PeteCress

Indoor is ok, basically a babycam situation monitoring sonebody who is bed-bound. BI not such a problem, but IP Cam Viewer seems more particular. Has anybody used something that delivers sound through both apps?

Indoor use, basically a baby-cam situation (bed-ridden adult), but remote/WAN access is needed. Has anybody found a POE cam with built-in microphone that works with both IP Cam Viewer and Blue Iris?

Hardware-wise, the Blink and Netgear Arlo systems are appealing: no cable to pull, no AC to connect But those two and the few others I have looked into all rely on somebody's cloud storage, which I do not care for. Has anybody found a wireless battery-powered cam that works with local storsge? .. Not USB sticks, but a NAS box or 24-7 PC. Blue Iris compatability would be the brass ring.

Is that to say that Hiks are somehow exposed to the WAN despite one's efforts at security? I set the ports on my cams to something different and set up a custom ID/PW on each cam.

I am caving in to close family members' urging that we have cams monitoring stairwells and other places in the house where The Old People may fall. At first I was leaning towards stealth, since the wife is not going to be in love with the idea of Being On Candid Camera, but have moved away from that for various reasons. My favorite existing outdoor cams are 2.8 mm Hikvision turrets and, in spite of the size, am leaning towards using them indoors too. The Questions: - Is there any reason to consider dome cams? - Would I be wasting time trying to find a turret or dome cam without IR instead of simply turning IR off? - Is there any reason to explore brands other than Hikvision? Blue Iris.

Am replacing a few outdoor bullet cams (POE HikVisions) with turret cams for the increased durability and decreased spider web exposure. Have been told in no uncertain terms that I have a need to monitor a couple of stairwells indoors - so my kids can check up on The Old People to make sure nobody's laying on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. .... The stench from decomposing bodies and the resale value of the house, I guess..... -) But a bullet cam indoors is kind of obtrusive - especially when a certain other family member is not going to be all that thrilled about being on Candid Camera. My thought was that maybe I could pull the guts out of a bullet cam and repackage them into something that would fit, for instance, in a dummy wall receptacle. .... I am thinking that the IR emitters would not be needed because of ambient light from night lights and the minimal need for detail. What's the gut reaction of Those Who Know? Has anybody actually done anything like this?

... public surveillance/facial-recognition? Seems like the Chinese government's efforts in this area would be state-of-the-art.

Not like this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAEH96EP2652&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Home+Electronics+Accessories-_-9SIAEH96EP2652&gclid=Cj0KCQiA_JTUBRD4ARIsAL7_VeWsYGIHvd25BcbBB_3ypN6C9j6KzNv-AZ-eqfijJsK7slFqzAqzqRQaAgN_EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds More like this: https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/safety/security/surveillance-systems/cvc675-960h-inwall-camera-36mm-lens-stainless-steel-housing?infoParam.campaignId=T9F&gclid=Cj0KCQiA_JTUBRD4ARIsAL7_VeVJwn4fJYAgGOa8KFCOxpBhLM-pD2lZgzgt8bkVJo8U55buhpJQvKgaAmHUEALw_wcB I want to cover two staircases - at the request of relatives who want to be able to check to see if one of The Old People has fallen.... I guess so they can get there before the body decomposes so badly that the smell reduces the resale value of the house...-) I am not married to the idea of POE, but it seems like running AC vs running Ethernet is a wash....and all my other cams are POE. Anybody got something that they know and love? For offerings like NetGear's Arlo, the ability to integrate with Blue Iris would be a very strong nice-to-have, if not a "Must". Wireless/battery-powered is, however, attractive in that running Cat5 to the two locations is going to be quite difficult - and I wonder if wireless bandwidth constraints could be mitigated by having a separate WAP for each cam.

Took delivery on 3 of those Bad Boyz a couple days ago : 2 2.8's and a 4mm. The native night vision is head-and-shoulders above my older Hik turret cams... maybe it's the recent full moon, but the one I tested was actually picking up colors in the dead of night while the old one next to it essentially put up a black screen with a few street-light highlights for the same view. The detail/clarity on the new cam is also noticeably better - at the same rez.

