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  1. guykuo

    Beginner question - POE 12V, 24V, 48V

    Fixed
  2. guykuo

    Beginner question - POE 12V, 24V, 48V

    Which is what I mean by non-standard, weird/fake "POE". Passive power over ethernet like the Mikrotik and some Ubiquity products use is not the same as the power standards used by POE cameras. As tangent wrote, you need real 802.3at /af compliant switches to properly power the cameras we talk...
  3. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    I use an Amscope rebrand trinocular. SMD Stuff these days is too small for my eyes. Would love a Mantis but that’s not going to pass wife budget controls
  4. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    +1 Radio Shack - I'm still using spools of their solder and rosin flux :) I seem to have dowloaded their software rar file, but yes their hosting system is a landmine field.
  5. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    Delta has not done its usual spontaneous reboots, but now staunchly refuses to store any new settings into permanent memory. Settings do take effect and remain active until next reboot (either soft or via disconnect ethernet cable.) Also, Delta readily saves and imports its configuration. Once...
  6. guykuo

    Beginner question - POE 12V, 24V, 48V

    Yes, get yourself a proper POE switch. Saves a LOT of worry and hassle regarding running wires. Just run ethernet and be done with it. No extra lines for delivering 12 volts. No janky injectors. No non-standard, weird/fake "POE". They are pretty inexpensive. For $140 to $160 you can get a...
  7. guykuo

    Remove mounting base of IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2

    :) With this, all modifications are possible.
  8. guykuo

    Time Setting Firmware Bug in PTZ5A4M-25X

    I like your workaround. Stupid bug. Its presence had to have been specifically coded to behave this way. Coder not only was wrong, but intentionally wrong.
  9. guykuo

    Time Setting Firmware Bug in PTZ5A4M-25X

    Oh my gosh. Looney2ns is right. This bug actually IS in my other new Web GUI cameras. I simply had not noticed the cameras changing my selection before this camera.
  10. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    Any experience with that vs the Xgecu programmers?
  11. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    It is the Toshiba TC58BVG0S3HTA00 (larger TSOP 48 package) on the board. Come to think of it, the camera did go from being unreachable to functional after I hot air reflowed this area of the board. I had not thought about heat possibly making an EEPROM function better rather than just fixing bad...
  12. guykuo

    Time Setting Firmware Bug in PTZ5A4M-25X

    24 hour time. Chrome under MacOS. No windows Explorer here. Have not run into this on my other cameras with the new web GUI. For this to happen, the firmware code has to be explicitly prohibiting 02 as the end hour.
  13. guykuo

    Time Setting Firmware Bug in PTZ5A4M-25X

    There is a time setting firmware bug for doing daylight savings time by week in the PTZ5A4M-25X under the 2023/08/04 firmware on EmpireTech site. The firmware refuses to accept 0200 as the end of DST time. It will accept 0100 and 0300, but will not select the correct 0200 in popup menu. Also, if...
  14. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    Still really odd results regarding when settings get preserved. Overlay text, image condition settings, data bit rates all get saved, but not always. PTZ presets get retained across reboots rarely, but once they DO get stored, they are reliably recalled. It's as if the EEPROM is not able to be...
  15. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    Hmmmnn. More testing suggests it's not a delayed write to EEPROM, but rather an unreliable write to EEPROM that doesn't always record new data EEPROM is a Toshiba TC58BVG0S3HTA00 1 GBIT (128M x 8 Bit) CMOS NAND serial type EEPROM RAM is Samsung K4B4G1646E-BYK0 DDR3 4 Gb 512M x 8
  16. guykuo

    Troubleshooting Circuitry in Old SD49225T-HN PTZ Cameras

    First, moving Delta's camera module into Charlie moved Delta's problems into the Charlie camera body. That pretty much isolated Delta's issues as being in its camera module (which has the main camera board). Delta's current issues are not with its POE or PTZ boards. So, moved Delta's camera...
  17. guykuo

    Help dead camera SD49225T-HN!!

