Recent content by woodsie

Just got this camera in the mail and installed it today. It's a quantum leap over the previous generation 3MP Hikvision that it replaced (DS-2CD2132F-IS). It's a no brainer upgrade. I'd almost dare to say that it holds its own against some of my $600 full size dark fighter cameras. Maybe...

Would if I could but they are unobtanium right now. I've only seen the 8mp and 5mp variants for sale and that's only from one seller on the grey market.

Motorized PTZ to solve an installation challenge is tremendous overkill and not really the problem that those cameras were designed to solve. The reality is that if you can reach it to install it then you can reach it to position it before tightening everything down. If you don't want to...

Maybe it is a legit product but the seller is selling it at a loss because it has hacked firmware that will compromise your network and silently funnel your info back to the seller so he can steal your identity or worse. How about that? I'm just spitballing but the point is that if something...

Just to clarify, the limiting factor of a POE run is the data, not the power itself. 328' is the maximum run length for any 100BASE-T or 1000BASE-T before you start seeing issue whether it's a powered connection or not. The power being sent over a POE connection can far exceed 328'. You can...

The 3MP should be better than the 5MP for low light according to Hikvision's stats. With that said the Easy IP 3.0 5MP and 8MP cameras should be better than the older 2-line 3MP cameras once again based on Hikvision's published specifications. I don't see any reason they wouldn't work with the...

Thus far it appears that it create two higher resolution options (5MP and 8MP) in their budget camera configurations as well as two low light options (3MP and 2MP). Both the higher resolution and low light bullet points were only met previously by their higher end cameras as far as I can tell...

I have indeed looked at Dahua Starlight cameras. They look awesome but a couple years ago I standardized on Hikvision so that my NVRs and viewer apps were "harmonized" across a single brand. I've got 3 different locations that I have simultaneously linked to Hikvision iVMS apps on both my...

This thread is also relevant to my interests. How is the low light performance? I've got a 3MP DS-2CD2632F-I(S) varifocal camera on my driveway at a vacation house but the low light performance is just downright miserable. I know the new 4MP versions are better but I want to make a quantum...

I think it's a typo carried over from Hikvisions website. When you download the data sheet it quotes a more typical 0.01 lux rating which I think is the same as the prior gen 4mp version. I got excited about that one too until I double checked the data sheet. I think the 2mp and 3mp versions...

The 2mp and 3mp versions appear to be low light versions. They also have 5mp and 8mp cameras in that same line.

I've recently seen some new cameras pop up on Hikvision's international website that have specs which seem too good to pass up. I'm particularly looking at the 3MP line of "Low Light" cameras with a color Lux rating of 0.005: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. I've got some of...

Unfortunately I don't know much about using HiDDNS so I'm probably not the best person to help you. I know that when I tried HiDDNS I did not need to open/forward any ports on my router. I don't know why it worked, but it did. I just use DynDNS since I don't have a static IP and port...

How were you doing it when it worked? Port forwarding? VPN? HiDDNS? The first thing that comes to mind is that the IP address of your internet connection changed and you have not put anything in place to make sure it gets automatically updated on whatever device is managing the connection to...

Alright, well I came back to it today and added the camera manually and it appears to be working. I'd rather have it work plug and play like the others but this gets the job done. It still has one weird behavior where when I try to change the resolution from the NVR web interface it will...