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    HDW4631C-A or 4433 or 2MP Starlight - what to buy?

    As someone who owns a few english 4431 and has seen them record video's of trespassers in the middle of the night, I have mixed feelings about the desire for low-light performance (ie - the real value of B/W recordings of intruders / thieves). Color gives so much more info (makes faces more...
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    Purchasing Hikvision cameras

    I think you want to remove some of those screen shots...
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    Purchasing Hikvision cameras

    The following text is from a google translation of the hikvision pdf file I gave a link to above: -------------- DS-2CD3346(D)WD-I 4 million 1/2.7 " CMOS ICR Starlight Infrared Array Network Camera --------------- The term "dark" or "Dark fighter" does not appear anywhere in the translation...
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    Purchasing Hikvision cameras

    https://www.hikvision.com/uploadfile/image/20170825014944604.PDF > Its a hacked china region hikvision. See, the problem here is that -> ITS NOT HACKED! For the 12'th time, it came in a legit Hikvision box, all with chinese printing, and chinese web-gui menus. It will display no other...
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    Purchasing Hikvision cameras

    > Second your friend did no buy "4mp starlight hikvision" that combination of words does not exist. Tell me what this is: DS-2CD3346DWD-I
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    Purchasing Hikvision cameras

    > I am Canada based. So am I, and you and I both know that our looney doesn't go very far these days. I'm impressed by my 2-year-old Da-hoo-ah's that cost me 80-odd USD at the time. very sophisticated in-camera detection, great low-light performance (good enough for me). One of them captured...
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    Purchasing Hikvision cameras

    I bought 3 Dahau 4mp cameras direct from china about 2 years ago - they were about $80 - $90 each I think. I was new to these multi-mp cameras and didn't know the full story about resellers modding the cameras for english/international use, chinese-market and language stuff. A friend of mine...
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    4MP Starlight 2CD3346 - pic of main board, can I downgrade firmware?

    The camera in question is a 4 mp Starlight / EXIR DS-2CD3346DWD-I. It's a turret. I'm showing a photo of the main board inside the camera. This is obviously a China-only camera. I can find no listing on the Hikvision english website for this camera (out of curiousity - is this camera offered...
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    Hikvision FIRMWARE TOOLS - change language, extract files and create own firmware

    What are my options as far as changing the language on a DS-2CD3346DWD-I from Chinese to English? The firmware it has is V5.5.12 build 180102. It does not answer ssh when using telnet (if ssh is functional will it at least appear to be open with telnet?). It appears to be listening on port...
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    Hikvision FIRMWARE TOOLS - change language, extract files and create own firmware

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    Dedicated NVR system.

    Just beware: Amazon Bans Shoppers Who Return Too Much Amazon Might Ban You If You Return Too Much
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    Relationship between in-camera detection settings and NVR?

    So it's a given then that (some/many/all) NVR's really don't do event detection on video from IP cameras but instead allow you to set event parameters in their GUI that they then transfer to the camera (and hence the camera does the event detection)? And either through onvif or a proprietary...
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    How to work with Chinese language DS-2CD3346DWD?

    > The language drop-down will be at the login page. Ok, I see it. There is only one option in the drop list. Two Chinese characters. Copy them to google translate, the result is "Chinese". Where do I go from here (besides learning to read Chinese)?
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    Relationship between in-camera detection settings and NVR?

    So these various IP-capable NVR's -> they really don't do any of their own event detection (with IP cameras that is)? Or perhaps some models do? Or perhaps Dahau NVR's do and Hikvision doesn't? And when I set up a basic area/sensitivity detection, that what the NVR is doing is transfering my...
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    Relationship between in-camera detection settings and NVR?

