Recent content by Mainsail

Explain? The camera worked perfectly connected to my laptop with the browser app. Connecting it to my NVR using a different cat5 cable the software recognizes it, loads it to the bottom half of the window without any prompting from me, but remains red, and not connecting.

The camera is getting power, just not passing data:

Thank you for all the suggestions! I pulled the camera down and connected it to the NVR with a different cable - no change Brought the camera inside, connected to the laptop, held the reset button for 10-12 seconds, and used the SADP tool to make sure the ONVIF was enabled, and connected it to...

Dahua NVR and Annke Pan/Tilt camera. It was connected and working fine, although it would occasionally disconnect. Pulling the camera's network cable and reconnecting would reset it and it would work fine again. I wanted to swap the network cable at the NVR to another port and then the whole...

As mentioned, it's a gang box, so eight small compartments with doors on the sidewalk side, and one big door on the street side so the mail delivery person can drive up.

I have visible cameras on the house. I won't hang cameras in the trees - don't want to be "that guy..." Any ideas about how the motion detection works?

Thanks all! I will come up with something, but what I really need to understand is how the motion sensing works. I don't want the disguise to obscure any sensor. This is the camera mounted on the house. the red arrow is the mailbox, the green circle is roughly where I'll put the camera.

Current disguise ideas are: Birdhouse in the tree Pile of rocks on the ground

Christmas morning I was up at 5am, as always look out the front bedroom window and make sure the HMMWV is still there, general look around, etc... and see a red light way out at the gang mailbox. Not unusual, there are seven houses that use the box. What caught my eye was that it looked like...

OK, figured it out. I had set the NVR GUI but the schedule was on ... something other than motion. I just did a copy from one of the cameras that was successfully recording motion to the new camera and everything has been working since.

More pics of the config (the camera is currently in the garage):

Used the SADP tool to get the camera set up and I can see the view through the camera via the NVR and the camera individually. I can control the tilt and pan (not sure if there even is a zoom) but so far I am not recording motion. I've looked through every tab and sub-tab in the camera's...

It would be nice if there was an optional green laser it could put on his chest as it's following him. Is the camera noisy? He spotted it as he got close, wondering if he saw it or heard it.

What did they steal? It looked pretty big. Why doesn't the contractor's truck have a front plate?

Well, you all left just enough clues for me to get it figured out. The GIU is part of the camera firmware. Connected the camera to the cat5 on my laptop and powered it from an old 12v wallwart (50-50 chance on the polarity and got lucky). That allowed the SADP tool to see the camera, get...