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I know this is a bit abnormal but i have a location that i could really use a 50-100mm focal length. I would prefer turret style camera but by the design of them i doubt they could handle anything over 12mm really. Does anyone have any suggestions because either my searching is horrible these...

OK this is a bit of a strange one but i have a2cd3345 and the cable on it now idea how is bad. I finally figured out what was going on with the cam by moving the wires around one day and it booted up then when the wires moved again it shut back down. I tore it apart and it does not look...

I searched and could not find an answer to this. Anyway for both Hik and Dahua NVR's with POE ports let's say a camera is plugged into the POE port and instead of using the NVR app on my phone i want to use onvifer I can not connect. I understand it is separating the networks but is there a...

OK i actually got it figured out but now am curious if someone has a solution. It is the female connector on the camera end :( has anyone ever experienced this before and before i go stripping the wires and installing a new ip68 female connector on there did they use the standard color pinout...

OK have a bit of a strange situation and I have it mostly diagnosed. I have one camera that drops every couple of days. It is located outside and I have both the circular cable protector thing installed on it and also it is inside a housing. When it drops I have tried unplugging it from the...

if you could integrate that into a qpkg for qnap nas's you would be the hero to many. in the mean time i am going to play around with it. also speaking of putting this on a nas i am curious since the camera's do the lifting and basically this is more of a storage platform if it would be...

those who have changed lenses are there any brands/sellers you would recommend over others. This looks neat enough to try out. thanks

OK i have 2 issues with blue iris(release 4.5.5.0 x64 on windows 10) right now the first is about every 3 to 5 the webserver completely stops responding. I have to go to the webserver tab disable it, reboot the machine, re-enable it reboot the machine. This is the only way i've been able to...

I'm curious what was your solution. I'm on 4.5.3.5 x64 and am having a similar issue. boot drive is m.2 ssd, that is where the DB and new files are. I have a large striped set of drives for the archived files, however it is not archiving according to the limit i am setting. basically i run...

I have a bit of a strange situation that I am in need of a temp sensor to display on a camera in a particular area. I know this can be done with multiple pieces of hardware but was curious if Hik or any other brands actually had something built in to display temperature in the room it is in...

agreed why people allow anything from china like this access to the outside world is beyond me.

I would say this is not really getting hacked and more some kid is changing the password on someone's cam that is to dumb to change the default passwords. 2 different things IMHO.

I went to purchase some 4mp turret cameras from aliexpress and both of my suppliers said they are not getting hacked cameras any more but would sell the 3mp ones for basically the same price I can get cameras here in the us for. Any idea if this is going to let up any time soon? edit: I should...

OK I've searched and could not find what I was looking for sorry if it is stickied somewhere. Anyway I remember people always telling me when getting an NVR always get an authentic US version and it is OK to get the chinese converted cams. However I do not remember why and was curious if...

a buddy has a building that only has electrical in it on his property. we were looking at throwing a hik with an sd card in it. will they work ok as a standalone recorder with the sd as long as i set the IP to a static IP or will it not work correctly? thanks

OK looking to put a few cameras at my parents house and they want them under the eve. However here is the catch they have vinyl siding and they asked/want anything mounted to not screw through the vinyl. Now I know on vertical surfaces you can get nice hooks that can latch onto the vinyl...

I was thinking sham as well but then flir got thrown into the mix there and now you have me curious as well. not really seeing any reviews of them that I trust

OK a client is dumping a truckload literally of 24 port cisco 3750's with 2 gigabit uplinks 24 poe 100mb connections and it got me thinking wouldn't these be ideal for a lot of situations? granted you will probably get a used one but these things are tanks and considering they are managed and...

sorry been a few days of craziness dealing with clients. but to answer a few questions posed here will hopefully clear things up a bit. "you could just do it manually, these are birds.. they aint going to kill you or steal your shit, so dont you think you've spent enough money already? ;)"...

I was not hoping for scifi stuff just something a little more than just go to point a,b,c now here is a possible different way to think of it and I'm not sure nvr's or cams can be setup to do this. The Birds when fishing most of the time attack the same spot, i'm trying to think if there would...

is there anything that would auto track that or is it just a pipe dream at this point?

because of the distance out would a wide angle really work or would a couple higher zoom cameras focused on where i want be a better option? also on a side note I was not aware that one camera could sent an alert to a second camera I searched for it on google and did not come up with much, but...

OK so I want to put a ptz in my back yard it has a lake and a wooded area. anyway it is less about security and more about watching specific areas wildlife. I have 2 deer bedding down close by, an eagle that loves to sit in a tree and fish and a few other things going on. Anyway I would love...

OK forget the VPN as that is already installed and I don't care about that. so leave that out of the equation all together. So let me go over a couple different scenarios instead. setup hik ds-7608 with 8 hik 4mp cameras all wired in my workshop i have a TV and want to view the NVR itself but...

your talking about connecting to the cameras directly, how about connecting to the NVR directly or is that what you are doing? If you are connecting to each camera separately are you connecting up via vpn(if so how is that holding up on an android) if not are you opening ports for each cam? thanks

I searched and am sorry if i missed the answer but hopefully this is an easy one. lets say I want to have a tv displaying the cams(or a subset) from a hik nvr that is either to far for an hdmi cable or at another location what is the best way to do this? tv with android stick and the hik app...

IMHO the biggest problem with people jumping on the cat6 bandwagon is according to fluke (which i trust more than the makers of these cables) 80% doesn't meet cat6 standards http://www.flukenetworks.com/knowledge-base?nid=132399&tid=257

this times about 1000. however one thing that just does not sit well with me is why does someone who does not secure their camera system blame the manufacturer when someone breaks into it? to me that is about as logical as someone leaving their home unlocked with doors and windows open and...

I found a descent one for ios if you search shany in the app store they have a cctv calculator that works really well. lens calculator works pretty well for android as well. thanks for that online one pretty neat with the google maps in there as well

when trying to figure out what I want to capture at locations a good field of view calculator would come in handy, has anyone found a good one for either IOS or android? Also I ran across this online one which is simple and seems to work perfectly...