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  1. thomaswde

    Cameras on LAN

    1st, ALWAYS be sure UPNP is disabled at your router, pretty much every router out there will let you toggle this off, if it won't get one that will. Doing that and only connecting to your home network via a VPN would cover a lot of your bases and put you in decent shape. 2nd, your best option to...
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    Good IP Camera storage calculator

    Yeah, the challenge here is it's currently 46 heterogeneous cameras and the storage project is budgetary, so they can grow into it. They just gave us a baseline of the specs I included and want to size to that. I found Vivotek's camera planning tool, it's free and really powerful. Handled...
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    Good IP Camera storage calculator

    What do you guys use for calculating storage capacity requirements? I'm looking at storing the output of 60 cameras, H.264, 20fps, 7/24 recording, 60 days retention, 720p(1MP). This is a storage capacity only situation, I'd love to be able to size it within 10TB of what's needed if at all...
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Hey, all valid. I have a couple rolls of Cat5e, a roll of Cat6, and a couple hundred feet of Cat6A. I have about 100 Cat6A patch cords (Happens when the only work you do outside your home office is in datacenters). Nevertheless I still pull Cat5e to my cams since there's about 0% chance I'll...
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Sorry, just seeing this... First (so I don't forget) why CAT6? An IP camera could never even come close to maxing out a 10/100 link let alone needing 1000Gb. I'd save the cheddar and pull cheap Cat5e to my cams. Yes, I mounted directly to soffit, it's very sturdy IMO, no need for a mounting...
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    Quick question about IR vs no IR with example pic

    First one is IR off porch lights only. Second one is IR on, porch lights still on. IR being on seems to add a lot of haze to the image. Is this typical and if not where should I start looking to hopefully correct it? I was pleasantly surprised (although I shouldn't have been given the...
  7. thomaswde

    Dahua SmartPSS and PC-NVR - Valid alternative to using BI, Zone Minder, Milestone, etc?

    Same story, I'd kind of forgotten about this issue actually. Might be a great question to ask someone from Dahua at some point. The IVS events absolutely can be configured from within PC-NVR and they do function as far as triggering and performing any "in camera" actions like SMTP or record to...
  8. thomaswde

    Advice need on quality of picture from new Camera

    Open a dispute, that's the best thing to do. Send them whatever pics where it's the easiest to see it, to me it was obvious in literally every pic so that shouldn't be a problem. If they try to get you to pay return shipping fight that, it's not your fault that they sent you a shit sensor.
  9. thomaswde

    Dahua SmartPSS and PC-NVR - Valid alternative to using BI, Zone Minder, Milestone, etc?

    Thanks for the advice, once I've got a few more cams I'll give it a deeper dive. Workaround was probably the wrong description as I amm aware it's a feature and also how any application not using many CPU cycles that's storing data is operating. I've never checked out the mobile app, that's...
  10. thomaswde

    Advice need on quality of picture from new Camera

    Reading you guys confuse each other was spectacular. Thanks for that. Anyway, who gives a fuck if it's flipped or not it's obviously got something wrong with it and the seller should replace it. :) Did you miss out on your buyer protection window?
  11. thomaswde

    Dahua SmartPSS and PC-NVR - Valid alternative to using BI, Zone Minder, Milestone, etc?

    I've not found anywhere on this site where anyone has really dove off into SmartPSS and PC-NVR as a full solution for IP cam management as opposed to using BI, Milestone, etc. Granted, I'm sure this makes more sense if you're 100% Dahua versus a mixed bag. Since I mention it throughout, I'm...
  12. thomaswde

    Cheap POE for outside- n under $100 :)

    I'm brand new to the cam game but my background is tech and I'm learning fast. Can't recommend the Dahua Starlight enough, it has fully lived up to the hype for me. The extremely low light and IR only performance is ridiculous. If you are pinching every penny they do offer a non-verifocal...
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    @hmjgriffon Yeah I know, just rather not. haha Maybe down the road, for now I'll just tweak alerts.
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Yeah, big fan of WDR, I've mine set to 30 which seems perfect in the late afternoon when the setting sun casts a harsh contrast. I like the intrusion zone method that you're using and Ryan suggested. I'm getting a ton of false positives at night from it though... Might have to sort out a...
  15. thomaswde

