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What does it possibly effect? I say plug it in (assuming the power adapter is 110VAC 60hz) and see what happens. The theory is that Europe has 50hz power so their standard is 25 fps and the U.S. has 60hz power so 30fps and this dates back to analog days. On the Dahua, you can chose any FPS from 1-30 and I don't see any difference if I set my NTSC version to 25 FPS.

See if you can get a night shot from them from that model camera. The reason is domes are trickier to make than other types of cameras. A poorly designed dome can be bad because you'll get light bleed that creates glares and halos on the image. Also, it may bleed at different angles. Trust but verify.

Actually helped me out because I was lazy on figuring out how to turn off the 24/7 recording. To me, processor power was the #1 priority because I had this running on an Atom processor PC and worked great. Then I moved it to an i3-540 system I got cheap because an NVR company went out of business.

Mine were not in direct sun. What, 2 years is not a success story?

I don't understand then, PAL & NTSC are video standards nothing to do with network standards. The camera sends video using RTSP to a frame rate and resolution you pick. I know their PAL cameras say 25 FPS vs. NTSC at 30 FPS but heck, you can chose from 1 FPS to the max, has nothing to do with video standards. My guess is maybe they limit the max FPS to 25 on the PAL version, so firmware would definately fix that. BTW, the 1080P version of that camera has video out, so then I can see why you would want the right video standard for your locale so it works with a monitor you plug the camera into.

I put an Axis camera facing outdoors, was sort of my weather cam at my vacation home. Worked great for two years. This is what it looks like right now and I plan to replace with another fixed iris camera so I get another 2 years out of it. Maybe if I give a pair of sunglasses it will last longer. Also note, this is a wooded area, no direct sun. Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (this would be the 3rd such camera, first two with sun damaged sensors).

Mike stop it give him some time to digest "Critic" need some time Actually never looked at in detail and assumed if it wasn't recording, it wasn't streaming video from the camera but I was wrong. ACTi helped me find the option to record only events (by default it records 24/7) and while it's still high, it is lower. It went from about 74Mb/s average to about 55Mb/s average, certainly not a good idea to try and push that through a 1Mb/s DSL line While live viewing from another PC, the network bandwidth went backup to the 74Mb/s number. Watching live video from the remote PC and the server PC, it went to about 106Mb/s, so about 25Mb/s per client session. On the other hand, CPU dropped down to 0-2% but most of that is probably running Task Manager. That's with 4 1.3MP@10fps (1 h.264, 3 mjpeg), a 1.2MP@15fps (h.264) and a 2MP@15fps (h.264) cameras. CPU did not change at all when remote viewing the cameras on another PC. CPU on server went to about 55% when viewing live on the server PC.

If I remember correctly, they had 4 Dahua products listed, I tried each and everyone with the HFW3200 and doesn't even connect to the camera. BlueIris is for home use, didn't know the scope of your project. Milestone can support Dahua via ONVIF I heard. You can request a free single camera license with Milestone to test this if you want. Also you can test with their free product, XProtect GO and see how it works with their camera.

I tried NUUO, they say they support some Dahua camera but none of the new ones. They were actually quite rude about it saying if the specific model wasn't on the list they can't help me, basically a "go away, you bother me" attitude. I even tried their ONVIF option, no luck. Heck, even my ACTi TCM-1231 was not working right with it with the lower part of the image blurred and support blamed it on my PC, really, my quad core, 8GB PC is causing video issues with 1 camera when other ACTi cameras work. So I would say support is responsive, but not helpful. BlueIris works with it, you can see my blog on how but basically you select Dahua DVR and change one of the options. The recording is a little jumpy and they have access to my camera and are working on it. For $50, it's one of the best buy's out there. There's people trying to make it work with Zoneminder but not having much success. A while back, Sean said Axxon software would work, maybe so, but it's a CPU pig, 4 cameras used 100% of my quad core processor to the point wher it took me a while to kill it because the processor was maxed out.

What probably makes the camera PAL vs. NTSC is the analog video out that you'll probably never use.

