Review-Dahua IPC-HDBW4231F-E2-M Dual Starlight Cam

So I spent al afternoon looking through all 34 pages. Very interesting.

For those of you with this cam, are you running it in color at night? If so, could you post a short video of it with movement?

My use case would be close to where I have street lighting.
 
I run mine in full color 24hrs, but i have my porch light on at night, and a fairly bright street light across the way.



both eyeballs are in corridor mode, and the other one is oriented at 90 from this one to get more of the door and mailbox on the far wall...
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I tried shutting off the camera name overlays on these camera-- and applying and saving that change doesn't seem to work. Can anyone else confirm this? Maybe I just need to update the firmware. It is working otherwise so i don't want to mess with it if I don't have to.
 
eeeeesh said:
Video Tab > Network IP > Configure > Video Path

/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
/cam/realmonitor?channel=2&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
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Can U send me a screen shot of your set up using this , I can not see the split screen of the 2 cams. I can see bot cams so I know the Cam are working. Do I need the sub stream turned on also. Thaxs Boyd
 
Not sure what you're asking about, BOYD. The 'split screen' view (both cams in one feed) is only available in the cam's web GUI.
From BI or any other external interface, the 2 eyeballs appear as two separate cameras that happen to be served from the same IP address.
For the substream of either eyeball (if needed), use subtype=1 in the BI video/configure pane.
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In the camera setup in BI look at the middle of the screen - you have to select camera 1 for one of the cams. Now clone that camera, and go into the setting and change camera 1 to camera 2.

It will be two separate cameras in BI on the same IP address.
 
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wittaj said:
In the camera setup in BI look at the middle of the screen - you have to select camera 1 for one of the cams. Now clone that camera, and go into the setting and change camera 1 to camera 2.

It will be two separate cameras in BI on the same IP address.
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wittaj said:
In the camera setup in BI look at the middle of the screen - you have to select camera 1 for one of the cams. Now clone that camera, and go into the setting and change camera 1 to camera 2.

It will be two separate cameras in BI on the same IP address.
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is that clone master
 
No do not do clone master because you are changing the camera number. Clone master will give you the same camera twice.
 
wittaj said:
go into the setting and change camera 1 to camera 2
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Not in my setup. The second cam is accessed as CHANNEL #2 in the parameters, not camera 2, but perhaps that does the same thing?

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edit: I think selecting camera #2 would work if your parameter string has "channel={CAMNO}" macro in it...
 
Just add a new camera, then in "type" select copy from another camera, select the camera you already have in BI, then go to the configure screen and in Video change camera 1 to camera 2, and then you have both cameras each showing up in BI
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pozzello said:
Not in my setup. The second cam is accessed as CHANNEL #2 in the parameters, not camera 2, but perhaps that does the same thing?

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edit: I think selecting camera #2 would work if your parameter string has "channel={CAMNO}" macro in it...
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Oh I guess that would work as well, but copying the camera and changing to camera #2 is probably the cleanest way to assure nothing goofy happens in some future update? You are probably showing Channel 2 but camera 1? This could get goofy with substreams.
 
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