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thank you both!, i will give it a try.

I have a Dahua IPC-T5442T-ZE that I installed a while back and now I need to slightly adjust the angle. The manual gives no clue about this other than to show a picture. Just guessing it was involved, I have loosened the small star screw in the center just under the top ring but nothing will...

Thanks everyone. I apologize that my style of learning involves putting forth admittedly ignorant and unresearched positions to receive valuable corrections. The take away messages I now have and that I am very grateful for are: 1. BI can function very well in a sealed location. The...

Thank you all for this insight. I will look into BI as an option. Any thoughts on my fears about SmartPSS? Would you run in on a security sensitive laptop? Why is the publisher unknown?

I have an older Dahua DVR and a more recent Dahua NVR. When traveling I VPN into my home network and access them with SmartPSS. Unfortunately, I can only offer more questions instead of reliable advice, but my main concerns with the NVR/BI decision were as follows: 1. The recording device...

Thanks very much! I have never uploaded to YT and didn't know they had a private option. I suppose that is also how I would post clips here.

I know several here have home security cameras specifically because they RV and are away from home for long periods of time. That is my case as well. I am thinking that the time to figure out exactly what to do is not when something happens. I am not in a City. I called my county Sherriff's...

I hear a lot about not running Ethernet cable parallel with 120V in a house. I have a similar situation outside but only 250'. Are you saying I could put both in the same trench? In my case it is Dahua ePoE CAT-6 Riser/Shielded F/UTP and 12/2 or 10/2 UF copper 120V wire. Would using two...

Is this why we cannot carry scissors on the plane?

Does Varifocal mean you can change the Focal Length from 2.7 mm-12 mm through the remote interface if you are monitoring it? or does it mean it automatically zooms on activity without operator intervention?

When you are going through a lot of motion detected segments, it would be helpful to skip to the next one or return to the start of the one you are on. Does anyone know why these functions are inactive? thanks very much, fred

I am doing the same thing, possibly up to 4 using an HDMI splitter. I am just learning all this, so I do not speak as an expert and welcome corrections and suggestions. My Dahua NVR HDMI output is 4K (3840 × 2160) HDMI version 2.0 and 60 Hz. All these things matter when selecting HDMI...

Thanks everyone, How do you test a camera by itself? You said a battery for power, do you just let it record to the SD card and look at it later?

I have not purchased the system or started install yet, but wanted to know if this type of install could be a problem. This would be a 400'+ run, likely a Dahua ePoE NVR with the Dahua N45EF63 4MP ePoE Outdoor Bullet IP Security Camera with Night Color Technology. One time I talked with the...

I have not bought a new NVR yet but leaning toward a Dahua Pro Series type unit with internal ePoE which I need for a distance situation. The NVR would not generally be accessible without using a screw gun. I have 3 areas in the house that are within HDMI range of the NVR location where I...

I logged into the DVR and changed the third digit in the static IP address and default gateway from a 1 to a 2. The 2 corresponds to the subnet third digit and the associated VLAN id in Unify. At this point, as expected, I lost connectivity to the DRV. Then in Unify I created a port profile...

Thanks for all the advice you have given so far. I have the UDM installed now and have started becoming familiar with setting up things. I don't have the new NVR system, DDNS or VPN at this time. Since I am new to this level of networking I wanted to show the plan to see if you had any...

Thanks to all your advice I now have changed my router to a Unifi UDM-US. I'm setting up VLANs and about to switch my current DVR from 192.168.1.* to 192.168.3.. I took a look at the network setup for the DVR and it is set to a static IP. Perhaps this is a remnant of the port forwarding that...

Yes, apparently ePoE only degrades the Mbps after 300m, but your load capacity falls with distance as you would expect. I see now they have ePoE switches, but I only have two cable runs at 125m (410') so I would not need the switch. They claim regular PoE is only good for 100 m (328 ft). I...

Thank you all for this information. Am I correct in assuming that if I have a ePoE Dahua NVR with ePoE cameras, that I would need to use the NVR ports rather than an external PoE switch to allow the ePoE feature?

That is a neat idea. I have the power there so maybe a separate IR emitter. I assume I could tell the IR camera to not turn on its emitter but still switch to IR mode at night?

Thanks, I can find a way to put the light out of the camera view.

Thank you all. Yes, that is good advice. This is near my entrance gate about 300' from the house. I do have power there and could put up some kind of decorative lantern or something. Is it bad if the light is in the camera field of vision?

I have not yet owned an IR capable camera. My main concern is not night vision. When someone is looking right at an otherwise hidden IR camera at night, do they see the IR illuminators? I know IR is techically not visible light, but not sure how it is implemented. I see the Dahua N45EF63...

I am happy with the RT-AC68U wireless router, it just does not support VLANs. If I were to add a managed switch to my current system to achieve VLANs, where does it go? Between the cable modem and the RT-AC68U or after the RT-AC68U? If it is after the RT-AC68U, how does the VLANed signal go...

Is that Yes for an integrated unit or Yes for a managed switch and seperate single AP or Yes for both?

Yes, that is for sure, I need education. Just to answer a quick question: In my proposed network above, can the Ipad and Trane thermostat be on separate networks if there is only one AP? My assumption was yes, but only if you used VLANs and had an integrated unit like the Ubiquiti UDM.

Thanks very much, If managed switches only deal with wires and the wireless AP is a separate unit, can some of the devices connecting to the AP be on one LAN and others be on a different LAN?

Thanks for all the ideas. I think I need to go with an integrated, all-in-one type solution like the Ubiquiti UDM or similar (not sure if ASUS has one). That is because both of my VLAN partitions contain a mixture of wired and wireless. I don't know if a single VLAN can contain a mixture of...

Thanks for your replies. I think VLAN partitioning is what I need here but my ASUS does not appear to do VLAN. The Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine(UDM) appears to handle everything. So I should just replace the ASUS with the Ubiquiti. Does it run hot? I understand it has a fan but I don't see...