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  1. CamFan

    Opps - I bought the wrong Dahua camera - lens swap?

    IPC-HFW5442T-ASE-NI-3.6mm It's replacing an old Hik 2332 that I had installed a 25mm lens (back in '14), probably a 1/3" lens. I got it last year, just got around to putting it in. I thought I was getting a varifocal. But it's fixed at 3.6mm. DOH! Any known gotchas on lens swaps these...
  2. CamFan

    BI + Home Assistant

    I want to use Home Assistant for notifications with still images from camera. I'm struggling to figure out the best way to setup Home Assistant. I tried individual cameras, but I think I need to have Home assistant feed from Blue Iris. Not sure. Any tips?
  3. CamFan

    Custom Stealth Camera Installation

    This is an design/build/install I completed back in early 2017, been working flawlessly since. It's a driveway camera install, inside a brick-mailbox, looking back along a driveway. The requirement was to be stealth. Main concern that a low camera would be vulnerable to being blocked or...
  4. CamFan

    Looking for POE splitter with feedthru power

    I have an application where I want to draw some power mid-way to the camera on the same line. I want to power an IR illuminator some 20 ft (as the wire travels) or so before the POE camera. I found this device, https://www.phihong.com/pdf/POE21_user_manual.pdf that let's me do it, but requires...
  5. CamFan

    Idea for driveway camera

    I have a long driveway and I'm thinking of building a pair of columns at the end of it. I want to put a camera in there with an IR illuminator (6-8W) and column light (10 W max). So I'm looking at running AC power in one conduit and a couple of CAT6 in another. The wire run will be ~200 ft...
  6. CamFan

    Adding alarm I/O to Hikvisions without connector

    Ok, I've settled on Milestone + NUC as my DVR due to low power and the ability to use in-camera motion detection to trigger records. This works great. I also want to integrate outdoor PIR to trigger records. I have instances where my PIR is tripped, but I don't have video recorded. Usually it's...
  7. CamFan

    Hikvision, focal length, angle of view and other lies

    In my prior post (http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php?2697-Hik-bullet-Install-with-custom-mounting-plates), I pondered the published angle of view of the cameras and questioned if they were horizontal or diagonal angles provided. Turns out, the internet if full of wrong information. So with...
  8. CamFan

    Hik bullet Install with custom mounting plates

    I wanted to mount 2-3 bullets (DS-2CD2032-I) per plate, so I designed up some plates in 3D CAD and had them fabricated from 6061-T6. The design uses 4 x #10 flat head screws to mount and then you attach 2 cameras. I added the holes to support a 3rd camera in the middle, by drilling the middle...
  9. CamFan

    Cannot get Hikvision cameras to trigger record event on in-camera motion detect

    I've had Xprotect Go running for about a week on computer side motion detect. Today I switched over to camera side motion to trigger a record event. No luck. Here are my settings for XProtect Go Here are my Hikvision settings I've setup email on motion, works fine. I also ran...
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