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    (on sale for $234) FLIR TCX T4325BN Thermal IP camera

    That's a pretty good price, considering that just the bare sensor chip itself (80x60 FLIR Lepton) is around $200, and a dev board including the module (no case or anything) is around $300. PureThermal 1 - FLIR Lepton Smart I/O Module v1.3
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    (on sale for $234) FLIR TCX T4325BN Thermal IP camera

    Nice to see the price drop on these. The image from thermal cameras looks much more "jumpy" than normal video, due to the autoexposure range shift whenever something hot enters the frame. That makes good motion detection hard. One big advantage thermal should have outdoors is being blind to...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    For what it's worth, this item IPCam (1080P) 2.8mm LEN 1/2.8" SONY IMX322 + Hi3516 CCTV IP camera (built in IRC filter) + Audio-in Surveillance Cameras from Security & Protection on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group has arrived and it works as expected. Image and the Explorer web interface looks...
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    Hikvision Dedicated License Plate Reading

    That's usually my goal also. Walking around my neighborhood I see a number of cameras under the eaves. Those in a contrasting color to the house stand out, but if they match the house color you have to look carefully to see them, at least from the sidewalk. A year ago I posted some video...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    Thanks for the info! Yes, I am a big believer in external IR lights, my garage now has three separate IR medium-narrow angle lights for the driveway/sidewalk, and two longrange IR spotlights to pick up plates at 150'+ away.
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    @framednlv : That cam looks good, except I have learned not to trust wifi. Do you know if there is an equivalent model with wired ethernet?
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    Update: the board-only (no case) camera I mentioned yesterday is not recommended by me at this point. It worked OK overnight, but now it is rebooting every 10 to 15 minutes. The power and network connections look OK physically to me. The camera log file doesn't say anything helpful. Also, each...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    This is all the image parameter controls there are. Didn't come with an external light sensor and doesn't seem to use the internal shutter to figure out day/night, so the only option for day/night switch at the moment is the time of day control. Night image is not entirely hopeless. I'm...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    For what it's worth, I just got another board-level camera (no case), this one: IPC 1080P 1920 x 1080 1/2.8" CMOS Hi3516D+SONY IMX322 CCTV IP camera module board + HD IR CUT dual filter switch-in Surveillance Cameras from Security & Protection on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group I got the...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    Thanks. I only just came across a user manual for a cam with similar UI settings (I didn't know some of them, Like "Dnc Threshold" sets the light level where the Day/Night mode switch happens, and "NightNTLevel" is a noise reduction setting)...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    Note to self: with these settings, the night-time image is at least slightly better than before. I am not sure which setting was the key change.
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    One other thing: the camera's web login page HTML source contains an iframe link to a "Brenz" site (in Poland?) which I take as a bad sign (trying to load malware?) It seems to be what this article talks about: Warning! CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware I guess this...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    I can't get a very good image on motion at night, even using three external IR spotlights plus the internal LEDs (which I can't turn off?) The web interface has an "auto" shutter mode ("Exposure mode: Automatic") with min and max settings labelled in milliseconds, but the min/max settings do not...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    The MSIE web interface on this "Watchman" cam looks exactly the same as with an older 720p board cam I had from ebay a year or two ago. It also has the same odd glitch, that once you call up a menu settings screen, you can't remove it without shutting down Explorer and reopening it. Maybe...
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    DIY cheap IP cam with Sony IMX322 ?

    Thanks Kawboy. Last night I ordered a "Watchman" Amazon.com : Watchman WM-IPC-39AR/3CS(FP)-3(WPH69) IP CAMERA 2.0 MP 1080P, 1/3" SONY IMX322 CMOS, IR-LED 5x42pcs 40M IR Distance, Metal Housing IP66 Weatherproof, 2.8-12mm Manual Zoom Lens With IR-CUT Filte, NTSC : Camera & Photo ...and it...
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