I just got a H.View E3 camera. Its a cheap(ish) 3MP camera with night color vision. And Im absolutely blown away by how well the night vision works without IR and in full color. Some pics:
This was a worst case scenario test in my back garden. It was so dark, I could not see where to walk. I could post a picture my phone made, but it would be just a black square. The blue shine you see on those shrubs, at first I thought it was an artifact, but it blinked, so I went there and realized it was the blue LED on my mower charger! Okay for this I needed 1/4 shutter speed, so its not great to see motion, but it was so dark I genuinely expected to get nothing useful. What I got was stunning.
This is the spot I bought it for, front of my house. This is what my Dahua sees without IR at 1/4 shutter speed:
And that is pretty much what it looks like with the naked eye. The Dahua does okay-ish when the flood lights come on, so I leave IR off to not attract insects and be blinded by them and rain and, well you all know the issues with IR.
Without the flood light there is some ambient light, mostly from a faint "power saving" street light, barely enough to walk. On the wall I have those cheap solar lights in standby mode. Enough to see them, but not much else (they trigger on motion and then become bright flood lights). Anyway, this is what the E3 saw on the same spot in same light conditions:
And that at full 25 FPS. Color me impressed, pun intended.
Unfortunately, Im less impressed with the rest. Most crucially it disconnects regularly. Sometimes it works for 12 hours straight, sometimes it disconnects 5x an hour. Its connected to a new TP link POE switch, its the only camera on it. I added a mikrotik router to the same POE switch and ran a nonstop 50Mbit bandwidth test from my PC to the switch to rule out any issues with the cabling, and I also replaced the cable going from the POE switch to the camera, all to no avail. It cant be a cabling issue. When it disconnects in blue iris, I also can not ping it on the network. nor connect to it using h.view app. So blue iris is not to blame either and its not likely an encoder or RTSP setting . Its like the camera reboots?
Anyway, nothing is more irritating to me than a camera losing its feed randomly. So Im looking to return it and replace it with something similar. It has to be a bullet camera, POE. I dont care about resolution (even true 1080 is fine!), but I want similar color night vision and rock solid stability. Ideally also usable onboard motion sensing. Oh and it should be cheap(ish), preferably below 100 euro's.
Any suggestions?
This was a worst case scenario test in my back garden. It was so dark, I could not see where to walk. I could post a picture my phone made, but it would be just a black square. The blue shine you see on those shrubs, at first I thought it was an artifact, but it blinked, so I went there and realized it was the blue LED on my mower charger! Okay for this I needed 1/4 shutter speed, so its not great to see motion, but it was so dark I genuinely expected to get nothing useful. What I got was stunning.
This is the spot I bought it for, front of my house. This is what my Dahua sees without IR at 1/4 shutter speed:
And that is pretty much what it looks like with the naked eye. The Dahua does okay-ish when the flood lights come on, so I leave IR off to not attract insects and be blinded by them and rain and, well you all know the issues with IR.
Without the flood light there is some ambient light, mostly from a faint "power saving" street light, barely enough to walk. On the wall I have those cheap solar lights in standby mode. Enough to see them, but not much else (they trigger on motion and then become bright flood lights). Anyway, this is what the E3 saw on the same spot in same light conditions:
And that at full 25 FPS. Color me impressed, pun intended.
Unfortunately, Im less impressed with the rest. Most crucially it disconnects regularly. Sometimes it works for 12 hours straight, sometimes it disconnects 5x an hour. Its connected to a new TP link POE switch, its the only camera on it. I added a mikrotik router to the same POE switch and ran a nonstop 50Mbit bandwidth test from my PC to the switch to rule out any issues with the cabling, and I also replaced the cable going from the POE switch to the camera, all to no avail. It cant be a cabling issue. When it disconnects in blue iris, I also can not ping it on the network. nor connect to it using h.view app. So blue iris is not to blame either and its not likely an encoder or RTSP setting . Its like the camera reboots?
Anyway, nothing is more irritating to me than a camera losing its feed randomly. So Im looking to return it and replace it with something similar. It has to be a bullet camera, POE. I dont care about resolution (even true 1080 is fine!), but I want similar color night vision and rock solid stability. Ideally also usable onboard motion sensing. Oh and it should be cheap(ish), preferably below 100 euro's.
Any suggestions?
