Recent content by Sunfox

Heh, that caught my eye too, but you have a VERY neat and tidy setup there. And Unifi FTW! At least, for everything but cameras. I got my rack last week decommissioned from a business, and it came with a bunch of shelves and PDUs installed… and apparently some genius years ago installed a 1U...

lol, so true. I just unboxed mine to measure. Without the feet - so only the housing - it’s 1.85” thick. I mean… how CLOSE to being able to stick ears on this thing are they? Just shave off 0.15” and we’re good! With feet, it measures 2.06”, which is less than the 2.2” spec, but still more...

Well, they should at least stop using industry standard terms inappropriately! But Ethernet, POE, HDMI, USB, RTSP, ONVIF, h265, ftp, https, the list goes on… there’s a lot of standards-based stuff being used in these NVRs. And the PFH101 shows they are at least passively aware of racking standards.

Definitely looks like it’s 2”. A 1U device can be only 1.75” absolute max, assuming it had ears that could be mounted directly on the sides. (See Unifi switches that are 1.7”). With a shelf requirement, it would have to be thinner, like maybe 1.60”. Dahua should really look at engineering...

Will do! Moved to a new place and it’s my first time doing a proper organized rack. For the last umpteen years I’ve just had various piles of switches and servers, lol.

Well, yeah. Which is why I’m finding it confusing that it’s referred to specifically as a 1U NVR, but then the specs for the model I have (still in box) says it’s 2.2” high. There is also an official rackmount adapter sold for it (but expensive), so it’s not like “1U” could be assumed to refer...

In planning out my network rack, I was checking the size of the shelf I needed to buy... and now I'm confused as to the official specs. It's called a 1U NVR, but 1U is 1.75" high. The official specs say it's 2.2" high. So does it actually end up taking 2U of vertical space sitting on a shelf in...

Good news! The configuration options seem to come up fine in SmartPSS. I was able to bump the UHD encoding bitrate from the default of 2048 to 6144, and change audio from whatever crap codec it was using to AAC, but I can’t seem to change audio bitrate. Can’t remove the Lorex watermark. Does...

Hmm. Haven’t tried SmartPSS (will do that later) but I got it working with DMSS (iOS) on port 35000. It logs in, lets me see the streams (correct aspect ratio, sound, seems like it might allow talking too), view all motion recordings (seemingly a heck of a lot more than the Lorex app gives me)...

I just installed my Lorex 4K doorbell yesterday if anyone has any questions. Previously I had (at a different house) a Ring Pro. Lens/sensor quality seems quite good, but I do wish the bit rate was higher. No adjustments that I can see. Very little lens distortion. would like more than 15...

https://www.lorex.com/products/b862-lorex-4k-wired-video-doorbell Quite a bit more spendy than the Reolink 2K.

Looks to be US Prime only (I’m in Canada). But they seem to have a coupon going in Canada which brings it down to the equivalent of $88 US.

Have to say I’m quite intrigued by the forthcoming Lorex 4K doorbell. Unless the video quality is garbage, it seems to have everything I’m looking for including chime integration, local video storage, no fees, etc. The ReoLink also looks quite good, only I have a real soft spot for mechanical...

Ugh. So the Dahua 2K’s video is horrible (and seems to be the only model available). Frankly the Unifi’s video is also completely unacceptable for the high price. And the otherwise excellent Reolink won’t activate a local doorbell chime. Thinking I’m just going to install the old but still NIB...

Yeah, sadly POE is not an option as the builder only ran a standard doorbell cable.