Recent content by biggen

Screen caps of UI3 are always going to be lossy. UI3 is lossy. You need to download the clip and play It back via VLC or similar to get the full resolution your cam captured the video in.

I prefer to just temporarily change my computer address over installing and using the config tool. It's simple and takes 10 seconds. I really don't want to install any Dahua software on my computer that isn't really needed. YMMV

You have to have very bright conditions to run color at night. I can do it for my business parking lot, but it's also bathed in very intense LED parking lot lighting from multiple directions. For my home, I run my LPR in BW.

As @bigredfish says, you need to reach the cam on 192.168.1.108. I always temporarily change the IP on my working computer to an address on the same subnet of the camera (192.168.1.x). Then I connect to the camera and configure it's IP address to my network and then set set my desktop back to...

Do your cams have substreams?

Have you power cycled them recently. If not, may be time.

I just wrap male RJ45 in tape if they aren’t in use.

I don’t remove timestamps for any camera. Why not just move the timestamp down to the lower left or right?

In my opinion, the 5442 (renamed to 54IR for Empire Andy) is still the best cameras to get for night time. The 4K-T/X suffer from blurry video when close up as noted above.

Figure out what you want and then post what you think and we can take a look at them. All his cameras are good but some will have better low light capabilities than others.

A bag of poop would offer better quality than a Reolink camera. Do you need all your cams to be PTZ or can they be fixed? This camera is the standard around here for surveillance in low light settings. Spec sheet says it goes down to -40C but I've never seen anyone mount one in that environment.

This is why I went with the Axton unit (or really any unit with PoE) several years ago now. Wall warts just aren’t very reliable and it makes installing the emitter a lot more troublesome since you have to plug it into mains.

I use intrusion boxes myself. Others seem to have better results with IVS. I think it is scene dependent. You may want to try both and test.

I don't think the new GUI lets do you as many zigs and zags on IVS that you want like the older GUI did. At least, that has been my findings unless I'm doing it wrong too.

The problem is if your internet drops then you have no recorded video. I guarantee it would happen eventually and it will be the time you needed it not to happen the most. Anyone in the security sector who knows what they are doing is always recording locally and moving backups to cloud thereafter.