Review-OEM IPC-T5241H-AS-PV 2mp AI active deterrence cam

Steveee said:
@The North Face , Yes Mine picks up cats too, Don't get many Deer where I live. I need to move this camera slightly, so I haven't bothered looking at setting yet!
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This is so weird to me. I wonder if the AI functionality - whatever that is in reality - didn’t make it into this part of the IVS. At the same time, detecting a person vs an animal is one of the easiest AI cases out there. I’m not a huge fan of companies overselling their products and this one comes close. I purchased it solely for the purpose of using Active Deterrence on people only, rather than every cat passing by.

Anyway, I’ll try out the calibration guide from IVS/Global Setup - Dahua Wiki and see if it helps any. FFS, Dahua..
 
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But cats and humans live in harmony :lol: And cats are notorious for peeing on my garden

The North Face said:
This is so weird to me. I wonder if the AI functionality - whatever that is in reality - didn’t make it into this part of the IVS. At the same time, detecting a person vs an animal is one of the easiest AI cases out there. I’m not a huge fan of companies overselling their products and this one comes close. I purchased it solely for the purpose of using Active Deterrence on people only, rather than every cat passing by.

Anyway, I’ll try out the calibration guide from IVS/Global Setup - Dahua Wiki and see if it helps any. FFS, Dahua..
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Steveee said:
I think this camera is really very good for the money.
I have several of them up, and so far they have performed very well. I find the IVS tripwire and intrusion rules work as intended, LED light and sound alarm can be controlled as required.

Below example shows IVS in action for this camera.
Intrusion calling PTZ camera, and tripwire for Drive area.

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What PTZ are you usIng? And how did you get it to follow? Thanks.
 
Maybe I missed it, but is there away to turn the tripwire activated siren/light on/off via the gdmss/iDMSS app?
 
In camera web interface make sure smart plan is on. Then under IVS create a rule and draw a tripwire or intrusion . Make sure the setting for schedule period is set for every day of the week or to your preference. Also make sure the audio and light boxes are checked.
 
Yeah! :) Thanks @dudemaar I got it to work. i’v been sitting hear for 4 hrs trying to figure this out. I new to IVS, Smart Plan, AI. I’v climbed the learning curve. Nest step is to mount this camera but I’m out of time for today.
 
Anyone here have the original audio files?
 
@Steveee, @The North Face ... I saw an upcoming 5442 firmware update has a blurb that mentions
"7.IVS algorithm update to reduce cat and dog false positives;"... maybe that'll eventually come to this model and get tuned for deer too!

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aristobrat said:
@Steveee, @The North Face ... I saw an upcoming 5442 firmware update has a blurb that mentions
"7.IVS algorithm update to reduce cat and dog false positives;"... maybe that'll eventually come to this model and get tuned for deer too!

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Thank you for the info @aristobrat! Fingers crossed. How would we learn about this update’s release?

Edit: realized you linked a thread. Now watching Andy’s posts in that forum!
 
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It’s currently being tested...
 
I could be wrong, but I think the 5241 cameras microphone is off by default and is set to "line-in" . There is no option to change this from a NVR. Only via camera web interface. :(
 
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So the people that spend thousands of dollars per PTZ Camera dont have this ability but the cheap cameras do? That makes total sense to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This above all I need, this is why I spent so much on the higher end cameras in order to get functionality like this. If I would have known from the start I would have gone to kmart and purchased the cheap cameras.............. Am I suppose to be happy about this? No one seems to understand the absolute importance of being able to call out a drug addict homeless ahole right before they drive a forklift through your building..... I am pretty tired of Dahua putting all the fancy WORKING firmware and software updates on the dirt cheap cameras and leaving the really expensive cameras updates to NEVER being updated or worse with crap updates.... I would never ever would have purchased 12 PTZ cameras as I was told y cameras would do this.. but guess what... again,, I WAS DIRECTLY LIED TO..... THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS... Sorry all, I am a little dissapointed.... I don't like being lied to and mislead...
 
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MakeItRain said:
Holy shit guys. I FINALLY got IVS crossline push notification to work!!!


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I had a problem with push notifications on gDMSS. They just wouldn't trigger. The fix for me was to disable and enable Push in Safety settings on the camera.push.png

But now I have another problem: When I open the push notification, I see no captured image or video. It says no record.
My camera has a micro sd in it. Interestingly if I view the recorded videos from live view, it works as expected.

Any help regarding this would be appreciated on what I'm doing wrong.
 
Since I now have the habit of finding and getting firmware directly from Dahua, I found a working update for this camera as well. No idea if it makes things better or what it's supposed to update since there are no release notes, but hopefully the AI human detection algorithm works better. I just applied it and it worked fine, but actual real results will have to wait until a cat or deer turns up.

The newest(?) firmware release is referenced here: Firmware (just search on the page)

The download page is here:
Username:dahuahelpdesk
Password:dahua2018
 
The North Face said:
Since I now have the habit of finding and getting firmware directly from Dahua, I found a working update for this camera as well. No idea if it makes things better or what it's supposed to update since there are no release notes, but hopefully the AI human detection algorithm works better. I just applied it and it worked fine, but actual real results will have to wait until a cat or deer turns up.

The newest(?) firmware release is referenced here: Firmware (just search on the page)

The download page is here:
Username:dahuahelpdesk
Password:dahua2018
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A quick glance, a lot of the firmware there isn't current. Couldn't fine a way to download anyway. The link you shared doesn't work.
 
looney2ns said:
A quick glance, a lot of the firmware there isn't current. Couldn't fine a way to download anyway. The link you shared doesn't work.
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Strange, I get straight to the login page when I click the link. Can't speak for others, but I found updates for both my cameras that I haven't been able to find when searching here and asking Andy. Maybe others are that lucky as well.

Edit: in any event, the firmware I found for T5241H-AS-PV was newer than the one I had on the camera and I haven't seen that firmware update mentioned anywhere else on here, at least not in direct connection with that model.

Edit again: if the link to the download page doesn't work, try logging in from instead.
 
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