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sure I'd put in cat 5, with baluns, but then again I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING! You sir are just another one of the hacks that comes in, thinks he knows everything and doesn't listen to a customer or person seeking advice. As a professional its OUR job to ask questions that the person in need doesn't know to ask, and not to throw out every option possible as to confuse them so we can just do what you want. First your accuse me of gouging by trying to suggest that someone with no knowledge get actual help then you twist my suggestion into what you would like and then you demean the questions that one should ask of someone who is ignorant (ignorance isn't a bad thing....it just means you are unaware of what you would need to know) like many people in the world you obviously can't clearly read and comprehend instruction or conversation so let me be clear. You sir are aggressive, unprofessional, and I suspect that your actual low voltage knowledge is severely lacking and you are intrusive troll who I will not dane to respond to you any further!

dude why are you so troll? I'm trying to help her out, she said she cannot even afford an hour of someones time to show here where and what to do (not what you wrote), she said her dvr is IN the living room, not that she would like to have it there, meaning I asked about the cable to make sure she isn't thinking her cable dvr will handle the cameras. And don't suggest running cameras over cat 5 and splitting pairs, ya know since there is an impedence mismatch and that requires baluns to correct to someone who clearly said she isn't at all familiar with wiring or how it works.

I've been tracking the timing, it seems to be moving with sunrise and sunset, I put up some cardboard around and behind the camera to see if it was backlight causing it but no change, weird part is it does it in night vision AND color mode. Whatever it is the cause isn't excess or lack of sunlight. Nest step I'm taking is to turn the camera in the direction of the other to see if its some kind of light source or something coming at the lens. I'd just pop it onto the camera run beside it but its the second camera so I know its not the cam, and the cable runs are both in the same conduit. If it were water intrusion it would be constant or at least random. If EMI it would affect both. Something weird here, I'm workin on it.

just so we all know what is that that looks like a dark line going into a conduit in the living room area of the picture? Its about two feet to the right of the window and about a foot above the floor. That a gas fireplace or cable tv?

its worth it for a couple dollars to get an outdoor rated electrical box and put your jack and patch cord end in it, even humidity will eventually erode power on 24-26 awg copper. Doesn't need to be metal or anything just sealed, so if you drill a hole in it caulk it up.

Let me try this again, if you have your cameras mounted, and all you need is to get them to the same place. Its really not rocket science. If you can tuck a cable under the siding edge with your finger that's ok. Just try and make sure the cable is outdoor rated. Running the cable isn't so much the hard part, its putting a hole in your house that's the scary part. Try and find a place that is easy, the other post was correct in looking for areas that have no power outlets/switches/fireplaces/stoves/plumbing/drains etc... either very close left or right or above or below on either floor. The idea is to go in somewhere that there isn't anything else. If your camera dvr is going to be placed in your living room (not your cable tv dvr it doesn't do video cameras) can it go on the wall in the picture? The back wall of the house? If it can then you should be able to lift up the bottom piece of vinyl from the bottom channel and be able to drill a hole in the plywood sheathing to allow you to push the cables into the wall. If you can find a good place on that wall heres how I would do it based on what I can see. Measure from the corner of the wall to where I want the dvr make sure that that area is 18 inches above the floor or even with all of your other wall sockets if they aren't 18 inches up, check with a stud finder and make sure you're about in the middle of the wall studs, they will be between 16 and 18 inches apart. Measure from the outside corner of the house to the same spot only add 2 inches. If you still don't see anything stopping you from going in there start from inside the house. Purchase a low voltage box eliminator from the hardware store, its about $1.50 and find a single gang faceplate to put on it this one is easy and has plenty of space and is clean https://www.lowes.com/pd/Eaton-1-Gang-White-Recessed-Cable-Access-Recessed-Wall-Plate/3125961 cut the hole in the drywall for the box (inside dimensions not outside) this hole is wide enough for a smaller hand so you should be able to feel inside the wall and make sure you're not blocked by anything. Next drill your hold under the siding through the plywood, it doesn't have to be 18 inches up but since you're on a slab try to be 6 or inches above the bottom, its ok if its angles up. Stick your cables through the hole and reach in from the inside of the house and grab em, pull em up and put them through the wall, install the box elim and the plate and there you go. I assume you're using preterminated cctv/power cable so make sure your drill hole is large enough to hadle the three cables side by side and one end (that way you can put all 4 through)

