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    Installer recommendation for Texas (Houston area)

    25x PTZ Camera Specification: Image Sensor 1/2.8” STARVIS™ CMOS Image Size 1920(H) x 1080(V), 2 Megapixels RAM/ROM 1024M/128M Electronic Shutter 1/1s~1/30,000s Minimum Illumination Color: 0.005Lux@F1.6; B/W: 0.0005Lux@F1.6; 0Lux@F1.6 (IR on) S/N Ratio More than 50dB Video Output N/A Day / Night...
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    Installer recommendation for Texas (Houston area)

    Don't get me wrong, I see the potential to get screwed, and thats what my instinct was initially, but once I read over the half a page contract, three times, I don't see how they could screw me. The price is definitely ridiculous. If they said maybe $3,000 loan, I would probably strongly...
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    Calling all most experienced members

    So gonna try to keep this short... I was bidding out install costs on four 2231RP-ZS, one 5231R-ZE, and one 5231E-Z12. This one company who showed up said it was no problem, but after talking about my American flag on my house and some patriotic tattoos I have, he asked if I was military. I...
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    Installer recommendation for Texas (Houston area)

    So here is something interesting. Which I am going to start a new thread on this but one of these companies said the owner was in the military and his job was camera's/optics. Well he apparently "built" cameras, and once out of the military started this company and taught these other guys to...
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    Installer recommendation for Texas (Houston area)

    See thats another thing I forgot. I told everyone of these companies I wanted CAT 6 cable, and they all told me its overkill and I am stupid to want that. It makes me think they simply don't have it and don't want to take the time to try to find it. Also I told them the cables need to be solid...
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    Installer recommendation for Texas (Houston area)

    I know if I take my time, I can install the camera's, but to be honest, I have too much other stuff going on in my life to undertake this project. Some times you have to pick and choose your battles. I called multiple "security" companies that were recommended by Homeadviser.com and every single...
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    Review-Dahua IPC-HFW2831T-ZS 8MP WDR IR Bullet Network Camera

    Fail :facepalm:
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    Review-Dahua IPC-HFW2831T-ZS 8MP WDR IR Bullet Network Camera

    Any word on if they plan to produce a turret version of this anytime soon?
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    Need recommendations

    I read up on not mounting cameras higher than this for good facial recognition, but what about license plate readers focused in on a street section some distance away? I know I have read they recommend putting it at license plate level, and not too far of a angle to the side, but the only...
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    Need recommendations

    Yes, thats why we returned it. That camera was honestly just meant to be a indoor camera so my wife could see which one of the kids was stealing ice cream out of the freezer after they got home from school (before we got home). I plan to put good outdoor cameras up, its just such a downer to...
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    Need recommendations

    Thank you for the reply. It seems this is a futile situation. We have had two serious problems in our neighborhood. First, teenagers vandalizing property, usually in the form of breaking or stealing sprinkler heads on the outer most edge of the property line (especially houses on the corners...
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    Need recommendations

    So my wife and I are new to the whole securtiy camera thing, and I have been on here doing some research over different cameras, and to kind of get our feet wet, we decided to order some Wyze cameras just because for the price, they are hard to beat. Then after actually reading some of the...
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    Well when its in SD mode (the difference between SD and HD is not noticeable to me at all, but the 360p is noticeable) it shows in the upper left corner what the data being used is (it changes depending on level of movement on the screen) but I would say the average is about 50 kbps. When in HD...
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    Just a quick update/review incase you guys were wondering about the Wyze. This is for the "Wyze Pan". The app has the options of "HD" (1080P), "SD" and "360P". I am assuming this would be useful for people with slower internet. As a side note, we have 100 MBPS internet and the Wyze Pan has some...
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    I ordered one from the ebay guy, as you said, he has a good reputation. Figured it was very low risk. It will be interesting to see how the Wyze compares to it (if at all).
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    Is this the same thing? NEW Amcrest Indoor Wireless HD 1080p IP Camera IP2M-841B Black/Tilt/Pan/Speaker 705087017995 | eBay Is this even a better price or could this be a knockoff?
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    I didn't realize it was a Dahua. I may order that too. I actually think we need two indoor cameras as we want to cover the front half of our house where the front door is as well. I would keep the Wyze for no other reason that it can be ran on a phone battery charger pack for about 33 hours...
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    That Wyze cam is actually a pretty cool idea. I just watched a review of it by some YouTube tech guy and he pointed out something very cool about it... you can plug a rechargeable phone battery pack into the micro usb spot that powers it and run the camera off the battery pack completely...
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    Indoor PTZ or wide angle starlight?

    So since our kids have become teenagers, suddenly someone must be breaking into our home and eating entire buckets of ice cream and other random stuff that nobody has any clue how it happened... or someone is a big liar. Anyways, my wife is at her wits end with them lying and we need hidden...
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    Remove Cameras When Moving?

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    Do you record 24/7 or motion only?

    2 MONTHS!? Recording 24/7?! With 15 cams?! Wow. Thats crazy! Do you have like a 20 TB harddrive?! Lol. Thats insane.
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    Do you record 24/7 or motion only?

    Simple short question. Do you record 24/7 or when there is motion only?
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    Do you hide your hard drive?

    I am glad I read this. I really like the idea of having SD cards as backup. As you all said, I think most crooks might steal the NVR or even computer, but I would never think to check the individual cameras for a SD card. Good to know!
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    Who to hire to mount cameras?

    Ill be honest, until I came here, I would have done the same thing because that is always how I see them mounted. Once I read about mounting them around 8 feet, and thought about it for a moment, it made SOOO much sense. This is why you always see crooks foiling cameras at places with a simple...
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    Do you hide your hard drive?

    So how does that work when there is a SD card in the camera and you are also recording to your hard drive with BI? Does it record to the SD and the hard drive at the same time, and just overwrite sooner on the smaller SD card? Also what size SD cards do you all use? Can the SD cards be just...
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    Need camera recommendations for specific situation

    Not sure why I didn't grasp this earlier, but zoom is zoom. So until you exceed the optical zoom of the Z5, the picture should be equally clear on the Z12, and not any better. It isn't until you surpass the optical zoom of the Z5 and start digitally zooming where the Z12 would have higher PPF...
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    Need camera recommendations for specific situation

    I must be doing something wrong on this camera calculator because it is showing the same PPF for both of those cameras. I even deleted the camera and entered a new one, and even started the project over. The distance is 70 feet (which is what I estimated earlier in here). At 70 feet HFoV is 23.2...
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    Need camera recommendations for specific situation

    Just stumbled across the IPC-HFW5231E-Z12. Seems like it might be more "flexible" as a dedicated LPR than the IPC-HFW5231E-Z5. Price is not much different.
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    Camera that can see license plates in the night

    I am pretty new here, but this is the camera I am thinking of using for dedicated license plate capture. Maybe someone has a better recommendation, but from what I have read in the cliff notes, it seems like this has some serious potential: US $197.6 5% OFF|2017 Latest New Arrival 2MP WDR IR...
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    Need camera recommendations for specific situation

    Thank you very much for that link. I never thought about simply getting a used cheap computer instead of a NVR. So I have read that there are "special" hard drives that are designed specifically for security systems I guess because they are constantly writing 24 hours a day. Would I need to...
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