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    Stubborn Camera

    Explain? The camera worked perfectly connected to my laptop with the browser app. Connecting it to my NVR using a different cat5 cable the software recognizes it, loads it to the bottom half of the window without any prompting from me, but remains red, and not connecting.
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    Stubborn Camera

    The camera is getting power, just not passing data:
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    Stubborn Camera

    Thank you for all the suggestions! I pulled the camera down and connected it to the NVR with a different cable - no change Brought the camera inside, connected to the laptop, held the reset button for 10-12 seconds, and used the SADP tool to make sure the ONVIF was enabled, and connected it to...
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    Stubborn Camera

    Dahua NVR and Annke Pan/Tilt camera. It was connected and working fine, although it would occasionally disconnect. Pulling the camera's network cable and reconnecting would reset it and it would work fine again. I wanted to swap the network cable at the NVR to another port and then the whole...
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    Mailbox Jacked, Camera Disguise Questions

    As mentioned, it's a gang box, so eight small compartments with doors on the sidewalk side, and one big door on the street side so the mail delivery person can drive up.
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    Mailbox Jacked, Camera Disguise Questions

    I have visible cameras on the house. I won't hang cameras in the trees - don't want to be "that guy..." Any ideas about how the motion detection works?
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    Mailbox Jacked, Camera Disguise Questions

    Thanks all! I will come up with something, but what I really need to understand is how the motion sensing works. I don't want the disguise to obscure any sensor. This is the camera mounted on the house. the red arrow is the mailbox, the green circle is roughly where I'll put the camera.
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    Mailbox Jacked, Camera Disguise Questions

    Current disguise ideas are: Birdhouse in the tree Pile of rocks on the ground
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    Mailbox Jacked, Camera Disguise Questions

    Christmas morning I was up at 5am, as always look out the front bedroom window and make sure the HMMWV is still there, general look around, etc... and see a red light way out at the gang mailbox. Not unusual, there are seven houses that use the box. What caught my eye was that it looked like...
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    Annke PTZ Camera on Dahua NVR - No Motion Detection?

    OK, figured it out. I had set the NVR GUI but the schedule was on ... something other than motion. I just did a copy from one of the cameras that was successfully recording motion to the new camera and everything has been working since.
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    Annke PTZ Camera on Dahua NVR - No Motion Detection?

    More pics of the config (the camera is currently in the garage):
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    Annke PTZ Camera on Dahua NVR - No Motion Detection?

    Used the SADP tool to get the camera set up and I can see the view through the camera via the NVR and the camera individually. I can control the tilt and pan (not sure if there even is a zoom) but so far I am not recording motion. I've looked through every tab and sub-tab in the camera's...
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    THIS is why I wanted an auto-tracking PTZ.

    It would be nice if there was an optional green laser it could put on his chest as it's following him. Is the camera noisy? He spotted it as he got close, wondering if he saw it or heard it.
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    Tools were stolen from the truck of a solar contractor.

    What did they steal? It looked pretty big. Why doesn't the contractor's truck have a front plate?
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    Hikvision Cameras Question

    Well, you all left just enough clues for me to get it figured out. The GIU is part of the camera firmware. Connected the camera to the cat5 on my laptop and powered it from an old 12v wallwart (50-50 chance on the polarity and got lucky). That allowed the SADP tool to see the camera, get...
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    Hikvision Cameras Question

    OK, got it and installed. The only thing not grayed out is REFRESH, and that doesn't change anything. Both cameras are plugged into the NVR but the SADP tool doesn't see them on the network.
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    Hikvision Cameras Question

    Right, but how do I get that page or that display? It doesn't exist anywhere on my computer.
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    Hikvision Cameras Question

    Thanks for the reply. How do I do that?
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    Hikvision Cameras Question

    I've clicked on every page of every setting and I don't see ONVIF anywhere. How can I know the address of the camera or the port if it doesn't see it? The NVR is sending power to the camera, I see it on the POE page, but there's nothing in the top or bottom box that tells me the NVR sees it or...
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    Hikvision Cameras Question

    Hello all! I bought two used Hikvision cameras I purchased from a forum member here. I tried connecting them to my Dahua NVR and it doesn't see them at all. I tried pressing the reset buttons on the cameras but no change. Model: DS-2CD2185FWD-1 Manufacture date is 06/2017 Any ideas?
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    Motion Detection Settings Help

    Now we're getting somewhere! I did everything, so now I don't know what made it start working.... but it's working. :D Tripwires are set, motion is recording, now I just need to fine-tune so it doesn't record the raindrops. :p Really appreciate the help! :clap:
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    Motion Detection Settings Help

    Despite hours of looking, I've never found where the line crossing settings are. Don't know how to get into the cameras themselves so will need some details.
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    Motion Detection Settings Help

    I actually thought of that after reading something in here about making settings in the cameras, but how? How do I get into the camera?
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    Motion Detection Settings Help

    Like this? Yes, tried that.
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    Motion Detection Settings Help

    The new NVR is up and running, currently with four cameras, Dahua 8MP 4K Starlight MIC IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2. I've been at it for almost a full week trying to get this to record motion. It will record continuously, so all that part is working. I don't want continuous recording on these four...
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    Rage Reduction NVR

    I did the setup from the browser as per the linked thread above. Just not sure how to set the motion detection.
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    Rage Reduction NVR

    By way of an update, I got in the four Dahua cameras and put them on the boxes from the ezviz. The cameras connected without any input from me. I've played around with the settings but can't seem to get the motion settings to do anything. I want these cameras to record only video, but so...
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    Rage Reduction NVR

    I followed the original post up to Step 4 but the cameras never populate either the upper or lower windows. Is there another method for stubborn cameras?
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    Rage Reduction NVR

    That worked, got the manual. Thanks!
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    Rage Reduction NVR

    Thanks! I didn't know ezviz was hikvision. They are POE cameras (H265 I think?) that came with the ezviz setup. I don't know how to manually add them.
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