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    Network Card

    Stick with intel.
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    Dahua camera phoning home to China

    I like having a security camera system to deter thieves, and its been useful capturing workmen who damaged property who didn't own up to it. Its generally been useful to have eyes on things. There are cameras which can be trusted, but they aren't cheap and typically dont come from China, for...
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    Avigilon ACC7 available

    The 'ACC Mobile 3' app is working fine with alerting and video playback with minimal lag here.
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    Avigilon ACC7 available

    The UI was polished noticeably, but in terms of functionality, I didn't notice lot of improvement over ACC6 which I used for a few months before upgrading to ACC7. The biggest difference is the mobile app is pretty decent now and the alerting works well.
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    Anyone from UK here?

    Im curious what camera or NVR question you have that could be specific to the UK? How to deal with rain and grey sky? (I'm from the UK so get to poke fun at our climate).
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    Avigilon ACC7 available

    I'm planning on upgrading my ACC6 install this weekend. Cut n paste from the release notes for anyone interested. ACC 7.0.0.28 – Released June 5, 2019 Release Summary This initial release of ACC 7 introduces the Focus of Attention interface, a new concept for live video monitoring that makes...
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    WTS NOW SOLD - 6 * DAHUA IPC-HDW5231R-Z

    sorry, looks like I messed up image uploading, trying again....
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    WTS NOW SOLD - 6 * DAHUA IPC-HDW5231R-Z

    An Avigilon system with smart analytical 'H4A' cameras. Totally different price point though.
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    WTS NOW SOLD - 6 * DAHUA IPC-HDW5231R-Z

    White, firmware updated. Originally purchased from Andy so US models with upgradable firmware. Boxed, good condition, $150 each inc shipping (conus).
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    Blue Iris on Server

    hardly surprising as this thread was over four years old.
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    Dahua cameras not holding correct time

    I'd be curious how changing IP address resolved the problem, did you change to IP address in the same subnet, or to a different subnet served by a different NTP server? I've recently been trialing another brand of camera that don't have this NTP issue and they perform as you would expect, ie...
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    Dedicated NVR or BI?

    There’s differences in feature sets which may or may not meet your needs, most folks here prefer the power and configurability of BI. Once setup BI can be hassle free but I think initial configuration would be more time consuming. For easy Of deployment, and low hassle of ongoing operation an...
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    Dahua cameras not holding correct time

    The cameras don’t follow the NTP protocol specification exactly (ref GMT broadcast) which results in some unpredictable behaviour depending on time zone and NTP server used. I reduced impact by brute forcing updates every minute. I’ve got wireshark scans somewhere but a colleague reported to...
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    DAHUA - IPC-HDW5231R-ZE disconnection then immediately reconnects.

    IP conflicts can trigger it, although i would expect that more frequently. Are you using DHCP or static allocations?
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    DAHUA - IPC-HDW5231R-ZE disconnection then immediately reconnects.

    Log into camera > System > Auto maintain > Disable auto reboot.
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    Public WiFi and Open VPN being blocked.

    OpenVPN has a signature, they block based on that. You could use OpenVPN via a SSL tunnel to obscure the traffic, but its more of faff than its worth. Fallback to LTE or vote with your wallet and eat elsewhere, let them know why!
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    Dahua camera phoning home to China

    Take a look here for a VLAN configuration guide... there's other guides how to setup pfSense etc too if needed. https://nguvu.org/pfsense/video%20security/pfsense-based-security-camera-system/
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    Do you port forward to your BI machine?

    No need for snark, theres multiple ways to solve this issue depending on your level of paranoia, technical competency and end-user needs. In my use case my wife who uses the system has some challenges when it comes to understanding technology and didnt fully understand the connection between...
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    Do you port forward to your BI machine?

    I have VPN access but also have a reverse proxy to my BI login page and protect it with secure passwords and fail2ban service. I've previously used firewall rules to restrict access to a few regular locations I log in from, i.e my office and my cellphone providers IP range. I found VPN'ing in...
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    RasPipC - Cameras on your TV made Easy.

    Im having an issue displaying more than two cameras on my Raspberry Pi3, soon as I enable a third camera, one disappears from my display. Removing any one of these three causes the other two to display in the correct position. omxplayer --lavfdopts probesize:25000 --no-keys --live --timeout 30...
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    Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-Z with custom firmware ?

    Under Settings, System > Upgrade. It also prompted me the first time I logged back in to enable.
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    Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-Z with custom firmware ?

    Upgraded 6 of Andy supplied IPC-HDW5231R-Z without issue. Disabled auto cloud update after upgrading. Rest of my settings were retained.
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    Is a VPN as critical if you only access cameras via Blue Iris Web View?

    I also found UI2 didnt work reliably through a reverse proxy. I run my reverse proxy through oauth2_proxy for additional security which reduces the need for VPN logins easing the ability to use it from work where VPNs are frowned upon and also less technically proficient family members. We...
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    Blue Iris

    ah, I see. Ive created another admin account and created a shortcut that bypasses the UAC but I don't see how to specify which username the blue iris as a service should run under, it still defaults to SYSTEM, not my NVRuser. EDIT: Fixed by Click the Start button, and in the text box type in...
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    Blue Iris

    Thanks, It was access generally, I stopped running Blue Iris as a service and run it as an app on startup now and my network access works fine.
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    Blue Iris

    Did you ever document this? I'm running into same issue running as a service.
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    impressive night vision from ISO 5,000,000 camera

    Looking for some new cameras for my home security system and stumbled on this. Pretty incredible night vision capability "camera was developed for military use, has an effective ISO rating of 5,000,000" Incredible low-light camera turns night into day
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    hello

    hi everyone....looking to set up my first home system......
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