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    EmpireTech 9th Anniversary (Summer)Sales

    I'm sorry if I'm being a bit dim here, but I'm looking at splurging on a PTZ and don't want to hose myself. The first post says the sale is July 15 - 21. But there is an attachment that says 9th Anniversary Sales prices with links that take me to purchase at Sale prices right now - or so it...
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    4096 in IPConfig. Blue Iris is reporting about 470 kB at 25 fps, 2.1M (about the same as the other Dahua Starlights). I was able to push it as high as I wanted in IPConfig but wasn't seeing any further improvements.
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Breakthrough! I didn't change anything on the DB-11 and it ran fine since my previous post. Really got me thinking about what is causing this. So back into IPConfig I go because I really need to change the bitrate and a few image mode settings. Changed the bitrate, saved, all is good... let...
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Its back online. I can't explain it as I wasn't doing anything with it. Got frustrated and went to do something else. Came back and there it is showing up in BI. I changed nothing between the errors I was getting and the success I'm having now - leaving me zero confidence that anything is...
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    I've tried 3 different power supplies. I've settled on one thats getting about 15.5 VDC at the doorbell. Should that be enough?
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    I have been trying to get the DB-11 back online for hours. Its rebooting so fast I can't complete the process to add a device to IMOU. Don't know what else to try here. I have six other Dahua cams working without issue... this one appears to be a piece of junk.
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Mine went offline again today and now i can't get any video stream. Going to have to factory reset it again.
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    FWIW, the above factory reset procedure with holding down the reset button while power cycling did not work to reset my DB-11. I tried it multiple times. What worked was holding the reset button for about 5 seconds until dark blue light came one, then releasing and hitting it again to start...
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Factory reset and fiddled with it for a while and got it back online. I left it sitting with the IMOU app running and the camera died again. Note I also tried to save a configuration setting via ConfigTool at about the same time. So I suspect either the live stream or ConfigTool is causing...
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Well I'm stuck. Came home yesterday to find the DB-11 disconnected from the network. Using the ConfigTool I can see that it keeps going on and off the network. Inspecting the device looks like its rebooting constantly. When I can get it to stay online long enough I can get to the config...
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Gadget, thanks for the ConfigTool info. I bumped up the bitrate and it immediately cleaned up the image. Probably as good as I'm going to get without an extender. Appreciate the hep.
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Done! I knew there had to be a better way to share that. Thanks for your help.
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Read a little? I feel like all I do is read this forum. I've learned so much from the great guys on here and have asked very few questions. Clearly I missed it. Appreciate the info.
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Thanks, Gadget. No surprise but I can't find any wedge kits to angle the camera better. There are tons of kits available for Ring cameras... wonder if the size is close enough that I could make one of them work?
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    Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

    Just got my DB-11 up and running. Had the same problem mentioned earlier with the serial number not matching the sticker on the device. However, I was able to see it embedded into the Hotspot name, so I just wrote that down and went back through setup. Worked fine. Added to BI with no...
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