For the amount of time spent looking for an easy solution, all the cameras could be configured already..., with a significant amount of valuable knowledge gained about them in the process. Probably 15 minutes net, plus I had other questions. But I've replicated through all the menus 3 times now for...

There is a dahua config tool that is supposed to be able to do multi-cam setup but it is not very user friendly. https://dahuawiki.com/ConfigTool It also apparently doesn't exist. I tried that as I found the manual with the templates, but if you follow the windows link it gives "This item was ...

Yeah, I had mine integrated with Home Assistant at the prior house, will do that here eventually, though I only have cameras at the least important areas now because that's where the electricians have run cables. They plan to come back but it's been REALLY hot and I have a horrible attic so it may a...

Previous versions of Starlight cameras at 2MP were awesome in the dark. Starlight cameras are well worth the extra cost if you are looking for bad guys at night ! You mean without IR? I'll probably end up putting up some separated IR emitters around the house eventually - while sensitivity is wonde...

I have several of these now and rather like them, but as I embark on testing and setting up, hoping someone might have any specific advice, for example: It's hard to manually synchronize settings, e.g. if I want each camera to (mostly) be set up the same, there are a lot of menus to work through. Ar...

Good to hear. Another forum user has been asking about Dahua cameras that can see in colour at night. Are these cameras sensitive enough for that ? These two are not (though decently sensitive to low light). I think that's by design, they have fairly beefy IR emitters built in. They have starlight ...

Thought I would put closure to this. I bought one of the 8mp and one 4mp Empire Tech (IPC-T58IR-ZE-S3 and IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3). They worked quite well. I'm taking on faith that the 4mp version will do better in the dark for seeing faces, but I am also quite pleased with the 8mp seeing detail at distance...

So it seemed I needed about 8-10 (there was a choppiness as it got low). However, I went into the encoder settings and mine were set to defaults. I worked on them a bit just setting what I thought might work and... it works fine. Now I get 4fps smoothly. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-4cMnTfV/0...

Maybe try pushing a few more frames toward UI3 for the encoding involved to create its main streams? Certainly can't explain why it used to work fine but now it doesn't. Seems to be a lot of that going around lately. What are you viewing UI3 on? So this is bizarre. I increased one camera to 15fps, ...

I have an old setup that ran fine at my prior house, and dusted it off at a new house and started buying cameras. So far I have two (previously 7 x 4k). I record 24x7 at 4fps, and keep about 30 days worth. The server at this point is loafing, about 5-10% CPU, 10-20% GPU, 50% memory, just nothing to ...