    When the memory battery is completely dead or removed, the symptoms actually are what you are expeiriencing.
  18. guykuo

    Camera Water Issue

    There has been a seal failure. You need to take the camera apart, clean the internal surface of view port, bake dry the internals, replace silica pack, and close with addition of silicone grease on seals. Dismount the camera. You will see the two halves of camera sphere are bolted together...
  19. guykuo

    T54IR-ZE-S3 Proper way to set auto IR for inside use? Day/night Switch, Customized Scene, BI PTZ presets day/night

    Woohoo! It worked. Having my Indigo Domotics home automation program trigger on garage light changing on/off state. When Indigo sees that light turn on or off, it now runs appropriate Python to send profile change CGI command garage camera. I had not thought much about fixing this until now...
  20. guykuo

    T54IR-ZE-S3 Proper way to set auto IR for inside use? Day/night Switch, Customized Scene, BI PTZ presets day/night

    Yes, I'm afraid that is a limitation with how Dahua implements its profile system within the camera. It doesn't change profiles based on what the camera sees or senses. It is a real pity they won't program them to work that way. If one was seriously in need of Dahuas changing profiles in an...
  21. guykuo

    T54IR-ZE-S3 Proper way to set auto IR for inside use? Day/night Switch, Customized Scene, BI PTZ presets day/night

    Björn0815, you are not using it. It is an app that can be downloaded, but you can also let BlueIris send the CGI commands. See here...https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/dahua-day-night-switch-utility-dahuasunrisesunset.18205/ Be aware, the timed schedule stuff is suited for outdoor usage, where...
  22. guykuo

    Comparison pict SD49225T-HN vs Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X

    Had to be painted to pass wife and HOA muster.
  23. guykuo

    Comparison pict SD49225T-HN vs Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X

    BTW, the PTZ5A4M-25X does indeed fit the same mounts as the older, smaller SD49225T-HN. However, I did run into one surprise. The supplied metal cable used to temporarily suspend the larger PTZ has end links too large diameter to pass through the Dahua PFA111 Hanging Mount Adapter's cabling...
  24. guykuo

    Comparison pict SD49225T-HN vs Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X

    A venerable 2 mp 1/2.8" Starvis PTZ vs current 4 mp 1/1.8" sensor. These are caps at equivalent time of night. New 1/1.8" sensor is astonishingly sharper and much more light sensitive. Yes, the price difference is justified. SD49225T-HN at 30 msec shutter. Loryta PTZ5A4M-25X 16.667 msec...
  25. guykuo

    IPC-Color4K-T180 Flip Issue

    Is the card access that much of a water intrusion issue? There should be a sealing gasket there. Some of the other Dahua Turrets actually have their memory card access door at the "UP" portion of their sphere. Maybe stick a white electrical adhesive tape across the sim card access to further...
  26. guykuo

    T54IR-ZE-S3 Proper way to set auto IR for inside use? Day/night Switch, Customized Scene, BI PTZ presets day/night

    Is it not storing the new settings or rather the camera's (normal) behavior of always switching from profile being adjusted back to the profile that was set as the active profile. Remember, selecting a profile and making adjustments to its settings does so with the profile being edited...
  27. guykuo

    T54IR-ZE-S3 Proper way to set auto IR for inside use? Day/night Switch, Customized Scene, BI PTZ presets day/night

    I am not understanding why this behavior is an issue rather than desired behavior. When picture is dark the camera goes b&w. When pictures is bright camera goes color. That would seem to be the desired behavior. What does it matter that this is also true if you change the picture luminance by...
  28. guykuo

    PTZ dome (parts request) for SD-40 series

    What about something like this.... https://www.amazon.com/Acrylic-Dome-Plastic-Hemisphere-Pre-Drilled/dp/B01LZMZG5M?
  29. guykuo

    Help with troubleshooting artifacts? on my 4K-T180s

    Here is time lapse star field with gain 52. No white pixels in dark regions of capture. There are still some faint, fixed pixels in the sky, but stars down to magnitude 7 are visibly in motion
  30. guykuo

    T54IR-ZE-S3 Proper way to set auto IR for inside use? Day/night Switch, Customized Scene, BI PTZ presets day/night

    This really does appear that the camera is metering using the capture video frame brightness rather than using a separate light sensor from the imaging chip. That is the only explanation for why the camera is changing color mode when you alter its exposure settings. The hysteresis between 1/50...