Well I just got back in town from a 3 day 22 camera install and now that ADI can no longer supply dahua I pulled the trigger unfortunately. I don’t even know how to convey the level of disappointment. Not about picture quality so the hobbiest may not care but if you’re going to install all day every day, jeez. I’ll start with the interior cams; N3D-8LA2. They made the screw wells so deep you can’t use any of your multibit torx tools to open/close. Had to use their little Allen tool which was fun seeing as the screws don’t have grommets to keep them from falling out. And of the 3 screws they have to line up with individual holes, real fun 20’ in the air! Next the exterior cams; N5T-4CA2, don’t come with drill templates, which these were all masonry installed. And the screws and wells are tiny. Not to mention the mounts that there own websites data sheet says are for these are almost 2 times as big and unusable. That was a treat being 2 states over! Then there’s the NVR; R5432NA, it’s sluggish, buggy and generally going back to old original dahua gui. It has the camera list on the left, no sequence option for layout, no mouse scroll for digital zoom, no way to setup recording schedules for motion, alarm or intelligent, just constant or event. And to top it off all 3 people I spoke to at support were not native English speakers.
