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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    Sorry for the confusion Andy. I mentioned this was my first lottery & I asked if you needed anything from me. You only asked for email & shipping address and then you gave me numbers. I thought that was it. Now I know better. Congrats to all the winners!
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    Asking for a friend
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    I happen to know it's not a typo
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    At one point there were 483 numbers, and then 478. Seems 5 numbers may have been excluded accidentally.
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    EmpireTech 2024 Spring Sales

    483 > 478. I trust it will be sorted out.
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    Is the 5442 series still the best?

    FWIW This image is a cropped screen shot from a 5442-Z4E-S3. Zoom is only at 300 (20-25%) The privacy fence is about 360' away. The wheel barrow is about 300' away. The fence is under a wooded area of spruce, pine, and oak. I have the lower branches trimmed. It's very dark back there . The only...
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    IPC-B54IR-Z4E S3 and IPC-B52IR-Z12E S2 have different spectral sensitivities in B&W

    Z4 captures better (brighter) image of driver. Plate looks more readable with Z12.
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    I have the Loryta IPC-B54IR-ZE and having noise issues at night

    Remember to hit the save/apply button after making changes
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    Day/Night settings on new 5442 cams

    Many thanks to you for the guidance on the settings @CCTVCam. My biggest challenge with this setup is the Day/Night transition as shown above and here. Here is the most recent day-to-night transition (with day exposure set to auto - not ignoring your advice, just maintaining for apples-apples)...
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    Day/Night settings on new 5442 cams

    Back-to-back comparison. I could go with any of these for today. My previous day settings: Suggested settings: Fixed gain & shutter:
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    Day/Night settings on new 5442 cams

    not trying to hijack, but here is the scene just before & after switching. The night/BW image is too blown out and there's plenty of light for a good color image long before the switch. This is using my settings above. On edit: another screenshot from full dark with some rain/fog streaks...
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    Day/Night settings on new 5442 cams

    Thank you @CCTVCam. I'll try those settings and see how it goes.
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    Day/Night settings on new 5442 cams

    Good info. I too am just experimenting to see what gets close to what seems to work. I went with "0" for both day & night as the little help popup implies "0" would bias the system toward color which is the behavior I needed. What I don't know is if the image is B/W whether the camera is in...
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    Downloading videos files directly from camera via web interface (using other than IE) seems to be capped at *TEN* Mbps

    I know zilch about any Dahua NIC. IPC-HDW5442T-ZE_S3_datasheet_20230524.pdf
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    3x3 Composite Recording

    I'm actually glad I did it the way I did. While screen recording with ffmpeg, I was able to select a camera w/subject to be full screen and digital zoom in on the subject. Then prior to transitioning to another camera, I could zoom back out, go back to 3x3, see the transition, and then make the...
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    3x3 Composite Recording

    Decided to try ffmpeg and it was pretty easy. I just had to find the correct offset to grab an entire 2nd monitor's area which is above and slightly to the left of my main display: ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 15 -offset_x -792 -offset_y -1440 -video_size 2560x1440 -i desktop <output>.mp4 This...
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    3x3 Composite Recording

    I have a 3x3 panel setup in Synology's Monitor Center. I would like to create a composite video of an event using the 3x3 layout, for example tracking something moving from one camera view to another. Although I can create little snippet videos of each camera individually, I cannot find an...
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    Day/Night settings on new 5442 cams

    I've had to do the same ritual for day/night settings. I have the same camera but flashed V3.100.0000000.6.R, Build Date: 2023-08-02 You probably already know, but just in case, remember to hit "Apply" before leaving the settings page. I now do it habitually for every individual adjustment. On...
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    Synology Loves November 5

    I've never seen a calendar screwed up like this
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    Trouble Reaching EmpireTech01.com

    Yeah - VPN. It was flagging the site and others that I am not worried about for trackers. I white listed it and a few others - all but empiretech01.com are working normally. I can ping the IP. I'll try different VPN server or no VPN to test. Thanks!
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    Trouble Reaching EmpireTech01.com

    May be my VPN "helping out". It is catching several trackers from the site tho. Need to try tweaking things. White listing not helping yet tho.
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    Trouble Reaching EmpireTech01.com

    Thanks! Here's what I see comparing empiretech01.com to ipcamtalk.com DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. *** Request to UnKnown...
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    Trouble Reaching EmpireTech01.com

    Used to work well. Seems to have faded away in DNS. Now completely unreachable. Is it just me?
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    Dahua IPC-Color4K-T has anyone figure out API to operate the LED?

    curl is available in cmd shell in Win10 pro
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    IPC-Color4k-X Frame Rate Changes Between Night & Day

    Good call, but I have one of these https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Ethernet-Injector-Distances-TPE-115GI/dp/B00BK4W8TQ?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1 for each camera and I do not run IR or LEDs. Is there an API I can call to get CPU load? Thinking/guessing maybe SSA-related functions may be taxed with...
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    IPC-Color4k-X Frame Rate Changes Between Night & Day

    Sub stream is also coming in at 8 fps. :)
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    IPC-Color4k-X Frame Rate Changes Between Night & Day

    NTSC Sub 1 is disabled. (yeah, I went back to h.265)
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    IPC-Color4k-X Frame Rate Changes Between Night & Day

    Thanks for the tip. Are your 4ks "T"s or "X"s? My 4k-Ts are stable at 15 fps 24/7 although at only 8960 Kbps. I set the 4k-X up as h.264 (15 fps, 8192 Kbps) and sometime after dark it went from 15 fps to 8 fps. :( I just set it to h.264h and it stays at 8 fps (actual) but the web UI knocked...
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    IPC-Color4k-X Frame Rate Changes Between Night & Day

    While looking into settings related to bit rate in this thread IPC-Color4K-X Bitrate and Synology I noticed that the frame rate from my IPC-Color-4k-X was ~8 fps despite being set at 15 fps. Now a few days later, I've noticed a pattern in which the frame rate at night is 8 fps and then 15 during...
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