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    HIK camera toggles between night mode and non night mode every 10 seconds

    Two things to try: In Image > Display Settings make sure you have the 'Light Brightness Control set to Auto and not Manual at 100%. TBH as it's internal, when it's dark you could just force the camera to Night from Auto, then lower the value of the IR to get a correctly exposed image (in which...
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    Hikvision camera settings

    15 metres? The standard works cherry picker only used to do about 10 or 12... Are the cameras connected to a Hikvision NVR? If so just logon to the NVR at its IP address. You then want to go into Settings, Network, Advanced, Other Settings where you can turn on Virtual Host. Once that's...
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    Pyronix enforcer alarm bell warning

    Yeah while it's in fault like that you'll only see 0. When you relearn at the panel you should see 100. Once it's back in its final position you want to leave that diagnostic running for 5 minutes and note the lowest and highest figures. On the basic display it just gives you 0, 1, 2, 3 so...
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    Pyronix enforcer alarm bell warning

    Pop the module out, delete it and relearn it at the control panel before reinstalling it. Once reinstalled run the signal strength test in diagnostics over several minutes to get the lowest reading. If you get a crap reading it might be failing. At that point Pyronix would advise to learn any...
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    Pyronix enforcer alarm bell warning

    It's the battery. I've seen this happen on a few of my sites. No low battery warning, just a poll fail or supervision fault. If you happen to Wireless Bell Supervision enabled in System Options (default is off for ungraded but on for grade 2 clean start) you'll get to a point where it cannot...
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    Britain is Lost

    I've had a brief look through some of the tweets and posts linked. Most of it is complete crap, lies and misinformation. I'm astounded that anyone believes it.
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    New 2CD2387G2-LISU/SL not auto switching to supplement light

    It's likely your cameras are staying in colour as the shutter speed is set too slow and there's sufficient light. I think (not tried) if they're in colour at night already, setting Supplement Light Mode to Smart will have no effect on the normal LED light. Set a faster exposure time in...
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    DS-2CD2387G2P-LSU/SL - Power Supply?

    LSU/SL has internal mic and speaker. As already mentioned: For main stream set to Video and Audio For sub stream set to Video and audio If using a Hikvision NVR in recording schedule click advanced and select the checkbox to record the audio
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    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    They're fine.
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    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    Network wise, no so long as you've set the IP, Gateway and DNS
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    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    You can change the default range on the VM Hubs but it's best to leave it. What you might want to do now is to change the IP address of the NVR. You don't want it changing, which it can if set to DHCP. You can either set a reservation on the VM Hub so that the NVR always gets its current...
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    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    As others have said this is simply caused by the NVR IP address being on a different subnet: Just alter the IP address of the MacBook to 192.168.1.100 temporarily plug it directly into the NVR LAN port in place of its network connection browse to 192.168.1.108, log in (I assume you'll need to...
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    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    Only 5 days total to the UK? That's great service. I was going to order a couple of these cameras myself but have been put off by the thought of how long I'd be waiting. I'm an installer and use Hikvision but wanting to try Dahua for comparison. Although I can get Dahua from my trade...
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    Most HikVision sensors 1/3 for 4MP but the reccomendation for 4MP seems to be 1/1.8 or larger?

    L - White Light I - Infra red light S - Alarm input/output U - Microphone SL - Strobe Light Basically that's a hybrid light model with 2 way audio, speaker and strobe
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    Hikvision turret with IR

    Just check the product code. If it ends I(U) it's Infra red, L(U) is white light, LI(U) has both. The latest ColorVu models containing G2H are Hybrid light models containing both White Light and IR. The mode can be switched directly from the app between ColorVu, Infra-Red or Smart (where the...
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