You could setup a small simple PC like a Nettop running Linux with an FTP server running. The camera FTP's to the Linux PC and you write a shell script to take the files as they come in and FTP them out to a NAS at a remote location. That way the Linux server is acting as a buffer so the camera can push the event video as quickly as possible and the Linux server can take it's time queuing up files to FTP. Wouldn't even need that much of a hard drive or memory, cheap little thing. You could also hide this somewhere, up in a drop ceiling, in the wall behind a picture, lots of possibilities.

Now your talking, I love Phoenix in August, toasty warm, monsoon rains and cars parked outdoors get so hot you can burn your hands trying to get in.

He doesnt have alarm inputs in his camera, so he is out of luck. Best bet is get a PC and use analytic software like from VitaminD that distinguishes human form.

This is an image from a P1346-E in complete darkness I actually have images from that camera and all I can say is ehh, OK, not great. Actually, side by side with an Axis M1114, the cheaper camera did better in low light.

I did, see above, it showed 74Mb/s using Windows Resource Monitor but I also said the new release is recording 24/7 and can't figure out how to turn that off and just have it record events. Ate through a 1TB drive in about 5-6 days, ouch. I have a ticket open with ACTi, see what they say. Probably just operator error.

But you have to be a little logical. If you had six cameras, 1.2-2.0 megpixel streaming to anywhere it would take up CPU cycles, no? So as an experiment, I started 6 browser tabs on IE, CPU at 8% on a 4 core cpu. I log into each camera just using the browser and my CPU jumps and stabilizes at about 84% cpu. So in my book, 6 streams can eat up about 3/4 of my desktop. The PC running the NVR software has the very same 6 cameras, recording 24/7, yet it's CPU utilization is about 10% and it's half the processing power of my desktop with a dual core i3-540 CPU. So yes, currently it is streaming all 6 cameras for recording because it's recording 24/7, but the previous version did not. So I'm using about 74Mb/sec of network bandwidth on Resource Monitor.

Client can run on any machine as their program or via the browser. Seriously, its not reading the stream unless it's recording. CPU is like 5% busy, when I run the client it goes to 50% busy.

Which model do you have because the one mentioned by the OP is a day only camera with a night mode that basically makes it B&W in what they call "electronic day/night". There's a permanent IR filter coating on the lens, it's invisible to IR unless you replaced the lens in the camera and if so, do you have day and night images to see the potential of that setup?

When the NVR server is running, it's a service on Windows, it's no displaying anything. When you run the client, clearly it has to stream at that point but you can chose to have it use a lower res stream for this purpose, but record the hi-res stream (assuming you have a camera with the dual streaming feature).

The motion detection is done by the camera, so while there's nothing going on, CPU activity is pretty low, a few percent. This is V2 which is still available. V3 for some reason records 24/7 and I haven't figured out how to turn that off. You set the motion detect zones in the camera, the sensitivity, all the normal stuff in the camera.

I'm sure temps in the southweast don't even come close to temps in the southwest and I've never heard of any issues with heat damaging cameras. It's best to get a camera with auto-iris to protect the sensor from sun damage.

The ACTi NVR software server only records when the camera senses motion, so it's not continously streaming. I just tested it, you can give it a domain name and port for a camera, works fine.

That should work, just pair it up with the recomended telemetry receiver and you are set. At least you know they have tested it and it works. If you go on my blog, someone there is experimenting with the very same idea and he's further along. He doesn't have a camera so I have no idea how he's going to test it. It's in the comments in the KCM-5611 review.

They provide free NVR software for up to 16 cameras per PC, runs on Windows, you provide the PC. Or they have an NVR, about $800 and supports 16 cameras, you provide hard drives and monitor - http://www.acti.com/product/detail/Standalone_NVR/GNR-2000 If you want an NVR solution, there's other brands in all price ranges and most support ACTi cameras. A Dahua NVR is about $400, again, no drives, no monitor.

Not obsolete. Seems like you need the pan/tilt motor and the controller. There may be used components on eBay for much less. I've seen Pelco pan/tilt motors for pretty cheap. Just not sure what's compatible with what. Controller http://www.geminicomputersinc.com/dtmrx224.html Pan/Tilt Motor http://www.geminicomputersinc.com/pth311.html