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Do any installers have tips for improving light leakage from integrated IR on Axis domes? I recently purchased a new P3364-LVE as I only need 1.3 MP in my application. I am getting a nice halo around the view when the camera is in night mode with IR on. I have two other cameras of the same model that don’t have this issue... on those cams the hood is making a nice seal with the dome. I’ve tried repositioning the hood a bit but it won’t seal up tight. Any installer tips? I did install the camera module into an existing camera housing for a P3364 non LVE version, as they appeared to be identical. Could that be an issue?

Hi all, I'm running Milestone Xprotect Essentials which I originally purchased with 3 years of upgrade coverage. That upgrade coverage recently expired and I'm now running one version back from the latest version as my license key is ineligible for upgrade to the latest version. Which wouldn't be a big deal except I've got a problem currently and I'd like to upgrade to the latest version before I spend a lot of time trying to resolve it. The dealer I purchased the licenses from is no longer in business. What's the process of buying new license upgrade coverage for an existing installation from another dealer? Is it cheaper than just buying brand new licenses? Thanks

It's full of adds and requires registration every year or it stops working. Not really worth it. That kind of sucks. I sent you back a PM on upgrading to the next version up, it's probably what I would want to do at this point.

I have four cameras and plans for 2-3 more over the next year or so. I will pm you my license # when I return home, thanks very much for your help.

That would be great, thanks! The website indicates that customers who have lapsed on support are able to upgrade to Express for free if they buy 3 years of support at 50% off. I might be interested in doing that.

Colorado. essentials is now free for 8 cams or less. Well that's interesting. When did it happen? Do I just download a new license then? I wonder if that's why after I "upgraded" to 2016 R1 I lost the ability to record MPEG-4 from my Axis cameras.

Colorado.

All, I'm looking to replace my now 4 year old Samsung SNV-5080R with something newer generation. Camera is installed in a front door alcove, the exterior lights are timed to shut down at 10PM so the camera needs to provide its own illumination between 10PM and sunrise. Samsung I am using now has integrated IR but it's not very good. The camera is also enormous and a bit of an eyesore. Over the past couple of years I have replaced other cameras around the house with Axis P3364-VE & LVE cameras and think that they are amazing cameras if you can get a deal on them (I usually just try to scoop cheap ones on eBay). In particular the integrated IR on the LVE cameras is impressive as it doesn't require special gasket on the camera lens and has a really wide FOV if you are using it wide-angle. However the P3364-LVE does not have 2 way audio and this is something I've debated adding to any new camera I put in, assuming I can get it to work with Milestone Xprotect client (we have Xprotect Essentials installed for recording and mobile apps). Any suggestions welcome, thanks.

I haven't been active on the forums now for awhile but started looking for his newer reviews when I was considering a couple of new cameras for my wife's office... really shocked to hear of his passing. He and I corresponded often over forum PM, especially when we were both starting to mess about with Milestone. Very heavy heart and sad for his family. 59 years is far too young to lose him.

Hey all, Does anyone have any night time sample video of P3364-LVE set to wide angle? I'm interested in seeing what the wide angle performance is like with the integrated IR and light finder capabilities. This would be going on the corner of a 300 square foot patio to replace a Samsung dome that has very bad integrated IR (basically a spotlight) at 6mm. The Samsung is also suffering from a noisy fan. I will probably take it down, get it serviced and then sell it. Thanks.

Hey guys, My wife has become interested in putting a few indoor cameras in the home in order to keep tabs on the comings and goings of our au pair, housekeeper, etc. Can anyone make a recommendation on a discreet, possibly 360 degree indoor IP camera that won't break the bank and will work with Milestone? I envision mounting these in the ceiling in a few spots in the home in order to reduce the # of cams needed. Also, if anyone knows of a cable installer in the Denver area send me a PM. Thanks!

Thanks! The Axis kicks the crap out of the DynaColor, but it should for the price!

