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Looking for an outdoor wireless camera that will work with my Dahua NVR DHI-NVR5216-4Ks2. Have a WiFi 6 Mesh wireless network and it would be 120 ft clear line of sight. Have good strong signal. 2.5GB backhaul. Also have have power there. Would be good if it was HD 1080 and 15-30fps. I...

Wondering if anyone knows where I change mt wifi setting. Getting new internet provider. I looked in Imou app but not there. Thank you M

Quick question about NVR hard drive installation. I have a Dahua NVR5216-4KS2 NVR that is my home office. The NVR was a little loud that even my old ears can hear. I decided replace the OEM fan with a Noctua Premium fan. This helped a bunch. There still is some hard drive noise from the...

I am troubleshooting a issue with my Dahua Starlight IPC-HDW5231R-ZE cameras. I was wondering if any member have an idea of how many users can be supported concurrently on the main stream? Camera settings are in attached photo. Network is a 1000mb backbone with cat 6 cables. Thank You M

Mornin' all. I was wondering if members might have a recommendation for a wireless outdoor camera. Background: I have to replace our camera on our dock. The setting is less than 100 ft away from 2.4 & 5GHz router. We use a Dahua NVR. Have AC power at location. Need 2mp or so resolution...

Daughter was showing me that my son-in-laws present arrived and "what the peck". Enjoy, M

Well I somehow screwed up my Admin password. I can get under the admin account with the unlock pattern. Plus I also have a backup admin account with a different name just in case. So here is my question. When I try to change Admin keyboard password to a new password it will not let me...

1st question - Would it be better for the Dahua DB11 to have a 16v 30va or a 24v 40va transformer. My DB is going off line randomly and I thought I would start with a new transformer. My transformer is 28 years old and is a 16V 20va. It worked ok for about a year with just a few offline but...

I read somewhere on the forum where a member modified the fan in the NVR-5216-4KS2. Well I would really want to thank them (can't seem to find post). I installed on a NVR-5216-4KS2 a new 40mm fan by Noctua (an Austria company). Model number NF-A4x10. The NVR-5216-4KS2 was reasonably quiet...

Wondering if anyone has any luck getting their Dahua Cams to manual record on local SD cards. I have IPC-HDW5231R-ZE cams. I have never been able just to do a manual continuous recording on them. I have installed Samsung Pro Endurance 100mb/s cards (128GB). I format and they start recording...

Hi all I have 7 Sandisk High Endurance 64GB cards unopened cards and 2 open cards with adapters. Bought directly from Sandisk so these are not fakes. Paid $150 for 9 cards for my 5GB cameras but they did not hold enough data. These are made for security cameras. asking $85 for all 9 cards...

Purchased a Dahua NVR-5216-4KS2. Looking at WD Purple surveillance hard drives. Looking at a single 10TB or pair of 6TB drives. Is there any performance improvement with 2 drives? If not probably going with a single since I am thinking it would be quieter. Thank you for any thoughts... M

Members - My simple NVR finally kicked the bucket. I am looking for a NVR with has 16 channels and a simple interface. I have 10 Dahua ONVIF cameras. All IP cameras so I don't need any interfaces iPhones and iPads have IP software that I am very happy with to view cameras. Don't need any POE...

Dahua Configtool (4.01) no longer works with iMac update 10.14.3 on our iMac. Everything was wonderful before the last MacOS update. The Configtool simply does not find any of our 9 Dahua Cams or the DB11. Cams all still work with NACL Chime just fine. I know many here don't use MacOS, but...

Gremlins have struck 6 of my 9 HDW5231R-ZE cameras. I check the SD cards once a month just as a pre-caution. When I checked them only 3 showed they had SD cards in them. I immediately checked the physical SD cards and they are in-place. I tried unplugging and replugging cameras which show no...

As most folks realize now the MacOS is not so security camera friendly. I have come up with a simple 3rd party setup for one of my iMacs Computers that lets me config & browse cameras. Thought I would share in case anyone is looking at the same. First I use an offloaded NVR to record all the...

One of my Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-ZE is INOP. It is only 10 months old and was purchased from Empire Tech. No response from hard reset. I took the 128GB stick out of it. My question is it worth anything for parts or should I just toss it. Thank You M

Well I am having my 1st major issue with my 9 HDW5231R-ZR cameras. I have one camera that all of the sudden it goes offline every couple minutes for 60 secs or so then comes back on. This has been verified on NVR, Computer and with ConfigTool. I have rebooted, I have switched ports on the POE...

Mornin' Members: I was wondering if someone could shed light on what is up with my Dahua cameras. I have 2.622.0000000.23.R, Build Date: 2018-03-30 on nine IPC-HDW5x31R-ZE cameras. I was wondering why some report Type "IPC" and some report "IPC-HDW5231R-ZE".(1st Photo) The ones which report...

Hi All: So I installed my DB11 doorbell. (see photo below). I have an electronic chime. Installed app on phone all went well (door bell rings on dahua unit, I get video, I can talk thru it etc...) except the electronic chime does not work when door bell is actuated. I have checked and...

Hi All: I am having some issues recording on 128GB SD cards on my IPC-HDW5231R-ZE. I would like to record continuously. I set the Record for general mode everyday. So what is happening is that only one camera is working and it records 2 and 1/2 days. All cameras are set the same but the...

I have 10 new IPC-HDW5231R-ZE cameras. I love the cameras except one issue. When I enter the NTP server info and check the NTP server check box and save the configuration the cameras sync the correct time. About 1 min later the time is wrong (off by 1 hour ahead) and when I look in settings...

Since I don't have a Windows PC I can not run any of the popular SD card routines like H2testw to find bad or fake SDs. I usually just check the SD cards using my iMac with the disk utility by running a secure disk wipe which writes random patterns then over write the entire disk with zeros...

Wondering if I made a mistake buying a couple of Dhaka cameras (IPC-HDW5631R-ZE & IPC-GDW5231R-Z) to test before buying all that I need. Today when I put a temporary camera in for a Vivotek that crapped out, I remembered that on my 12tb NVR that it is setup up to use only ONVIF cameras. In...

Is there a USA Equivalent Model number for IPC-HDW5231R-Z ? In the US Dahua Catalog there are only 3 Starlight Turret models that I can find. N224BG52, N51B122 & N51B123. Also I would like to thank members who keep pushing Dahua. Cant wait for side by side comparisons with the HikVision &...

I am seriously considering the turret type Hikvision cameras. I was wondering if anyone tried both the 3MP and 5MP models. I had noticed in the Dahua comparison between the 4MP and 3MP that the 3MP was better in low light. Wondering about the Hikvision? Also has anyone ever seen an image...

Looking at a 4MP Hikvision camera setups. Max SD size is 128 GB. H264 encoding. Realistically how many hours before over writing starts say with 15-20fps. In general terms, I know scene and lighting contribute. Thanks M

I set up all kinds of devices in our home using "time.nist.gov" on port 123. Hikvision just gives me test failed. Sorry for such a simple time but I'm stumped. M

I found this forum while researching 10 replacement outdoor cameras for our home. After reading some of the tons of info on this forum I am more confused about the choice then ever. I know what ever cameras I choose they will be far better than my 8 year old Vivotek FD8134V I have installed...

New to the forum. I set up a 10 IP camera system about 8 years ago. In the search of some new cameras brought me to this forum. Wanted to share the strangest event I caught on my cameras in 8 years. Long video (~10mins) but you will get the idea in the first min or two...