where I won't really need to rely on black and white IR pictures, is...

Thanks guys for all the help. I am on the fence between trying out a few of the varifocal starlights (DH-IPC-HDW5231R-ZE) or waiting it out for the 4K PoE Starlights which seem to be close to releasing sometime soon. For the HDW5231R-ZE turrets, which mount do you guys recommend for a wall mount...

@EMPIRETECANDY any news on when 4K Starlight turrets will be available? Looking to purchase about 10-12 cameras and don't want to buy the 2 MP starlights if the 4K ones are right around the corner. Thank you.

Thanks for the detailed reply. I am planning on going varifocal on everything so that I have the flexibility and don't have to "get it right" in choosing a lens size. For cable runs, if I install lower than the eaves, how does that happen exactly? The low-voltage guy I'm hiring is happy to do...

Hey @tangent, I am planning on hiring someone to help run the cables and do the camera mounting/install so am trying to get an idea of everything I need so I can just pay the guy once to come out and run everything. I am going to be building my own Blue Iris PC and handling all the software...

Doesn't show up on Google Maps yet, but will definitely take a look with that simulator. Thank you for all the suggestions! So just to clarify a 5231 Z12 is a turret, but not a Starlight turret? Is the 5231R-ZE the Starlight one? Do you have any info on the 5831xx and 48xx? I am having trouble...

Hi guys, thanks for taking the time to reply! I was really hoping there was a way to have an awesome 4K image during the day combined with a night time image as good as the Starlights and still be in a non-obtrusive turret format. I guess we just aren't there yet, but that's ok. I am including...

Hi all, Have a newly constructed house that I just got the keys to. I didn't get a chance to do anything while the house was being built by the builder so have to do all my wiring work now. I want to setup approximately 10-12 IP PoE cameras using BlueIris but had a few questions regarding the...

Is it possible to have recordings on two hard drives? I'm thinking of getting 2x WD Purple 6TB drives, and then using a smaller SSD for the OS. Would Blue Iris be able to handle using both WD Purple drives for recordings, switching from one to the next when the first one fills up?

Thanks networkcameracritic and thank you for your site -- its a great resource. Yeah, the issue I have is that I am able to look at the area that I want, but for the image to be oriented with the sky being at 12 'o clock, I need to rotate the image 90 degrees counterclockwise (or 270 degrees...

Thank you for being so helpful. The model that you linked, would that have more range of motion? Is there a specific specification you're looking for in the product info or is it just based on your experience? I have no idea about the eyeballs or turrets, in fact not even sure of the...