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    Need camera mounted 100 feet from building.

    100ft is not that much to trench and well in range of PoE. I have quite a few kameras at 55m (180ft) away. Including getting into the building my longest cable run is probably more like 65m (213 ft). I run cat6 gel filled ground cable. No problems at all with PoE (except lightning and the fact...
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    Need some help understanding how to make setup work with fiber.

    One point I'd like to make in addition is that if you think you may ever put more "stuff" in the location use a fiber cable with more strands. I'm not sure if you're planning to terminate yourself or pay someone to do it, but if you're running normal cable with no plugs it costs very little to...
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    Building a pole mount

    Very nice, my pole mounted cameras are screwed directly to 60x60 (mm) square pole. Square was similar price to round and I got it in 6m sections. In inches it'll be 2.5 x 2.5 I think. Edit: I'll probably have to figure something like this out as I'm planning to add more cameras to each pole (I...
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    Fiber instead of PoE, what about power?

    I don't know much about such sites, but that cable looks like a thicker version of this: https://senstar.com/products/fence-sensors/flexzone/
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    Fiber instead of PoE, what about power?

    Well,well.. Turns out that cable duct that I had so much trouble with is collapsed or squeezed between something. I thought it is the bends that were causing the problem or the cables are getting entangled. Nope. Digging down to the straight section pushing and pulling through it required lots...
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    Fiber instead of PoE, what about power?

    Surge protector is only as good as the ground it is connected to. To properly surge protect PoE one needs to route them where the single point ground is connected - usually the main electric utility cabinet. Unfortunately I can't do that. I may have mentioned it in this thread. If someone can...
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    EU follies

    This is no doubt caused by the war on our border, with millions of refugees and constant stream of associated news. Started by a country that has been promising us the same treatment for last 35 years. People naturally are more supportive of the government in such situation. There are the usual...
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    Need a outside camera that will not fail.

    Everyone focuses on the WiFi because the OP said "the camera eventually looses connectivity to AP". It is true for some reason Ip cameras and WiFi simply do not get along. I've had two WiFi cameras 10m from the access point for 7 years (under a short eave, for all intents and purposes we may...
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    IP Cameras for Non Internet Networks??

    Many people consider the best solution putting all cameras on a separate VLAN with no Internet access, but the problem is that you also do not have direct access to them. You have to use a router (or go through the local server) and the cheapest way are routers built into a managed Ethernet...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    I misremembered your previous post. You were talking about WizColor 5449-PRO, that it will be a mixture of features from WizMind-S 5442-S3 and TIOC-PRO 3449-PRO. I somehow remembered it as a new version of WizMind-S 5442. So, my mistake. You as well as the picture mention smart dual light...
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    Do we have IR illuminated/very dark images of movement comparison between Sony IMX415 and the 4M 1/1.8 sensor used in WizMind-S 5442-S3?

    I'm not going to be surprised if I post the first ones once my cameras arrive ;) Oh no, I'm not running at 30fps. But by the camera being 30fps capable at 4K means it has a modern CPU. This often means it is not an older model, therefore the software is often a bit better(if all other specs are...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    Thank you , I was actually considering the refurbished 5442 turrets. This info saves me from making a mistake. I'll be going for bullets. I've asked for one of the IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3 and the updated Q2.2025 version of IPC-B54IR-ZE-S3 (as they are called in EmpireTech store). I hope they are...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    I tend to look at dori distances calculated from sensor size and FOV. The 32mm has IDENTIFY at 39.5m (at 250px/m). It may end up closer than that (25m and 31m) so the motorised zoom is very good. I did read the threads that say you should 4x that for the night. If we want to have that 32mm would...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    Do you mean the FOV is smaller? Yes, that's what I need. I need to put these cameras pretty far and be able to zoom in. I wouldn't even mind manual focus, but no one makes these anymore. These should be able to reach up to 40m to IDENTIFY from what I read. Yes. That is understandable. What I'm...
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    Do we have IR illuminated/very dark images of movement comparison between Sony IMX415 and the 4M 1/1.8 sensor used in WizMind-S 5442-S3?

