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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Appears h.view have 2 different 5MP models and their naming seems inconsistent. Anyway, that annke looks promising, Ill keep an eye on it becoming available here.
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    I tried the 5MP H.view "color night" but it was all but worthless in color at night (and not that great otherwise). No wonder they only sell it with IR illuminators. Its really the 2MP sony IMX 3x7 sensor in the E3 that is "magic", so I wouldnt hold out any hopes for the 5MP brillcam. If they...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Recently got my hands on a Dahua HDW2431T-AS-S2 I thought some of you might want to see how it stacks up against the h.view E3. A clip from each showing the same event from a different angle: H.view E3: Dahua HDW2431T: (I uploaded them to youtube because this forum wouldnt accept the video...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Just an update; my hview has been 100% stable for the past few days with substream re-enabled, motion detection enabled and OSD (although I turned it off again as I prefer a more uniform BI OSD). Though I have not tested this for very long due to being pointless, it also appears to work ok...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    As Blue iris motion detection; the main problem I have with it is that only considers the center of the object. There is no way to make it trigger on the bottom of the object (like you know, feet or wheels, the things that matter) crossing a zone. So a tall van may not cross a zone because the...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Like I said, I have zero interest in importing camera's from the US. Besides the obvious reasons (warranty, service, etc), I have my own very good but less obvious reasons to want to buy from amazon locally. As for buying hikvision or dahua's rather than this one; Ive reenabled substream and...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Thanks. Looking at those stills, I was thinking they looked eerily similar to what my camera can do. So I googled the type and sure enough, in the spec sheet: · 1/2.8” 2Megapixel progressive scan STARVISTM CMOS I suspect you will find all those 2MP color night / starnight camera's (and ones...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Doesnt change the point though. If a camera produces 4 FPS at night, it is because the shutter speed has been reduced to 1/4th of second. Likewise if it produces 25 actual frames per second (and not interpolated or duplicated frames), then shutter speed can not possibly be shorter than 1/25th...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    None of my camera's have fixed shutter speed. Only maximum shutter time, which is the same as minimum frame rate. , let me show you:
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Thanks, but I dont see that happening. Even if he ships for free, if I add the VAT and import tax and customs charges, Im paying at the very least 2x more than for a brand new hview with warranty that I can ship back for free. It does. You cant produce more frames in a second than the sensor...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    I cant lock the shutter speed on the Dahua. But it was only producing 4FPS under the same conditions, so I assume it was at 1/4th. If it where possible to lock it at 1/25, it would be even blacker than in the picture in my first post. The conditions where identical. It was the same...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Oomph. Only one I can find in EU is in Finland for 230 euro and out of stock. And, according to the spec sheet: https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/soft/20181030/DH-IPC-HFW2231T-ZSVFS_Datasheet_20181030.pdf it uses a · 1/2.8” 2Megapixel progressive StarvisTM CMOS That is almost...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Absolutely, When the floods kick in, there is ample light (I love those solar flood lights, work much better than I thought). The Dahua also handled that fine. It was just blind without them, whereas this E3 sees remarkably well "in the dark". As for the 5MP; I read somewhere its low light...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/H-VIEW-Outdoor-Real-Time-Detection-Install/dp/B07Y6NRGZ2 Model number is E3 I believe. Please let me know if you do test it, Id be curious if nothing else if you have the same stability woes. I agree, thats what it looks like. But I just dont. I dont have a lux meter...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Look, I dont know what shutter speed its actually using. I just wanted to make sure it could do "25 FPS", assuming that guaranteed not too blury motion, so I set to 1/25. But Id be happy to see some video's of your 4 year old dahua to have some comparison. I only have IR cams, the Dahua I...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Hope I fixed the private? As for the frame rate; perhaps Im wrong, but you can only define a maximum shutter time. I think I had it set at 1/25 there, but if there is enough light, the camera will automatically use shorter shutter times. Either way, I think its plenty smooth. The shot in my...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    Thanks for all the responses. To answer a few questions; the Dahua I was comparing with was a IPC-HFW1320S-W. Not a particularly great camera I think? and definitely not a "starlight" camera, but given then 69 euro I paid for the Hview, not an unfair comparison (and its what I had hanging...
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    Looking for (another) affordable night color camera

    I just got a H.View E3 camera. Its a cheap(ish) 3MP camera with night color vision. And Im absolutely blown away by how well the night vision works without IR and in full color. Some pics: This was a worst case scenario test in my back garden. It was so dark, I could not see where to walk. I...
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    Well, it depends on the switch, but all hubs and some switches will use the lowest negotiated speed on all ports. So you if you connect a 100Mbs ethernet of the camera, the port towards the router or PC will also work at 100 Mbs, even though the PC and the hub/switch can do Gbit. Some will claim...
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    More than possibly. Almost certainly. Its ok to have 100Mbps per camera if it has a 1Gb uplink, but it doesnt, so everything bottlenecks between that switch and your router. That said, you dont need to ditch it. Just add another POE switch and put half your cams on the new one, and connect it to...
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    And all your camera's are connected directly to that router, or are there other hubs/routers inbetween? The bottleneck has to be somewhere, and probably where a lot of camera's have to share 100mbit. Anyway, IM not a network expert...
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    Is your PC connected to the router at gb speeds?
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    Ah, if only it where it that simple. if I had known you where pushing >50mbit, I would have immediately told you a 100mb router wouldnt suffice. A single 99mBit stream might just work, in theory, if that 99mbit was not just for the video feed, but included all the TCPIP and ethernet overhead...
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    It may not be a capacity problem as such; I was googling for your camera to find the bit rate, and stumbled upon this: http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=10323.0 Sounds like a very similar problem. Note this response "Same issue here, mine was a network issue, I changed out the cable and...
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    All of my cameras are freezing randomly and recordings are artifacting.

    If the camera's and their settings didnt change, and the program version is reverted to the old, could it be an issue on your network? The lack of key frames may not be a problem if the network is not congested, but maybe it could trigger issues when your network is too busy? I would try...
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    Geofencing on android doesnt really work

    Im experimenting with the geofencing feature, but it appears the blue iris android app doesnt update status in the background, even though I locked the app in memory. I was sitting at home for 4 hours while my desktop still considered me 'away'. Activating the blue iris app on my phone instantly...
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    idea / slightly OT / feature request: 3D tracking with multiple camera's

    Yep. Here's a clip for anyone that grew up with star wars dreaming of dog fighting like Luke Skywalker:
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    idea / slightly OT / feature request: 3D tracking with multiple camera's

    Thats unlikely. Photogrammetry is not new, the concept has been around for decades and most of the software is, or originates as academic / opensource. See VisualFSM. Im not aware of any showstopping patents, if any patents at all. "zero latency" digital links do exist, even though it comes...
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    BI connects using ethernet cable to Foscam FI9831P but can't connect via wifi

    Not sure if this will help, but I just struggled for a few hours setting up my foscams to work on wifi. I couldnt get it to work using either myfoscam or the android app. They would detect the camera, but after setting them for wifi, they just vanished from the network. The only thing that did...
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