zikronix

Q2U can you post the configuration settings out of the the lorex?

Love my 3550...you can pick them up refurb for about 100.00

Let's hold off on the conjecture until after we have determined what the situation is. You sit tight and wait because, the next thing you know, every newb and his brother will be brickin' their cameras based on faulty assumptions and bad information. Sit tight and be patient. You know I don't give a damn about brickin this mofo!

If you have the WDR setting on your cams, this helps improve the night mode. I set one at 50, and it really helped the night shot a lot. Brightness and contrast can help night images or day images with lots of shadow, but are almost always a trade-off. For the infra-red, you can put tape over some of the LEDs, but how effective this is will depend on the distance and angle to the lines. Since the remaining LEDs have a good bit of spread, they may still hit the lines, but it's worth a try. This is something the next generation of cameras needs, now that WDR is becoming more common - adjustable IR, or better yet, intelligent IR, where it adjusts it automatically depending on the image. ETA: Q sent me a link to the lastest Hik firmware release, and lo and behold, it includes this: Support SMART IR (only for IR featured models) So, it's too early to say if the Hik firmware is really that much more awesome than the Dahua, but for now, Hik is seriously kicking Dahua's butt. Add that you can get the software, as well as a list of changes and bugfixes, and Dahua is, like, totally last week. I just hope I can sell mine to some sucker, ummm, n00b, errrr... adventurous but ill-informed soul! Here's the rest: 1. New Features Support three new date types: (month/day/year), (year/month/day), (day/month/year). Support DDNS for No-IP; Support anonymous login; Support UPnP; Support IP filtering (totally 48 IP addresses can be managed.) Support one way alarm I/O, audio, local output and auto Iris functions for SD card featured models; Support volume control. (DSP functionalities) Support the OSD font setting (ActiveX required); 16*16, 32*32, 64*64, self-adaption Support motion areas highlighted by frame in live view mode. (Core and relative drive) Support AK4954 audio codec drive; Support amba emac and phy hardware fluid control. (Front-end parameter and ISP) Support SMART IR (only for IR featured models); Support more AWB settings: manual WB(R, B gain adjust), AWB1, locking BW, filament lamp(3000K), warm light lamp(4000K), nature light lamp(5500K), daylight lamp(6500K). Support D/N switch timing mode (ICR start and stop timeline can be configurable); Support D/N switch alarm input triggering mode (only for alarm featured models). (Standard protocol and ActiveX) Support HTTP PUSH MJPEG encoding for sub-stream (only Firefox supported); Stream URL: http://ip/Streaming/channels/ID/httpPreview Support SDK Input in ActiveX; Support ActiveX anonymous login; Support 13 languages including Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, German, Italian, Czech, Slovak, French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Dutch. 2. Improved Features (Application) Changed RTSP authentication as default setting; Changed the audio input default value as Line in; Optimized the smoothness of live view. (Front end parameter and ISP) Solved the bright spot issue. (DSP relative function) Optimized the OSD characters overlay in proportion; Modified QP parameters. Is that for our cameras...or the 3MP version?

What are the camera settings compared to the swann...does it have the soft right side as far as you can tell.

That I understand but HOW MUCH of the 100mb pipe does it uses when transmitting at say full quality. Let say the switch is only 100mbps, the uplink to the router maxes out at 100mbs. The uplink is a single port on the switch that will be carrying the video stream from ALL the cameras at the same time. If say one swan cam uses max of 25mbps and the foscam uses 10mbps (4x 25mbps) + (2x 10mbps) = 120mbps combine. bandwidth of all the cameras at 120m it will overload the uplink speed going back to the router. and you will have either frame drops or camera not showing up. or some garrbled video. So now I would need 1000gb switch to handle the uplink going to the router. Due to the nature/location of where the cameras are wired to and the placement of switch I don't want to use anything expensive if I don't have to. *** SOMEONE correct me if I'm wrong on how it works, as I currently run 6 foscam off a full gigabit network. makes sense

Great to know...thanks for the info. Im still getting around to moving those cameras around on that soft right side. I printed the star pattern to help

good to know...you can also do the same with the swann system using their software

My only issue with domes is they are a pain in the ass to adjust...but i like the way they look over the bullets. I have the swann system

The cameras only operate at 100 Mbit so it doesnt matter

Yea...ill print one and stick the camera on my tripod and put it at the end of the hall.

so i guess ill be doing this in my house with all the spare cameras to see which ones exhibit the softness and which ones dont.

