![]() This is an excellent camera with a great feature set, which would make an effective addition to any CCTV system. There are also many software options such as backlight compensation, WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) and image adjustment controls (brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness) that allow fine tuning for the particular installation environment. The combination of auto-iris, motorised auto-focus and 8 MP resolution means that this camera does deliver great images. ![]() Once set to an appropriate IP address for your network, the camera is easy to configure, with a web interface that is comprehensive and that works well on Mac web browsers. Instead, they come preset to a static IP address of 192.168.1.108, which is fine if your network already uses 192.168.1.x addressing, but if it doesn’t, then initially connecting to the camera to adjust its settings can be a bit difficult (we have instructions at Connecting to a Camera Over Ethernet – scroll down to the section Cameras with a fixed address by default). SetupĪll network cameras should come preset to DHCP (to automatically obtain a valid IP address) with a manual fallback address, but unfortunately Dahua cameras don’t. Installation can be a bit fiddly, but this is partly due to the compact size of the unit. The metal casing has a quality feel to it, as does the eyeball itself. The camera also has a compact size, a well-designed web interface, and PoE (Power-over-Ethernet). Audio: a built-in microphone provides audio in high-quality AAC format.Įach one of these features is important on its own, and it’s especially unusual to find them all offered by one camera at such a reasonable price (around $240).Night-vision: good low-light performance and built-in LEDs allow vision up to 50m (164′) at night.Auto-Focus: the lens allows motorised control of its focus, potentially allowing for sharper images than the fixed-focus lenses found in most other IP cameras in this class. ![]() Most cameras in this class have fixed apertures, which are inevitably a compromise and not optimised for either day or night. During the day, a smaller aperture provides sharper images, while during the night, a larger aperture allows more light to reach the sensor, reducing noise. Auto-Iris: this allows the camera to open and close its aperture based on ambient light levels, which maximises its ability to provide quality images across both day and night.A 2.7-12mm varifocal lens, providing a comprehensive range from wide-angle to moderately telephoto, making the camera suitable for most use cases (note that varifocal lenses are designed to set the zoom level at installation time they are not true zoom lenses that can be operated continuously).This is my setting for the codec in case you wish to know, I already tried to switch to h264 but it didn't help.This particular model has a comprehensive feature set that sets it apart from other superficially similar cameras, specifically: It seems to me that the DVR has serious trouble encoding and recording all cameras at the same time, if this is the problem then I will be extremely dissapointed with this device, in fact I would feel scammed, because I bought a DVR that claimed to be able to record 16x 1080p cameras and then this happens. The video misses frames (for example it jumps from second 12 to second 17 instantly) and sometimes it goes gray. Sometimes it stops raining and the recorder stops recording, then I can playback and inspect what the DVR saved when all cameras were recording. Using a monitor connected to the DVR I see that it gets extremely laggy. I'm unable to playback on smartpss, I get nothing but lots of "NETSDK returns error". Yesterday it started to rain and the recorder is back to recording all cameras all the time due to the movement detection being triggered, and the problem is back. The problem self solved, smartpss worked fine, as well as the webpage and the recorder itself. I configured the 8 cameras to record on movement (it was recording all cameras all the time). I bought a Dahua XVR7116HE-4KL-X and I noticed something strange the day I turned it on, I was unable to playback using smartpss, the webpage of the recorder or even on the recorder itself. The system consists of 8 cameras, all of them AHD 1080p coaxial. The story: I have had installed some cameras in my house. Hi there everyone, I hope you can help me with this problem I have. ![]()
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