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    Planning camera placement for 2-story home (high soffits)

    Please see the bottom of this post for pictures of my home for reference. I'm planning on adding cameras to my home and am looking at the Amcrest IP8M-T2499EW turrent cams in both the 2.8mm and 4mm variants. For the exterior of my house, I want to get 4-6 cameras, however, I'm having difficulty...
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    New Blue Iris Setup - Plenty of compute power, but poor performance.

    I recently installed a dual Intel E5-2620 2.0 GHz CPU (24 threads/vCPUs total) and 32GB RAM server at my parents house. The server also has 4x WD purple drives in RAID 5 and is running ESXi 6.7 with a Windows Server 2019 VM for the latest version of Blue Iris. All 24 vCPUs and 16GB of RAM are...
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    Camera Recommendations and iVMS-4200

    I recently posted a similar topic in another section of the forum, but didn't get any bites. I think this section is better for what I'm looking for. Regarding the cameras, I've been helping my dad with his for my folk's new house, and we've decided on the following: Cameras: 8x Hikvision...
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    New Cameras and Server Build

    I'm not new to building computers, but I am quite new to surveillance systems. I've been helping my dad with his for my folk's new house, and we've decided on the following: Cameras: 8x Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I 4x Hikvision DS-2CD2642FWD-IZS We're going to be using 2x of the 2024's for inside...
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    N00b Question: Auto Focus?

    I'm going to write up a thread for the camera system that I'm looking to put together for my parent's new place soon, but until then, I have one question... Do the non-vari-focal lensed Hikvision IP cameras have auto-focus? Or do they only have a manual focus adjustment? I can't seem to find an...
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