    First let me say that putzing with NVR's is new to me - specifically NVR's that are capable of communication with IP cameras that is. I recently played around for the first time with such an NVR (Hikvision DS-7208HUHI-K1) and managed to connect a couple of Dahau cameras to it using Onvif. One...
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    Review-Dahua IPC-HFW4831TP-ASE 4k Bullet 2.8mm fixed lens

    Was this a review, or an unboxing? I don't see a review.
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    IPcamtalk website and older versions of firefox

    It seems to be that it is happening for threads that *I* started, and perhaps only when I'm logged into the site. I can select any other thread and read it, but my own threads I get the spinning circle and infinite "connecting" message. There might be a clouldflare script that is partially...
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    IPcamtalk website and older versions of firefox

    I've experienced instances where I give my FF browser the URL for a camtalk thread and I get the circlling thing on the tab, with the word "connecting" and it stays like that until I close the tab. Or I'm at the top level of a sub-group and can see all the threads, I click on one and again I...
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    HDBW4433R-ZS - can't get live video ONVIF Device Manager

    The system I've been using to putz with these cameras is XP-SP3. In order to run the Onvif device manager I had to download/install dot net 4 (the system didn't have it). So I did, and it ran, with the results I describe above. Later I noticed that Windows update had kicked in and had about a...
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    How to work with Chinese language DS-2CD3346DWD?

    Is there a guide or screen shots of what the english menu tree looks like for this camera so I can figure out where to find a language setting (if it exists in this camera)? If the box is came in has no english on it anywhere (aside from make/model info and "Hikvision" , "Exir" and "Smart265")...
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    HDBW4433R-ZS - can't get live video ONVIF Device Manager

    Well, turns out the Hikvision NVR (DS-7208) can see the video from the 4433 camera. Why the Onvif device manager can't see the live video - I don't know, but it's not an issue any more.
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    How to work with Chinese language DS-2CD3346DWD?

    A friend of mine bought what looks like a Chinese-language DS-2CD3346DWD-I and I've been trying to log into the thing (which I thought I did but maybe not) and see if there's a way to change the language to English. I did a search here on IPcamtalk for 2CD3346 but nothing came up (no mention of...
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    HDBW4433R-ZS - can't get live video ONVIF Device Manager

    I have an older Dahau 4431C-A which I can get working with Onvif device manager (and Hikvision NVR) but I can't get live video stream from a new 4433R-ZS. Onvif device manager can see the camera, show the Identification, Time Settings, Network settings, etc, it can show a thumbnail still...
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    Dahua NVR to recommend

    Yes, I have english language versions of 4431C-A and they have the original firmware (ie I have not upgraded them since I got them). So if I undertand this NVR/language thing - if I buy a Dahau NVR on ebay today (from china) and the NVR is advertized as "English language", will the nvr work...
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    Dahua NVR to recommend

    > With modded you mean hacked? It's my vague understanding that the cameras I bought, indeed many of these 4k cameras that were being sold a few years ago (maybe still are) on ebay direct from china had model numbers that were "chinese market only" and as manufactured would have had...
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    Better performance when DVR has direct camera (RJ45) ports?

    > You are incorrect. Also it's an NVR. Yea, I realized after I posted that these IP-camera recorders are usually called NVR's (N for Network?) even though the analog camera boxes (those are usually called DVR's - yes?) are also ethernet network-connectable (accessible). > The camera limit is...
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    Better performance when DVR has direct camera (RJ45) ports?

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the Dahau 4-camera (and maybe also the 8-camera) DVR's only seem to have dedicated RJ45 ports for each camera if the DVR is a POE model. In other words, non-POE models have only a single network RJ45 port, which means they access all cameras over a single...
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    What does "HS" give you? (4104 HS-4KS2 vs 4104-4KS2)

    What does the "HS" give you when looking at a 4104 HS-4KS2 vs 4104 4KS2? Is it just the size of the box? Nothing else? Also, what's the difference between, say, a 2104 HS-S2 and a 4104 HS-4KS2?
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    Dahua NVR to recommend

    I have the same question regarding a recommended NVR for one or maybe at most two HDW4431C-A cameras I bought direct from China (ebay) a couple years ago. Doesn't have to be POE. The NVR just has to be able to work with these cameras (I think these came with modded firmware) and do basic...
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    Carelessness cost me...I got hit...

    I'm still waiting for someone to make a commercial cell-phone IMEI catcher or sniffer that logs the presence and IMEI number of near-by cell phones. Take that to the cops when you get a break-in caught on camera and they'll be able to track down and prosecute the suspect. Because everyone...
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