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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    I definitely need these cameras, it has been one hell of a bear season. These spring bears are everywhere. Had one on the deck every day for a week straight and kept coming back despite warning shots and rubber slugs. After I harvested one they stopped for about a week. But today I had...
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    Alright, after successfully using ONVIF to control these cameras with my own code (not without some self induced confusion on my end) and having a year to test them, we've just ordered some more cameras from Andy that will come in handy around here for keeping track of the bears. I coded a...
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    Dahua PTZ1A2M-25X, HTTP Requests, Moves Up and Down but that's it?

    Okay, discovered my poor coding was the issue. The reason why some of the commands were not working is because the non-working commands I was feeding it had ".cgi&action=" which should be ".cgi?action=" and now with that changed, my code can pan left and I'm sure all the other API commands will...
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    Alternatives To Dahua Or Hikvision?

    Well, I'm happy to report that after using WireShark to sniff SecuritySpy and finding how it issues the pan left command, I figured it out. As I said in my thread from February that got no responses, this command was working to pan up: and this command to pan left was not working: The...
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    Alternatives To Dahua Or Hikvision?

    Does BI work with the current cameras with the current GUI? If it does, then they have the API to control the camera. And we do not. Why is that?
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    Alternatives To Dahua Or Hikvision?

    The fact they hid my question on their forum, Andy ghosted me, and they don't provide the API that they must provide to big companies makes it seem to me like they have a financial incentive not to supply the info that many people obviously want to control their cameras. Otherwise what would...
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    Alternatives To Dahua Or Hikvision?

    I just need to find a company that doesn't play "I have a secret with the API." They obviously provide those commands to SecuritySpy and Blue Iris so that their software can control their cameras. And they advertise these capabilities, so why don't they let paying customers know the API since...
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    Alternatives To Dahua Or Hikvision?

    Bump, I'm also looking for alternative to Dahua. In February of 2024 folks recommended Dahua so I bought three different versions of Dahua camera from Andy. I want to order a half dozen more, but I am having an issue getting HTTP Requests or ONVIF to work with the cameras. I posted about the...
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    Dahua PTZ1A2M-25X, HTTP Requests, Moves Up and Down but that's it?

    Bump.
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    Dahua PTZ1A2M-25X, HTTP Requests, Moves Up and Down but that's it?

    Updated the firmware to the latest (which didn't change the PTZ version or Web Version, not sure if that matters), but still having the same issue. Up and Down work, nothing else does. http://192.168.132.117/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=Up&arg1=0&arg2=1&arg3=0 <Response [200]>...
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    Dahua PTZ1A2M-25X, HTTP Requests, Moves Up and Down but that's it?

    Trying to control this camera with HTTP Requests. So far I can get up and down to work using this format: http://192.168.132.117/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=Up&arg1=0&arg2=1&arg3=0 which works and returns <Response [200]> Similarly down works with...
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    2024 EmpireTech Autumn Sale Plan

    I didn't realize there was a temp measurement version. I just came here to see if my IPC-TPC124X-AI-S2 would show temperature on the screen rather than just thermal colors only to discover there is a TPC-DF1241-T-S2 "temperature measurement" version also. So I'm guessing the IPC-TPC124X-AI-S2...
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    Setting up Auto-Tracking on a PTZ1A2M-25X

    Tried doing that but while it shows me drawing lines and graphics, anytime I try to apply the rule it says "please draw graphics" as if I haven't drawn any. Might be related to the little message "To use this function, please download and install the plug-in. Click here to download" telling me...
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    Setting up Auto-Tracking on a PTZ1A2M-25X

    I think blue and white. Looks like this.
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    Setting up Auto-Tracking on a PTZ1A2M-25X

    I've been using iSpy and I like it, but it doesn't do auto-tracking from what I understand. I think this camera has some kind of native ability to auto-track where it follows a moving object around by panning and tilting the camera to keep it in the center, but it only does this for a few...
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    Mom and two cubs. I need to get more of these cameras around the property and then it won't take long to get good stuff to train an AI model.
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    That's good to know. I guess we'll see how it does in Alaska at -5F. As an aside, the DHI-TPC-SD2241-T is working well. I wish it had the optical zoom of the other camera, but for spotting living things it works well. I still have a thermal bullet camera to test out and add to the mix. Then...
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    Can anybody recommend a dome enclosure for the PTZ1A2M-25X? I definitely need to get it covered before the snow starts.
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    Thank you, I will definitely check that out. The functionality I'm ultimately looking for (which may be optimistic) is to run about 16 cameras, have some PTZ cameras slew based on alerts from other cameras, have some PTZ cameras slew based on audio (not just audio, but AI determined types of...
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    I'm thinking about getting Spy Security for MacOS to start this process of trying to integrate audio and various cameras. Then will try to figure out a way to do it with ONVIF & linux scripts although I'm not optimistic about that....
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    Finally got a PTZ1A2M-25X installed. Still trying to figure it out. I tried some ONVIF stuff and ran into some issues but I haven't dedicated much time to it yet. Eventually will plan on wiring up a microphone and will try to have it look in various directions based on sound or based on...
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    Remote Access to View EmpireTech Camera?

    Will do, thanks.
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    Remote Access to View EmpireTech Camera?

    I appreciate the info and apologies for my lack of detail. I'll do more research and try to get a better idea of what I have going on. When you say "privacy VPN in the cloud" that might be what we have. The routers run the ExpressVPN software so that when we connect to the router(s) the IP...
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    Remote Access to View EmpireTech Camera?

    Years ago when I set up something similar I used port forwarding, but I only had one router and it was connected directly to the Internet and wasn't running VPN software on the router. I read elsewhere on this forum that port forwarding isn't very secure, so figured I'd ask for pointers in case...
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    Remote Access to View EmpireTech Camera?

    I don't currently access any devices remotely unfortunately. This would be my first attempt. The routers run VPN software just to encrypt and hide my IP address of internet traffic. At least that's the only way I've used it.
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    Remote Access to View EmpireTech Camera?

    Finally got my camera up and running locally and it's great and the PTZ works well. Would like to be able to access the camera remotely now, but my network is a bit complicated (at least in my mind). The camera is connected via ethernet to a POE switch which is connected to Router #1 which is...
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    That's an interesting option with a 900' Cat6e distance. I'll check that out and if that means I could use one such cable and at the end of it use that ePoE switch to power multiple cameras at the termination point all sending their data back on that single line, then that might prove to be a...
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    I'm sure it won't take long, mom likes to stop by the cabin deck with her cubs every October. She destroyed the yurt we first lived in, so we built a fortified cabin. We live amongst real life monsters here.
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    Thanks Andy, and thanks to everybody for all the great shared info, really helping me firm up our plans.
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    Wiring POE cameras throughout a forty acre forest to track brown bears...

    I don't see that camera for sale in the U.S, do you have a direct link by chance?
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