My trial DS-2CD2031-I 4mm arrived.
Everything was in Chinese as far as sticker on the box, camera sticker & pamphlet. I panicked slightly.
Thanks to NCC I have it up and running using the mini cd. Dismissed at first as I didn't have anything handy to read it, and I typically never use any install discs anyhow. The downloaded version gave issues on laptop one, loaned an older laptop, mini-cd worked.
Mini CD was chinese & english. Once I found the camera on the network: English!
Camera did pull a local IP address on its own, by the way.
Live view doesn't say the day of the week and I'm not going to worry about changing that in settings (or such). Just the date is fine.
Initial trials seem okay.
Depending on settings there seems to be some lag between reality & what it shows on screen, when you pan the camera around.
Switches to night mode when you shove it in a drawer.
View off into the distance >100ft is fuzzy. Looking at a completely overcast sky & facing woods with pine branches moving in light wind.
Indoors, when it saw a textured ceiling, it seemed to constantly refocus & rebuild the pattern every few secs. Could be related to being an overcast day and limited light inside. Hope that won't be an issue once outdoors looking at the driveways ... as it could cause motion recording to be continuous rather when there's truly motion.
I'm pretty excited after the initial setup glitches.
Now I will have to paint the bugger, snake an ethernet cable from the basement through the attic to the eave, get the ladder out to mount it. Fun stuff. Hahaha.
And, I probably should run a second wire simultaneously in anticipation of a second camera going up there
