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    Starting without a PC and BlueIris setup

    Any opinions on whether for testing my cameras until I get the BI PC in place, the Dahua mobile app is better or Tinycam/IP Cam Viewer? I'm on Android by the way...
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    Recording Nest cameras with Blue Iris

    FWIW I have a few Google/Nest smart devices around the home so if I have the Nest Hello it would add some useful conveniences like my smart display automatically displaying who is at the door when the doorbell is rung so I can do a quick check and being able to create smart routines and...
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    DoorBell camera usage

    I was going to ask the question in a new thread until I saw your message. So I'm guessing it is possible to setup the Nest Hello doorbell footage to be recorded to a BlueIris PC? I plan on getting a Nest Hello doorbell but I don't want to pay the subscription service for video footage recording..
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    I was convinced I'd be buying turrets for my first set of cams having lurked here for a while and read all about the 5231 cams. But having done some more detailed research looking closely at sensor sizes, MP and lens types I realised the best cam, at least for a couple of my intended locations...
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    Thanks for the reminder, I will attempt to test it in that location before finalising install. I was initially planning a 2231 there but I'm now going for a 5442 ZE 4MP varifocal bullet which I'll put in portrait mode to concentrate the pixels on the narrow space I need to monitor.
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    Thanks @mech good to get some validation
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    Found a pic on my phone, this is what I'm trying to describe. You can see where the floodlight is right now so camera will go on that same fascia so I can move the floodlight to be off centre to the left maybe and put the camera off centre to the right but I don't have much room to play with...
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    Also, where is the floodlight in relation to the camera in these pics?
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    I'll try and take some pics to post but not sure I'll be able to install one above the other. They'll be installed on the front of a part of my house which is at the end of this side access so they'll have to be at the same level as each other but I can probably separate them by 50-60cm maybe..
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    Starting without a PC and BlueIris setup

    Great to know. They will be Dahua cams by the way, so do people recommend Dahua's own app or the two suggested by @bp2008 ? And yes, I've got a couple of laptops I'll be able to use for more detailed setup and config. It's just the initial validation that the cams are working as expected over...
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    OK on 1. On 2, do the floodlight and cam need to be a certain minimum distance apart if they are on the same wall? On 3, so is this a scenario I need to avoid or is it just something to tweak using software settings?
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    Starting without a PC and BlueIris setup

    Hi all, could do with some advice please...I'm about to purchase a couple cameras to be installed as part of some building work due to start soon at my house. I've decided I will be using a PC with BlueIris with the cameras but as I've got lots of other expenses to plan for and won't have much...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Thanks!
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    Camera positioning and lighting

    Hi all, A few questions I have: If I install two cameras in a way that they end up pointing almost directly at each other, is that OK to do? I'm just thinking from an IR point of view can it cause issues if IR beams are pointing straight at them? What are the rules in terms of installing...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Does this camera come with a wall mount? Or can it be mounted as is?
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    What is the difference between IPC-HFW5442E-ZE and IPC-B5442E-Z4E?
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Hang on - I've been meaning the IPC-HFW5442E-ZE bullet all this time. Are others meaning this too because I know there is also the IPC-T5442TM-AS turret version but I've discounted that as it's fixed lens and being my first jump into IP cams, even though I've used the IPVM calculator quite a...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Really useful to know these finer details as well so thanks!
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Yea so these features make sense for a camera I'm putting at the front of the house so I'm definitely doing that. It's the one camera on the side and 3 at the back I'm wondering about in terms of 5442 or 2231. If there is hardly any real world difference in performance I'd rather go for the 5442...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    Thanks! And I agree with your last statement. My inclination is to go down the route of purchasing the cams anyway and see what happens. Partly because over the past few days I've resigned myself to having new cables run in the worst case scenario. It won't cost me anything because I included...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    @EMPIRETECANDY would be great if you could provide @looney2ns with a HFW5442E-ZE to test and compare against the HDW2231T-ZS-S2 ;)
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    What is this forced colour? Sorry seen it mentioned quite a lot as I've been researching but my focus has been on another things. Is this effectively where you feel you have lots of ambient light around the camera and so you want it to remain in "day" or colour mode and not switch to B&W mode...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    OK yes - apart from trying to get my hands on two relatively new laptops with ethernet ports - do I have any other options?
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    It's true, very frustrating. But does this effectively rule out an issue with the cables? At least until I can properly test them with the right hardware...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    OK, strange and interesting results...maybe it's not my cables after all... For these tests, the older Sony laptop is running as the iperf server and the newer Dell laptop is running as client. I'm using the -b 0 command to do the test using unlimited target bandwidth. So first test was using...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    I gotcha - all of that makes sense you'll be glad to know :) I'm using DHCP so going back to my original settings will be a bit simpler. So I will change the IP address settings on both laptops I've been using and assign IP addresses manually. I'll then first run the iperf tests using a pre-made...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    Actually I did wonder this about going through the switch but forgot to question it. There is no reason I need to do that, I can connect the cables straight into the laptops so can do that when I re-run the iperf tests on cable 3. But must admit I don't quite understand what you mean about...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    Thanks! So continuity test OK on cable 3 at least and I also checked the RJ45 ends on that cable and they aren't as bad as the short cable I sent pics of. I'm going to run the iperf test again on that cable and this time the other pre made cable I'll use will be a CAT6...
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    Advice on iperf3 test results

    Thanks for reading through @catcamstar...so for all the iperf tests where I used a premade cable, it was a CAT5e instead of CAT6 but I have since found a premade CAT6 cable so could use that with the CAT6 cable I crimped to see if that eliminates all the packet loss...
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    Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+

    Yea I'm intrigued about the 1/1.8" sensor of the 5442 but 4MP vs the 1/2.8" sensor of the 2231 and 2MP...
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