Help Installing IPC-T5442TM-AS

Oct 5, 2024
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phoenix
Hello,

I purchased a house where previous owner had installed Loryta IPC-T5442TM cameras. I know nothing about these cameras or IP cameras and their set up and would love some guidance.

Previous owner doesn't remember the password etc so I think i have to hard rest them...

questions:

1. I can't find instructions on taking it down to reset.. do i need to take them down to reset with the reset button or can i do it over wired connection?
2. All these ethernet cords go to a closet with a 24 POE switch in the closet... how do i set them up?
3. My understanding is i need an NVR- any NVR you recommend for the cameras?
4. Any step by step instruction guide or anything you can point me to so i can follow it to get completely set up. I'm not technologically challenged but definitely clueless in this subject.
 
Those are great cameras.

There is a little hatch that you can just open up and press the reset button. Depending on the orientation you may or may not need to take it down to access it.

You can only reset over the wired connection if you can log into the camera, which you can't since they don't remember the password.

You can get by with just SD cards in the cameras, although most would recommend a VMS like an NVR or Blue Iris/PC combo because managing cameras just by SD cards gets crazy fast if more than one or two cameras. I wonder if they had Blue Iris/PC combo since they went to a POE switch.


INITIAL SETUP OF CAMERA

For this camera you will need to use Internet Explorer - not Edge or Chrome with IE tab, but plain ole Explorer. If you use another browser some of the settings won't hold, like tracking time.

The default IP address of the camera is 192.168.1.108, which may or may not be the IP address range of your system.

Unhook a computer or laptop from the internet and go into ethernet settings and using the IPv4 settings manually change the IP address to 192.168.1.100

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Then power up your camera and wait a few minutes.

Then go to INTERNET EXPLORER (needs to be Explorer and not Edge or Chrome with IE tab) and type in 192.168.1.108 (default IP address of Dahua cameras) and you will then access the camera.

Tell it your country and give it a user and password.

Then go to the camera Network settings and change the camera IP address to the range of your system and hit save.

You will then lose the camera connection.

Then reverse the process to put your computer back on your network IP address range.

Next open up INTERNET EXPLORER and type in the new IP address that you just gave the camera to access it.

OR use the IPconfig Tool, but most of us prefer the above as it is one less program needed and one less chance for the cameras to phone home or for something to get screwed up.




DIAL IN THE CAMERA TO YOUR FIELD OF VIEW

In terms of getting the most out of the camera, here is my "standard" post that many use as a start for dialing in day and night that helps get the clean captures and help the camera recognize people and cars.

Start with:

H264
8192 bitrate
CBR
15FPS
15 iframes

Every field of view is different, but I have found you need contrast to usually be 6-8 higher than the brightness number at night.

We want the ability to freeze frame capture a clean image from the video at night, and that is only done with a shutter of 1/60 or faster. At night, default/auto may be on 1/12s shutter or worse to make the image bright.

In my opinion, shutter (exposure) and gain are the two most important parameters and then base the others off of it. Shutter is more important than FPS. It is the shutter speed that prevents motion blur, not FPS. 15 FPS is more than enough for surveillance cameras as we are not producing Hollywood movies. Match iframes to FPS. 15FPS is all that is usually needed.

Many people do not realize there is manual shutter that lets you adjust shutter and gain and a shutter priority that only lets you adjust shutter speed but not gain. The higher the gain, the bigger the noise and see-through ghosting start to appear because the noise is amplified. Most people select shutter priority and run a faster shutter than they should because it is likely being done at 100 gain, so it is actually defeating their purpose of a faster shutter.

Go into shutter settings and change to manual shutter and start with custom shutter as ms and change to 0-8.3ms and gain 0-50 (night) and 0-4ms exposure and 0-30 gain (day)for starters. Auto could have a shutter speed of 100ms or more with a gain at 100 and shutter priority could result in gain up at 100 which will contribute to significant ghosting and that blinding white you will get from the infrared or white light.

