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    IPC-HDW5442T-ZE artifacts

    Maybe I'm expecting too much. Attached is with sharpness at 40, exposure 0-4, 3D and 2D DNR at 30. Doesn't seem much different/better. Granted, the lighting has changed much in the couple of hours since I took the first shot.
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    IPC-HDW5442T-ZE artifacts

    Hi all, Can you help a newbie set up the subject varifocal camera? To start with, I'm seeing a lot of artifacts in the daytime. I would have thought I'd be able to tell that the animal down by the fig tree was a chipmunk. You can see the driveway is grainy. And the spots on the hood of the...
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    How To Upgrade Amcrest / Lorex to Dahua Firmware And Get All Dahua Features

    Hi all. For the Dahua firmware on the Amcrest IP5M-T1179EW-28MM: Does this give the option to set human or vehicle detection which the Amcrest does not provide? That would be about the only reason I'd want to upgrade, to get the human detection alert sent to my Surveillance Station so I can...
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    IPC-T5442T-ZE pulsing at night

    Let's see, will try turning smart IR off this evening... Not sure why it worked for 5 days then suddenly got funny...
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    IPC-T5442T-ZE pulsing at night

    Attached is a link to a video showing the effect:
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    IPC-T5442T-ZE pulsing at night

    It doesn't look like IR keeps going on and off - there is a plant in the foreground of the image that stays illuminated while this is happening. But perhaps it is - hard for me to tell. I do have the transition set to a low value on all of my cameras - 2 sec I think. I could always play with...
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    IPC-T5442T-ZE pulsing at night

    I have had the subject camera installed for about a week. Seemed to work well, but last night I noticed a continuous motion alert from the time my landscape lights went out until sunrise this morning. Went and checked and the camera was pulsing all night, dim to bright. Has anyone ever seen...
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    Waterproofing camera junction boxes

    Exactly what I'll do - I have a wad of duct seal that I will use for this purpose, thanks! I don't know how to prevent straining the cables on the Amcrest cameras when I stuff them up in there - not much room to get a nice sweep with the RJ45 and the connector they use...
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    Waterproofing camera junction boxes

    Hi all, I bought some Dahua PFA130-E junction boxes for the purpose of under-soffit mounting my new Dahua and Amcrest cameras. These are beautiful aluminum boxes. Trouble is, I can't figure out how you are to make this box "waterproof" when using the back side knockout. It comes sealed with...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Also - I had my motion sensor settings reset themselves some time yesterday. I had it set to only notify on human detection and full motion detection alerts started around 15:30 EST yesterday. I know the app is finicky with resetting some settings when changing others but I made no modifications...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Mine has been dropping at about the same frequency as you’ve described. Hasn’t failed completely yet but it never reconnects on its own. Have to check if it is warm frequently (it does get hot eastern morning sun so this summer will be a real test) and the voltage on my transformer (believe it...
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    Amcrest AD410 Doorbell Cam disconnects from wifi

    @JazzRock - How did you make out with this? Having same exact problem, trying to better diagnose. Thanks!
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Also - it would seem that the notifications are not all independent in the app. For instance, I'd like to have the app stop telling me about motion and humans, but allow calls through. But I'd like the camera to pass the motion and human detection through to my NAS which would then do the...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Does anyone know what this doorbell needs to get an accurate picture in the notification? Does it need to have an active internal SD card? I've turned this feature off in the Amcrest software because it brings up either a logo screen, or live video, or something other than a snapshot when the...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    I made this change for [0][0], [0][1], and [0][2]. It looks too soft for daytime pictures for sure. <ip_addr>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInSharpness[0][1].Sharpness=0 I also made this change for the same. I don't know if it added anything...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Perfect, will review. After reading through the Dahua thread, I am finding myself wishing there was another app for receiving and answering the doorbell calls than the one Amcrest provides. It too is sloppy in functionality IMHO (iOS).
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Thank you. With this being the current config for sharpness within the API, can you suggest the puts to adjust to a different value? Thanks again! table.All.VideoInSharpness[0][0].Level=50 table.All.VideoInSharpness[0][0].Mode=1 table.All.VideoInSharpness[0][0].Sharpness=50...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Where might I get a list or tutorial of everything I can do with the API on this camera?
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    That's what happened to me last night when I adjusted Sharpness (per recommendation earlier in this thread that it helped night vision) - the camera feed started pulsing as if it had a hearbeat and no additional changes could get it back. Did a factory reset and all was good.
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    This is quirky as anything... making those changes reset my motion detection settings as well as the time format. Need to be careful making changes on this device!
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Scratch that - it just worked - now available in ASP! Must have needed the API move first to "free it up". :)
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    I just tried it with the API (I'm a novice here) and I can't seem to move it with that either...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Honest, not lying! :) Is that for the AD410?
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Yes, same version. I can check it to add/remove it (though that doesn't even seem to work), but I can't move it.
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Thanks. Reset did it, but not sure what happened to begin with. This thing is tricky, probably a result of using multiple apps for config.
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Thanks, I got the speaker volume slider to work finally. Not sure why it's so difficult to move on my phone. I used the API to remove the Amcrest logo. I cannot find a way to move the time stamp overlay. I looked in Surveillance Pro and I can move the channel name, but not the time stamp...
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Well I botched the doorbell already with SurveillancePro. I moved sharpness to 0, picture got funny put it back to 50, and now it flickers once per second. No idea what is going on.
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    Amcrest AD410 - Synology Surveillance Station

    Anything new on this front - integrating the AD410 with Surveillance Station? Thanks.
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    New Amcrest AD410 doorbell Cam Review

    Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time setting this doorbell up, in contrast to the many cameras I've set up previously. Can you all help me with some questions? Which apps are you using to view and change settings? I can make some changes in Amcrest SmartHome (iOS), Amcrest IP Config...
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    Analysis paralysis with system design

    Thanks all, I'm continuing to learn. Playing with the IPVM tool, I'm getting a better feel for the shortcomings of using all 2.8mm 5MP cams. I have played with 4.0mm lenses in the software and can see slight benefits, though it feels like the 2.8s will do a decent job for the entrances if my...
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