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I have half a dozen of those. Great cam but a bit of an overkill for what I need. The main purpose for them is for me to know who, from people who have keys to the place, came in.@EMPIRETECANDY sells this small PTZ with WiFi.
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I have the non-WiFi version and it is a great camera for the size.
The base is about the same size as a standard dome camera and height is about 2.5 inch.
I don't see it in stock, but EmpiretecAndy did have a model labelled "indoor" which is white and does not have night vision IR.
I am in "violent agreement" with you.BlueIris does not require ONVIF to work. Sure, it makes setting up the camera a little easier (and not by much) and you'll have to rely on BI for triggering events without it, but I use several non-ONVIF cameras in my setup and they work great. I certainly would not make ONVIF a requirement when selecting cameras.
Also, there are lots of strategies to prevent your cameras from accessing the internet and "phoning home". You should really be implementing this regardless of the camera brand/manufacturer.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't replace your cameras if you want, but I don't think you should replace them for the reasons you stated.
I've had a IP2M-841 sitting on a plant stand on my front porch looking at package deliveries for 3 years now; winters around 28 to 40 degrees and summers 70 to 95; it's out of the direct rain and sun and has worked flawlessly during that time.Anybody ever try the auto tracking feature in the nanny cam model. ASH21-W ?
Anybody ever decide to torture an ip2 841 and use out on a porch?
Not sure what you're asking. If you turn off the IR in a dark room with the cam in that mode, then you're going to get lots of black not much if any white. i.e., You're not going to be able to see a damn thing.Question: on the Amcrest IP2M-841 can I turn off IR and still be able to get B&W for the night mode?
Yes, but it needs some light of any kind (IR or visible) to see at any time of the day; I have one looking out a garage window at my flag, the IR is off to prevent bounce-back from the window glass BUT the flag is lit very well at night by 2 flag lights so the cam can see in color.Question: on the Amcrest IP2M-841 can I turn off IR and still be able to get B&W for the night mode?
Good idea...I pretty much did the same with a strip of 3M 33+ electrical tape. If you don't do that around here the dirt daubers will plug it up quick with mud, which dries like cement. I have an outlet strip on the front porch that the IP2M-841's wall wart is plugged into and I have those plastic child-proof outlet protectors plugged into the unused ones, you know the kind to keep toddlers from sticking things into a live receptacle? It works, too...the daubers can't plug up the ground pin. Since the 841 is also on Wi-Fi, I'm sure they'd do the same to the 841's open Ethernet port!I have an indoor Dlink 933L, under an Eave in Northern Wisconsin. using Wifi. ......i plugged the rj-45 port with a cut off premade cat5 cable.
The ones I need IR lights off on are going to face the street, which has street lights. So lighting is fine. On the current ones I can't turn it off, so I had to put electric tape on it.+1^^.
Yes, but it needs some light of any kind (IR or visible) to see at any time of the day; I have one looking out a garage window at my flag, the IR is off to prevent bounce-back from the window glass BUT the flag is lit very well at night by 2 flag lights so the cam can see in color.
IR is used at night to provide illumination and at the same time to not make the cam's presence so obvious.