Now what you will notice immediately at night is that your image gets A LOT darker. That faster the shutter, the more light that is needed. But it is a balance. The nice bright night static image results in Casper blur and ghost during motion LOL. What do we want, a nice static image or a clean image when there is motion introduced to the scene?

In the daytime, if it is still too bright, then drop the 4ms down to 3ms then 2ms, etc. You have to play with it for your field of view.

Then at night, if it is too dark, then start adding ms to the time. Go to 10ms, 12ms, etc. until you find what you feel is acceptable as an image. Then have someone walk around and see if you can get a clean shot. Try not to go above 16.67ms (but certainly not above 30ms) as that tends to be the point where blur starts to occur. Conversely, if it is still bright, then drop down in time to get a faster shutter.

You can also adjust brightness and contrast to improve the image. But try not to go above 70 for anything and try to have contrast be at least 7-10 digits higher than brightness.

You can also add some gain to brighten the image - but the higher the gain, the more ghosting you get. Some cameras can go to 70 or so before it is an issue and some can't go over 50.

But adjusting those two settings will have the biggest impact. The next one is noise reduction. Want to keep that as low as possible. Depending on the amount of light you have, you might be able to get down to 40 or so at night (again camera dependent) and 20-30 during the day, but take it as low as you can before it gets too noisy. Again this one is a balance as well. Too smooth and no noise can result in soft images and contribute to blur.

Do not use backlight features until you have exhausted every other parameter setting. And if you do have to use backlight, take it down as low as possible.

After every setting adjustment, have someone walk around outside and see if you can freeze-frame to get a clean image. If not, keep changing until you do. Clean motion pictures are what we are after, not a clean static image.
 
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Those are great cameras.

There is a little hatch that you can just open up and press the reset button. Depending on the orientation you may or may not need to take it down to access it.

You can only reset over the wired connection if you can log into the camera, which you can't since they don't remember the password.

You can get by with just SD cards in the cameras, although most would recommend a VMS like an NVR or Blue Iris/PC combo because managing cameras just by SD cards gets crazy fast if more than one or two cameras. I wonder if they had Blue Iris/PC combo since they went to a POE switch.


INITIAL SETUP OF CAMERA

For this camera you will need to use Internet Explorer - not Edge or Chrome with IE tab, but plain ole Explorer. If you use another browser some of the settings won't hold, like tracking time.

The default IP address of the camera is 192.168.1.108, which may or may not be the IP address range of your system.

Unhook a computer or laptop from the internet and go into ethernet settings and using the IPv4 settings manually change the IP address to 192.168.1.100

1693519003560.png



Then power up your camera and wait a few minutes.

Then go to INTERNET EXPLORER (needs to be Explorer and not Edge or Chrome with IE tab) and type in 192.168.1.108 (default IP address of Dahua cameras) and you will then access the camera.

Tell it your country and give it a user and password.

Then go to the camera Network settings and change the camera IP address to the range of your system and hit save.

You will then lose the camera connection.

Then reverse the process to put your computer back on your network IP address range.

Next open up INTERNET EXPLORER and type in the new IP address that you just gave the camera to access it.

OR use the IPconfig Tool, but most of us prefer the above as it is one less program needed and one less chance for the cameras to phone home or for something to get screwed up.




DIAL IN THE CAMERA TO YOUR FIELD OF VIEW

In terms of getting the most out of the camera, here is my "standard" post that many use as a start for dialing in day and night that helps get the clean captures and help the camera recognize people and cars.

Start with:

H264
8192 bitrate
CBR
15FPS
15 iframes

Every field of view is different, but I have found you need contrast to usually be 6-8 higher than the brightness number at night.

We want the ability to freeze frame capture a clean image from the video at night, and that is only done with a shutter of 1/60 or faster. At night, default/auto may be on 1/12s shutter or worse to make the image bright.

