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    Would appreciate guidance on camera install locations

    I have good lighting in the neighbor hood so the smaller sensors work great here. I use the PTZ to keep eye on packages with presets and alerts that I monitor from DMSS, SmartPSS lite, and also Blue Iris.
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    Would appreciate guidance on camera install locations

    my picture above was a PTZ3E10X-T180. Not too shabby. It is a 2 channel camera: 180 view for channel 1, and PTZ for channel 2. Does have mic, speaker, red/blue LED's. Does auto-track humans (not vehicles with current firmware). Not too shabby of a multi-cam unit. For my purpose, the...
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    Would appreciate guidance on camera install locations

    As for why the T180 doesn't have IR.. you have to think of the reason why the T180 exists. I have theory! The T180's were made for getting the best image & video for a short distance only, not 50' or 100' distance. Think front door or porch or immediate front yard area only. There are...
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    Would appreciate guidance on camera install locations

    I think PTZ's are great! Of course, does come with the spendier cost. And the realization that PTZ's have a smaller sensor (2.8's?). They still work at dark night, but it's not best-of-the-best. Would have to supplement with spotter cameras that have the job of spotting dark night alerts and...
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    Shared Cameras - DMSS - No online account

    In regards to why have DMSS account? Dahua NVR's & IP cameras are not the only things Dahua are into. Have to remember that Dahua products were not designed for direct to consumer purchases. Installers and dealers are suppose to get involved. With my dealings of Toshiba business systems (for...
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    I need help with what I believe is a Dahua.

    I may tackle my VTH's over the weekend. I have 4 of them (1 is bricked, I think thanks to faulty wrong firmware upgrade). Keep in mind... this is a villa system. You have the master VTO. I see you have 1 VTH. There are more VTH's you can install: bedroom, kitchen, garage, living room, etc...
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    I need help with what I believe is a Dahua.

    My VTH menu looks nothing like that from the previous display image/icons to the newer image/icons graphics. Hyundai might of added a tweak here or there to the firmware to make it different from a Dahua installation video. Have not touched my VTH's in a long time after a computer/network...
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    Would appreciate guidance on camera install locations

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    Replace several NVRs with one NVR?

    New NVR should = new Hard Drives. Surveillance hard drives like Western Digital Purple series. Slap 2 in there. 14TB each. That's a good start. Can slap 2 or 4 or 6 more as you find it is needed. Of course, can never go wrong with 8 x 14TB hard drive space in total! Motion detection will...
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    Replace several NVRs with one NVR?

    You can run a test run. Simply move the network patch cord from the old NVR over into the new NVR while keeping the old NVR powered on and running. Only thing you did was to remove the patch cord. Work on new NVR to add in cameras and update what you want. If something goes amiss, can always...
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    Replace several NVRs with one NVR?

    We just completed an installation of a new 64 port Dahua NVR with existing cameras. Old setup: 2 x IDIS NVR and I think IDIS IP cameras from the 2010 era (at least, the NVR was built in 2010). Customer had a main building and remote building never connected via cabling so they had these 2 NVR's...
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    Dahua Product Availability in the U.S. ends December 31, 2025

    am hoping @EMPIRETECANDY makes an announcement to give what can be done / what can not be done. It's my understanding, no public (city/sate) or federal organizations can have Dahua (or the specific banned camera systems) installed or newly purchased, as of the ruling today 10/28/2025. Someone...
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    Dahua Product Availability in the U.S. ends December 31, 2025

    I personally think US wants my data to go through US products so the Big Eye In The Sky gets all that marketing and analytics info, instead of going through China Big Eye In The Sky. Next up, my German Bosch smart dishwasher and LG smart Fridge bans!
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    Dahua Product Availability in the U.S. ends December 31, 2025

    I hate goobly gock. Not sure what this means but article does say FCC did vote today Tuesday 3-0 to go forward with the FCC ban on various China companies such as Dahua. I think, not a good sign. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-agency-votes-tighten-restrictions-190043751.html
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    Football field security -- camera layout/design

    We do have this one customer that went full into Verkada security & IP camera systems. They have a 4 way dome camera (over $4,000 for this sucker) but is 500' distance. The customer wants to try out these supposedly new network data cable he saw on the internet that can go far father than the...
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