Recent content by NOAMattD

Just in time. Lightning hit a nearby tree over the weekend and must've hit one of my cams with a stray ion because it's dead. Craziest thing. Everything but my doorbell went out a moment before the strike, and they all came back online except one.

https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm GetDataBack is $80 and I've had much more success with using it than Recuva, EaseUS, and MiniTool. It lets you search a drive and view the lists of files found for free so you can see if it will work before buying.

Yes and they work very well. Surveillance Station has come a long way the past couple of years. Just set it to be the equivalent Dahua model, use the generic Dahua option, or set everything on the camera's GUI and tell SS to get all its settings from the camera. Synology also now supports...

Depending on your situation maybe the lack of a PIR sensor. I use Synology Surveillance Station which has improved by leaps and bounds the past couple years but I still do not bother with its software motion detection; I use my cameras instead and the PIR sensor on the DB1 works flawlessly for...

DSCam also now supports going to the moment the event was triggered by tapping on the notification. Nice update. Time to say goodbye to the old python script in docker :lmao:

if the soffit is aluminum you can screw directly into it and it will hold. if you're worried about someone jumping up to grab it pull it down, rather than use a two-by-four, you can use a piece of aluminum bar stock from home Depot or Lowe's and slide it under the channels that hold the soffit...

@mat200 is right that you need a lot more cameras. I'm pretty much a noob is well but for example on the garage you would want to have two cameras on either end pointing in at an angle rather than a single one over the center. it's clearly a huge property so running extra cables will give you a...

Thank you for this! Using your tool I saw that some of my cameras still had UPnP enabled despite turning it off in the web GUI. Using the Dahua HTTP API I got them all turned off. Dahua owners: Go to: http://<CAMERA.IP>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=getConfig&name=UPnP to see your config...

Thanks guys. I was thinking more in terms of extra heat generated or processing power being used that might limit the number of simultaneous streams. I know the 101 says about 3 streams is the limit but wasn't sure if it mattered whether or not it's max res vs. lower.

General question: are there any potential drawbacks to recording on high quality 24/7? Right now I do so on the low-res stream and switch to high-res for motion, but a sufficiently quick action will miss the part where a person is walking up.

I did. Had some found money and lowballed an ebayer. we met in the middle. From what I can tell it's about like the 3241 except for the megapixels but I wanted the higher rez for daytime. The WDR is crap on it. Made a lot of artifacts. I just turned it off. Image does get a little noisy...

It's a change to the Smart Plan / IVS settings. Rather than having to choose between IVS and Face Recognition, you can now incorporate human & car filtering directly into your basic motion detection settings and/or your IVS rules. It's working really well for me thus far; my one Dahua AI cam has...

Couple things I learned today: 1) The "Restore Default Settings" option in Batch Config Tool / IVMS seems to be functionally equivalent to holding down the reset button. Just to save you a lot of popping the face plate on and off 2) Don't accidentally have an IP you've reserved for a camera...

Agree, there's no need to go crazy or overthink this. I recommend pushing up on the button from behind with both thumbs at first to see if one spot pops up easier than elsewhere, the adhesive is not spread uniformly. once you've got your spot, just insert your prying tool in and go around in a...

Great this is what I was hoping to see. I have several "plectrums" (I just call them guitar picks haha) so I should be all set. Thanks for sharing!