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    Help! Contractor broke my PTZ camera!

    @wittaj Thank you for these helpful links. Is there a particular female connector that you recommend I use? This cable is kind of expensive, but I could cut the male connector off--ouch--and then solder the wires to the wire coming from the cable. This would give me a new female connector on my...
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    Help! Contractor broke my PTZ camera!

    Hello ipcamtalk friends. I need your help. If you've been following my adventure with the Dahua PTZ1A225-HNR-XA over in my "drive-by shooting" thread, you are aware that I had mounted this camera incorrectly. Well, earlier this morning, one of the contractors working on my house broke the...
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    police visit my property because of my cameras

    I back the blue. Cops have a very tough job and need more support and appreciation from the general public. Like any profession, there are going to be some bad characters. But it is wrong to conclude that all cops are bad, just because there are some that are. Without the police, my neighborhood...
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    police visit my property because of my cameras

    Anyone have police visit your house asking about your cameras and whether they can get a copy of the recordings? My house is in a city with a reputation for violent crime--a reputation that no longer fits. But occasionally very bad stuff happens and then the police start going to houses with...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @bigredfish -- Thank you. The advice I received from you and others here at ipcamtalk has been very helpful. I think the gain was set at its default, but I don't know the default value. Here's the video clip showing the car go by. The camera is at 30 fps. Again, the weird angle is the result of...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    While I wait for the wall mount to be stocked, I've been experimenting with the ability to capture license plates. Here is an example of what I am able to capture using this PTZ camera. Shutter speed at 1/2500; sharpness, sharpness CNT, and gamma at 2; far light illuminator at 100. Any...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Thanks @eggsan. I traded messages with @EMPIRETECANDY who says he should have some of the wall mounts later this month. Until then I'll just leave my PTZ camera up in its awkward position.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Thank you @wittaj Do you have a PFA101 mount adapter? Does that have sockets that line up with the PTZ camera's junction box so that I can attach it?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @eggsan Thanks I will contact them. Yes, I'm in the USA.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    UPDATE: Regarding the wall mount (Dahua PTZ730W), the only vendor I could find might be scammers. They wanted my passport number to ship it to me. So I told them to refund me. I'm probably out the money. Does anyone know where I can buy this wall mount?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj @bigredfish @Parley -- Getting back to the issue of the manual focus, I am looking at the Dahua API and I think that a specific value can be set manually. I think I will need to use the curl command from the command line, but this should be fine. It does not look like there is a way to...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    I only found this vendor in Spain. so I just bit the bullet and ordered it. Dahua PFB8730W
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj Yes. Exactly. I have it mounted horizontally. What a bummer. Amazon does not carry the wall mount PFB730W. Can anyone recommend a vendor for it?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    A big thank you to everyone who recommended this PTZ camera. It is simply amazing. However, I think I installed it in the wrong orientation. Because the panning and tilting is all messed up. I mounted the junction box on my wall. The camera is perpendicular to the wall. So it comes out...
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    Recommended web browser to access cameras?

    Okay. Now I am getting a message saying "Overtime login" and it won't let me into my camera from IE. I can still access it through Google Chrome.
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    Recommended web browser to access cameras?

    @wittag -- Thank you! I did just as you said and indeed IE started right up. Now it is asking me to download a plugin. Is this safe?
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    Recommended web browser to access cameras?

    I'm running Windows 10. When I try to open Internet Explorer, it automatically stops and opens the Edge browser. Bummer.
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    Recommended web browser to access cameras?

    I have seen a lot of mention about using older versions of web browsers to access Dahua cameras. Is this advice still right? I have been able to connect to my Dahua cameras using Google Chrome v.115. I'm posting this thread because I didn't see one on this specific topic, and didn't see anything...
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    EmpireTech Model PTZ1A225-HNR-XA

    Thanks @Parley
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    EmpireTech Model PTZ1A225-HNR-XA

    I was thinking more generically, in the sense of will any ONVIF compatible software control the PTZ abilities of this camera.
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    EmpireTech Model PTZ1A225-HNR-XA

    Does anyone know if the PTZ1A225-HNR-XA camera has PTZ via ONVIF?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    I can't wait to get the camera on up on the side of my house. These bums who loiter across the street are going to feel very uncomfortable with this camera staring down at them.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj Thank you for your fast reply. Yes. I have POE+. I got it working on 192.168.1.108. I think it just took some more time that my other cameras to power up. This camera is amazing!
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @Parley and @bigredfish -- How did you activate your PTZ1A225-HNR-XA camera? I tried connecting to it at 192.168.1.108 and nothing is there.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @Parley -- I'll order the PTZ camera later this evening. Thank you for showing me proof of concept.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @wittaj and @Parley -- I have a good amount of street light at night, more than what @bigredfish appears to have. So I am hopefully that this would work, particularly, given Parley's tests. I would only have one present position that the camera would return to for LPZ when I am not manually...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    @Parley -- Is it the same exact one as the model I linked to above? If you can manually adjust the focus, then I should be able to use this model for my use case, right?
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    Drive-by shooting!

    Interesting. So daisy-chaining two of these devices would essentially split one cable into three. Good to know. I need to think about it. I would love to have the PTZ capability but after the drive-by shooting in front of my house (aimed at the bums who live across the street), I feel like I...
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    Drive-by shooting!

    I hear you.
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    Drive-by shooting!

    That would be the best solution, but it requires running additional cables to that location. At the moment, I can split the cat6 I have running out to one of my front cameras that monitors my ground floor windows and run a cable up the front side of my house to the location where I intend to put...
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