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I have seen others with the same issue, 36 teeth yield a 10 degree adjustment. Way too coarse! Here is pic of a Hikvision bullet. Thinking of a roughed up steel washer or nylon washer, or sandpaper disc with hole punched in it.

Example of one cam WITHOUT mount modification. The next tooth engagement to the right would move the car (including it's offscreen front) off to the left side of the image completely out of view. Totally useless.

Good info, and yes, it does depend if the swing bolt can pass all the way thru. The models I have won't work like that, but a correctly sized shim or washer like mat200 mentioned would save the trouble of dremel tool work if the tighening bolt is long enough to compensate for the teeth not...

Has anyone else dissasembled the ball mount on Hikvision and Dahua bullet cameras and grind away the teeth from one half of the mating ball in order to gain fine-tuning camera alignment to viewing area? When zoomed in at 12mm and beyond, I find that the engaging teeth are so coarse that I can...

Yep, that is a more specific solution, but I have seen so many people ask about the Pause feature, not knowing it is there. I like the pause, becuase I would go out to the shed to mow, and just pause the shed camera for an hour and it works perfectly, no motion recording, no alert items, no emails.

Simply use the BI console's camera pause feature, and select desired duration time, and in the UI3 right click a camera, then properties, then at very bottom is pause. Pause will stop external event triggers, and motion detection, so alerts based on these cannot send out.

Hmmm, I see that my alerts folder is empty, guess I only use the alerts database when playing back video, as a single jpg would be useless to me.

The old saying your mileage my vary. So if you used an enterprise drive with a 3DWD rating, it would last for manurfacturer warranty life, don't expect junk drives to work for very long. I only need to do motion event recording, as I have decent BlueIris motion settings, and some cameras are...

Ubiquiti now makes a poe powered switch that inturn also provides poe power to cameras, and has 5 gig ports, outdoor rated.... USW-FLEX I wish they made this thing years ago!

Ahh! Over the years I have learned not to blame my family for moving things, as my memory of myself doing it fades quickly.

First, if you had setup BI motion detection, and tweaked the motion settings even a little would give you excellen alerts in the database to search thru. I hope you were only recording motion, and not continuous 24/7 recording. Either way, you need to use the half and double rule to get to it...

I agree, mostly it depends on the quality of the camera. Start with a nice high end Axis camera and you get excellent on-camera VMD (video motion detection). Drop down to a really cheap camera and you basically get dumb pixel based motion triggers.

Don't shy away from using SSD for video storage, even cheap consumer SSD are usually rated at 1dwd, so that means a 500GB SSD would be rated to last for warranty period or design life at 500GB written every day, I seriously doubt anyone is filling their SSD every day. I use a WD M.2 nvme SSD...