Which one do you have? This one calls out to me because of the price and being turret: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6JS5HM2884&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-IP%2FNetwork+Cameras-_-9SIA6JS5HM2884&gclid=CjwKCAiA15vTBRAHEiwA7Snfc9yGQCh8vOygZlazvBcwxnu2fG9Is3WFYu1u8NCdUoyO6ZC7wfwNYRoC6O8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds I bought a couple Dahuas a few years back, but was turned off by the proprietary software needed to do camera setup (i.e. no built-in web pages). Every so often, when the money just starts spilling over, I think about doing an all-ACTi system because of the low resource needs of their camera hosting application - which seems to offload a lot of processing to the individual cams.... but I have no clue about ACTi's low light performance.

Been fooling around with a Honeywell SkyBell today and tonite. One thing that I notice right away is that the night vision is pretty good - better, I think, than my HikVision DS-2CD2335-I's (http://tinyurl.com/yc3shc3s). Or is it my imagination? If not, can anybody cite some user-grade cams with comparable native (i.e. no IR) night vision? Tangentially, I also notice that Hik has started playing games with retail pricing - trying to restrict sales by outfits that sell for less.

By 'General Purpose' I mean something that gets moved around for special situations. e.g. If I suspect we have a mouse in the kitchen, I would put it there and check Blue Iris' motion-trigger alerts in the morning. If somebody is stealing from neighborhood mailboxes, I would hang it on a tree near the mailbox. My current favorite cam overall is Hik's turret cam as in https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIABXX4NM3595&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Surveillance+-+Home+Safety+%26+Security-_-9SIABXX4NM3595&gclid=CjwKEAjw85DIBRCy2aT0hPmS1jkSJAC1m9Uv7zH7xqEwvJfBU2G5HoNZOrYVTvSuBY1H30uQUejVrxoChKjw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds -either in 2.8 or 6mm flavor. Pretty good.... but it's a bit bulky, it's white, and the IR advertises it's presence.. Anybody got something that might be more amenable to multi-use/moving around/stealth mode? The IR aspect is not a religious issue....

I have some bullet cams as in https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-New-DS-2CD2035-I-replace-DS-2CD2032-I-and-DS-2CD2032F-I-3MP-H265-camera/32763442879.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.10.4QMWc0&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10065_10068_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10060_10061_10062_10056_10055_10054_10059_10099_10078_10079_427_10073_10103_10102_10096_10052_10050_10051,searchweb201603_3&btsid=fa701aa8-6bfd-4202-b5da-a52886dccaf4 and some turret/"eyeball" cams as in https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hikvision-DS-2CD3325-I-2MP-POE-IR-H-265-EXIR-Turret-Outdoor-Dome-Network-Camera/32761208363.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.2.CKzENd&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10065_10068_10084_10083_10080_10082_10081_10060_10061_10062_10056_10055_10054_10059_10099_10078_10079_427_10073_10103_10102_10096_10052_10050_10051,searchweb201603_3&btsid=6b89f115-7fff-4e9d-8384-1a008499ed85 Given similar prices/resolutions, it seems to me like choosing the turret cams over bullet cams is a no-brainer. To Wit: The turret cams' form factor is more durable: nothing to grab, no leverage to twist them loose. . The turret cams' adjustment is more durable: no ball/socket joint to wear out and get sloppy over time, no chance of something knocking the cam out of aim by bumping up against it. . Virtually no issues with spider webs on the turret cams vs the need to frequently brush spider webs away from the bullet cams. Am I missing something in this comparison, or is choosing the turret form factor over the bullet form factor really such a no-brainer? My agenda here is that people are starting to ask me for advice on camera choice and I don't want to be misleading anybody.

Got it. Two other parms have to be set: Configuration | Advanced Configuration | Storage | Event-Triggered | Enable Event-Triggered Snapshot =True, Interval = 1000

I'm striking out with offloading motion detection from BI to my HikVision cams, so I am trying to use their native FTP to get the alert images. But Hik does not seem to accept domain names in it's FTP setup (e.g. "PeteCress.DynDNS.org")... only numeric IP addrs - which is a deal breaker for me. But even testing with a numeric IP - where Hik says the test FTP was "Succssful", I'm not getting any motion-triggered images. Configuration | Advanced Configuration | Events | Linkage Method | Normal Linkage = "Upload to FTP"