Recent content by mattyp

No. I dont know why that would be required if i am telling it to sync to my PC, and it does so. Why would it switch? I do not even have the cam connected to the external internet. It seems to have fixed it though. Sigh. I realize more I am not the intended market evertime i am in the...

I have a 5442T-ZE i am having a lot of issues with. One of the things is it wont keep the time. It keeps switching to an hour earlier. If i hit sync to PC, it will switch back 1 hour soon afterwards. If i have NTP checked on or off it does this. I am not sure what NTP even does butit...

THanks, next task when i get time is to read the other posts linked above on how to ever SET UP a night profile. (Right now its just uses day and does a decent job even at night but I know it can be better). Is that Dahua SunriseSunset Code "auto" switch program still working with the...

Thank you all so very much. This all makes perfect sense as you explained it well as to the "why". I always appreciate that more than just "flip this and that" with no explanation. Now that i understand the "why" it will be a lot more fun to play with it.

Yeah so i went back through my footage and realized this HUGE clue: It seems to only happen between ~8:45 and 9:45 ish. So it does seem to be related to the interaction of the final setting into complete darkness. Indeed is is some kind of transitional period but it absolutely SUCKS. So I...

Its regular intervals. It switches the IR light off for exacty 7 seconds. Then switches it on for exaclty 12. Then repeats. 7, 12, 7, 12 - does not vary. On my DS cam app it looks like one solid continuous "Event", and hence, if I have my phone on notify, it continuously beeps every 12...

BTW I have no idea what "Smart IR" is but it certainly is not so smart. :p

Camera is now at least unusable at night UNLESS I "Turn off smart IR" I have tried various things over 3 nights since this began - as i have to wait until dark for it to trigger. I cleaned the lens of the camera of course. Tonight, after 3 nights of failure and turning it off, was a complete...

Welp. That was a mistake. Something happened. I made just a few of these changes. Specifically i changed these: 8192 bitrate CBR from VBR 15FPS 15 iframes I also made a quick zoom in and out. That was it (i planned to do a more through read later of the above post wen i had more time)...

This is great thanks i will try these out!! What is "SVC"? options are 1 (off), 2, and 3.

Searching the word "settings" brings up way too many hits, so I seek a crash course in the most basic stuff: (I have a 5442T-ZE running V2.840.15 and therabouts firmware - Build Date: 2022-08-18) 1) What is a substream? My default substream 1 looks like a lower quality version of the Main...

Oh? Can you cite an example. This is an interesting options!

Just observe. This is in the Bay area CA - you can hand the local Police a perfect picture, complete with license plate numbers - hell, you can tell them when the perpetrator last shaved and they aren't going to do jack shit about it in terms of investigation. SO hate to say it but its more a...

OK, so I my own system I got together from the advice in here, which I understand as the software and equipment is onsite. At this time i do not even connect my NVR (a NAS drive) to the internet. The issue is I have a very small HOA I am part of that wants 1-2 cameras installed to monitor the...

Now i am new at this, but it has all the screens to enable notifications, alerts - people versus vehicles, etc. so i assume so. Its supposed to be professional software, at least it touts itself as such. Note even the dahua interface itself is also sending me alerts after i told the cam...