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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    IR (Illuminator is set to Auto. I have contrast at 57. My other night settings are:
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    ok here are some night images based on the settings above. (I paused the video stream and took a screenshot) What do you think for this cam?/ Can these be better? Lighter?
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    ok so "day 1" after "zero day" profile setup already hit a snag. I set the cam to auto switch from day to night, using the profile Day/Night profile management setting so i specifically did NOT have to adjust schedule throughout the year, (which is what is it supposed to do) and it did not...
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    Wow thanks guys!!! SO right off the top it always escaped me that you must FIRST select EACH of the 3 profiles and save those independently. I can bet this was where things were screwed up last time, i changed the settings based on the recommendations in here, but in a different profile!!! I...
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    Wait, so i spotted a possible issue and question: should i be creating a schedule's with different settings for day and night under "profile management"? Even if I am this screen is very confusing: I now learned i must set profile FIRST, then each one is different. But what do i do on this...
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    Alright guys lets do it. BRB, i am on it!
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    Oh, and i used ChatGPT to try and get me the "recommended settings" yeah, nah i am certain it made things worse! hahah
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    Its time i fix my terrible image quality once and for all Dahua 5442T

    IN short, I need help on how and where to fix my image. Serious help as i have been down this road before. Given this image below, what are the setting I should be using on the Camera software side, AND then how do i add it to Synology without it changing them? Because it does seem to change...
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    Indoor camera recommendations

    Curious Why not the 4mp version of this same camera ...more resolution and a bigger sensor which makes even more difference no?
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    My night identification when there is movement is terrible - I have a 5442T-ZE

    Very help full thanks guys!! Yeah I am mainly using it for door security (and deterrent for whatever that amounts to these days albeit almost nothing). Like you guys said, it appears I am asking it to do too much. Appreciate the responses.
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    My night identification when there is movement is terrible - I have a 5442T-ZE

    After repeated incidents that happen at night it is high time I stop complaining and see if I can fix this. I bought this camera and used the setting recommended in here long ago and hoped it would be a lot better TBH. I know there is a lot of technical stuff. SO for example, this guy drove...
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    Camera will not record the correct time

    No. I dont know why that would be required if i am telling it to sync to my PC, and it does so. Why would it switch? I do not even have the cam connected to the external internet. It seems to have fixed it though. Sigh. I realize more I am not the intended market evertime i am in the...
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    Camera will not record the correct time

    I have a 5442T-ZE i am having a lot of issues with. One of the things is it wont keep the time. It keeps switching to an hour earlier. If i hit sync to PC, it will switch back 1 hour soon afterwards. If i have NTP checked on or off it does this. I am not sure what NTP even does butit...
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    THanks, next task when i get time is to read the other posts linked above on how to ever SET UP a night profile. (Right now its just uses day and does a decent job even at night but I know it can be better). Is that Dahua SunriseSunset Code "auto" switch program still working with the...
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    Thank you all so very much. This all makes perfect sense as you explained it well as to the "why". I always appreciate that more than just "flip this and that" with no explanation. Now that i understand the "why" it will be a lot more fun to play with it.
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    Yeah so i went back through my footage and realized this HUGE clue: It seems to only happen between ~8:45 and 9:45 ish. So it does seem to be related to the interaction of the final setting into complete darkness. Indeed is is some kind of transitional period but it absolutely SUCKS. So I...
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    Its regular intervals. It switches the IR light off for exacty 7 seconds. Then switches it on for exaclty 12. Then repeats. 7, 12, 7, 12 - does not vary. On my DS cam app it looks like one solid continuous "Event", and hence, if I have my phone on notify, it continuously beeps every 12...
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    BTW I have no idea what "Smart IR" is but it certainly is not so smart. :p
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    Camera is now at least unusable at night UNLESS I "Turn off smart IR" I have tried various things over 3 nights since this began - as i have to wait until dark for it to trigger. I cleaned the lens of the camera of course. Tonight, after 3 nights of failure and turning it off, was a complete...
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    Welp. That was a mistake. Something happened. I made just a few of these changes. Specifically i changed these: 8192 bitrate CBR from VBR 15FPS 15 iframes I also made a quick zoom in and out. That was it (i planned to do a more through read later of the above post wen i had more time)...
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    This is great thanks i will try these out!! What is "SVC"? options are 1 (off), 2, and 3.
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    Dahua recommended settings and education needed

    Searching the word "settings" brings up way too many hits, so I seek a crash course in the most basic stuff: (I have a 5442T-ZE running V2.840.15 and therabouts firmware - Build Date: 2022-08-18) 1) What is a substream? My default substream 1 looks like a lower quality version of the Main...
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    HOA wants cameras but does know anything and I am offsite, so what is a reasonable solution - need advice

    Oh? Can you cite an example. This is an interesting options!
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    HOA wants cameras but does know anything and I am offsite, so what is a reasonable solution - need advice

    Just observe. This is in the Bay area CA - you can hand the local Police a perfect picture, complete with license plate numbers - hell, you can tell them when the perpetrator last shaved and they aren't going to do jack shit about it in terms of investigation. SO hate to say it but its more a...
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    HOA wants cameras but does know anything and I am offsite, so what is a reasonable solution - need advice

    OK, so I my own system I got together from the advice in here, which I understand as the software and equipment is onsite. At this time i do not even connect my NVR (a NAS drive) to the internet. The issue is I have a very small HOA I am part of that wants 1-2 cameras installed to monitor the...
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    Trying to troublshoot the complete disregard of Synology software instructions with my empiretech 5442T-ZE Camera

    Now i am new at this, but it has all the screens to enable notifications, alerts - people versus vehicles, etc. so i assume so. Its supposed to be professional software, at least it touts itself as such. Note even the dahua interface itself is also sending me alerts after i told the cam...
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    Trying to troublshoot the complete disregard of Synology software instructions with my empiretech 5442T-ZE Camera

    Hi guys, within the User>Software>Camera flow I am hoping you experts can confirm its a software issue and not something else i might be missing (me or the camera!) I am using my surveillance software (Not the Empiretech camera software) to try to NOT DETECT cars, as i get 1000 notifications a...
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    I read in here cam should be installed 8 feet or below. What is the most ideal height?

    HAH, everytime i am in these forums i learn something i need to learn. Thanks. ok so that makes total sense to focus on an alarm. I looked up PIR to mean "passive infrared sensors" correct? So you have these set up to trigger lights? Is this a fancy way of saying motion detector? I like...
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    I read in here cam should be installed 8 feet or below. What is the most ideal height?

    I bought the highly recommended IPC-T5442T-ZE cam if that makes a difference.
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    Noob: Setting up cameras and network configuration

    Hello, Unifi POE Switches are extremely high priced compared to others that my noob brain thinks do the same thing. Is this truly a get what you pay for thing? I get they have the managed aspect, but I have also read numerous times a home user does not need or necessarily even want a managed...
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