The junction box will not help with water resistance but if you need the room for your wiring harness you need the room. I personally will be mounting to a soffit and other locations where the wiring can be tucked into the hole under the cam. This turret cam has a face only a mother could love.... the low-profile the better.
fyi - some of the junction boxes are IP66 rated.
Right, but everyone around here will want to drill a hole in it for good measure. Lol... and put it at the bottom of course.
Well it really depends on which box you get and how you install it. Remember you need a place to store the wires, AND you will potentially need to access the wires to replace the camera / add or change the micro-SD card.. or what not. The PFA121 junction box is very nice to help keep water out - nicer than the PFA137. Use silicone caulking when mounting the box on the wall and silicone stretch tape for the connection and you've got a nicer setup. [ Edit - update - PFA121 for Dahua square bullets, PFA137 for turrets - or PFB203W for wall mount box ]Right, but everyone around here will want to drill a hole in it for good measure. Lol... and put it at the bottom of course.
Seriously though, the base ring of the cam will not seal any better to the junction box than it would to a flat surface or the surface intended for the junction box mount... with the junction box now there are two places for water to enter. I'm not saying that this is a problem. I'm just saying, don't add a junction box to improve weather resiliency.
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I didn't realize there were two junction boxes... point taken—thanks Matt. After all this, watch me go crazy mounting junction boxes!
Same hardware, different firmware. You can flash it back and forth between PAL and NTSC if needed.
I think you might need the paid iDMSS app for push notifications.
I understand. But do you also need the Dahua NVR to make it work or the Dahua NVR is not necessary?
you dont need anything else...note with that switch, it come set via factory to poe classification mode...you must set it to consumption mode or it wont power more than 4 cameras....remember to hit save up on top, or your settings will revert on power cycle/loss.
I purchased 3 of these cameras from @EMPIRETECANDY who is a top notch seller, and the cameras are quite amazing. With regards to the Dahua software and using SD Cards, I had numerous issues, which I had documented in my posts when I first joined this forum. That said, if you have a PC that is powerful enough, I would HIGHLY recommend using Blue Iris. The software is top notch, and it's been rock solid. There's so many different settings and configurations, but I found it fairly intuitive to use and configure. The mobile app is top notch as well. Notifications are spot on - as I don't recall receiving any "false" positives (eg leaves / trees moving) - even with the default sensitivity/regions set. I have 9 camera feeds through Blue Iris right now with no issues.
Redundancy options - which help reduce chances of intruders taking video evidence:
5) Hide a USB HDD behind a wall with a USB connector wall plate covering it up. Run a USB cable from the wall to your surveillance PC. Have your software record trigger video to the hidden HDD. The perps will hurriedly just rip out cables to pull the PC while leaving the hidden HDD behind.