2026 New Release from EmpireTech

Focal lenght: 2.8mm (!)
Bitrate is 6mbit (max), h264, 15fps

Just for starting. Nothing special
May need to remount the cam to the street side.
Broke my wrist 2 weeks ago, bit hard and dangerous to climb up a ladder.
May need to send the camera to someone else for testing

For me it looks like most of the 54pro AI bullshit got removed from the camera firmware (steve maybe not happy)
Now we see noise ;)

As always, some features not working
  • face priority does not work (no dimming)
  • smart light does not work, its always on, not sure need to test more


Daytime Manual mode (10ms, 45gain), no WDR



Automode internal light only



Manual mode (10ms, 45gain) internal light only



Manual mode (10ms, 45gain) external light under carport (10W LED)



Manual mode (10ms, 45gain) motion controlled floodlight 5W LED



Interesting. I'm a little surprised it got darker going from auto nighttime to 10ms/45 gain—seems the AI contrast mapping might not be as aggressive as in the previous generation (Color4M-TL). Smart light only works on cameras with the dual-color (white+IR) LEDs. They need to adjust their firmware to incorporate the separate brightness adjust for the Auto mode as a "baseline" slider for the white LED, and then switch to the "smart LED" brightness setting when motion is detected. Currently, the firmware doesn't know what to do with these cameras lacking the IR LED. If the code was open source, I bet I could fix it in a few hours, but I guess we're stuck with the years it takes Dahua's incompetent developers to figure things out. In the meantime, I'll keep using Blue Iris and CLI commands to control the LED as needed.

It seems to be lacking resolution for a 4MP camera. The previous generation (Color4M-TL) camera suffered from this even more, but is easily correctable by dropping 2D NR from 50 to 25 or lower (note that Dahua firmware has a longtime bug that can cause this value to secretly revert after closing the web interface; rebooting the camera restores it to using the value you saved). I imagine the same trick will work on this camera as well, resulting in a crisper/clearer image. Also, the video exhibits quite a bit of "pulsing". As with the previous generation camera, I'm sure you can improve these compression artifacts by changing the camera's video encoding settings to H.265, General, VBR, Quality 6, max 6144, I frame 150, smooth stream 100.

Was that using VBR?
At 14:55:32 and again at 14:55:57 the camera seems to dramatically adjust bitrate by itself
No, you're watching a version Google Drive recompressed for the web preview applet. If you want to see the original, you have to click the little pop-out arrow at the upper-right corner of the video preview frame and download the MP4 file to your computer. Only then will you get the original, 2K resolution file as encoded by the camera (where the CBR stream with a fixed GOP of 15 will become quite evident).
 
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I'm sure you can improve these compression artifacts by changing the camera's video encoding settings to H.265, General, VBR, Quality 6, max 6144, I frame 150, smooth stream 100.

I'd love to see that...
 
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No, you're watching a version Google Drive recompressed for the web preview applet.
Could you elaborate on this? I don't know what this means or when it happens. Are you talking about when it is exported from BI, or is this when you view the post here on IPCAMTALK?
 
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Viewing the Google embed on the forum.

I did download the file and the bizarre glitch went away-
 
Just got this latest new model camera


And a 8-80MM lens super Bullet.

 
Just got this latest new model camera


And a 8-80MM lens super Bullet.



This one is VERY interesting….
If I make enough in my fun money market picks today… I will give Andy some of my money :love:

 
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This one is VERY interesting….
If I make enough in my fun money market picks today… I will give Andy some of my money :love:

Where will the camera be placed?
 
In place of my 3.6mm 4K-X cam and Z4 on the side of the house
One for covering the pass between the houses, one for tight ID shots in the street

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Or same at the driveway and Street on the other side of the house...

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This one is VERY interesting….
If I make enough in my fun money market picks today… I will give Andy some of my money :love:

I've been given strict orders from command - no more PTZs, or cameras that stand out and this one would definitely call attention to itself from the overall size between the camera and bracket.

Believe it or not, we were in court over harassment and stalking allegations from 2 neighbors this past June. It was thrown out because there was no evidence of harassment or stalking (just their allegations). But, command (read wife) is understandably gun shy about having any more cameras that make it look like a security compound, in fact I was ordered to remove all full size PTZ cameras from the property. She doesn't know about the mini PTZs (well, she didn't).
 
I've been given strict orders from command - no more PTZs, or cameras that stand out and this one would definitely call attention to itself from the overall size between the camera and bracket.

Believe it or not, we were in court over harassment and stalking allegations from 2 neighbors this past June. It was thrown out because there was no evidence of harassment or stalking (just their allegations). But, command (read wife) is understandably gun shy about having any more cameras that make it look like a security compound, in fact I was ordered to remove all full size PTZ cameras from the property. She doesn't know about the mini PTZs (well, she didn't).

Spite them. I'd put up 100 cameras lol
 
Just got this latest new model camera


And a 8-80MM lens super Bullet.


Those could be some game changers.
 
Those could be some game changers.

Of course its dependent on your two cameras being on the same general LOS. If you have any deviation left or right then it may not work so well.

I think both of my locations are pretty close to the same aiming point so I think it would work.

Been looking for something like this for years...
 
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Looks like dahua has given up on animal detection instead of making it work better.
 
Looks like dahua has given up on animal detection instead of making it work better.
Here, fixed it for you: Looks like dahua has given up.