Yup, the DEC Alpha processor was amazing and way ahead of it's time. But DEC didn't capitalize on it adequately and the company ended up having hard times. So, the second largest computer company in the world ended up being bought by Compaq (a PC company)! Compaq in turn was bought by HP. It was an amazing journey through all that but it ended up with massive layoffs with myself included. The rate of change of technology over the last couple decades is truly mind boggling. Compaq was an intel slut at the time. If I recall correctly they bought dec to essentially shelve the product, and pick up on patents and move customers from their vms...to their "far superior cough inferior cough" itanium....the sad part is compaq was already in the half way in the red at this time they only had a handfull of boxes under the compaq name that used alpha processors. DEC also got too big...they started getting into the mind set "we are your technology partner" alot of companies did that back then. Micron, Nokia (yes the phone company), nortel, All these companies stated literally making everything.

I have a couple of cams with the soft right side...i have been swapping them out with extras i bough from costco... Is there a a really easy way that i can test these things in my house for the soft right side. Its hard to tel if they are soft when i look at them and they are pointed at the door!

Yes I was referring to the Dec alpha. I seem to recall boxes with the alpha name on them, in some form. I vaguely recall the Dec branding. My memory isn't what it used to be. But yes my point was the alpha processor was an amazing piece of work.

I dont think its they cant answer...I think its more of they dont want to!

This might not be relitive to all cameras but it is to the swann/lorex/hik cameras inside the options they have a "noise" removal slider. its set at 50. with values from 0-100. I understand that cranking that to 100 can make the image softer in normal and low light. I also know if its too noisey you cant identify anything. Additionally they have sharpness controls. Which literally adds data to a video to give the appearance of a cleaner sharper picture. Why are their both of these settings, because they are counter intuitive each other. Once would think that you want sharpness at 100 and noise reduction at 100 which from a video standpoint is exactly what you dont want! I guess my question is really to adjust these accordingly one needs to put a static image infront of the camera...especially in low light conditions and adjust accordingly correct?

It's not a light it's the ir sensor... And if the ir are on then ir leds(around the lens) glow red

Hmm that's interesting... I've never owned either. So far Swann support is awesome. I am in the process of tweaking email alerts... And I do get a lot. I suspect the lorex would be the same since it's almost the same nvr. The one thing I like about the Swann is the 3 year from Swann and Costco vs the lorex... I may check in out

I dont think its the zoom as much as it is the pan tilt, and potential auto track (which the swann doesnt support yet)

Never mind!

I finially pulled the video...ill post it later tonight.

Heres what i did for the install. Drilled a 1.5 hole in the front cover then bolted the camera to the front cover with lock washers, thread-loc and nylon nuts on the back side of the cover. made the connection inside the box. The standard box screws are being replaced by security screws this weekend. I used flex conduit cause it was easier and cheaper than the hard stuff, drilled a hole in the bird stop on the back side of the conduit, i also put another conduit connector with an electrical washer so its quite difficult to pull the conduit out. and here is my lock box that houses my nvr, ups, wireless hdmi and keyboard extender. ( before repainting the ceiling)

I gotta hand it to you Z: you take the bullets with a grain of salt. This is actually quite laudable. If I had time to research something else before i bought it....id still be deciding...ive waffled for for years. so back to the issue at hand. is this thing limited to 32kbps?

I gotta hand it to you Z: you take the bullets with a grain of salt. This is actually quite laudable. If I had time to research something else before i bought it....id still be deciding...ive waffled for for years.