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Just in time. Lightning hit a nearby tree over the weekend and must've hit one of my cams with a stray ion because it's dead. Craziest thing. Everything but my doorbell went out a moment before the strike, and they all came back online except one.

https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm GetDataBack is $80 and I've had much more success with using it than Recuva, EaseUS, and MiniTool. It lets you search a drive and view the lists of files found for free so you can see if it will work before buying.

Yes and they work very well. Surveillance Station has come a long way the past couple of years. Just set it to be the equivalent Dahua model, use the generic Dahua option, or set everything on the camera's GUI and tell SS to get all its settings from the camera. Synology also now supports...

Depending on your situation maybe the lack of a PIR sensor. I use Synology Surveillance Station which has improved by leaps and bounds the past couple years but I still do not bother with its software motion detection; I use my cameras instead and the PIR sensor on the DB1 works flawlessly for...

DSCam also now supports going to the moment the event was triggered by tapping on the notification. Nice update. Time to say goodbye to the old python script in docker :lmao:

if the soffit is aluminum you can screw directly into it and it will hold. if you're worried about someone jumping up to grab it pull it down, rather than use a two-by-four, you can use a piece of aluminum bar stock from home Depot or Lowe's and slide it under the channels that hold the soffit...

@mat200 is right that you need a lot more cameras. I'm pretty much a noob is well but for example on the garage you would want to have two cameras on either end pointing in at an angle rather than a single one over the center. it's clearly a huge property so running extra cables will give you a...

Thank you for this! Using your tool I saw that some of my cameras still had UPnP enabled despite turning it off in the web GUI. Using the Dahua HTTP API I got them all turned off. Dahua owners: Go to: http://<CAMERA.IP>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=getConfig&name=UPnP to see your config...

Thanks guys. I was thinking more in terms of extra heat generated or processing power being used that might limit the number of simultaneous streams. I know the 101 says about 3 streams is the limit but wasn't sure if it mattered whether or not it's max res vs. lower.

General question: are there any potential drawbacks to recording on high quality 24/7? Right now I do so on the low-res stream and switch to high-res for motion, but a sufficiently quick action will miss the part where a person is walking up.

I did. Had some found money and lowballed an ebayer. we met in the middle. From what I can tell it's about like the 3241 except for the megapixels but I wanted the higher rez for daytime. The WDR is crap on it. Made a lot of artifacts. I just turned it off. Image does get a little noisy...

It's a change to the Smart Plan / IVS settings. Rather than having to choose between IVS and Face Recognition, you can now incorporate human & car filtering directly into your basic motion detection settings and/or your IVS rules. It's working really well for me thus far; my one Dahua AI cam has...

Couple things I learned today: 1) The "Restore Default Settings" option in Batch Config Tool / IVMS seems to be functionally equivalent to holding down the reset button. Just to save you a lot of popping the face plate on and off 2) Don't accidentally have an IP you've reserved for a camera...

Agree, there's no need to go crazy or overthink this. I recommend pushing up on the button from behind with both thumbs at first to see if one spot pops up easier than elsewhere, the adhesive is not spread uniformly. once you've got your spot, just insert your prying tool in and go around in a...

Great this is what I was hoping to see. I have several "plectrums" (I just call them guitar picks haha) so I should be all set. Thanks for sharing!

Hmm, doesn't sound IMpossible. I've soldered plenty of tiny contact points so I'm used to melting miniscule targets. Any chance you or someone could take a couple hi-rez pics of their spare plates so I can see what you mean?

Getting my house painted and since I had to take off the doorbell I thought I might as well upgrade, so I bought the EZVIZ :lmao: Helps that the wife is worried about coronavirus so it was easy to make the case for seeing who's at the door without having to physically open it. Anyways, we'd...

2.8/3.6mm only: https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/review-budget-4mp-turret-comparison-ipc-t2431t-as-vs-chinese-hdw4433c-a.43130/

Got IVS events working now that it's installed in a proper location but still having an issue; camera crashes and reboots if I set the main stream to any higher than 2304x1296. This is a minor but annoying problem because it's resulting in a green bar at the top of my recordings. I did the usual...

If you're not sure it'll tell you on the Dahua website, just click "Accessories" for whatever camera you're looking at. I also got 3.6mm 2431T-AS from Andy's Amazon store and while I haven't installed it yet I'm really impressed with the tests I've done so far. Great daytime quality which is my...

I'm having the same issue as well with a new 2431. I upgraded to the firmware posted in this forum and can set up IVS rules fine but not get them to trigger.

I'm having an issue with this firmware and IVS events not triggering. Brand new Loryta IPC-T2431T-AS bought from Amazon store. Has there been any further update, or does anyone else have this problem? Andy I know things are crazy over there right now but if you can offer any advice I'm all ears.

Read with great interest since you appear to live in my house, complete with the ridiculously huge attic, vaulted ceilings, big flue, metal triangles at the end of the soffit boxes, etc :lmao: CFL area? You didn't have to deal with any fire breaks/firestops in between the studs?

You seem to be trying to do two things at the same time. If you want to reco d continuously and just have SS MARK the events, set it for continuous recording and configure motion detection as normal. You'll see motion events marked in blue when you view the timeline, but you won't have separate...

The method in the Cliff Notes of using aluminum bar stock works great for aluminum soffits: https://ipcamtalk.com/wiki/ip-cam-talk-cliff-notes/#soffit-mounting

Hey man! I guess I missed the notification that you posted originally. It's funny, I actually ended up taking the same script you used originally and trying to make it work myself, which I did eventually. It's similar to yours but not identical. Like you time got away from me but I should get on...

Yeah it seems like those who have gotten Hikvision smart events working do it through external events as well. SS lets you set notifications for those though so it shouldn't be a big issue. I record 24/7 anyways so I'm just looking for alerts/snapshots. I'll be happy to contribute if & when I...

The way I did it was to: Drill a ~1/2" hole in the soffit for ethernet cable (and put a rubber grommet in because it's aluminum and I didn't want the cable to get nicked). Pull the cable through, attach the other half of the waterproof connector to it, THEN crimp the RJ45 connector, plug it in...

Another consideration is a junction box will drop your camera that much lower so that when soffit mounting, it's not blocked by the fascia.

The North Face - I'd be interested. I'm on a tight budget and I just started with my first camera, a 5231R-ZE, and am using Surveillance Station on my existing Synology for the time being. So far I haven't been satisfied with the motion detection on SS, and while the camera's native detection...