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I am using the Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE with firmware V2.800.0000013.0.R. Do you recommend that I upgrade to V2.800.0000015.0.R? Some people in this forum were saying that the camera continuously contacts a Chinese cloud server, what is this all about?

Hello Everyone, I made an excel spreadsheet for myself when playing around with the 5231's varifocal lens. I made sure my first camera has a varifocal lens so I can play around with the zoom to get a better understanding of what the 2.8mm, 3.6mm, 6.0mm, etc would look like for the future. What...

Hello All, As promised, I'd like to give everyone an update. I received the replacement camera from Andy and I am extremely happy to say that it is now working 100%. I am now able to access the webUI with no issues, it loads nice and quick. I also conducted a ping test and I am now getting a 0%...

I’m waiting for replacement camera to arrive. I’ve been told it had been shipped, hopefully it gets here sometime this week.

Hello All, I was doing some reading about PoE and it appears that there are two different PoE modes, Mode A and Mode B. In Mode A the power and data are sent through the same 4 wires and the other 4 wires remain spares. In Mode B the data is sent over 4 wires and the power is sent over the...

Yes it reset everything and I had to re-initialize the camera. Thanks, I definitely spent the time testing each individual component of my setup. I spoke with Andy and he said it could be the circuit board within the camera and he will test it once I send it back. I agree it’s either the...

I loaded the shipped firmware V2.800.0000005.0.R.190325 and did the reset again, issue still persists. Still getting 34% loss with the 50' cable. I've spent so much time trying to figure out what the issue is but I honestly believe there is a hardware issue with the camera which is not something...

I tried to the hard reset and the problem still exists. I will load the shipped firmware V2.800.0000005.0.R.190325 and do the reset again. I'll report back.

I will try to do the reset as you suggested. I did press on the reset for 10 seconds while the camera was on before but I did not try the method where you hold the button as you apply the power. I did upgrade the firmware to the latest version V2.800.0000008.0.R.190619. I'll report back.

Unfortunately I only have the one camera, it's my first one. Would be nice if I had another one to test and that would answer my question for good.

So I just plugged in an android box onto the 50 foot cable on the PoE switch and pinged it, 0% loss

So I mounted the camera back outside using the Cat6 cable I ran. I am getting 6% packet loss on this cable. I am able to get into the web interface and it seems to load better than the 50ft cable.. still a bit slow. Not sure if I would consider this fixed since I'm still getting packet loss but...

Ok so I bought a new 5-port PoE network switch: TP-Link TL-SG1005P. I am seeing an improvement in pings while using the 50 foot cat6 cable, before I was getting ~70% loss now it dropped down to 34% loss (still not perfect) but I can now access the web interface which unfortunately loads very...

Ok I'll get another PoE injector and see if that's the problem.. Should I get another TP-Link or do you recommend another brand? It's strange because I tested the TP-Link quite a bit with the same behavior

Is it possible that the power being sent over the cable from the PoE injector is somehow inducing a voltage or something on the communication conductors? It would explain why the issue is more apparent the longer the cable gets. When I make my cables I use the 'Type B' configuration, I'm...