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And what will happen if u use 12 V and PoE at the same time ? Nothing if the camera is not PoE and the OP is confused, after all, we don't even know what camera it is.

By chance did you have the 12V power plugged in at the same time as the PoE?

Try BlueIris, you can download for a free trial to see if it works for you but can take video from popular analog DVRs and also supports a wide array of IP cameras.

You can get an idea of pricing by search gsaadvantage.gov and enter the model number. For example, the 5MP Bullet, i5.0-H3-BO2-IR. If you search for it, you can see it's $891 from one place, $1,023 from another. This is government pricing, but I would take an educated guess the $1,023 is close to list price, the $891 is a typical distributor discount of about 12%.

If the camera is too high above the subject, you will get the top of their heads making it harder to identify someone, especially if they are wearing a cap. Indoors in ceilings is OK because it's only typically 8-9' high.

You guys must of paid a pretty penny for a booth that size. Very nice booth.

Caution about LTS when comparing to Hikvision. Hikvision is trying to distinguish themselves from OEM's like LTS, so the cameras have different housings and may or may not be interchangeable with mounts. The OEM eyeball camera looks different from the ds-2cd3332-i, just saying. Was just in their booth at ISC yesterday and had to do a double take. These wall mounts are generic in the sense that they support multiple camera models.

Don't know those products that well, but with Milestone XProtect, you can record as long as you like and regardless of how many files it creates on disk, you can give it a start and end time and export a 20min video, no problem. Camera brand does not matter as it works with many. Check out cube cameras because they tend to have microphones built in, from ACTi, AVTech, Axis, Hikvision, Brickcom, all should work well, but remember, this is surveillance quality audio, not even close to even armature production values. If you want quality, get a nice camcorder with an external boom mic. Make sure you check with a lawyer before doing this. You will likely need to get releases before audio recording. You state requires that all parties agree to be recorded if you are not part of the recording. Also consider HIPA compliance as you can get yourself in trouble if you disclose a patients medical info by accidently or intentionally publishing this outside your office.

They demo'ed it at ISC and it looked pretty impressive. They had the camera in a dark box with no visible light and you can see the objects inside spinning on a turntable. Don't know when it will be available, but still in beta testing. They also had a hemispheric camera with cool functionality in ivms4200 where you can click around an fisheye image and it changes what's displayed in corrected streams. Also, they had a covert camera along the lines of the Axis covert camera where it's a box, maybe the size of a pack of cigarettes and a sensor/lens on a wire. Typically used in ATM's and such. They claim very good WDR which is required for ATM's as you can have the sun to your back when using one. Again, all this is trade show stuff, not something you can buy.

Just depends on what your goals are, if you have enough light for the faster shutter speed. Some people are happy with 1/15th if it's just people walking.

What is the maximum shutter speed set to. I believe ACTi on sets it to 1/5 by default, hence the fastest it can move one frame is1/5th of a second, but there's compression overhead so in reality 3fps seems realistic. You can change the maximum exposure to something faster, I usually use 1/30th of a second, but you can experiment for what works best for you.

I use Fing, free, works on Android or IOS.

Anyone going to ISC in April? I plan to be there for the 2nd and 3rd.

We use Milestone with a gate and I setup a hardware event, click the test button and it opens the gate, albeit with an Axis camera, but should not be a difference in the way alarm outputs work. Basically it's a normally open circuit. When I click the test button in Milestone, it closes the circuit, sort of like a button switch would do in your house that opens/closes the garage door. How long it closes the circuit is a parameter in the hardware event.

First, what's your budget? To read plates at night you need a dedicated camera no matter what. If you want to use something like a bullet or dome to read plates, it will have no other use at night. Get the longest lens you can get, 12mm is bare minimum to read a plate 20-25' at night. Set the max shutter speed to about 100-250/second. This will make the image look almost all black, that's good. When a car passes by, you will see the lights from the tail or headlights and hopefully the reflection of the plate and that shutter speed will work well even at high speeds, but remember, getting a shot of a side car is worthless for reading a plate, so you need to be as parallel to the direction of travel as possible. If the image is still too dark to read the plate, what I use for budget installs is a bullet landscape light with a par30 spot light bulb in there, maybe 75W or LED equivalent. On higher-end installs, we use a Raytec RM100 or RM200, runs about $900-1,200 just for the part. As for NVR, because you are looking a specialized cameras for what are trying to achieve, seriously consider decent NVR software like Exacq, Milestone, Avigilon and get a PC to run it on, preferably one rated to be a server. I use Milestone and also use their LPR software, both work well for me and priced competitively.

Yes, each release will need something, but most of my Hikvision I have installed, USA or Chinese still have 5.0.2 running on them, so I personally not a fan of putting firmware updates just for the fun of it. I think we get used to that from our smartphones as my Android devices are constantly asking me to update apps, drives me crazy and then they take a perfectly good app and make it not work anymore, so I turn updating off.

I doubt that would work because the file is the same for Chinese or English cameras.

It's very clear why they do this. They feel they can command a much higher price for their product in the U.S. market than in other markets and grey market Hikvision cameras affect their ability to get these inflated prices. They also feel the DIY/hobbyist market is undercutting their biggest customer, the installer/integrator. So their goal is to cut people like you and me out, saying you can only buy their products from installers/integrators. Siding with installers is common in the industry. With some like Avigilon, their product is limited only to installers/integrators and while some resell the camera, if they get caught, Avigilon could drop them. BUT, we have a back door, grey market Hikvision cameras. Now they really hate that because not only are we affecting their installers/integrators, but little they can do about it. No laws preventing you from getting a product in a different country and doing what you want with it. So they are try to shut all of us down by making firmware that is language specific. Actually Dahua tried this too by limiting China resellers to PAL cameras only but likely because Hikvision put a damper on their sales, they are now selling in U.S. through partners to resellers. The good news is that it's temporary, meaning that for a year, Dahua is all people spoke about here. This year it's Hikvision. Next year, who knows.

You can stay on 5.1 or try 5.1.2 with the appropriate tweaks. When the tweaks are applied, the camera no longer appears Chinese. It should, at least in theory work with iVMS-4200. Try it, what do you have to lose.

I tried the easy way on a few different Hikvision cameras including 3332, 2032 and 2732 and no problems. It's actually a faster process than loading 5.1 on top of 5.1.2. BTW, I played with the NAS CIFS/SMB stuff with 5.1.2 and it does the same thing as with 5.1. It lets me format it and as soon as you try and write an event video to it, it goes uninitialized. The only thing that I can see that's fixed over 5.1 is the ability to get a snapshot using an URL command like what worked in versions prior to 5.1. Low light performance seems the same to me.

Yes, it does work, just tried it on a 5.1.2 camera, all menus, day of week are in English. Let me put the stuff together and I'll post the screen shots and such to make it easy. Also, I'll post my davinci.tar.gz file so you won't need to hexedit, just ftp the file to the camera.

I was under the impression that Brenning applied your patch and it made the menus English also.

But the sad part is that Hikvision USA only wants to sell to installers/integrators and not end users through resellers, so it's a conundrum. The alternative they proposed is OEM but the problem with OEM is the model lineup is limited.

Try plugging the long cable into a laptop to see if it work and plug the other end into your router to see if the cable is bad or the switch/NVR has issues.

In 5.1.2, all the menus are in Chinese, not just the day of week. You have to apply your fix to change this or go back to 5.1 or older. Frankly, for me, the most stable release so far is 5.0.2.