Just wanted to say... I gambled on the Dahua WiFi Floodlight (IPC-L46N-USA). Glad I did

May 1, 2019
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I needed to swap out my dusk-to-dawn flood light from the paranoid days of The Tire Slasher, to a security light that only came up during motion without lighting up the entire neighborhood at 3am.
Andy told me about the L46N floodlight with a WiFi camera built into it. 1/3" CMOS sensor which is AOK because I have a couple 5442's left/right side of driveway for the night time duty.
It does take AC line voltage for the floodlight portion.

I gotta say... this thing is pretty nice. It works as listed.
I have the sensitivity on default and works for my purposes. The LED lights do a good job for the immediate vicinity. The image quality day & night are not too shabby.
To be clear, this is my only WiFi camera on the network so it is not bogged down with VLAN WiFi traffic. I imagine if I had 8 or 20 WiFi cameras, my VLAN would be pretty bad.
My lamp post kind of fell apart during the last 60mph wind storm so have to fix & replace, else I would have additional lighting at end of driveway to help with the night time picture.
#3 pic is of just a screenshot of Blue Iris / UI3 with one of my 5442's at 6' level so not the best of picture showing clarity, but does show different in sensors/lighting comparisons.

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