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    Thinking of going Dahua now...Help!.. need to pick cameras for the new house but there are so many options.

    Perfect, thank you so much @wittaj, we are not in a very high crime area so I think I might go with the ZE all around the house (in the images posted above). This way we can set the focal range to what we need - does that sound like an ok plan? It looks like it goes from 2.7mm to 12mm which...
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    Thinking of going Dahua now...Help!.. need to pick cameras for the new house but there are so many options.

    Thank you for your response - what is the difference between: IPC-HDW5442TM-AS IPC-HDW5442TM-ASE IPC-HDW5442T-ZE Thank you!
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    Thinking of going Dahua now...Help!.. need to pick cameras for the new house but there are so many options.

    So those other posts have been fantastic and have answered most of my questions except the final one on which camera - see the quote for responses. So this is more about the final details, which cameras because unfortunately, I cannot rely on the building company and I realized how little I...
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    Thinking of going Dahua now...Help!.. need to pick cameras for the new house but there are so many options.

    First of all, I would like to thank everyone on here for the immense amount of knowledge you provide, it is amazing! I work in the tech space and consider myself pretty in the know when it comes to tech but I realized that with IP cameras I basically know nothing and so I hope I can get some...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    Hi @wopi82, I saw your review of IP cameras a few years ago - do you have any Dahua suggestions that might work well for our new house?
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    Where to Buy IPC-HDW2831T-ZS-S2 and Recommendation

    So everywhere it says 'do not buy hikvision or dahua from ali express, amazon, ebay etc" because of chinese firmware and spying. But then everyone says buy from Andy who has an amazon and aliexpress store and is based out of Hong Kong... can someone explain?
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    @EMPIRETECANDY What are your thoughts on the best cameras for these placements? I have been looking at the Hikvision - specifically this G2 version. But there are 7 points around the house and I am not sure if just getting 7 of these is the best, I would probably just get 2.8mm everywhere for...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    @Teken Thank you, the only thing I noticed is that it dos not have a Variable focus - I was told I should look for this. Is that going to be a problem?
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    Thank you @Teken. I noticed there are a lot of Dahua cameras up the top in the suggestions vs. only a couple of Hikvision, are they generally better?
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    Can someone tell me what the main difference between these two cameras are? https://us.hikvision.com/en/products/cameras/network-camera/performance-series/colorvu/colorvu-outdoor-turret/4-mp-colorvu-0...
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    Looking at Dell Optiplex 7040 on eBay - What are the insides like for a 2nd drive.

    Thank you everyone!
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    Nearly convinced to go with Blue Iris... But...

    So hopefully someone can just clarify for me: If I install 7 Hikvision Cameras, run them primarily over BlueIris for recording etc... but want to have the previews running in IP Cam Viewer (iOS) app on the iPad, that is possible? Having both Blue Iris monitor the stream and a separate app, IP...
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    Looking at Dell Optiplex 7040 on eBay - What are the insides like for a 2nd drive.

    is the SSD an M2 that goes on the Motherboard?
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    Looking at Dell Optiplex 7040 on eBay - What are the insides like for a 2nd drive.

    Hi All, So I have been looking at some Dell OptiPlex systems on eBay Australia, such as this one which comes with an SSD (Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF Desktop PC Core i5-6500 3.20GHz 8GB RAM 256 SSD Windows10 | eBay) My idea is to add a 3.5" WD Red NAS 4TB (WD40EFRX) 64mb cache drive to the system...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    One thing that has happened in the past is our cars have been broken into on the street - whilst I feel that the cameras located on either side of the front of the house could probably pick this up, they were going to be Turrets so they wouldn't move. Would it be a good idea to add one...
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    Who uses Dahua AI capable cameras? Reliable AI for triggering events? Pro's/con's?

    So this is incredible... wow! Are there any cameras that are more in a general residential consumer price range that are similar? We are about to purchase 7 cameras for our new house and I would love a PTZ one for the front garden but not something that is $2.5k Cheers!
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    How are the Hikvision NVR's?

    Hi All, There is an overwhelming amount of information on this forum. I was wondering what are the Hikvision NVR's like? My parents new house will have 7 cameras around the house, 2 wall mounted iPads in the house for monitoring the cameras. From reading the forums, these seem to be the best...
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    Nearly convinced to go with Blue Iris... But...

    Oh really? I thought based on this video Blue Iris is much better...
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    Nearly convinced to go with Blue Iris... But...

    Yeah I have Synology Surveillance station at home for my 2 cameras - but I get a lot of false alerts (sunshine, leaves from plants etc). I saw a youtube video showing that with the AI you can avoid all that - hence I am steering towards Blue Iris because I don't want endless calls from my...
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    Nearly convinced to go with Blue Iris... But...

    Can that be used on an iPad? or how does that work? Does it run through Safari? What I like about the app viewer app above is that you can run it with home kit in split screen with Sonos on the screen too. Like in this image:
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    Nearly convinced to go with Blue Iris... But...

    Hi All, I have nearly been convinced to go with Blue Iris for our Hikvision cameras in our new home, vs. Synology Surveillance station or a Hikvision NVR.. except then I saw the iPad app... it looks terrible. I was wondering if its possible to use a 3rd party app such as this one ‎IPCams - IP...
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    New Networking Rack...

    Hi there, We are finishing a house in Adelaide and have just added an 18RU rack in as well - I am wondering what PC you ended up going with and how you got it into the rack? I am currently organizing basically the same equiptment as you, Unifi 24 port POE but am having trouble deciding between...
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    New House, New Rack... how do I get Blue Iris

    Hi All, We are nearing completion of our new house and all the networking equipment is going into a 24RU rack - that is Unifi Switches, UDM Pro etc... Ideally I would really like to keep everything together but at the same time I would love to go Blue Iris. I have looked at some Dell Optiplex...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    Interesting - do you think an Intel NUC would do it? I would like to keep everything in the single rack that we are installing. . Intel NUC mini PC i7-8650U 4.2GHz 2xDDR4 SODIMM M.2 SSD 2xHDMI 2xDisplays GbE LAN WiFi BT 4xUSB3.0 vPro for DS POS Or something like this: Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    Thank you so much for your reply - If there something specific that I should be looking for with the Turret cameras? i.e. I just pulled up this one but there seem to be hundreds 4 MP Outdoor IR Varifocal Outdoor Network Turret Camera In addition, I am currently trying to determine if I go Blue...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    Unfortunately, we cannot move the camera placement. I looked through some of the provided links for camera information but it seems that a lot of the information is from 2018 and before, so I am wondering what the latest suggestions are on the types of cameras we should be looking at? Below...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    We currently have the Nest Hello at the old house and were actually happy to go with something else but after hours of research there was simply no system that was as clean and easy to use as the Nest for the front door. Doorbird was the only one that came close but their camera quality and push...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    The house is practically finished, so walls and everything are up - locations are fixed ---- that was probably my mistake for not coming on these forums earlier. Outside walls are a mix of Cement or Brick. Regarding height, I have updated the picture above to include heights. The front...
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    New home nearly finished, time to pick the cameras - need help.

    First of all, I would like to thank everyone on here for the immense amount of knowledge you provide, it is amazing! I work in the tech space and consider myself pretty in the know when it comes to tech but I realized that with IP cameras I basically know nothing and so I hope I can get some...
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    Hikvision Product Comparison

    I think the sheet is broken.... there is nothing there.
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