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

    Is there a varifocal 1/1.8 4mp? You know what, I probably don't need 4mp. 2mp would be fine in a 1/2.9 if it had the same (or better?) low-light performance as a 4mp 1/1.8. But it has to have the zoom I want.
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    Any comments (or maybe better alternatives) for IPC-HDW2441T-ZS

    I'd like to monitor an area about 100 ft from the camera, about 50 ft wide. At night, 1 street light nearby, color not necessary (can be IR / BW). I don't think I'm interested in anything larger than 4mp, but I probably need some sort of vari-focal. I believe the IPC-HDW2441T-ZS would fit...
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    New Dahua Tech / Cams coming soon - Wiz Colour?

    My HDW2431T is 1/3" and I think it has pretty good low-light ability. I see HDW3449TM-AS-LED has 1/2.7" sensor - so maybe a little better, and price can be as low as $100 USD to $150? Is there any 3449 that has SD-card for in-camera recording? What is least expensive 1/1.8" Dahua turrent...
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    New Dahua Tech / Cams coming soon - Wiz Colour?

    Ok, thanks for that. So what (eye-ball / turret camera) has better night / IR image quality than the HDW2431T but is not as expensive as the 3449? (my 2431 has multiple streams, metal shell, in-camera recording) don't need TIOC.
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    New Dahua Tech / Cams coming soon - Wiz Colour?

    So, what's the verdict on the 2449? I might be wanting a few new cameras, I stumbled across the IPC-HDW2449T-S-LED on ebay, price is pretty good. My primary use would be in darkness with external IR flood LED. I have a IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2 set up like that, so it would be useful to know the...
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    How to select playback point on time-line (in-camera recording playback) HDW2431T ?

    During playback of in-camera recordings, I can select a day from the calendar to see when recordings were made that day, recordings are indicated on the time-line. I can hit play, and the recordings are played back one after the other. But I can't seem to use the mouse to select a particular...
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    What are my choices for fully-functional web browsers for Dahua cameras these days?

    I didn't think it was possible to upgrade these chinese-market dahua cameras that had english firmware hacked into them prior to sale without risking bricking them. Either that, or there isin't any actual english firmware available for some of these models. Am I wrong about this?
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    How to access camera Dahua archives now that IE is dead?

    Just a quick question regarding this web-browser issue - do Hikvision cameras have the same issue - that you need to use IE to work with them?
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    Has anyone built their own IR illumination solution from discrete LED's or modules?

    At the end of january I ordered what is known as an "LED COB Chip Light IR" from ebay. These are arrays of LED's mounted on a backing plate. They come as small as 3 x 3 LED's up to I think 10 x 10. What I got were advertised as 30 Watt (3 lines of 10 LED's). They were about $20 each, I got...
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    Can someone explain anti-dither and Record Delay settings?

    My camera (2431T-AS-S2 ) has anti-dither and recording delay - no other time-related settings for video detection. Anti-dither is set to 2, recording delay is the minumum (10). Looking at some recent lightning detections, all recordings are about 15 or 16 seconds in length, with 3 seconds of...
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    Can someone explain anti-dither and Record Delay settings?

    I'm just going to keep trying the basic video detection. What I've discovered is that I seem to have to set the sensitivity to 100% and the threshold to 10% to capture someone walking in the red zone. The camera is about 15 feet from ground level, and the distance involved in the path beside the...
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    Can someone explain anti-dither and Record Delay settings?

    Here's what it did capture today: But it did not capture when I was using the snow blower (in the central area of the image, the parking lot). Here is the zone detection pattern: The red zone detection threashold is set a little bit more sensitive than the yellow zone. Red zone...
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    Can someone explain anti-dither and Record Delay settings?

    No NVR. Camera has SD card. Simple zone-based video detection only. Camera will send me email and will record to SD card when video detection is triggered. When I had the camera's IR light on at night, the camera records way way way too many little zippy things, rain, snow, etc. I now have...
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    Can someone explain anti-dither and Record Delay settings?

    I see that if I move the mouse over the Smart-plan lightbulb icon, the word "IVS" appears in a box under the lightbulb icon, to tell me (I guess) that Smart Plan must be controlling (enabling?) IVS rules. If I click the light-bulb, I can make it turn orange, or grey. I guess orange is for On...
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    Can someone explain anti-dither and Record Delay settings?

    I have no rules set up in the IVS menu. How can you turn "Smart Plan" on if there are no IVS rules? Or does Smart Plan NOT pertain to IVS rules (and if it doesn't, then what does it pertain to ?)
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