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    Wondering about current equivalents for Dlink 900 - 930 series IP wifi cameras

    I see no new Amcrest cameras on ebay.ca, only a hodge-podge of DVR's and some used cameras. Some Amlink stuff, mostly DVR's. That NDAA-compliance thing is interesting, but I doubt we have anything similar in Canada. Are Amcrest cameras banned from being sold in Canada or what? Nobody has...
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    Wondering about current equivalents for Dlink 900 - 930 series IP wifi cameras

    I can't seem to get any "Amcrest" products to appear on Amazon.ca. When I try, all I get are Reolink cameras. Strange - Amazon says "1-48 of 793 results for "Amcrest ProHD 1080P WiFi 2MP (1920TVL) Indoor Pan/Tilt Security Wireless IP Camera IP2M-841B (Black)" but it shows me no Amcrest cameras...
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    Wondering about current equivalents for Dlink 900 - 930 series IP wifi cameras

    I still use a bunch of those old Dlink 930 cameras for certain things. They have 640 x 480 resolution, some have IR lights, all do rudimentary in-camera motion detection and email image sending. I think Dlink has replaced these with DCS-8000. What I want (for a certain in-door application) is...
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    Can't get e-mail send function to work on 5-year-old HDW-2431 turret camera, is there a (safe) firmware solution available?

    Ok I got it sorted out. First thing - the SMTP send function on these cameras don't work with my mail server. It's not a mis-match between TLS or SSL or auth-login because none of those things are enabled on my server. Some packet detective work sorted this out, so we have the Dahau's send...
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    Can't get e-mail send function to work on 5-year-old HDW-2431 turret camera, is there a (safe) firmware solution available?

    Interesting. When I bring up the Information - Version screen on the office camera (the wide-angle camera, I think 2.8 mm focal length) I see this: See the first line? Device Type. Now here's the "problem" camera - the one at home, should be identical except 3.6 mm focal length: Where...
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    Can't get e-mail send function to work on 5-year-old HDW-2431 turret camera, is there a (safe) firmware solution available?

    I downloaded this from Dahau: IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2_Firmware.zip General_ConfigTool_ChnEng_V5.001.0000003.1.R.20231130.exe I won't try any of those until after I test this camera at the office tommorrow. My camera is an IPC T2431T-AS (no S2 after that - what is S2 ?). It's a fixed focal...
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    Can't get e-mail send function to work on 5-year-old HDW-2431 turret camera, is there a (safe) firmware solution available?

    On the dahuaSecurity web site, download center, firmware, I see something called "DH_Molec Platform" where the supported models include maybe a dozen different 2431 varients. The date for this is 21/03/2025. Are these particular cameras known as the "Molec Platform" ? The release notes...
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    Can't get e-mail send function to work on 5-year-old HDW-2431 turret camera, is there a (safe) firmware solution available?

    While at the office I can interact with the camera at home (home router port-forwarding). I have 2 browser windows open and I can see both camera configuration screens simultaneously. Both cameras have the SMTP server set as IP address (not host name). In the case of the office it's...
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    Can't get e-mail send function to work on 5-year-old HDW-2431 turret camera, is there a (safe) firmware solution available?

    Summary: HDW-2431T 4-mp turrent camera can't send email to my office mail server from home, other cameras at home can. ================== I have a pair of HDW-2431T cameras that I bought at the same time, maybe 4 or 5 years ago. They have different lenses (one is more wide-angle than the...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    There is a small office complex across the street (in these images it's to the upper-right and not visible from this camera). For some time, perhaps more than a year, for a few nights a week a car leaves this parking lot at some wee hour of the morning. The headlights shine across to my lot...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    I posted the pics because someone wanted to see an example of low-light (or IR-illuminated) motion blur of my 1/2.9" camera, which caught a respectible few frames of a bat flying through. The T54IR-ZE-S3 (1/1.8" sensor) is priced at $195 (currently sold out on IP Camtalk store) and the...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    I tweaked some camera settings. Changes I made - Backlight mode was off, now is BLC. That brightened things up. Exposure shutter is now 1/60 (it was auto I think). I've scaled these down to 50%. Here is a current image capture: I can remotely turn off the IR flood. Here is how it looks...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    This is single frame from a recent motion-detection capture from my IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2. I think this was a bat. It's been a cold April here, colder than normal. Ambient temp was probably 35 - 40 F. This was 1:18 am. This was the main stream, substream is disabled. Encoding mode was...
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    A camera that I have now that I think has good night vision (or maybe I should say, good IR vision with external IR flood) is the IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2 (4mp 1/2.9). I see that it currently costs about $80. The IPC-T5442T-ZE is $195 (but it has zoom). Is there a 2mp version of the 2431 with 1/2.9...
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