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  1. Posted

    Thanks for such a comprehensive post showing your camera model numbers and photos and final result on the DVR. The market changes so quickly knowing the details of what someone who put the time in to make decisions is extremely valuable for other members.

     

    I found your post doing a google search on IPC-HFW4431R-Z after seeing that the cameras are available on E-bay for under $100. I have not yet learned much about this camera, but if you want to describe how you like the motorized zoom and pixel quality and overall bang-for-the-buck, that's what I'm curious about myself.

     

    Especially if there are any compromises on the quality of the image that you receive.

     

    Thanks very much again!

     

    Very happy with them. Image quality is great, and nice to be able to zoom without having to go out and physically adjust the camera.

    Other than my PTZs, they are my favorites. The other dome cameras I ordered I did a bit hastily, they have the chinese firmware that cant be upgraded. The IPC-HFW4431R-Zs have the firmware you can upgrade.

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    Garage / Dahua IPC-HDW4431C-A

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    Back Doors / Dahua IPC-HDW4431C-A

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    Front Door / Dahua IPC-HDW4431C-A

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    Back Yard / Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z

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    Watching my boat and shed / Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z

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    Side Yard / Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z

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    Front Yard / Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z

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    Patio / Dahua IPC-HFW1000S (got it off amazon on the cheap, I think its a knock off, hope it lasts, picture is good)

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    Front of Garage PTZ / Dahua SD29204T-GN

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    Front Yard PTZ / Dahua SD22204T-GN

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    DVR / POE (Dahua 4216 NVR and Linksys POE switch) I probably could have been a bit tidier in my cabling, but, the NVR is hidden behind my second fridge in my utility room. I bolted both the NVR and the POE swtich to the wall. Should be hard to find, hoping a potential thief would think the fan is the fridge running. Regardless, I installed SD cards in all the cams that would take them.

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    Finished product...

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    this was my second CCTV install. At my previous home, I was foolish and went cheap analog. I learned from my mistakes, and hopefully corrected them. It was fun project. What do yall think?

  9. Posted

    I was able to access the cameras though the DVR interface, there is an IE link in the camera settings page.

     

    I understand now that the NVR is trying to segregate the cameras and probably has some sort of of protection preventing 192.x network from the 10x network, however, because two computers are on different subnets does not mean they can not talk. All that would normally be required is a static route.

  10. Posted

    Hi All,

     

    Sorry if this has been asked before, I tried to search some, but could not find the answer.

     

    I have ditched my old analog setup and went digital, the way of Dahua.

     

    I have the NVR4216_P8, I am wanting to connect directly to my camears instead of the NVR to look at their configs. For some reason I cant connect. Below is what I have going on.

     

    Home Network is 192.168.1.0/24

    Switch on NVR is 10.1.11/24

    NVR IP is 192.168.1.108

     

     

    I have logged into my router and added a static route as follows,

     

    10.1.1.1/24 Nexthop IP address 192.168.1.108 metric 1.

     

    I am still not able to ping or connect to camera.

     

    So then I tried adding the same static route on the windows box I would be accessing from and still cant connect or ping.

     

    I also went in the NVR settings and added 192.168.1.0/24 as a trusted network.

     

     

    Ideas?

     

    I just want to connect to the cameras directly with out having to manage them from the NVR.

  11. Posted

    Did you already buy it?

     

    I have the Defender 8 channel system. The DVR is OK at best and the cameras are not that great. I had to RMA one withing 2 weeks of having the system. Also, I learned that it would have been better to go with an IP system, rather than an analog system.

     

    I have only had my cameras down to about 20F and did not have any problems.

  13. Posted

    I have this same HDMI splitter I use in my man cave to duplicate displays.

     

    output of my media reciver feeds into it, it then mirrors the display on two monitors.

     

     

    I still do not understand why you could not just use a web application that is configured on your internal network to view the server? If is it going to be windows2008, why not just RDP to it? RDP would be laggy, but you could at least see the cameras. If you want real time video you are going to have to run a video cable.

  16. Posted

    What is the purpose of the cameras?

    If you intend to use the cameras to be able to identify people, than a cheap system like this simply will not do. If you already have CAT5, you are much better off getting an IP camera. Most Dahuas and Hikvisions come with software that can run on your computer for up to 2 cameras. I can say from personal experience that these cheap systems do not do much good, I have one myself. It was only after installing it I realized that they were not going to cut it. I say start with one IP cam, and save until you can get more IP cams and an NVR.

  17. Posted

    I suppose this could be achieved in multiple ways.

     

    First, rather than spend $400 on a good video card, why not just spend $400 on a good NVR? That way you could easily get like branded cameras with good motion detection.

     

     

    As far as getting the view to multiple rooms, you have a couple of options. You could get a VGA or HDMI splitter and run cables to the TVs or Monitors in other rooms. A better option would be just to use a device to view the cameras remotely such as a smart phone or a web browser on a computer.

     

     

    I am not sure I completely understand your requirement. You are going to get more clarity from having good cameras than anything else. Even a cheap Acer 24" should be more than enough to do the job in your safe room.

     

     

    Hope it helps a little.

  18. Posted

    If I understand you correctly, you are saying that your ISP does not allocate you a public IP? If that is the case, I would search for a new ISP.

     

    If the issue is that your router is getting a public IP on it's WAN and then giving private IPs to your other devices, then you will need to do some port forwarding.

     

    The router should have some sort of listing for it's WAN address. Check to see what it is, and if it is RFC 1918 compliant. (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918). If the WAN IP does not fall into any of the ranges in RFC 1918, then you just need to forward ports. If you do not want to read and understand RFC1918, just look for the WAN IP in the router, and then google "what is my ip" If they match, you should be good, proceed to forward ports in your router.

