I bought one of the PTZ3E10X-T180 cameras, knowing that I was taking a bit of a risk, and so far it's been a disaster. Dahua must have gone extra cheap on the CPU(s) because it can't keep up with anything. The video streams stutter if there is any motion, even at only 5 frames per second (fps) on both streams, or if I'm trying to manually pan, tilt, or zoom. It feels like they took the hardware from a basic single-lens camera, then added the dual-lens 180-degree view, hoping the processor could handle the additional load, including stitching together the two lenses for the 180 degree view, but the hardware just cannot handle it.
I have tried multiple POE+ and even one POE++ options with no improvement. I thought I might have a network problem, so at one point I started a ping and found that anytime the camera might be doing something (e.g. AI detection, PTZ, etc.) the ping would time out once or twice. After a few such actions or motion, the pings start to regularly time out even when nothing is happening. If you simply reboot the camera, it then all user actions again return to normal responsiveness with a steady ping, until you do a few more things. It feels grossly inadequate for processing. Andy had a Dahua engineer connect to my camera to test it out and basically just said that's the way it is, which implies it could never perform the basic functions as advertised.
For clarity, I'm not saying the ping timeouts are a problem. They are merely a symptom of a processor that is so underpowered that it is overloaded doing anything and cannot even find time to respond to a ping.
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@Alfredo Monarrez , I wouldn't be surprised if you are seeing another symptom of this camera being completely underpowered to even stream the video. Of course I could be completely wrong and you could have a completely different issue (e.g. power or image freeze as mentioned here), but this sounds a lot like what I have.