yeah its opinions like that why I charge people with them more to fix their screw ups because it takes me more time to fix what I could have avoided in the first place. Ya know since I only do this for a living and charge a fair price for my experience and time. But DIY away it only costs you more to have a professional fix it. I'm sure you think permits are the governments way to charge you more money and don't do a thing to protect the public as well.

they use dahua tech, yes. however they are easier to use, the programs have a more user friendly interface and if you are a native English speaker the manuals are completely correct and make sense.

its all fun and games until someone floods the interior, or damages structure, or hits a sewer line, or a gas line, or electric.......etc etc. He said he has no clue what he should do so sure listen to the internet.

a good PoE camera should weather being exposes, look at its IP rating for outdoor use. It might fade in the sun on the metallic parts but if its sealed it should be fine. Your biggest concern would be protecting the actual jack and patch cord from the elements as these will NOT withstand outdoor exposure.

was kinda thinking he could run down the corner bead of vinyl siding. Leave exposed cable on the outside of a house, that's a no no, only the cable company and direct tv can get away with that kinda crappy work.

that's a good idea and it might work for stuff on the first story but there might be hell to pay trying to wire down from the 2nd, that is unless you run the wiring down to the ground level from the outside. An unfished basement gives you access to a lot of useful areas but you've gotta find the individual path for each wire yourself however you can.

screenshots of the network config screens of the dvr and then most likely your routers pages would allow guidance.

most of the tech on the market is copied, so you could have a genric dvr and not the brand, dahua uses CVI for video and is largely copied in Asian manufacturers. Is there any form of logo at all on the dvr? If you log into it through the monitor directly attached can you screen shot the system info?

cable is brand new, direct burial cat 5, run in a conduit to protect from UV, all pins are good, if it were a balun issue or a power supply issue I would think it would come and go randomly or be constant. What I'm getting is is starts at about 6 pm and stops at 7 am.

yeah, cant get the coverage from there, I'm currently setting it to 24/7 record and observing the time it starts and stops. If its variable its probably lighting, if its static I'm thinking radio or power gen. If anyone recognizes the pattern i'd be happy to look into it.

good ideas, on the powered splits, I'm also wondering if there is a video format issue with the little monitor. No specs means just try it and see. Put it in place of the dvr and look, is it good or the same? Same means monitor isn't compatible.

you need to be more specific, 2 different apps, do exactly what, from what network, mobile? local? ... hardware? both the device viewer and the dvr.

the ip changing isn't a factor with any internal device, its the provider and modem not all dvr's work the same way. older dvr's are only capable of direct ip communication, newer dvr's use various protocols like p2p to basically create a bridge from a remote network through their logging system to your local device. Its also very hard to get some dvr's working, unless its a major name brand or a specific manufacturer you use a lot then menus and setting can often be confusing and not really work, sad but true most dvr's are cheaply made with terrible programming and translation knocking off on another system. Had one that was just another dahuaish dvr, problems abounded, replaced it with a flir unit and the app, programming, and web interface are super easy.

