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    Reolink - good & bad

    Fully appreciate your viewpoint, and why you say that. However, I must be fair and having both Reolink an Hikvision as a home user to test, there are positives and negatives in both. Build quality, image quality and adjustments, etc, an easy win for Hikvision. 100% agree. yet, the Reolink mobile...
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    Web interface vs iVMS-4200 - Beginner query

    Rather than start a new thread for a related question, I'd like to steer my post in a slightly different direction. The removal of Hik-Connect on the play store (I have downloaded it myself directly using the less secure apk method) Combined with the appalling iVMS-4200 android client...
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    Web interface vs iVMS-4200 - Beginner query

    After buying and have a quick hair pulling (and I don't have much left anyway!) ;) session learning how to set up a Hikvision camera, I've finally got around to physically installing it, and have more of a "play" with the software. I have a pretty basic query here, and I'm guessing there is a...
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    Reolink - good & bad

    Oh, I'm not for one moment comparing, the guy at works cheap camera against a hikvision. But when he was saying about getting it to recognise sound differences between a bady crying and dog barking, and people moving vs other things, and my Hikvision is beeping all day every time a tree moves a...
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    Reolink - good & bad

    Feel I need to post something here, as I'd bought a couple of Reolink 5mp Turrents (420) a while ago, and also a really nice 8mp 4K Hikvision Turret. To the average consumers, there is little in it, build wise. Both pretty much all white painted metal. Same position of SD Card slot. The Reolink...
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    DS-2CD2386G2-IU - Records Audio from 5m distance?

    Following a few recent events, and one involving a drunk neighbor on my front lawn with another neighbor trying to get him back home! It's become blatantly apparent to me now just how important it is to have audio recordings alongside video. I have a Google Nest Hello Doorbell camera which...
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