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    Hikvision camera selection

    If it is Hikvision branded then you would download the firmware from hikvision. If it is a Hikvision OEM product then you would get the firmware from that company. You are able to upgrade the firmware yourself.
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    Hikvision camera selection

    From what I can see, both the NVR and the camera are not discontinued. Here is the page for Hikvision to search for discontinued products. https://www.hikvision.com/en/products/discontinued-products/ Also when you go to the product page for the NVR and the camera it does not show "EOL" or...
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    I don't think a "Smart Home" and Home Automation is the same thing

    I feel less and less people use Google Home and Alexa now. The fact that the mics are always on and transferring data to those companies is disturbing. Then there was what they can do when you have your home automation dependent on their service. I remember there was this one situation where...
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    Hikvision camera selection

    I would say the turrets are easier to rotate. Turrets basically have two parts. We have the mounting bracket and then the camera (eyeball) itself. There is a locking screw to lock down the position. This is like a "ball and socket". So where usually a bullet would have three screws needed...
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    Hikvision camera selection

    Smart supplemental light is just the camera being able to raise and lower the camera's light intensity automatically. So this could apply to both the IR or white light. I would usually have this setting on. The theory is if you set the light at a certain intensity.... If the person is close...
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    Hikvision camera selection

    Not sure what it means by four light modes. As far as I know, there are two illumination modes. White light or IR. These two are the types of actual lighting. When you mention mode then here is what I think off..... Day mode (Off) - No lights are turn on from the camera itself. So no IR or...
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    T-Mobile 5G Home Internet AND Blue Iris

    I wish I had that luck with my connection. Originally I got roughly 750 down and 400 up consistently. I guess my neighbors have jumped onto T-mobile also. I get 400 down and only 20-50 up. I did connect an external waveform antenna to the modem and went into the menu to change to external...
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    Is CCA cable really that bad? Should I rip it out?

    I know electrical wire they do have some CCA that is UL certified. The brand that comes to mind is CopperWeld. So UL certification for CCA is possible. Do they have it for network cable? No idea. Please don't think that I am endorsing the use of CCA cabling. But if someone already has it...
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    Is CCA cable really that bad? Should I rip it out?

    Yes. CCA IS super brittle. When I had my house built, I wanted it prewired and was surprised to find out that the standard charge... the cables included was for running the lines using CCA. OFC wiring was an expensive upgrade. I would say most people probably didn't ask what kind of wiring...
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    It looks like better ONVIF support is coming to UniFi Protect

    Do the Dahua cameras support the ONVIF profile M? If not then probably won't be getting anything. Usually the cameras would support Profile S which is liveview, Profile G which is recording to hard drive and Profile T which is advance recording, audio and motion events. That is also if they...
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    It looks like better ONVIF support is coming to UniFi Protect

    From my understanding, there is a certain ONVIF profile that is for metadata for detections. I think it was M. If the camera doesn't support that profile of ONVIF then the camera is not sending out that metadata. Camera is still sending out metadata that is Dahua/Dahua OEM compatible so Dahua...
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    Hikvision poe switch

    Are you able to log into the 4G/5G router to see any settings? Any settings on there that happen to be for VLAN? If so then you could just do VLAN on the router itself. The TP-Link will/should work for your usage. I just like to find switches with dedicated uplink ports due to bandwidth...
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    Is CCA cable really that bad? Should I rip it out?

    If the cable is already run then I would say use it with caution. I would de-rate your expectations. Not everyone has the budget to rerun cabling. If this cabling was run for a new build then most likely was stapled down which makes it worse. For a low power camera which is running 10 watts...
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    It looks like better ONVIF support is coming to UniFi Protect

    Interestingly on the website I can see the hardware specs.... As far as the "edge AI", that seems very vague. So this is like a built in AI Key? Or AI Port? If it is AI port, it doesn't show how many cameras at what resolution it is able to work with. One thing I noticed both have the same...
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    Is CCA cable really that bad? Should I rip it out?

    CCA has been used for lots of new build houses so having CCA is nothing new. Just note that the ampacity of a CCA cable is not the same as using a copper cable. Usually would need to spec a little thicker to make up for it. The question is the quality of the CCA cable. If we are talking...
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