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Gotcha. Glad to know I'm not the only one with the issue. And I agree - the form factor is perfect and exactly what I was looking for. I guess I'll just learn to live with it until something nicer comes out!

Interesting. I'll do that and report back. Anyone have any disassembly tips?

Of course. Andy has always been super helpful.

I picked up a SD1A404XB-GNR PTZ from @EMPIRETECANDY last week. Neat little PTZ, great for smaller spaces. Though I have an issue that I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed. I've set up some presets but I have a couple of them in particular that don't always return to the same location, even...

Great work, Andy. I'm a web developer so I'll take a look at the site to see if I have any suggestions!

For sure. The way that the autotracking PTZs work now along with BI and spotter cams seem to be a great solution for most "prosumers".

Right :lol: Well, I'm working on adding "poor man's autotracking" features to Frigate to do object tracking with any PTZ. Frigate is already really fast at tracking objects (not just humans and vehicles), and it doesn't seem like it would be too far fetched to get something working.

Thanks for those videos, @bigredfish. Exactly what I was looking for. Would that be the ideal behavior of an autotracking PTZ? In your first video, would you rather have had the camera back off of the man with the hat to get the two bike riders in the frame as well, and then once they exit...

Definitely helpful @wittaj. I wonder what would have happened if the two people had appeared at the same time but at different ends of the frame... The spotter cam would have picked them both up, but maybe it's a tossup as to which one the ptz would have started tracking?

For those of you who have an autotracking PTZ from Andy, what have you observed as far as the default behavior when multiple people to be tracked are in the frame? Will the camera zoom and attempt to keep both of the people in the frame? Will it only focus on the closest or furthest one? Or on...

Great paper! I bought the camera pictured last year in an attempt to see if I could pull a live stream off of it, and I was shocked when I was able to view things like wifi credentials and camera password all in unencrypted JSON over UDP. The Aliexpress seller advertised it as a 4k camera, but...

It's a messy hack emulating the web interface with some Python code. It would not be intuitive for the average user to set up. So let's hope Dahua comes through with changes to the HTTP API.

48 hours in, and I'm actually happier with this cam now. Andy has contacted Dahua on my behalf to take a look at the Chrome/Mac issue for drawing IVS rules (Chrome on Windows works fine). I've also found a way to set day/night profiles externally without the HTTP API (web developer experience...

Thank you Andy, this is why we buy cams from you - you continue to be a great support to us and advocate for our needs with Dahua! I just tried to draw some IVS lines using the latest version of Chrome for Mac - Version 114.0.5735.90 (Official Build) (arm64). I can begin drawing a line, but...

Right. That's unfortunate, it doesn't seem like it would be that much of an issue, at least from a technical standpoint.

Wow. That's a huge bummer for folks like us and the larger DIY community. Probably will end up returning this cam then :(

I'd say about 80 feet from the cam.

So after 24 hours with this cam thanks to the Memorial Day sale with @EMPIRETECANDY, there are a few things I really like, but a few other things leave me a little bit underwhelmed or really annoyed by. So here's a quick bit on the good, the bad, and the ugly of the SD4A425DB-HNY: The good: 1)...

Stayed up late last night and got some promising shots from this cam doing some LPR on the street!

Gotcha. I guess I'll do that then. Such a bummer that the software is what hinders these cams like this. The hardware is so good. I understand we're not the intended market, but still... a software regression in the business world would be a big deal.

Reading through old threads and came across this, @wittaj. I'm coming from web 4.0 on my 5442's to 5.0 now on my PTZ. Are you setting your Day and Night profile settings differently and then just using these API calls to swap profiles? That's the way it works on my 5442's, but these calls don't...

@wittaj Did you ever find the right HTTP API call to transition your ptz from day to night mode?

Success on Internet Explorer, as expected. If Andy's folks need a web developer, I'd be glad to help debug this javascript. :lol:

I have Windows installed on a virtual machine on an old Mac, and I'm just firing that up now to see if I can get something going there. Because the Mac is so old and Windows is running on a VM, it's so unbelievably slow. It's taken 10 minutes now to get the ActiveX plugin installed for IE. I'll...

Right. Based on your advice, that was the very first thing I did. Powered it up on the bench, installed SD card, then factory reset. Hung the cam outside, went in and tried to start configuring IVS lines. And that's when I ran into the issue. :(

They do, actually. But the same thing is happening on Pale Moon. I'm following the video Andy posted () and the second I start clicking more than 3 times on a tripwire line, I can't make any more lines or points. Then hitting Apply gives me a "Please draw graphics" error message. Anyone run...

Is there a preferred Mac-based browser that is known to work with these cams?

Got my SD4A425DB-HNY from the Memorial Day sale and installed it today. Picture is excellent, the cam's size is not too obtrusive and I'm looking forward to getting things dialed in for autotracking and trying some LPR! I'm already running into a hiccup though, and I think it's browser-related...

I was one of them :)

For sure. Always happy to support Andy at any time though, he does so much for us here!