Mweston

Quite frankly, I think you need to delete this thread and try to move on with your life. You're letting him get to you and that means he wins. Be prepared to protect yourself, if the best way to do that is with a gun then make sure you are well trained. There's lot of classes around for that, find a reputable training school and take some classes. Reinforce your door and door jamb. Look up door jamb armor if you just have a wood door frame. If you need legal advice, find a lawyer, you won't get good legal advice here. Stay in constant contact with the police and keep track of case numbers to build a file against him. This guys is clearly an asshole but your not helping your case by publicly putting this out there and saying you will "shoot to kill". He may be all talk but in the unfortunante situation that you do have to defend your life with deadly force, you will be investigated and you don't want anything out there that can be misconstrued. I have a friend that recently shot and killed someone who kicked his door down, it was a clean case of self defense but still took a year of his life in anxiety, news reporters knocking on his door and crime reports labeling his house a murder scene. It's not something to take lightly. He'll get what he has coming to him and hopefully eventually end up in prison for a long time or move. And side note: the descriptions of your YouTube videos are also a bit strange. You sound angry at google for putting ads on their videos that they host for you for free. Video hosting is expensive, if you don't want ads use another service that you pay for.

Has anyone come up with a way to use a Dahua camera, particularly their mini PTZ SD42212SN-HN in color mode at night with external IR illuminators? So I guess I need a way to put it in night mode but still get a color image. I'd like to use a combination of exterior white lights and external IR lights which I think will be ok in color. What other cameras will this work on? I think I've only heard of vivotek being able to do it. How about Hikvision? Thanks

Any update on this? I've also got it working in Safari but not Chrome.

Hmm ok. I thought I remembered a discussion on here of some saying that they somehow were able to control the ir cut filter and bw/color settings separately and it worked out better than being in b&w due to the mixture of regular white light and IR.

Does iVMS only work with hikvision cameras? Or can I add 1 dahua camera that I have? I'm looking for a good way to monitor all of my hikvision and dahua cameras in one place on a Mac. I have securityspy but am not too crazy about it. Would like to be able to change the layout a bit. Any other alternatives for mac?

I'm looking to install some pinhole cameras (Hikvision) through sheetrock/stucco but I'm worried that they will be too "straight" of a view when I need something more on an angle. This is the camera: http://www.hikvision.com/en/Products_show.asp?id=9620 For example I want to mount one next to a door but still see if someone is standing next to the door. Could I insert it in the wall at a very slight angle instead of straight out? I need to stay with a pinhole for HOA reasons Here's a diagram of the area: http://cl.ly/image/0r2A2V0S2b1S Are there any discrete mounts that let you mount at angle? I was thinking of making some kind of JBox Cover with a pinhole in it at angle but it seems that any type of angle will require it not to be flush and pretty obvious. Or maybe the Hikvision pinhole will be a wide enough of an angle to mount flush and still see the wall next to it?

I've seen this topic discussed before but want to see if anyone has anymore input. I'm in Texas with a dome IP camera above my front door, bullet on my balcony and mini dome on my garage eave. I also have 2 other neighbors with cameras installed and the HOA has asked us all to remove them. They stated 2 reasons: In all my searching and speaking with an attorney I do not see any "legal implications" to one recording their own property. Has anyone successful fought this or know of any laws in Texas relating to a homeowners right to security?

Has anyone had any experience with the 3mp dahua IPC-HDBW3300? It looks like a very nice camera but I haven't seen much on it. Also cant find it for sale except on ebay for $325 from china and I'm not even sure if its real. http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/ipc-hdbw3300--14.html

I'm trying to get a Dahua mini dome camera working on SecuritySpy. Has anyone done it? I'm not really sure what to do about the HTTP Request field, leaving it empty doesn't seem to work....Any ideas? Thanks

I've been experimenting with Vitamin D but just from the webcam built into my computer. From what I've seen it works pretty well for motion detection and removing some of the false positives. Have you tried downloading the free version and testing it to see how it works?

This is kind of a basic question but I plan to setup my own home surveillance system and I'm wondering where the ethernet from the camera needs to connect to? I want to use a dedicated Mac as an NVR so is it possible to run all of the cameras via cat5 to a POE capable switch then another cat5 wire from the switch into any ethernet jack in the house? Or does the switch have to connect back to my router that the computer (nvr) will be connected to via wifi? Planning to use Dahua dome cameras and a mac with VitaminD.

Thanks. Not bad but I'm seeing prices of about $600. I think I might try to go with the Dahua IPC-HDB3200C and see if there is enough street light to not need IR yeah, either from ebay $339 or china is the lowest for now. I ordered the HFW3200C from China and camera is due to be delivered next week. The HFW3200C is a great camera. It would be my first choice but I'd prefer a dome as it is for a residential home and trying to avoid any HOA problems or anything too obtrusive.

Thanks. Not bad but I'm seeing prices of about $600. I think I might try to go with the Dahua IPC-HDB3200C and see if there is enough street light to not need IR