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    Hello From Philly!

    Each camera would have this approximate field of view, depending on the viewing angle of the camera: Two would look something like this with overlap between them:
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    Hello From Philly!

    If the mounting limitation is only for the brick itself, I could see mounting cameras along these lines, which would give you a decent view of the front of your house. You could obviously add as many cameras as you want. Painted black, they wouldn't be that noticeable. You could also mount one...
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    What do you use for a Router? Need replacement advice

    I spent a fair amount of time figuring all this out. Happy to try to walk you through my setup if helpful.
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    What do you use for a Router? Need replacement advice

    That is not correct with respect to the Ubiquiti products. The Unifi Security Gateway is most certainly a router. Ubiquiti Networks - UniFi® Security Gateway
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    What do you use for a Router? Need replacement advice

    You do not need both. The Unifi Security Gateway (USG) is a router/firewall with WAN and LAN ports. Along with the Unifi switches, I have different vlans for guests, cameras, and IoT devices that are isolated from my trusted home network. The only thing you should look into is whether it can...
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    What do you use for a Router? Need replacement advice

    I can't say enough nice things about the Ubiquiti products. I have the Unifi Security Gateway as a router instead of the Edge router (along with Unifi access points and switches) and have liked it very much.
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    Dahua Camera DNS

    I recently invested in a good router (Unifi Security Gateway) with firewall capabilities and it has been well worth it. It is not that expensive but it is designed for IT professionals and takes some time to learn. I have IoT devices on a different subnet/vlan such that they can talk to the...
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    • Post #14
    • Forum: Dahua
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    Dahua Camera DNS

    In case helpful, what I did was create a group with all the IP addresses of the cameras and a group with the IP addresses of the PC/NVR and time server (that the cameras are permitted to communicate with). I then created a rule on LAN IN that will ACCEPT packets between those two groups and then...
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    Dahua Camera DNS

    I could definitely tell you if you have Unifi network equipment. I can't guarantee I could help with other equipment, but happy to try. The first question is what do you have? Not all equipment has configurable firewalls.
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    Dahua Camera DNS

    Don't know, but I don't trust these cameras enough to let them communicate with the world so I have set up a firewall rule to drop all traffic except to two IP addresses: the address of my PC/NVR and the address of an external NTP time server.
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    WTS Ubiquiti Networks 8-Port UniFi Switch, Managed PoE+ Gigabit Switch with SFP, 150W (US-8-150W)

    I have all Unifi equipment in my house and love it, particularly the ability to isolate and firewall the cameras. That said, this is not much of a discount for a year-old switch.
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    Hello From Philly!

    Welcome! If I could pass along just one piece of advice that I learned the hard way it is that the number of pixels should not be your highest priority. I bought a Lorex 8MP 4K camera and a Amcrest 4MP HD camera out of the gate and those are my two worst cameras. The Dahua 2MP starlight 5231s I...
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    Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

    Thanks again @bp2008 for this amazing tool. Question: will the sunset/sunrise offset field take a decimal number? I.e., can I specify 30 minutes with .5 hours?
    • RJF
    • Post #57
    • Forum: Dahua
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    Automatically select Day or Night profile based on whether it's Day or Night?

    Agreed. This software is amazing (and also works for my Lorex camera).
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    hooded door checker

    I live in the hood and probably every night at least one person walks down our block checking door handles. It's amazing how many people forget to lock their doors (including me, once). One night I was watching the cameras at the time (around 2 in the morning) and caught someone doing it live...
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    A little crazyness

    I have messed around a little bit with the trial version of Filmora (I wanted to zoom in on part of a video), but would welcome any suggestions for a basic and relatively inexpensive editing tool for neighborhood vigilantes like myself.
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    Dahua 8mp NON-Starlight HDW5830R-Z review

    What has your experience been with motion? I replaced a 2 MP Starlight HDW5231R-Z with this camera and it takes substantially worse daytime images of objects in motion (people walking) than the 2 MP did under exactly the same conditions. I've tried different settings without luck, with auto...
    • RJF
    • Post #35
    • Forum: Dahua
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    Dahua 6MP and 12MP Fisheye - $400

    Do you have any footage of what the video from these looks like?
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    Pictures of multiple turrets mounted very close to each other?

    Would love to see how others have addressed this situation. Thanks in advance for your pictures!
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    Garbage truck takes out my neighbor's car

    There is a great review by @happf of this camera here: Dahua 8mp NON-Starlight HDW5830R-Z review I paid $220.
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    Garbage truck takes out my neighbor's car

    @bp2008 is right on both counts, obviously. I no longer use that camera as a license plate reader, although it worked really well when I did. I got the Lorex 8MP before I joined this site and back when I thought that all that mattered was the number of pixels. The Dahua is far superior to the...
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    Garbage truck takes out my neighbor's car

    Washington, DC (specifically, Capitol Hill). That is a private trash truck that picks up from apartments and restaurants I believe. Fortunately, they fixed my neighbor's car. The city picks up trash from residents here. I assume if a city trash truck hit my neighbor's car he would be out of luck.
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    Garbage truck takes out my neighbor's car

    With a bonus closeup from what used to be my LPR camera. These videos are from July. I shared the videos with their employer after it became clear they did not report the incident. The first video was taken by a Lorex 8MP 4K camera. The second video was taken by a Dahua HFW5231-Z5.
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    Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

    Thanks again! FYI, this also works for a Lorex 8MP camera I have.
    • RJF
    • Post #48
    • Forum: Dahua
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    IPC-HDW5231R-ZE H.265 Firmware Bugs

    Same here. Assuming I don't care that it's recording at 30 FPS instead of 20 FPS (I have adequate system resources to record at 30 FPS), is there any reason to downgrade the firmware? This may already be clear, but for what it's worth I have this same firmware on a HFW5231-Z5 that is set up...
    • RJF
    • Post #28
    • Forum: Dahua
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    BI showing higher frame rate than camera settings?

    Thanks very much. I stand corrected.
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    BI showing higher frame rate than camera settings?

    The experts will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if a camera is set on the camera's login page to record at X FPS, then that is what the camera is recording at, and BI is just showing the wrong FPS.
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    BI showing higher frame rate than camera settings?

    The video settings for both of my Dahuas (FRONT, SOUTH) are identical and set at 20 FPS. BI is showing that one of them (FRONT) is 30 FPS, which is very strange. I just restarted everything and I'm still seeing it. Any ideas? I just installed the new version (4.6.4.9) but don't check these...
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    Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

    Amazing! Thank you!!
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    Dahua 8mp NON-Starlight HDW5830R-Z review

    Thanks @looney2ns. Really appreciate the help. Quick question for my continuing education: what is the difference between using manual as you show above and using Shutter Priority and setting a range from 0 to the equivalent of 1/100, (which I guess would be 10)? I understand that to mean that...
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