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Very sorry to hear about this loss. Carl is a great guy! found out that we went to the same highschool, although more then 2 decades apart.

Yikes, I hope this isn't common with Hikvision cameras. not too common, i have 12 hikvision cameras installed, i have one that needs to be powercycled every few months, and 1 that needs to be hardreset every few months, every other camera has been flawless.

need to do a hard reset. i have a hikvision bullet, needs to be hard reset every 3 months, pissing me off really! works for 3 months, then it just crashes internally requiring a hard reset. This is one of my hardest cameras to access, so every year i get to get up there to reset it. Really need to replace this one. Need to press at the hard reset button while plugging in the ethernet cable, and hold for 10 secs or so until you hear the camera click.

5.2 seems to be overly sensitive with detection of light, i get a billion emails a day now due to the sunlight triggering motion. Used to get maybe a few a day.

if you more pixels to recognize people at distance my 3mp cams capture faces at 10-20 ft away just fine, i can make them out most of the time need to get myself a 5mp camera.

Hikvision 5.1.2 Chinese to English Fix viewtopic.php?f=19&t=40240 i've done that fix, this "HACK" seems to be talking about something else

can someone translate this to something that anyone could understand?

the best reviews you will find are on the forums. Not many people run 5mp cameras, although i am looking to pick one of those up eventually to get a wider view. I run the 3 MP versions of the one you linked, costco sells them labeled as swann for $250 each. The 2 i have have been very stable for the past year.

i also have a few geovision cameras, and a dozen dahua cameras, but in the end i settled with hikvision, since they had better features and the interface was easier to work with. and constantly supported with new firmwares. your best source for info would be forums such as this one. Hikvision cameras are generally well received, and raved about. For the price point, its very very hard to come close.

first hand experience i went from 6x logitech alert system, 6x external cameras, used 4 externally and 2 internally for over 2 years. i am now using hikvision cameras, ~150 each for the most part or less, 2 varifocal bullets that were $250 each. Now running 11 Hikvision cameras ( still have a few i didn't set up yet) using hikvision apps for monitoring. your choice of app for recording, i am using synology which is ok software but not the greatest as they come at a high cost. Happily using this setup for the past year now. way improved picture quality amongst other things since upgrading from the logitech alert system.

Is BLC a feature on my Swann NVR already? Ive gone through all the settings I and haven't come across that feature or setting. Can you tell me where to find it? BLC setting are mixed in with WDR settings. You might need to manually log into the camera to do it. But last i tried my lorex(hikvision) system, i vaguely remember being able to adjust WDR settings.

i-frame settings maybe? i had to adjust mine, forgot what it was to remove studder remote viewing, previously it would refresh every 2-3 seconds when remote viewing. are you on avs forums by any chance?

i have the exact same issue, the solution is to turn on BLC, and play around with where to focus the back light compensation. The wall will still be bright, but it wont be dark in the other area anymore.

CLOUD that says it all, it is constantly uploading to a cloud.

the log is from his patching program, in case there are any errors, he would probably tell you to give him the log to figure out where it went wrong.

Cyclone Bit Xtra = CBX?

the la700 can be used as a bridge as well. Any powerline adapter can be used as a bridge. They all follow the same standards, and the default powerline passwords are the same i believe.

The front door camera I can see no other way to get a camera to look through the door. I haven't seen other cameras that I could mount and be able to see the person's face. Because of that I may have to purchase one of logitech's indoor cameras. Now whether the IR would reflect from the window and blind the camera I'm not entirely sure. The logitech tech seemed to think it would be fine, but I'm not so sure. All the other options I can see for an outdoor camera would have to be mounted fairly high, and unfortunately I don't have easy access to the crawlspace here. That and mounting a camera that high would give me a great view of the top of the person's head, but I wouldn't be able to see much in terms of facial features. As for the outdoor cameras. The way my home is setup it looks like I can position outdoor cameras near either the garage door or a window. This is why the logitech system is so appealling to me. I can run the outdoor bullet just outside the window, and run a thin cat-5/6 back under the window track to the logitech power adapter. Or in the garage's case run the thin cat 5/6 cable back to the door's insulation and tuck it under, I have a outlet fairly near the garage door that I can use. The areas that I'd like to monitor I can actually record through a window, though I realize that the quality and my ability to see at night will be largely dimished. The simplicity of having the powerline and the poe in one small package is attractive, that and the adapters don't appear to be that much more than the other adapters I've found elsewhere. The majority of powerline adapter's I've found seem to only provide the internet pathway, and most appear to need some sort of injector to provide the PoE side of things. Are there other powerline devices that seem to be well suited? I know I can get a POE switch and run that, but the distances between where I'd like the cameras would really only benefit one of the camera to buy a POE switch. there is nothing else i can really see in the price range that can do both POE and powerline. The simplicity is great. Do know that there is a limit to a number of cameras due to the bandwidth, i am unsure the exact bandwidth available with these, but i would guess around 85mbps.

i used a 6 logitech alert camera system before, i've since upgraded, but... i still have 2 of the logitech alert POE adapters in use with 2 of my newer 3MP cameras. They work well. I use synology surveillance station. The logitech alert POE is very handy, being POE and powerline in one. I would use it in a pinch.

i got 2x DS-2CD2432F-IW built 3/2014 with the newest firmware apparently, all chinese, hope to get these tweaked out soon.

i use a garmin

i have mine at 20, it works ok for me, but in certain conditions like snow etc, you will get massive amounts of notifications.

i have sensitivity set to minimum, and it still catches more motion then i want.

yes configure motion detection sensitivity and area on camera where to record on nas and what to email with synology.

set it up as PSIA instead of onvif, works much better, i have 10 hikvision cameras running with syno surveillance station as PSIA. can't help with the other questions as i havent figured it out.