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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    Unfortunately Protect works very poorly with other (non-Ubiquiti) camera's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know you can connect ONVIF camera's so Protect can record them 24/7, but nothing else. No camera detections getting through, I believe the NVR's don't do any sort of IVS/detection...
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    Experience with Unifi Protect and UNVR Pro

    It does show how overpriced the Viewport is; here in the EU that thing is priced exactly the same as the NVR Instant (€214,80), but the NVR adds Protect, 3.5" HDD support and a 6-port POE-switch. But their offerings sort of overlap: €214,80 NVR Instant: 15xHD / 8x2K / 6x4K with 3.5" HDD. Runs...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    That's unfortunate, I thought the 180 camera's were quite popular and an IR version would be very welcome. Now you've piqued my interest.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Any hints on a (capable) 180 camera with IR?
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    EmpireTech 10th Anniversary (Summer+Prime Day)Sales

    PostNL is really testing my patience; it's at the local Dutch customs for 2 weeks already. :rolleyes: If that takes more than 30 days, I was told to contact the seller... With UPS, total shipping time is just a matter of days.
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    IR Hot Spotting Low Tech Fix

    Lol, gave it a try and some of my camera's and it actually works great. Much more equal spread of light. EDIT: well; less hot spot, maybe not more "spread".
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    EmpireTech 10th Anniversary (Summer+Prime Day)Sales

    Nice, same here. But the T180 will be a perfect replacement for a IPC-T54IR-ZE S3 with it's wider view. Will be interesting with it's visible LED instead of IR and no animal trigger. But love to find out what that camera's going to be like :headbang: Thanks Andy for another great lottery! You...
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    EmpireTech 10th Anniversary (Summer+Prime Day)Sales

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    EmpireTech 10th Anniversary (Summer+Prime Day)Sales

    :headbang:
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    UNIFI—The Best Option...?

    Combine the hardware from Dahua with the UI from Ubiquiti. :headbang: First signs of Ubiquiti opening their ecosystem for other camera's was hopefull because that would do just that; Dahua camera's with a Ubiquiti NVR (and thus their UI). But seems like Ubiquiti isn't going to implement it like...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    As others are saying; unfortunately not working; just one of the many "quirks" of the Dahua ecosystem. If it would work there wouldn't be a problem; but the fact this toggle is present but not working if very annoying. Dahua shouldn't put it there if it's not working as it should. This results...
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    Yes, that's why I was so happy when Andy came with the new firmware for the S3 camera's. But I'm also considering building an Unraid NAS/server (replacing an old Qnap NAS) and think about running Frigate. Less dependance on detection capabilities of Dahua camera's.
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    2025 New Arrivals From EmpireTech

    @EMPIRETECANDY So just to check; there is no new 180/dual lens IR camera coming? (Like the Color4K-T180 but with IR or dual light instead of visible LED only or like a 180/dual lens version of the Color4M-T?) It is a shame animal detection is so little of importance; I mean the checkbox is even...
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    To be fair; I haven't bought anything from Andy lately, it's all camera's I won with the lotteries. ;) Including his last lottery. I don't think I have any paperwork of these import costs still around, but I can check tomorrow.
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    Camera recommendations for Europe

    Didn't know he had 2 different shipping methodes. All things from him came delivered in about a week to The Netherlands with often a ~€10 import cost (from the shipping company; via a letter through the post about a week later)
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    So this is not happening for (at least) the foreseeable future? :(
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    Can 1 cat5e power two ip cams?

    I've been using this one from Aliexpress for 1+ year to feed a 5442 and 5231, powered by a TP-Link POE-switch. Working fine so far. EDIT: can't seem to link to Aliexpress (forum gives me an error), but it's those cheap €10-15 white POE extender things. EDIT #2: something like this:
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    Dahua Turret as bird camera

    Just to give an update. I made a simple birdhouse and installed it on April 5. Unfortunately no takers. I think it was the next day one bird stood in the entry hole but left immediately. Since this camera's IVS can only detect humans and vehicles (and no animals), I use simple motion detection...
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    Looking for POE nest cam

    You could also use one of @EMPIRETECANDY 's regular IP camera's. I used a surplus IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2. I opened it up, removed the glue that's on the lens thread and refocused the lens. Easy to do if you have the camera powered on and use live view to focus the lens. I made a simple box and...
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    :headbang:
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    DHI-NVR4108-P-4KS2 firmware update

    Well, the NVR is working fine so if the new firmware doesn't have some major/usefull improvement; probably not going to do that.
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    Dahua WizColor COMING SOON!

    I would love to see a dual sensor/lens/180 version of the IPC-T54IR-AS-S3/IPC-Color4M-T. The current 180 models require visible LED or enough natural light to work; I don't like visible LED's and don't have enough light. (Funnily enough; my T54IR camera's switch to B/W much sooner at the end of...
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    DHI-NVR4108-P-4KS2 firmware update

    I have a NVR-4116HS-4KS2, this one: https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Discontinued-Products/Network-Recorders/NVR4104/4108/4116HS-4KS2 Just for shits I checked it's firmware version; and it's System Version 4.000.0000.4 with Build Date 2019-11-29. @EMPIRETECANDY has...
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    EmpireTech 2025 Spring Sales March.18th-23rd

    Must be "interesting" times for businesses like you right now..to put it mildly... He sort of did; Andy has a Amazon.de store: Amazon.de But not much in stock though... Personally; I would love it if we could buy from his online store directly instead of email. But in the end; for us EU...
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    EmpireTech 2025 Spring Sales March.18th-23rd

    Is this going to effect prices for EU customers? Anyway; my price got delivered this morning! Thanks @EMPIRETECANDY :thumb: That's only 2 days shipping! :wow: And I was able to track the very airplane going from Guangzhou to Bangalore, Dubai and finally Liege. AVgeek in me was happy.
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    EmpireTech 2025 Spring Sales March.18th-23rd

    6th place winner! Another T54IR S3, this time the fixed lens. I might swap an older 5231 ZE with this one. Always interested in a "full color" or T180 camera so will continue to take part in the lottery until I win one! Ha! ;) As for specifying lens choice for the camera I won, I just reply on...
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    Dahua Turret as bird camera

    Well, I have some progress. I have opened up the camera. Separting the 'bal' from the base was tricky until I found the way how; then the base went off right away. I removed the glue from the lens and now I can indeed refocus the lens. And I'm able to focus in really close; like 10cm. from the...
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    Dahua Turret as bird camera

    Yes, those topics gave me the idea to refocus this camera. But I'm wondering if it will even be able to focus thát close to the camera. It needs to focus to, let's say, 10-20cm. at most.
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    Dahua Turret as bird camera

    I have a spare IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2; this one: https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Discontinued-Products/Network-Cameras/IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2=S2 I don't have a real use for it (at the moment) and I've been thinking of using it as a camera in a bird house. But obviously this would...
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    EmpireTech 2025 Spring Sales March.18th-23rd

    Tempting. ;) But I just replaced a IPC-HDW2431T-AS-S2 (that I won with your lottery) with a T54IR-ZE-S3 (that I won). I've yet to find a use for the 2431 (birdhouse cam maybe; spring is around the corner). And there's also the older T54IR-ZE (non S3) that I ordered for family that's still in...
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