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So I rang them and asked about the prices….the guy tried to waffle off some crap but just wouldn’t break down the quote into installation cost and equipment cost. He basically said the price quoted was what they will charge and they don’t break it down. When I said I can get the cameras for £150...

Haha, just found those cameras on a uk site for £180 (including vat). I suspect they would get them cheaper than retail prices. Going to give them 1 chance to explain the pricing to me and check they deducted the cost of the old cameras. Probably wasting my time, but I’m intrigued to know.

That makes sense. To be honest, if it had been a couple hundred then I probably wouldn't have questioned it but yeah, 700 makes me wonder if they just added the 4 cameras I specced and didn't remove the ones they originally quoted for :)

haha, I nearly added that to the question. Although I'm not interested in running the cables....cos I would've done so otherwise, but I was wondering if they would just run the cables and I could then source and fit the cameras. Problems I see with this is liability if there are problems (i.e...

Um...been thinking about this again. The price increased by about £700 to change the cameras and nvr which I find expensive (although I don't know the individual costs, and it was like getting blood out of a stone to get the model numbers from them on the original quote, so no chance they're...

So, after about a hundred years, I've finally got the revised quote from my alarm company for the CCTV with Dahua equipment. The cameras are: DH-IPC-HDW5442TM-ASE (IPC-HDW5442TM-ASE) (having 4 cameras) and the NVR is : NVR4108-8P-4KS2 which I think is NVR4108/4116-8P-4KS2 Having a 4TB HHD...

So I think the ir would be better for me, and therefore the correct camera would be this one https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/cpq/DH-IPC-HDW5442TM-ASE_datasheet_20200622.pdf (which is the same as the other one I linked to, but with ir instead of white led). I'm guessing that...

So I’m confused on model numbers and how it works. Is 5442 the sensor? I thought the one I linked to (with the led lights) was “the “ 5442 referenced, but it turns out there are different versions. Think of a BMW car….the “series” dictates the model (3 Series, 5 series etc) and the following...

Thanks, I'll look at those properly later. Noticed that not all have the LED's like the one I have seen, does this mean the one I linked to doesn't use IR, only ambient light etc? Is this something to avoid?

Thank-you. So the only other thing I'm wondering is about the AI features (whatever that actually means).... They told me the cognitio can differentiate between people/cars etc and only send alerts when either of those are detected, and not cats etc. A mute point, as I probably wont use...

So I've done some digging...they reckon cognitio is the same as Dahua (re-branded I guess). The model they are recommending is COG-5MP-IPC-TUR3-FW which I think is the same as Dahua DH-IPC-HDW3541TMP-AS-0280B ( Dahua 5MP IR Fixed Lens Eyeball WizSense Network Camera (White) ) I saw on another...

That is a dilemma….I want to cover a wide area with each camera, but I am having two at the front, one on each end of the house looking inwards etc. I understand there are therefore compromises…. What would be a better spec, 3.5 camera (or whatever is 1 up from 2.8) with less mp or bigger...

Thankyou. Do you think they will give a reasonable result or does the image sensor size pretty much make it crap!

So a week after asking for the model numbers of the cameras and recorder and getting fobbed off by the receptionist that she will ask the guy for the details….and then not getting back to me, I asked if “the guy” could call me. Surprisingly he did! He said he would send over some spec sheets...

I’ll see what models they are and report back. They are PoE, I confirmed that at the time.