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  1. Jayordon

    Dahua NVR's Claim to Support Drives up to 10TB?

    I know that this is a topic that has had some discussion around it. I saw one post where somebody got a 12TB drive working on a Dahua NVR, but until today, that's the largest drive that I know of anyone trying to use. An acquaintance of mine is installing a system at his new home and he came...
  2. Jayordon

    Digital Watchdog Spectrum vs Wisenet Wave

    What's the difference between these two VMS platforms? I know that they are nearly identical, but are there any differences? Camera licenses for DW Spectrum are like $20 cheaper.
  3. Jayordon

    Dahua NVR H.265 Auto Switch

    I'm not sure if this has been discussed somewhere else, but I haven't seen any threads talking about this yet. I'm using a 4000 series Dahua NVR and at first, I was using H.265 on all of my cameras. Later on, I installed Home Assistant and found that many web browsers will not stream H.265 so I...
  4. Jayordon

    Dahua NVR Firmware Update Broke My NVR

    I recently tried to upgrade the firmware on the NVR4208-4KS2/L that I purchased from Andy. None of the upgrade files that he had posted would work. The NVR would just say that the upgrade failed and then restart. So I tried downloading the latest firmware off of the Dahua website. That updated...
  5. Jayordon

    Smart PSS Playback Lagging

    So I just got my Dahua NVR set up and the NVR itself works great. If I remote into the NVR webpage, then that works great too. Good looking, smooth video. No problems. However, when I play video through Smart PSS, it seems very choppy/laggy. Every second or two, the video freezes for just a...
  6. Jayordon

    What is Max Input/Record?

    I am looking into Dahua NVR's and from what I can tell, the biggest different between the NVR5000 series and NVR4000 series is a spec that says "Max Input/Record". What does this mean? I tried to read up on it, but there just wasn't much information. From my understanding, it refers to the input...
  7. Jayordon

    What are the best cameras for a decent price?

    As an installer, I mostly stick to the Lorex 8MP cameras, but the night vision just isn't very good. Dahua and Hikvision seem to have some decent options, but I've heard that the US might ban selling them in the near future. I know every situation requires a different camera, but are there any...
  8. Jayordon

    What does Axis have that more affordable options don't?

    I'm a professional installer and I've installed Lorex cameras with one company and Axis and Pelco cameras with another company. From what I've seen, I think the video quality on Lorex and Hikvision looks better than most Axis and Pelco cameras which makes me question why Axis and Pelco are so...
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