In my opinion, shutter (exposure) and gain are the two most important parameters and then base the others off of it. Shutter is more important than FPS. It is the shutter speed that prevents motion blur, not FPS. 15 FPS is more than enough for surveillance cameras as we are not producing Hollywood movies. Match iframes to FPS. 15FPS is all that is usually needed.

Many people do not realize there is manual shutter that lets you adjust shutter and gain and a shutter priority that only lets you adjust shutter speed but not gain. The higher the gain, the bigger the noise and see-through ghosting start to appear because the noise is amplified. Most people select shutter priority and run a faster shutter than they should because it is likely being done at 100 gain, so it is actually defeating their purpose of a faster shutter.

Go into shutter settings and change to manual shutter and start with custom shutter as ms and change to 0-8.3ms and gain 0-50 (night) and 0-4ms exposure and 0-30 gain (day)for starters. Auto could have a shutter speed of 100ms or more with a gain at 100 and shutter priority could result in gain up at 100 which will contribute to significant ghosting and that blinding white you will get from the infrared or white light.

Now what you will notice immediately at night is that your image gets A LOT darker. That faster the shutter, the more light that is needed. But it is a balance. The nice bright night static image results in Casper blur and ghost during motion LOL. What do we want, a nice static image or a clean image when there is motion introduced to the scene?

In the daytime, if it is still too bright, then drop the 4ms down to 3ms then 2ms, etc. You have to play with it for your field of view.

Then at night, if it is too dark, then start adding ms to the time. Go to 10ms, 12ms, etc. until you find what you feel is acceptable as an image. Then have someone walk around and see if you can get a clean shot. Try not to go above 16.67ms (but certainly not above 30ms) as that tends to be the point where blur starts to occur. Conversely, if it is still bright, then drop down in time to get a faster shutter.

You can also adjust brightness and contrast to improve the image. But try not to go above 70 for anything and try to have contrast be at least 7-10 digits higher than brightness.

You can also add some gain to brighten the image - but the higher the gain, the more ghosting you get. Some cameras can go to 70 or so before it is an issue and some can't go over 50.

But adjusting those two settings will have the biggest impact. The next one is noise reduction. Want to keep that as low as possible. Depending on the amount of light you have, you might be able to get down to 40 or so at night (again camera dependent) and 20-30 during the day, but take it as low as you can before it gets too noisy. Again this one is a balance as well. Too smooth and no noise can result in soft images and contribute to blur.

Do not use backlight features until you have exhausted every other parameter setting. And if you do have to use backlight, take it down as low as possible.

After every setting adjustment, have someone walk around outside and see if you can freeze-frame to get a clean image. If not, keep changing until you do. Clean motion pictures are what we are after, not a clean static image.
Wow. thank you for such a freaking detailed response and step by step instructions. as a mac person is pc the only way to do this? If i use an NVR then i don't need to do all these settings through IE? is that right? what NVR do you recommend?
 
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Many here with a Mac use PaleMoon browser. There is another browser that works, but I forget the name lol.

It is best to make all settings to the camera thru the GUI and not the NVR.

It would be best to pair up an NVR from empiretech (Loryta). Get whichever 5 series you need with enough channels for the number of cameras you have

So in essence I have to pick:

1. Bluemoon + cheap PC route

or

2. Empiretech NVR + i'm guessing there is some P2P system through empiretech or something that will allow me to access my cameras over cloud?

And how do i get the feeds to my empiretech NVR or PC if i go bluemoon route? All of the feeds from the ethernet cameras come in and go to a 24 switch POE switch i have that also shares internet throughout my house's ports... Do i neeed to unplug those and plug them directly in the NVR? or can the NVR sit anywhere in the house and plug it in to one of the ports that come in.. which would allow me to maybe set up a monitor attached to the NVR (or PC) anywhere in the house to have constant streaming? or is there a better way to have constant streaming?

thanks again for all your help sorry if some of these questions are elementary.
 
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Pale moon is simply a web browser, like Safari or Chrome

Yes the Empiretech/Dahua NVR can use P2P to connect to your cameras remotely.

