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So you get video and not just a still image.

Looks like you didn't have the latest webcomponent activex in your broswer. Goto the dir and delete it, then the camera will prompt you to download it.

Two of those cameras are better version though, Lens: 2.8 – 12 mm, Viewing Angle: 90° - 30.5°. 0.07lux@F1.2 What is the equivalent Hikvision model #?

My experience with the Hiks is that the WDR is very useful in the daytime for bringing out the details in the shadows, but it increases noise quite a lot at night. I was running my cams with WDR set at 50 during the day, but the night image was terrible, so I ended up dropping it down to about 20, decreasing the contrast (the traditional fix for this on non-WDR cams), and turning up the noise reduction to 100. This made for a decent compromise between night and day. I'd really like to see vendors include a setting to load a complete profile, either based on time or day/night mode. This would be fairly simple to do, and you could optimize the image for both day and night without trade-offs. Yep, I have a similar setting in mine. I have a junky Vivotek camera that has two settings, one for day and one for night, really easy to select which. It is a shame that their firmware is so buggy though.

Might not be a bandwidth issue, it could be Verizon Wireless re-compressing (and messing up) the video stream on your cell phone. If you tower you are connected to is heavily used at the time, it can lower the quality of the video and images being downloaded to your phone. The cell company probably won't admit to doing this. It is easy to verify this by downloading a JPG image (not a PNG or bitmap), download it on your phone and then download it on your PC, compare the sizes.

The keyframe, an I-frame is a single frame of digital content that the compressor examines independent of the frames that precede and follow it and stores all of the data needed to display that frame. Typically, a I-frames are interspersed with P-frames and B-frames in a compressed video. The more I-frames that are contained, the better quality the video will be; however, I-frames contain the most amount of bits and therefore take up more space on the storage medium. By reducing in the number like you did, increased bandwidth usage. Your 100 should have been ok if you had a reliable connection. Cell phone companies such as Sprint that I have, will re-compress video and pictures on the fly, which can mess up video streaming which do not match what ever funny configuration they require. You can get by cell phone companies messing with your video and images by using a VPN connection on your cell phone.

That Lorex system looks like a really good system. I have the same system just with the 4 bullets and then bought 2 of the domes extra. Orig bullets - http://www.lorextechnology.com/downloads/ip-cameras/LNB2151/LNB2151_TRIFOLDQSG_EN_R1.pdf Those bullets look different, with the black section of the housing. New bullets - http://www.lorextechnology.com/downloads/ip-cameras/LNB2153/LNB2153_TRIFOLDQSG_EN_R1.pdf If the specs are the be believed, the min illumination was improved upon in some of the descriptions, not in the pdf though. The spec sheet shows how to connect via a POE switch, and the mention of a 12 VDC power supply, only differences I see. I wonder about this claim in the specs for the cameras... as it is disabled by default, you need to go into each camera to enable it. "Digital-Wide Dynamic Range backlight compensation provides clear detailed images where very bright and very dark areas are in the same field of view and frame of the camera." But a good system.

I know with the Hikvision/Lorex/Swan IP systems, they use the Hikvision protocol to make it very transparent to the user. But they also give the user the option to use tcp/ip as their needs expand, I like that design. The Qsee system is similar.

i don't know if i got lucky but SADP worked in finding my 6x Swann branded cameras, and allowed me to log in and change ip addresses of them to my subnet. Thats how it works, it uses the proprietary Hikvision protocol that doesn't use tcp/ip.

It is little tricky, viewtopic.php?f=19&t=35927&start=15 The interface is almost the same as the NVR. The 4.0 firmware in the camera allows for NFS and the 5.0 allows for iSCSI as well. The thing I don't like with the SCSI and the camera, is that it will allocate the full drive as just for that one camera. I'm learning about the iSCSI now so I can set size limits on the shares, so I can give each camera a set size. Looked into that yet? Just saw your website review, very nice. You can also use this NAS/iSCSI method to add an additional HD to the NVR for primary use or for mirroring.

Okay just followed what u said and I still don't see the IP address on the router. I heard it a reset/restart click sound and infrared led lights up. Very odd. By default the DHCP client in the camera is disabled. See here for the same camera info. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=35954 default ip of cameras are 192.0.0.64 username admin pass 000000 OR 123456

Use the reset button on the back to reset to defaults.

I'm interested in the DS-2CD2332 too. Does it use the same Hikvision raptor firmware? (Aliexpress is like ebay, not a single company. Being in WA, not allowed to use it for some reason)

No, they have 5.0.xxxxx available.

Yep, that how the Qnap works too, it depends on the camera being configured for motion detection, not in the NAS.

Can you display all the channels in the web browser? I can, but only when it is on 1 at a time or 3x3. Basically, it does the same thing on the web as it does when your at nvr. 1x5 or 1x7 it still says no resource. And whenever I plug that cam into another port on nvr it acts as if the picture is going to come up, then just goes to no resource. But again, the only way I can get 6th cam to work is have 1x1 or one at a time on the screen or 3x3. I can see all 6 in a web browser and using their windows client software, see the pic below. The selection of the camera to video window isn't great, have you tried removing them and going through in order and putting them back in the order you like?

Lorex, with 6 Lorex cameras.

Can you display all the channels in the web browser? I can, but only when it is on 1 at a time or 3x3. Basically, it does the same thing on the web as it does when your at nvr. 1x5 or 1x7 it still says no resource. And whenever I plug that cam into another port on nvr it acts as if the picture is going to come up, then just goes to no resource. But again, the only way I can get 6th cam to work is have 1x1 or one at a time on the screen or 3x3. Ok thanks for that. I have 6 cameras, but have only ever plugged in 4. I will try it today and let you know. I have 4 bullets and 2 domes.

Select ONVIF.

Can you display all the channels in the web browser?

Curious to know the bandwidth reported by the NVR when viewing the different camera settings.

That depends on how good it does with the first camera. Very true! Like with my QNAP, I didn't pay any fee and bought a Lorex NVR instead.

Don't forget to include the approx $50 license fee per camera.

Use one of the ONVIF camera options. id: admin Password is either 000000 or 123456

That is the one I have. But with Lorex firmware. Hope one day I can get the Hikvision firmware. That one is $399 Without HDD. currently. so 700 in cameras and 100 for HDD and 399 for NVR you are good to go. $1199. for a OEM hikvision system is not so bad. You can get the firmware from the US ftp site of Hikvision. Another user on here has updated theirs to use it, I haven't tried it myself, although I did download it.