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Awesome. Was the hex string and location the same as on 5.1?

Yes, that's how they work. Upgrade to the Hikivsion ds-2cd2732f-is to get less IR bleed or to be honest, for less money, get the ds-2cd3332-i eyeball cameras, zero chance of this every happening. I think the problem is the plastic body and dome cover and the black plastic cover inside. If things are over-tightened, not tightened enough, the black cover is on crooked, the lens is not aimed the right spot this happens. But you have a warranty, tell Swann, let them tell you how to resolve it.

Just turn off the day of week display, it's in the Advanced Configuration -> Image -> OSD -> uncheck Display Week. BTW, the date with day of week in English is so long that I turn it off anyway and I make the font smaller in OSD Size (32*32). If you really want the day of week in English, that's doable too. Search for this from CBX, he figured out how to fix this.

Here's what I found since I have Hikvision cameras in all flavors of firmware. That URL works with 5.0.2 and 5.1.2 but not with 5.1.0. So my theory is that it's a bug in 5.1.0 and there's nothing you can do about it other than downgrade or upgrade firmware.

Could be a huge mistake. First understand the light makes the picture look good, but the problem it's backlighting your subject which may between your camera and the street light. Without the IR light, the suspect will look like a silhouette.

The P3367 does good in low light, the 3384 does better albeit at much lower resolution and you can't use WDR at the same time as Lightfinder, so without lightfinder, may not be any better than a 5MP p3367. I would get the P3364-LVE before the 3384. As for the M-domes, smaller for sure, but 1 yr. vs. 3 yr. warranty on the P, no auto-focus, no varicocal and the fixed lens is extremely wide which lowers the ability to id someone much further than 10' with that 2mm lens. I need to review the Axis M30 domes, good price point, but without Lightfinder, not sure of the value prop for the 1.3MP with IR, but maybe I'm overthinking it. I'll see what's up at ISC West next week with new models.

What do you mean? Sending video to a cloud based app that does the number recognition and storage?

$150 is tough, heck, the SD card will cost 1/3rd of that budget for 64GB. Camera brands that are decent that have models with SD card slots are; - Acti - record to SD, playback from free windows app - Axis - record to SD, playback from free windows app - Dahua - record to SD, playback from web client - Hikvision - record to SD, playback from web client - Mobotix - record to SD, playback from web client

Yes, that makes sense with that shutter speed. Do they use it with the Avigilon LPR software or just needed the ability to see a plate in a video?

Really? I can go in and open a case online. Maybe it's a browser issue. Are you in the U.S.?

Make sure the gateway addresses on both are correct and the same.

That's theoretically possible with their 22mm lens and 3-5MP, but to capture a plate at night, I believe you would have to set the exposure dark enough to overcome the headlights and plate reflection, like a max shutter of 100-200/sec. I've done it with other cameras and the plate is dark but somewhat readable. Do you have any pictures at night capturing a plate at 150'?

LPR software stores the plate number and image or video and allows you a way to search by plate number. For example, if you knew someone had 123 in their plate, you search for 123 and it returns a list of plate numbers, dates/times and photos of the car. If you want a proactive approach, you can trigger events on a plate match similarly like you set events on your camera, say on motion detection.

I only get notifications from my cube cameras because they have the most accurate motion detection. For example, I have an AVTech camera and sends me an alert within a few seconds to my IOS and Android phone. I tap on the alert and it starts playing the video of the last recorded event, has 2 way audio and works well as an alarm. You can easily turn off alerts from the phone as it's just a slider to turn it off/on. This is separate from my regular surveillance NVR system that does not notify me because I would go nuts getting alerts from outside cameras anytime someone walked their dog or road a bike past my house, every shadow, every car headlight at night. BUT, once I get an alert from my cube camera, I can go to my main camera app and see what's going on around the property.

I use Powerline to bridge two parts of a condo where it's not feasible to hard wire. Hardwire should be your first response as it's the most reliable and may be less expensive, especially if you are an electrician. I started with a wall wort PoE injector as shown above but quickly went to 2 cameras so I have a 4 PoE port switch on the camera side, the other side plugs into my home router. I record on-camera using SD cards so I don't have a recorder.

As much as 6mm & 12mm lens cameras are confusing to newbies, that's what I use on commercial locations for close-up cameras. I'll use a 2.8mm or 4mm for the overview camera. The rule of thumb is that a face should be 85 pixels tall and that works during the day, but at night with noise (or worse, noise reduction) takes like half the pixels away so I strive for double that number and my videos have been successful in criminal prosecutions. To give you an idea, at home, I use a 6mm and a 12mm cameras for close-up at choke points. If you never used one, try it, it will open your eyes. Sure, your viewing angle is half, but what you see in that half is double the value.

The only camera I know of that can do 5MP at 15fps is the ACTi cameras like the E33 but low light quality will be disappointing compared to a 3MP camera. You can always add more lighting to make it better. The best 5MP camera I tested is the Axis P3367-VE, very good low light image quality at 5MP but only 12fps and no IR LEDs, not sure if that was a requirement. A good name brand illuminator may cost about $900. The same from China maybe $40, but may only last a few months, so just get a bunch and swap out as needed, LOL. I'm afraid whatever 5MP solution you go with, you may not be happy without some external lighting.

I can only go by the specs since I only used one for testing purposes and no longer have it. The spec show a incoming bandwidth and that would be your limitation. Don't see why 1080P at 30fps would take up any more bandwidth than 3MP at 15-20fps. They show a sync playback limitation of 2 at 1080P or 1 at 5MP, so somewhere in between for 3MP I guess. http://www.hikvision.com/UploadFile/image/2013090209124922265.pdf

The only thing that displays in Chinese is the day of week (mon, tue, wed..). You can turn that off and just display date (ie 03-13-2014). You can get it to display the English day of week if that's important to you by extracting a file from the camera, use a hex editor to change some bits and then put it back in. CBX wrote a great post on how to do this. As for camera compatibility, yes, any region of camera will work with any region of NVR. It's not like DVD players that only play DVDs for a specific region.

Axxon Next is free until you want search, then it's big bucks.

For $250 you can try it, LOL. They are smart, they only allow a low resolution trial with one camera. Ideally if they can change the software to do analytics on a camera's second low res stream, but record from the main stream, I think that would be efficient.

To give you an idea, we try and capture license plates on cars moving up to 40mph and we set that camera to 4fps and we get multiple images of plates. To get reasonably smooth video, I would not go less than 10fps. For run of the mill security where you are not going to enter the video a film festival, 6-7 would be pretty adequate, even with moving cars.

If I understand you correctly, you are a Porteño visiting the U.S. and you want to go to a security trade show. The next one is the ISC West in Las Vegas, NV starts April 1st. Their website is - http://www.iscwest.com/

That's better CPU use than I thought so they must of improved that since I last tried it. Of course, going with 1080P or 3MP cameras may increase that CPU use significantly.

What do you mean by search? Search as found in some products like Milestone, Synology, Avigilon means that it looks for motion in a specified area of the image, sort of like motion detection after the fact. In most cases, because it's looking at a lot of video, it's very slow. From demos I've seen, Avigilon has an indexed search and is pretty fast, sort of one of it's selling points. I never use search so not a product I prefer, but I can understand if you do continuous record, this will likely be important so I would recommend Avigilon to you. BlueIris does not have search that I know of unless added very recently.