    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    @nayr @hmjgriffon thanks for the feedback! I'll check cross as well then go test it out.
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Whatcha think gents? I'll of course test it but like to see what the resident experts think first... @nayr @hmjgriffon
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Thanks for the feedback! I've not tried using intrusion zones, I'll do it now and see if it catches my wife when she gets home ;) I'm too far out in the sticks with too much walking between houses to worry about "door checkers" (there are 5 houses on my whole street) unless said door checker...
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    @nayr I tightened up the cam a little more, 5.5mm-ish i think as suggested. Give or take. I think this is as good as I'm going to get until some more of the Starlights I ordered get here and I can grab more angles.
  19. thomaswde

    My Neighbors Don't Have The Best Of Luck

    @Bradmph All depends on where you live doesn't it? Guess they don't subscribe to the "broken window policing" method. Meanwhile I was doing some IT work for a PD just south of Nashville (really posh burb, country starts and ballers) where the chief of police responded, in person, to a call...
  20. thomaswde

    My Neighbors Don't Have The Best Of Luck

    Wow, hope they didn't leave anything too valuable in there.
  21. thomaswde

    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    I think I will put up a monitor somewhere dedicated to this for her, especially once I've got a half dozen cams up. . . In the mean time I'm just borrowing a monitor for it at "the bridge" ;)
  22. thomaswde

    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Nice! I was doing appliance Integration services and storage engineering, mostly for NetApp so I was flying everywhere, 6 jets a week on average. Now I'm doing mostly consulting for our accounts team. (sales engineer stuff) So I work from home half the time and then go to long meetings with...
  23. thomaswde

    Need a cheap and dirty IP Cam for my back deck that is lit 24/7

    @looney2ns Yeah, I'll probably just put a Starlight there but do it last. The 3.6mm fixed would be fine. Thanks
  24. thomaswde

    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Yeah I got a promotion midway last year to a role that travels much less but it took until this year before I started reaping the benefits of that. I've only traveled about 6 times so far this year so the original reasoning has subsided some but I do still travel, it's just at a more sane pace...
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    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Thanks for the tip! I actually have brought it in a mm or two since I grabbed these screens the other night, I might tighten it up even more though. The population here is 5k and my wife grew up here, her aunt is the local real estate broker, her dad's neighbor is a sheriff. If I even get a...
  26. thomaswde

    Great example of Dahua Starlight 2MP Verifocal Performance in low light

    Link to full res: https://goo.gl/photos/LmbmjqS6qPFWWQvi8 I did both images at native size so as not to cheat either cam of quality, or you of a great example. The HDW5231R-Z is 1920x1080 (2MP), the "dark" Note 5 photo is at 5312x2988 (16MP) which is why the size is so different, you can just...
  27. thomaswde

    Need a cheap and dirty IP Cam for my back deck that is lit 24/7

    I have to agree with all points! I have a Starlight Varifocal up already so the spoiling is setting in nicely ;) I'll probably end up putting a 3.6mm starlight fixed like Nayr suggested up there. That's what I'm doing in my back yard and both sides, adding another verifocal up over driveway so...
  28. thomaswde

    New member saying hello to a great group!

    Having recently purchased and installed a HDW5231R-Z I can say I think you're on a great track! Compared to most all the security cameras I've been around the Starlight Verifocal destroys. About to order some 4231s for a few overview spots too. I too was a little nervous about Dahua with the...
  29. thomaswde

    Need a cheap and dirty IP Cam for my back deck that is lit 24/7

    Thanks for the great suggestions. The HDW4231EM-AS is what I'm putting up for back yard and the left side of my house, Nayr's review and playing around with my varifocal gas me convinced that a 3-4mm would be ideal in both spots. For the back deck though it seems a little overkill just because I...
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    Need a cheap and dirty IP Cam for my back deck that is lit 24/7

    Essentially I only need about 15x8ft coverage for my smallish backdeck. Probably wide angle given the distance. I keep 2 LED porch lights on 24/7 so IR will get lots of help. This is a really low importance spot IMO, I'd just like it covered. What's the cheapest thing I can stick up that sucks...
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