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I got a pretty bad surprise when night has fallen and I went to check the image on my new Hikvision DS-2DE5425IW-AE There is some strange purple/transparent ghost-like figure, taking over more than half of the image(video below). It is only visible during the night(basically when camera...

I bought two of these covert IP cams: Online Shop 1080P 940nm IR 10m HD Realtime Wired Onvif PIR Style PoE IP Camera With Invisible IR Night Vision+Audio In,Onvif,P2P View | Aliexpress Mobile and installed them in my house with cat5e. One of the cameras wouldn’t quit switching between color and...

Impressive what can happen when your PoE connection gets wet for about a day. Looks like the third conductor down from the top is half etched away from the PoE voltage. This pic was after I cleaned it up with alcohol and a q-tip, before the area was all black. This was a casual install just as...