     

    If your ISP is in fact giving you a private RFC 1918 address, then you will need to contact your ISP and request that they forward the appropriate ports on their end.

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    I was happier when I thought this thread died.

     

    Tomcctv already covered the limitation of reviewing images on these NVRs before they are done writing to disks.

     

    The image provided by the original poster show that there is obviously something wrong with the lighting on the problematic camera. This was furthermore compounded by the OP having their camera upside down and doing nothing to correct it.

     

    Swann is not to blame, paranoia and stupidity are to blame.

     

     

    Lets just let this die and move on, do not give her more ammo to leech on to. OP needs to take the advise given by many members, check your config and stop blaming people.

  20. Posted

    difficulty of setup is subjective.

     

    again, Tom and Boogieman have also made good recommendations.

     

    It really depends on how much functionality you need, detail, etc.

     

     

     

    If object of the exercise is just to protect your liability of the pool from neighborhood kids jumping in and drowning themselves, any will do the job, but then again so would a drop cam, or a 700tvl system.

     

     

    If you are wanting to detect faces, I think you would need more than one camera with a tighter viewing angle. Just my opinion though, I am strictly an ameture, Boogie and Tom prolly know better than me.

  21. Posted

    a 40ftx70ft space is going to be really difficult to cover with a single camera. Although you would be able to capture the entire area with a single camera, your odds of getting a face with a lens that wide would be pretty small. If you just want to be able to monitor the activity of the area, then one camera might do the job. I could not view your attachment, however, it would still depend on the mounting point in relationship to the pool.

     

     

    Hikvision and Dahua are popular IP brands on this forum. If you do not need good motion detection a possible solution would be as follows.

     

     

    http://www.amazon.com/Dahua-IPC-HFW4300S-Eco-Savvy-Weatherproof-Security/dp/B00H2VSTG2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422821180&sr=8-1&keywords=dahua

    http://www.amazon.com/IntelliSecu-Camera-Recorder-Surveillance-E-SATA/dp/B00HN632F4/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1422821220&sr=8-7&keywords=mini+nvr

    http://www.amazon.com/MiniPro-External-eSATA-Portable-Drive/dp/B003MRI398/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1422821285&sr=8-9&keywords=esata+hard+drive

     

     

    The above solution may or may not do the job again depending on mount location. It has a pretty wide lens (3.6mm), but, keep in mind, a wider lens will give you a greater field of view, but, you sacrifice detail.

  22. Posted

    I still have yet to order my NVR, even though I am pretty sure I am going to get the Dahua 4216, I am still open to suggestions. I would really like a DVR that I can easily access from my Linux computers with out having to install a Windows VM just to support ActiveX.

     

    Do either Hikvision or Dahua NVRs rely on activeX to access their webUIs?

     

     

    Thanks

  24. Posted

    Unethical evil bastards!!!!!!! Your conniving manipulative evil in-laws had you tampering with our water bill and you participated in this! Just because you are employed with the community municipal water bill, you think it is ok to break the law? Does this act make you an upright citizen? Messing with government data and property and many other unethical activities you and your wife's family have been perpetrating against me and mine; for example now, with your hacking into my wireless access and stalking me and my family online(as you have stalked me to this site and loved in to read this). Will the law enforcement agents continue to act soft on you, if they are aware of the illegal things that your evil in - laws have had you involved in, and actions you have thus far perpetrated against my family? Shameless you, you lack goodness, or integrity, all of you!!!

     

    What wrong have we ever done to you people, other than that we moved into this community and are trying to live our own lives just like every other family? You have your own family, you have children, why are you hurting us? We've done practically nothing to you. You people attacked us right immediately we moved in, and you never stopped. You spread lies and hate and set the other neighbors against us.

     

    On several occasions, You trespass into my property to vandalize. We've seen you do these things and we installed the cameras.

     

    You try to disable the cameras so that you can continue your evil actions against us.

     

    You hack our PC and wireless access.

     

    Your psychotic sister in law stalks me around the neighborhood as well as online. Is she aware that this is a federal offense? At least just like you, she is logged on and reading this now.

     

    She yells profanities at me and my little children when they play outside our home. She stalks me around the vicinity, looking for, and creating trouble! Her new husband has joined in her hate activities. Horrible people!!! shame on you!!!

     

    Your father in law and mother in law harassment me and my family at every moment and every chance they get to do this, and they've got you joined in and you people act like upright citizens when other people are present, as you go about convincing the other neighbors that you are upright.

     

    What is upright about people who perpetrate evil and hate against others and who bother people who have done nothing to them other than that we are living our own lives without bothering anyone. If these people that you go about trying to convince of your uprightness, only realize your true actions and your acts of hate towards me and my family, I wonder if you'll still have anyone supporting you.

     

    You? upright citizens????? How is that?

     

    What is upright about you people hacking and stalking me and my family online and about ( and as you are on this forum stalking me and reading this now including the countless other things you people have done to us)?

     

    My short and simple message to you and your in-laws is that the higher law is onto you all; You continue your acts, it is only a matter of time, that's all!!!!!

     

    What does this have to do with CCTV?

     

    I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

     

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    Did you ever flip that camera around? Did you ever try to learn your NVR interface better? Did you call Swann?

     

    One thing is for sure, you have not made nice with your neighbor.

  25. Posted

    There are a lot of solutions you could use for a one camera system, but still not too clear on your needs.

     

    What is the purpose of the camera for your pool? Do you require motion detection and alerts? How big is the pool? Do you need to be able to recognize a face in the entire area? You said something about a 1TB hard drive. Do you intend to record 24/7? Do you need the camera to be discreet? Why are you opposed to having more than one camera?

     

    It really depends on your needs. You could do anything from getting a single camera without a NVR/DVR and set your laptop to record, to having a dedicated NVR with a PTZ camera.

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