    As in the subject, I've been searching and browsing and I'm having hard time locating any comparison of images in Black & White mode with IR illumination and movement (or even without movement) of any mid range consumer camera that can do 30fps @ 4K and h265 (so we exclude ancient ones) with...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    Thank you for a quick reply. Now I see I missed the M Got it. Yes, waiting few weeks is perfectly fine. I'll ask Andy about it. Let me just make sure about one thing. With the white light on detecting a person. Am I right assuming the feature can be switched off? Thanks. Very interesting. I'd...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    but wait... didn't you say: (emphasis added) Unless by "base models" you meant what you said in your latest post. So would it be true to say there are basically no 4K IR sensitive cameras that would feature low light sensitivity comparable to these 1/1.2 sensors for visible light? Lets say I...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    I've a had a look in Andy's shop.These 1/1.2 sensor cameras sure are interesting. But I have one question. Do they work with IR Illumination? I don't want any white light Illumination. I see there are none offered with IR Illumination built in, but that is relatively easy to swap I imagine...
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    Ethernet Surge Protector OUTDOOR INSTALLS

    No bad feelings towards the author, but I have to say this is very bad advice if there is any distance to that device. No, you do not ground the surge protector to a long cable that goes off to your house. First, that wire will pick up a surge from nearby lightning strike. Second, it is useless...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    Thanks for your replies. I'll get in touch with Andy once I research these cameras a bit more but I expect shipping costs to be a bit of a show stopper, especially if I wanted to get just one or two initially (for 5+ I imagine shipping on a per camera basis is not that bad). Then over here...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    The typical "go to" cameras recommended on the forum are either completely unavailable in Europe or the prices are absolutely bonkers (yes, $2K for a Dahua IPC-HF7442F-Z-X that sells for $330 in US). In fact if it's any camera with larger pixel sizes the prices start at $1500 and only go up...
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    Fiber instead of PoE, what about power?

    IT as well (Devops engineer). But my dad is an electrician (retired now). I've spent many summers as a young kid and teenager making extra cash helping him on various jobs. Most were wiring new builds, including installing the main utility connections, grounding, lighting rods (although I never...
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    Fiber instead of PoE, what about power?

    This post was not meant as a discussion of fiber feasibility, but on the ways people run power alongside it when they want immunity from EMP (such as caused by nearby lightning strike) and voltage gradients in the soil caused by the same. I'd love to hear what worked, what didn't and so on. I'm...
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    Fiber instead of PoE, what about power?

    I'm considering swapping my PoE setup for fiber on my cameras for reasons of better lightning survivability (lightning just blowing up a camera nearby rather than half of the system as it happened once for me). My cameras are mounted on 6m tall steel poles which are 1.5m in the ground. So...
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    Can anyone recognise this camera?

    Wow, it has been a while since I played with that camera. Sadly I forgot the exact methods used (no doubt I'd remember if tried again). The goal of rooting it was twofold. One to put OpenIPC, but if I remember correctly I'd not get any "AI" alerting. So I gave up on it And second was to get...
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    Is ZoneMinder still being actively developed?

    I've been using a second screen (on modern gnome) and the Montage feature of ZoneMinder in full screen Firefox. As long as you want to watch the same cameras all the time it is fine. One feature it lacks is cycling between cameras and cycling to one that has an alert, but I'm OK without it.
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    PoE surge protection.

    Thanks for sharing. I guess you're an example of someone having pretty good SPD setup. I'd also love to hear of experiences of people with less than ideal setups. Hopefully living in places with lots of lightning and highly charged rain. To explain what I mean by highly charged rain consider...
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    PoE surge protection.

    I'm leaning towards the understanding that shields acting as a giant antennas picked up a nearby lightning strikes. Perhaps the shape of the cable influenced why some cables were affected and not the others. I'll be testing grounds and redoing rj45 on the switch ends to have the shields...
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    PoE surge protection.

    Thanks. My grounding setup is a bit complex. Initially all 3 buildings had their own grounds. Then the house and the closest building grounds were connected together with direct underground wire. So they are now one ground. Building no 3 is separately grounded. I might change this in future, but...
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    PoE surge protection.

    Thanks for answering . I have good grounding where switches are located(in all 3 buildings), but there is no grounding where cameras are. I have used foil shielded wire just in case I need it in future, but I haven't got the shields connected at camera side (the Poe adapters don't use shielded...
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