best practices

  1. R

    External mount best practices/sanity check

    Hi all, I'm in the process of upgrading my external cameras: three Hikvision DS-2CD2132F dome cameras. These have worked well, nothing wrong with them, other than I have the upgrade bug. I've already replaced the one on our front porch with the IPC-B54IR-ZE-S3 (bullet-style). Huge upgrade...
  2. M

    Continuous or Motion Recording?

    Do you recommend continuous recording or just motion events? When I was mucking with NestCam it recorded continuously and it set markers that allowed a quick scrubbing of long videos and it was easy to save a clip. So, what do you recommend? Currently I’m running SecuritySpy on a Mac with...
  3. M

    Firmware Upgrade—Best Practices.

    For Mac-users, what’s the proven workflows/tools for firmware upgrade or downgrade? Should there not be a certain public web page with the Dahua firmware available for download, complete with a list of changes in each version? Might you have such a url? The wiki does not provide this data...
  4. mtpleasantben

    limit decoding feature? High CPU or delayed Motion Capture

    I've read through a ton of forums on this, at some point CPU utilization went up for everyone from a prior release. Lots of people are working through lowering their CPU utilization and in doing so there is a strong recommendation to check limit decoding feature. I've done this, and yes CPU is...