Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-HDW5849H-ASE-LED / IPC-Color4K-T - 2.8mm Turret

smiticans · Nov 20, 2022

The new firmware is a huge improvement. I don't have the issue anymore where I had pixelation and artifacting around moving objects. I also set the time profile to switch between day/night and that appears to be working fine (I remember reading some people were having issues with it). With the old firmware, the camera was practically unusable. We this firmware, I'm ready to buy more of them lol.

My only complaint is if you enable WDR, it makes the picture look a little washed out and dull (My current setting is at 25). Maybe @Wildcat_1 might have some input on this?

wittaj · Nov 20, 2022

How low can you drop the WDR? Most of us have found that as low as 4 can make a big difference.

smiticans · Nov 20, 2022

I can adjust it later, but I did reduce it to around 4 yesterday and it didn't make much of a difference.

bigredfish · Nov 20, 2022

WDR does that on just about every camera. It’s useful in certain scenes, but I use it sparingly and only where necessary.

smiticans · Nov 20, 2022

I have WDR enabled on all my cameras, while it does slightly washout the image, It's very drastic on the 4K-T. The WDR on the rest of my 5442 series and Color-4k-X looks fine and works very well.

bigredfish · Nov 20, 2022

Yeah I use it on a few 5442’s as well. Still by nature it washes out colors some. Typically <20 and like @wittaj mentioned, on some as little as 1-5

Also be careful using it at night in low light. It can introduce motion blur.

smiticans · Nov 20, 2022

I have all of my cameras switch between day/night profiles either with the Dahua Sunrise/sunset utility or the built in schedule. I never run WDR at night.

raidflex · Nov 21, 2022

EMPIRETECANDY said:
PFB205W is the standard one, but some guys use PFB203W also work.

Would this be fine mounting to vinyl siding? I was just going to secure it right into the wood through the siding or is there better options?

wittaj · Nov 27, 2022

Andy sent me a few weeks back a beta firmware update to try and after running it a few weeks and testing it, I think many of the video issues people experienced is much better mitigated.

The white spots in extremely low light is still there, but greatly reduced in the number. I think the video quality appears to be a little better as well.

chileaquiles · Dec 3, 2022

Can't seem to get Blue Iris to run monitor/video or recording without stuttering.

Running System Version:3.120.0000000.2.RBuild Date:2022-10-21.

live view on IE looks great but when vieweing through Blue Iris it stutters like crazy. Task manager on the Blue Iris machine is not reaching max performance. CPU around 8%. Have direct to disk setup as well

Noticed in blue iris status can't get Key to 1.0.

wittaj · Dec 3, 2022

chileaquiles said:
Can't seem to get Blue Iris to run monitor/video or recording without stuttering.

Running System Version:3.120.0000000.2.RBuild Date:2022-10-21.

live view on IE looks great but when vieweing through Blue Iris it stutters like crazy. Task manager on the Blue Iris machine is not reaching max performance. CPU around 8%. Have direct to disk setup as well

Noticed in blue iris status can't get Key to 1.0.
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Match FPS and iframe, so make them both 15 in main and substream.

Turn off HA globally and at the camera level in BI.

Try compression at just plain H264.

Are your cameras going thru a router or do you have them isolated from your internet via either dual NIC or VLANs?

Arjun · Dec 4, 2022

Any idea how these cameras would perform if they came with IR built into them?

TallPaul · Dec 4, 2022

I believe they are not IR sensitive, or have an IR filter to improve the non-IR performance, so badly I would assume!

wittaj · Dec 4, 2022

I believe he means if they added the ability for it to see infrared lol.

I suspect that if they document a ton of returns because people are naive and think these types of cameras are magic and defy physics, they may rebrand them to not be called full color type cameras and add IR capabilities.

I suspect though a problem they experienced and probably why they haven't yet is that anything close is probably washed out and not even smart IR has been able to account for it.

These things don't need much light, but do need light, and I suspect it is hard to dial these in for infrared or take a lot more tweaking.

chileaquiles · Dec 4, 2022

wittaj said:
Match FPS and iframe, so make them both 15 in main and substream.

Turn off HA globally and at the camera level in BI.

Try compression at just plain H264.

Are your cameras going thru a router or do you have them isolated from your internet via either dual NIC or VLANs?

did all the above now i do get the key to 1 but lag is still awful.
All my cameras go to 24 port gigabit switch. So does Pfsense router and BI machine. Have rules in Pfsense to block all cam to WAN.

tedrpi · Dec 5, 2022

Steviedee said:
Hey guys, is there any word on a new firmware update to fix the profile schedule/day/night settings issues. Currently the cam is either useless in the night or useless in the day, I cant have it both ways, if i set it up for minimum shutter speed at night, then when daylight comes, the camera whites out/overexposed. And if i set it up for daytime exposure settings, when it gets darker, the image becomes black. So temporarily, i've left it on auto, where i have useable footage during the day, but night footage can get a bit blurry. I've tried multiple factory defaults, used both firefox and explorer, dleted caches from both, and still no luck with having the day/night settings work properly.

Were you able to figure out how to change the day/night profiles? I'm using the BI PTZ preset on-call functionality with all my other camera's. I can send the HTTP request w/o issue, BI shows as successful, but the camera doesnt change profiles. Thanks

wittaj · Dec 5, 2022

tedrpi said:
Were you able to figure out how to change the day/night profiles? I'm using the BI PTZ preset on-call functionality with all my other camera's. I can send the HTTP request w/o issue, BI shows as successful, but the camera doesnt change profiles. Thanks

I assume you tried the commands from this post below as the API is different for this camera than other Dahua cams: