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I have a pair of the 5mp dome from Costco. I made a post regarding them but having trouble with sample images uploading

I saw the 2 pack of the swann EXIR 5mp dome cameras available on Costco website but I found little information or reviews on them so I bit the bullet and got a pair to try out. My setup now consists of a Dahua NVR with mostly 3mp Hikvision cameras and a couple Dahua mini dome. Covering my front driveway I have two cameras. The image on the 5mp has much more detail by a considerable amount. The main problem I encountered was that the NVR I have is H.264 and the cameras come set to H.265 but can be changed through the browser. Once this was changed I reconfigured the IP, ports, and passwords. Assigned them to the NVR and they were up and running. Can't figure out how to post the full image here without resizing it

Many good points above. At 20-25' can you id at night with the noise in the image? Somebody commented the video that the bitrate seems too low as far as the quality. It seems that no matter night mode or leaving in color that when its night time i get much worse quality. If people walk by in blue jeans its like the camera doesnt pic up their pants and they blend with the road. I like the idea of multiple telephoto cameras but then neighbors would definitely start talking

Ok so I have some of the Hikvision 3mp bullets covering the front yard. I want to setup another camera or two specifically for getting a better look at people in front of my house. In the video There are two people that I am lead to believe were going to attempt to break into a neighboring home. Only problem is you can't get a positive ID. So I am looking for suggestions of perhaps getting another camera, varifocal or perhaps 8-12mm range and focusing on the street. the motion at night is also a bit bad as far as sometimes leaving trails and such. Even if i dont get a whole lot of field of view but If I could get facial recognition and perhaps daytime license plates would be great. Considered one mini PTZ tucked up there but may be too bulcky yMQWLIHQT6I

Qwhere do i find what latest firmware is? The camera is running 2.210.0001.0.R

I will check the firmware once i get some free time. Super busy this week bbut will report back

Cut them down to 12 fps on Hiks and 15 on Dahua. Everything else has been good all day except for the Dahua. the bitrate on all has been lowered to 4096. The Dahua has experienced a few freeze ups on the web app and once when viewing at the NVR to the point I had to reboot the camera. I'm considering returning it at this point. Also have yet to be able to get it to record on the sd card but thats another issue

taking off cameras is the same as lowering the res of each. that unit is best at 16 at 2mp fps @ 7 your collecting 12 cameras 3x3mp 1x 2mp and 8 xD1. your spec says 16 @5mp can be run ......... but what the spec does not tell you is you have to lowe the 5mp to D1 to run which is pointless. don't read specs from resellers ..... go to dahua site What is the model of that on Dahua website? When I am looking at one with exact specs on reseller website and on Dahua website I see " Incoming bandwidth: 160Mbps" I read that as a total combined bandwidth of 160Mbps and it doesn't really matter what resolution it is. Running a 5mp at 8Mbps isn't the same bandwidth as a 2mp running at 8Mbps. If I was running over 100Mbps I could kind of see what you are saying but I'm showing the D1 analog cams as pulling approx. 700Kbps which is nothing really and the other cams running at approx. 6Mbps. Does a 5Mp cam use 10Mbps set at D1? Maybe I just don't understand fully what you are saying

It goes away when I take out 3 other IP cams. I plugged everything back in and it seems a bit smoother now. Maybe I need to give the system a rest for a little bit lol

Not set to JPEG, all cams at H.264 Last night connection was a bit slow. This is about what it usually is when I check

From what I can see on the NVR I am pretty far away from the max. on the screen where it shows kbs for each channel it all adds up to about 30Mbs. Unless it is trying to stream all channels in full resolution out to multiple monitors outside network but I'm not even sure thats how it works. I did a little bit more testing and came up with the following. Keep in mind I am not in IT so I could be way off in my logic. These problems never occured until putting the extra minidome. The low quality on mobile app I would like to lean towards my internet being the problem, or just not being able to get the feed through the switch fast enough? When viewing recorded video on my home network from my laptop, the playback is extremely slow. Almost unwatchable I stopped paying attention to live feed to watch recordings since seeing a slow connection. The only choppy recordings are on the Dahua minidome. All other ip cams and analogs have smooth recordings. The choppy footage usually occurs about 15-30 seconds into the recording. If I unplug 3 other cams from the switch then I can get smooth recording on the minidome. But this doesn't tell me whether it is a switch or NVR. If I get an additional switch of the same model and split the cameras up I would still have the same amount of traffic going through the switch that is plugged into NVR right? Unless I put both switches through the router and have all that traffic go through the router which I don't know if it could handle it. Perhaps the best bet to elimante any switch problem would be a gigabit PoE switch I would assume?

This might explain on the phone or outside my network but not viewing on the NVR itself or within my network

Here is a brief clip. I trimmed this clip down from original. Original started with light turning on , camera switching to color, me walking around room. In original the choppiness I am referring to starts at 45 seconds. in this clip only about 5 seconds in. Sometimes this occurs immediately and sometimes the first few moments are fine then it starts getting choppy

Restarted the NVR, Switch, router, modem, dvr. everything related to cctv has been reset

It comes up choppy when viewing on the monitor attached to NVR, the web service for NVR, and on the phone app iDMSS. I hardly use PSS so didn't ever check on that. I setup the iDMSS connected to NVR for viewing and added another device which is the camera itself. all are really choppy, the recorded video is choppy as well, I will try and upload a clip here shortly. Also when viewing the other IP cams they have become a bit slow and choppy as well but the playback seems to be a bit better.