You can do either with the NVR. Connect cameras directly to it or connect those on an external switch. It doesn’t change anything. When you connect remotely you are connecting to the NVR. The NVR handles the camera feeds.
 
is there any reason to go with empiretech over the bluemoon with a separate pc approach? or anything i'm losing out on not going bluemoon?
Pale moon is simply a web browser, like Safari or Chrome

Yes the Empiretech/Dahua NVR can use P2P to connect to your cameras remotely.

You can do either with the NVR. Connect cameras directly to it or connect those on an external switch. It doesn’t change anything. When you connect remotely you are connecting to the NVR. The NVR handles the camera feed
 
It is Blue Iris and is basically an NVR system.

Pale Moon is a web browser

You have combined them into Blue Moon LOL

There is a big debate here on which is better. We have a strong fan base for Blue Iris and a strong fan base for NVRs. I have both and prefer Blue Iris.

Here is the search tool of all the NVR versus BI comparisons:

blue iris vs nvr ip cam site:ipcamtalk.com - Google Search

Read through these and decide for yourself which one you think works best for you.
 
:rolleyes: I'll have to update the "list" search criteria
 
It is Blue Iris and is basically an NVR system.

Pale Moon is a web browser

You have combined them into Blue Moon LOL

There is a big debate here on which is better. We have a strong fan base for Blue Iris and a strong fan base for NVRs. I have both and prefer Blue Iris.

Here is the search tool of all the NVR versus BI comparisons:

blue iris vs nvr ip cam site:ipcamtalk.com - Google Search

Read through these and decide for yourself which one you think works best for you.
thanks for your help. i am running config tool and blue iris to try and see the cameras i have.. ( i decided to go blue iris)

i have a list of all the cameras around the house popping up on config tool but not sure how to connect. the IP:Port numbers listed none of them lead to a webpage.

i'm assuming if they weren't connected to the network they wouldn't show up in config tool. I don't have the password as prior owner who installed doesn't remember it/doesn't wanna give it. I'm trying to figure out a way to reset it through dahua customer service but the batch reset file thing just fails... i really don't want to climb up and reset each one.. i dn't even know how to i can't find a manual that shows where the reset button would be...

any ideas? shouldn't i be able to at least see the streams from the cameras on blue iris if they were connected to the network even without a password?
 
If you manually reset the cameras, and plug them into the 24 port POE switch, (one at a time) ...there is a menu in the NVR which performs a search for devices on the network and reports back. you can then add them as " remote cameras" rather than local cameras inside the NVR's internal network. A factory reset camera may be able to be seen by the NVR even though it's IP address is not configured.
If you can run your home network router on an address scheme of 192.168.1.1, it will easier to login into a factory reset camera.
I have not had luck using a laptop at 192.168.1.100 to " see" a camera (host) residing at 192.168.1.108 without a router providing NAT.
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Also I am not opposed to ANY method that people have found works for them,,,,,,
I also forget at times what address my NVR resides at and can easily use this piece of software ( amcrest IP config Tool) to see whats on the network.
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thanks for your help. i am running config tool and blue iris to try and see the cameras i have.. ( i decided to go blue iris)

i have a list of all the cameras around the house popping up on config tool but not sure how to connect. the IP:Port numbers listed none of them lead to a webpage.

i'm assuming if they weren't connected to the network they wouldn't show up in config tool. I don't have the password as prior owner who installed doesn't remember it/doesn't wanna give it. I'm trying to figure out a way to reset it through dahua customer service but the batch reset file thing just fails... i really don't want to climb up and reset each one.. i dn't even know how to i can't find a manual that shows where the reset button would be...

any ideas? shouldn't i be able to at least see the streams from the cameras on blue iris if they were connected to the network even without a password?
Google / you tube search should show you how to reset a 5442.
 
I have never heard of anybody using a Batch reset.
having setup about 30 cams on 2 sites, I've used a manual reset when needed. it's the cleanest method.


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