Don't know a great deal about them. I saw them when I was wandering the web one day. When you mentioned you were after a reasonably priced fisheye they came to mind. Can you link to the axis? I might look into them myself. http://www.axis.com/products/cam_m3007pv/

It looks like Axis has cameras in similar price range that also do 360 panoramic but are a little less expensive. The Axis cameras would for sure be supported in newer versions of Milestone, not so sure about the Hikvision cams. Do you know anything that Hikvision cams that would justify the higher cost over Axis? It looks like they might have integrated IR lighting? Thanks.

Thanks very much for the info. I would probably prefer a ceiling mount model so it could not easily be tampered with. I will check these out.

Hi guys, How well would one of these work in a nursery as a backup baby monitor? Is there a specific model I would want to look at? In looking at $200-$300 video baby monitors, they are kind of crap. I might still have to get one to make my wife happy but it would be nice to look into putting something inexpensive like this in the ceiling as an alternate way to keep tabs on things ... and I would drive it from Milestone so that I could access it anytime anywhere.

One potential problem you could be running into is that some internet service providers block port 80 access to prevent their residential/non-commercial customers from running web servers on their home networks that can be connected to from the Internet.

Well, I wish you luck... it is questionable though that you will get something actionable with the police unless you are lucky enough to get them in broad daylight and can make some kind of identification. I don't know why people are scumbags. A neighbor called me a few weeks ago because someone had drawn some porn graffiti on the hood of one of their cars with mustard and after washing it off they realized the vinegar in it had etched the paint or clear coat. Even though I had them on video it was night time and you couldn't make facial identification. Some people are just bad apples.... we need some chlorine in the gene pool.

Hopefully this is an indication of the realization that IP cameras do not have magical properties and that prices shouldn't reflect those magical properties either. I'm not sure what you are arguing about, that every camera should be $50 and every NVR should only cost a few more than the PC components needed to put it together by the manufacturer? What you are paying for with IP cams and NVRs/software is not only the cost of the device but the engineering, support and features that the devices offer. You seem to be advocating for a "race to the bottom" as we've seen in the PC industry where now most of what is out there is cheap badly assembled junk, but hey it's cheap!

In camera motion detection: Camera tells the NVR "hey, there are things moving now, record!" NVR motion detection: Camera just sends video feed to the NVR all the time. NVR analyzes the video stream to see if there is any motion, and if so, it records (or does whatever it is told to do). Since the NVR is the one analyzing the video all the time, it needs/uses more CPU power on the computer. I think you should maybe look at Buell's article about how motion detection is setup with Milestone before you start implying people are idiots. Motion detection on Milestone is automatically configured to use its own built in motion detection algorithms and it is not intuitive or simple to understand what is needed in order to switch things to use in-camera motion detection.

Apparently the problem is how Milestone labels things. In all of my cameras there is an option under "recording settings" for the camera that list "built in" motion detection and it is checked. One would assume this means that Milestone is configuring and using the built-in motion detection capabilities of the camera, but from what Buell is reporting this is in fact not the case and "built in" means "built into milestone". Because of the very low CPU use of the recorder application I was under the impression that there was no way that Milestone was doing the motion detection, but after looking at my cameras I see that they don't have motion event set up or triggers set up on motion, so it does appear that Milestone is handling all of that via their motion detection stuff. I will say that setting up the motion detection areas and sensitivity in Milestone itself is very easy... and if the cpu use is as low as I'm seeing (10% for recorder on a C2D CPU machine) then I see no reason to change it to use the camera motion detection.

Thanks for posting this. I will have to check my cameras, I believe that somewhere in the settings I have "use in-camera motion detection" as an explicit check box on my Axis and/or Samsung cams.

I updated to it a month or so ago hoping that the new version included the bug fix I was promised for a problem I have (it didn't). The new version is fairly similar to the older one but they have improved and streamlined some things and the mobile server has gotten much more efficient.

Hey Buell, I would love to see a short article follow-up on Milestone motion detection on your blog. As it is, I'm not sure I understand the things you have stated previously about how "in camera" motion detection on Milestone really works.

Well the probably with the "internet of things" that is currently going on for thermostats, lighting, etc, is that the only cameras/systems that currently work with this stuff are simply toys. I do think eventually some of the big vendors are going to try to tie into this market, but don't see that being a factor for a while yet.