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Been moving cameras around and just noticed that my IPC-HDW2231RP-ZS cameras are showing H.264H and H.265 as the only Encode Mode options, no H.264. Is this correct or is something preventing H.264 from being an option? System version: 2.622.0000000.31.R, build date 2018-08-13 WEB Version...

Hello Andy. Been a few years since I bought cameras from you. Need four more. Looking at the IPC-T5442T-ZE. Will need four junction boxes (PFA-130E?) with them for outdoor use. What would be the cost including shipping to Washington state in the US? Thanks.

The SUV on the right looked to have been following the red car too closely and swerved left (into the pickup's lane) when the red car slowed to pull into the store driveway. Rush move, they probably never even looked left.

One question is where the water in the enclosure went. The 110v power feed comes in through the bottom. Probably should open that up and see if any water comes out. One thing leads to another...

I don't know why they put a switch there. They could have done without the enclosure entirely if they had just run two cables out to there instead of one. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they left a drawstring for me to pull another cable. Having the switch there does give me the...

Based on the location and seal around the door, I had assumed the contractor had installed a waterproof enclosure. I agree that top conduit feed looks like likely ingress though one spot in back shows signs of possible leakage (see photo). Given that there's an outlet in there, I really want...

Our non-profit had a camera system installed by local company. I'm converting its cameras piecemeal to our new BlueIris system. Couldn't connect to two outside cameras. Checked the path to the cameras and found water in outside electrical enclosure and in both camera junction box and camera...

Thanks. It chose the generic ONVIF so that's what I'll go with.

Thanks. The thread wasn't quite on target. I've been able to find and add the cameras to BlueIris. I was querying to see if there was any advantage in trying to identify the cameras as a specific Hikvision rebranding. If I could do so, and connect them to BlueIris as such, would that open up...

I have three Arcvision cameras left over from a system installed by a local contractor. BlueIris does not list that make of camera. Many months ago, looney2ns said he suspected they are relabeled Hikvision cameras. I'm now building our BI system and plan to use the cameras (ARC-IPBH03 &...

Looking at the Netgear switches, I like the setup of their 24-port (16 PoE 190w) switch as I could use the extra ports for the uplinks from the BI PC and the outlying camera switches. It's currently cheaper than their 16-port (16 PoE) 183w switch where I'd have to sacrifice PoE ports to use as...

Thanks Southern Yankee. I'm doing the same thing with outbuildings and other floors. Those "out switches" connect to our primary (managed) switch to which the BI PC will connect. The cabling for the ten cameras in question was all run to the main network cabinet holding both their NVR and the...

Have multiple on-site camera systems with NVRs set up by different contractors. Moving to a single BI machine. Have 10 cameras on one of the NVRs. I have plenty open ports on the building's managed network switch, but the cameras will need power. The PoE switch spreadsheet doesn't list any...

Thanks Looney2ns. Decided to go the same route Friday so ordered an Asus router based on earlier post by @fenderman.

Appreciate the replies. Have been out of town. We have Centurylink as ISP using a Zyxel C1100z modem/router. Only two PCs on the LAN plus a music streaming box. We can buy a new router and set gateway to bridge mode; I was just hoping to avoid the additional expenditure. Most of the routers I...

We have vendor-provided Hikvision NVR-camera systems at our non-profit. When the vendor installed the systems they port forwarded to the NVR so the manager could remotely view the camera feeds. We did that until I found this site. (I'm volunteer IT support.) Port forwarding is now disabled...

Hi Andy, just emailed you for five IPC-HDW2231R-ZS. Will be shipping to Seattle, WA area. Thanks.

Thanks.

I'm getting a sense that the Lenovo's are seen as second fiddle to the EliteDesks even though the latter's dual drive capacity is not a certainty. Is that correct?

I see this EliteDesk 800 G2 for ~$425 but how can I tell if it will securely hold two 3.5 drives? So I still lean toward the $450 Lenovos listed earlier if someone can feedback if they're decent machines at a decent price.

Are these closer: ThinkCentreM900 & ThinkStationP310? About the only business class i7-6700 towers I've found in the Wiki's $400-500.

Thanks for clarifying on the later generation SFF lack of dual 3.5" HDD capacity. I recall your posts that the extra bay in the earlier generation Elitedesks was for a card reader not HDD; was hoping the other posts about later gen HP SFFs having added HDD capability were correct. Shipping on...

Still looking for a computer. Would like two 3.5 drives. Haven't seen towers on ebay particularly with sixth gen i7s or better. So focusing on HP G3 & G4 SFF models presuming they can hold two 3.5s: EliteDesk 800 G3 i7-7700 or EliteDesk 800 G4 i5-8500. Will confirm with HP before buying...

Thank you Kahuna, I'll keep looking.

Looking at this HP ProDesk 600 G2. An ok machine for the price? Can get Win10 Pro very affordably as a nonprofit. Would then add WD Purple drive for storage.

BI on the upgraded food bank system will be running the current 10 rebranded Hikvision domes and bullets plus another 5-10 Dahua cameras (mostly IPC-HDW5231R-ZE's). Up to four staff may have camera streaming running on their desktops at any given time. This site convinced me to try BI and I'd...

I agree, but unfortunately it wasn't my call as I'm volunteer support. I've got a second PC to put in there once I can get them to free up some space. That will be solved shortly. My main concern for this thread is a PC for the food bank upgrade.

Appreciate the offer, but the CPU utilization is not my (immediate) concern. The 40-70% is for full CPU utilization for our thrift shop PC. BI optimization is secondary right now as it's on a multi-use PC: user account #1) BI & teamviewer, and user account #2) volunteers doing ebay, music...

Ebay says that listing is no longer available and directed me to an i5-4590 listing. Since our current BI machine is an i5-4400 and at 40-70% with 4 cameras, I'm very hesitant to go with the i5-4590 for 20 cameras. Thanks for the lead. I'm going to have to set up a saved search so I become...

thanks. I'll keep looking for one to pop up. Haven't really used ebay so hope I can set some kind of alert/notification.