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  1. stevef22

    Best DIY lic plate dedicated camera by Dahua under $350

    Thank you, Loryta is compatable with my Dahua recorder? ( sorry if dumb question )
  2. stevef22

    Best DIY lic plate dedicated camera by Dahua under $350

    Hi, just looking for best DIY Licence plate camera. Challenge is target choke point is 100ft-150ft away from camera. Need your tips on best zoom. Budget is under $350 for camera. Thank you
  3. stevef22

    Reccomendation for motorized zoom Dahua camera. Turret

    Im sorry, I meant turret. I updated my posting to say this! Thanks for your help.
  4. stevef22

    Reccomendation for motorized zoom Dahua camera. Turret

    Hi guys, what is the best zoom camera offered right now in turret configuration? Price under $200 and under $350. 4-16mm zoom preferred. Im looking at a parking lot mostly at night, allot of cars driving past with bright lights. Not sure if that matters. Trying to see people walking in parking...
  5. stevef22

    Dahua NVR only records full time. No motion. Help

    Ahh, thank you guys. I will go to each camera and setup motion etc. Urgh..... Thanks again. Will report back.
  6. stevef22

    Dahua NVR only records full time. No motion. Help

    Hey guys, I have a small 8port white Dahua NVR w poe. Its an all in one box running NVR 4.0 software. It will only record if I have the green General bar on all the time. If I select yellow motion it will not record. Or blue intelligent. Same result. Not sure what inteligent is anyway. I...
  7. stevef22

    Best Dahua DIY Licence Plate Camera under $350 currently.

    I already have a HFW5231EP-Z12E is about 2.5 yrs old. Its was in direct sun on another project. Front plastic very yellow, worse than in picture. Gives a halo effect on video. Just walked out of the pool look to video. Should I just upgrade this front glass? Thinking of getting a piece of glass...
  8. stevef22

    Best Dahua DIY Licence Plate Camera under $350 currently.

    Im getting street shot, target is abotu 30-50 feet range away from camera. Camera is on side of road so about a 30 percent angle to cars? There is one large street lamp pointing down about the 30 foot. This will be a dedicated lic cam. Please let me know your suggestions. Andy suggested...
  9. stevef22

    Good upgrade to my DIY Lic plate camera? HFW5231EP-Z12E

    Great thank you, will read up.
  10. stevef22

    Camera preview in ie blocking options.

    Im setting up my DIY lic plate camera. The video did not play in chrome, so I opened it in IE. Installed player and getting large video box. Cant resize. Tried to adjust the resolution of screen. Video resizes to still overlap same amount. Please advise, Thank you
  11. stevef22

    Good upgrade to my DIY Lic plate camera? HFW5231EP-Z12E

    Wow, thanks again for all the great information.
  12. stevef22

    Good upgrade to my DIY Lic plate camera? HFW5231EP-Z12E

    I have a 1.5-2 year old Dahua HFW5231EP-Z12E camera. Is there an upgraded model to this? Found this article LPR with a pair of IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E | IP Cam Talk Im not sure the differences or naming structure for the cameras. HFW5241E-Z12E - In the article for review HFW5231EP-Z12E...
  13. stevef22

    Fuzzy DIY Licence Plate Camera Dahua HFW5231EP-Z12E

    Thank you
  14. stevef22

    Fuzzy DIY Licence Plate Camera Dahua HFW5231EP-Z12E

    Hi, I have a 1.5-2 year old Dahua HFW5231EP-Z12E camera. Setting up for license plate DIY cam. It was previously in sun and the front plastic lens was "peeling". Not sure if film or what.... But I cleaned it best I could with windex and a rag. Is there an upgrade front lense for this? I...
  15. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Thank you very much
  16. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    I have the IPC HFW5231EP-Z12E model. Can someone please tell me where to find the shutter setting? I want to make my settings like this " 1/2,000 shutter and 8 FPS "
  17. stevef22

    Dahua config tool only sees the NVR. No cameras. 192.168.1.108

    Ok im on right path now. I hooked up myIPC HFW5231EP-Z12E camera to a poe switch. ( Separate then the 8 port Dahua NVR ) and performed a reset on it. This time worked. *Note the Dahua Config tool could see the IP Camera when on a standard Poe switch. But can NOT see cameras when plugged into...
  18. stevef22

    Dahua config tool only sees the NVR. No cameras. 192.168.1.108

    "I do not believe that the config tool can find a camera behind an NVR? " Ahh I did not know this! So the 8 Port Dahua NVR is blocking the cameras from being seen from the configtool
  19. stevef22

    Dahua config tool only sees the NVR. No cameras. 192.168.1.108

    Just the Z12E 5-60 mm zoom camera. DIY Licence plate camera. Dont need all the ANPR capabilities. Just want to play back video if something goes bad in the neighborhood.
  20. stevef22

    Dahua config tool only sees the NVR. No cameras. 192.168.1.108

    I think your onto something here. A netgear nighthalk router is the only device between my hardwired computer and the nvr. It goes like this My computer --------------------- Netgear nighthalk ----------------------------- Dahua 8 Port POE NVR What setting on nighhalk is blocking Dahua...
  21. stevef22

    Dahua config tool only sees the NVR. No cameras. 192.168.1.108

    Getting to camera login ok. But cant login to camera. Bad password.
  22. stevef22

    Dahua config tool only sees the NVR. No cameras. 192.168.1.108

    Hi, having a frustrating time here. Any help much appreciated. 1. The dahua config tool only sees the Ver 4.0 8 Port Poe NVR at 192.168.1.108. My cameras are on a different segment 192.198.3.100. Changed my nic card to put me on that segment and scanned again. Nothing. 2. I have a Dahua...
  23. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Ok thank you!
  24. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Ok will perform factory reset. Then its user: admin pass: "leave this blank" ?
  25. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Thank you very much! I will try with your settings and start expirementing. Would you happen to know the default login for this camera? admin / admin123 I tried accessing the camera directly and get the login screen, but then no password combo works.
  26. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Thank you! "It comes down to do you want the actual camera to do the reading of the plates and logging them (an ANPR camera) or are you ok manually reading them with the camera you have OR using a 3rd party to then read the plates and log them? That is the only difference between your Z12E and...
  27. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Thank you very much!
  28. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    I currently have 1 of these ( LPR with a pair of IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E | IP Cam Talk ) Cars still blinding cameras etc. I need to play with more settings. This is a DIY license plate camera. But just wondering if any better available in my budget.
  29. stevef22

    Best ANPR licence plate cam 30-50mm. Under $450

    Im basically putting the camera on side of my home, along side a road that has a turn 100 feet away. Cars traveling 30-45mph. Distance to license plates is 30-100 feet. At 100 feet the road turns away. At 30 feet is closest to the camera. One steet lamp pointing down about 30 feet away. Andy...
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  30. stevef22

    Best lowlight 2-12 zoom turret cam under $299?

    Putting camera in tree about 24 feet from street. Trying to get good lowlight/color of vehicles. Not really a lic plate cam (I know lic plate is more a specific camera trained on a small space.) This is more of a wider camera. To identify people, make model of cars at night. Doest that help?
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