I'm sorry that you don't find my advice helpful, however I am a professional communications technician and own a communications company. I have almost 30 years in telecom/data/video systems design, installation, and service. I also try to help individuals and small business with honest advice and work so that they don't spend more than they need to send some sales rep to a 500 dollar dinner or cause major damage to their property that may not present itself for years. If you're not able to get advice from someone who understands residential construction and how to install wiring in it right now then wait, please until someone even a friend of a friend could come and look and just give you some advice based on your particular home. Short of posting pictures of every angle of your house, detail building plans, and fielding many many questions after any advice that we can give is generic and you need specific. I really would help you if I could but without all of the information one needs ( basically being there) it is not in your best intrest to try. Here's an example, I don't believe that I saw the power meter, gas meter, or communications demarcs in those photos, without seeing the home, and knowing to look for the pathways construction typically uses I cant say hey drill through here and not be 100% sure that you aren't going to tap a 200 amp line that may burn your house down or stop your heart. I know it sounds like I'm making a big deal out of what you probably don't think is not one but again that's why we get paid to do stuff, and the state we are in generally makes sure we know what we are doing at least in basic with a license. The few things I can tell you from what I have seen is that you can mount the cameras on the corner trim but dont try and drill through on the corner within about 5 inches, the vertical 2x4's shouldnt be compromised and you will have a steel corner bead on the interior drywall. If you're going to penetrate the siding use an approved sealant, not caulk, something rated for roofing would be best If your cameras are running over UTP and are outdoors the cabling must be outdoor rated, not just the outdoor part but the whole run, places are just a cause of problems, if its not in the sunlight cable would be direct burial, if it is in sunlight it must be aerial rated. protectct your power and bnc connections, either by bringing them inside the house or an outdoor rated box, simple plastic outdoor boxes can both protect cabling and provide a mounting point for cameras that will isolate them so there can be no groundloop issue. crawlspaces or basement suck but are easy to run cable through so you can come up from below inside the home, or push cable to the outside attic soffets are great for cable, you can come out through them and hide cabling behind siding corners to get it down to the level you want. a 2nd story in residential homes is going to make it all 300% harder. If you would like specific advice, choose 1 camera, choose the way you would like the cable to run if possible and illustrate or describe it, and post pictures pictures pictures from start to finish of where you want it to where it ends. At that point if its worth it to you there could be some real advice.

now i'm confused, your original post said that you CANT access the cameras once you are home and your iPhone connects to your local lan. Lets see if I'm right here. your app is accessing your dvr and that's what you want to view your cameras through the app works fine on mobile data but when you are on your local lan you cant view your dvr when you add the ip cameras as individual devices to your app while on your local lan you can see them if the above is all true go back to my previous post, you are port forwarding but since you are coming out of the same network trying to talk to a device inside of that network that is your issue. To you in the physical world its one device to another, in the ip/cloud world its the same device trying to talk to itself and that isn't something that computers/devices do. Also unless you are paying for a static IP look at dynamic dns, that will allow you to use a domain name that is updated with your ip instead of the ip you just happen to have pulled that day. If you have a high end netgear router they provide a free dynamic dns service.

any device capable of wifi on the local lan with the dvr and has the app or program for the sites dvr works. Only real difference is the better the screen resolution and larger the screen the better. I can install and adjust with an iPhone but its a lot easier to see on a surface.

I understand that you don't like the answer but you've done the easy part........this is where I want it. Now the hard part is how to make what you want happen. I wasn't suggesting getting a contractor or anything, but many installers want extra work and will at the very least be more than happy to come to you for 40 or 50 bucks and spend an hour to help you onsite with a plan and point out what you CANNOT do. If that kind of expense is out of the question to prevent yourself from causing possibly thousands of dollars worth of damage what the heck is this camera protecting?

could be many reasons, what method is the app using to access the dvr remotely, p2p, Ip, etc. Lets say for example since you mentioned port forwarding that its Ip. When you are on mobile data you are on the carriers network hitting your Ip from another Ip and the ports are forwarded to the dvr. Pretty simple, device -> internet -> router -> dvr. But when you are on your local network your IP is technically the public ip of your router. So computer logic says that you are Ip A trying to reach Ip A and that doesn't work. Without some more advanced configurations to reroute specific requests from your app you are basically trying to talk to the device sitting beside you through the outside world even though you're inside the lan and so is it, so that doesn't work.

splitter? is the cable coax or utp? what is the spec on the splitter, how is it labeled, what exactly is this car monitor, what dvr, what camera spec cvi, tvi, ahd, sdi, etc ? All of these things matter and without a more detailed description no one could give you any real answer.