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Back in November or December I replaced my aging and dying screen Galaxy S5 with a shiny new Galaxy S9. The S9, generally speaking, seems to work great. However, the ISP email accounts I have set up on the phone apparently lose the passwords. I'll get emails just fine for some period of time...

Looking for a OM2 LC-LC fiber cable. Anyone here using the ones from Monoprice? I've used copper cables of various sorts from them with no problems so I'd expect same/similar. But, direct comment is always better than speculation.

For those of you that are running a number of cameras, are you running the camera cables to a switch in the attic (or wherever), then a single cable/trunk line to main switch or NIC? Or, did you put forth the extra to put in all home runs from each cam to a patch panel?

Maybe this is more a computer question vs a pfSense question, but here goes... The computer setup I built for a pfSense box has a Gigabit Realtek NIC integral to the mobo. Then, I added a 4-port Gigabit Intel NIC to a PCIe slot. Since I don't really need all 4 ports of the Intel NIC for LANs...

Getting quite a few nuisance alerts from two overview cameras. Had been getting quite a lot more but I "erased" the side street and part of intersection from the trigger area. That cut it back nicely. However, given the proximity to the street I'm still getting a fair number of alerts in the...

End of December I buy an item from eBay, pay with PayPal, said item arrives as described and in a timely manner. Gave good feedback. All seems good. Today I receive an invoice that appears be from/through eBay asking me to pay again for this item, but it is asking me to pay directly to a gmail...

It's not clear to me if I run a dedicated LAN for the IP cams and their input to the BI server, and all that is set with static IPs, do I even need a router in that network? Or just switch(es) would be fine? There would be a 2nd NIC in the BI computer for remote access, NTP, email...

Anyone have the dimensions of the 4-bolt mounting pattern? I've looked though the docs/pdfs on Dahua website and see general camera dimensions but not of the base/mounting hole pattern.

Went through the basic reduce BI CPU tips and looks like it's running about 3.5% on an i7-3770 with 8GB RAM. Presently, two 4MP cams and one 2MP cam running 10FPS. Sound about right?

While out scrounging today I picked up a couple Cisco switches that have SFP ports. As well, out of the box of "stuff" I grabbed a 2-port fibre channel PCI-E card, not really knowing other than it is a fiber adapter. If I get a fibre channel SFP that is the same spec as the fiber channel PCI-E...

Sorry if wrong place, I didn't see a specific area to ask questions about what something may be worth. Anyway, there are a few Axis P1343 for sale locally and they're asking $60 each. They also have a few heated housings. Thinking not necessarily as primary cameras but maybe some "fill in"...

Just got my BI PC going a bit ago, cameras linked in, and basic continuous record working. There is a ton of stuff in there to go through. What I'm not clear on at the moment is camera function vs BI function. Do I turn off as much stuff as possible in the cameras, e.g. motion alerts...

In the information for the camera is listed junction box PFA135, but not really sure how that one would seal up. Is there a different junction box for the HFW4239 camera that would be more weatherproof, along the lines of PFA121(?) I have for my N44CB33 cams? Or, am I just not getting how the...

I have a cam in my garage and often in the mornings I'll get nuisance motion and tampering alerts. Of course, I have been checking the snapshots and sometimes a live feed but there hasn't been any actual disturbance/entry into the garage. Thinking it's lighting changes based on some reading I've...

Seems like when I look at the cameras with these various tools I see differences in the settings. For fresh example, I set NTP and DST using the camera web GUIs but then looking through the ConfigTool none of those settings are reflected/showing same as what I set by web GUI. Why would I see...

At this point, the question is mainly about VLAN tagging. For example, I want to set up VLAN 1 for my general home network, VLAN 2 for Internet/WiFi-connected gadgets, and VLAN 3 for IP camera system. In the garage I have a managed switch with POE ports for cameras and also I want general...

With the Dahua cameras I have it appears I could create a new user accounts with admin privileges then delete the existing "admin" user account. I didn't see anything in the Wiki about doing that. Is it taken for granted people do it, or doesn't it materially improve security anyway?

What SmartPSS Live View shows for bitrate seems very often reported as much higher than the setting should allow. You can see the setting and what the Live View screen shows in the attached pics. Any ideas what might be going on?

Cameras of topic are Dahua N44CB33. Based on Cliff notes and discussion on the forum, I made a firewall rule to block all LAN traffic. Logically that also prevents the cameras from sending motion detection emails. When I turn off the firewall rule (presently showing as Priority 2) email...

With the detached garage/house layout I'm struggling a bit with camera placements Here's what I've started on so far and sure could use some coaching on this. North is up. It is a 70ft x165ft lot. Distance from house to garage is roughly 65ft for scale. The red lines from tentative camera...

A couple other threads got me looking at some Ethernet cable to one day string out to the garage. The cable of topic is Belden OSP6U. In the specs it says suitable for "Engineered Burial". What the heck is Engineered Burial vs. just plain old burial?

Looked through the Cliff notes, albeit fairly quickly, but didn't see anything pro or con about using RAID drive set up in PC-based NVR. Thoughts on using RAID 1?

Howdy. After my snowmobile was recently stolen right out of my back yard I've decided to put up more cameras. Day late and a few thousand dollars short, so to speak. I have a couple Dahua N44CB33 cams I'd been experimenting with to watch inside garage and back of the house but unfortunately...