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Hey! Hows things going with the cameras?

Thanks Paul 😃

T A hey there! Sounds like a great idea, I was actually thinking of going towards vlog style videos where I put short reviews of things I use in the videos. But definitely worth a thought!

Amazing! and yes that's is a kiwi accent! Hope you enjoyed it 😂😂

No worries friend 😃😃

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Thank you!

Hello EngineerX, Thanks for taking the time to write such a valuable comment! I also found it quite interesting how the 5MP performed at those distances. When i tested out the sensors types, i thought the results would show the 8MP camera to be a clear winner, so i was also quite surprised. I would also agree that the trade-off is very much apparent and clear in this test. It would definitely be a strong factor in determining the placement and meeting the functional demand of any user. I am guessing for professional CCTV installers this point of difference would be taken more seriously and appreciated more than the seasoned DIYer.' I also really appreciate that you got something out of google assistant scene! The total time is something i suspect bigger companies will be always wishing to improve, but as it stands, this is probably a sore point for them and thus the reason it isn't shown in the factory videos. Glad you enjoyed the video! Cheers!

Do you have to have internet to ruse DVR??? Tia

@@sunshaded1203 internet is not required. It can work on local network. You will only be able to watch live cameras and recordings from your LAN

@@EngineerX thank you what is lan?

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Appreciate it! Yes the junction box can definitly be seen as wasteful and the look is not as 'aesthetic.' Thanks for sharing your opinion!

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Hey there, Yes both can be done. You are only limited by manufacturers FPS specs for choice and you can put two cables to feather I did not see and reduction in quality when I did this. Use a good quality cable though other wise over the longer distance you might see a reduced quality of image. Hope this helps you 😀

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Hello there! It should record at 15 fps at 4k Hope this helps you! Cheers!

Handyman & Painting hey there so setup everything as you normally would with the correct smtp server and port and then follow these instructions for the gmail account support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/6260879?hl=en you allow Swann to access the gmail. Gmail considers Swann to be a less secure app haha Hope this helps you!

Thank you =)

videos.cctvcamerapros.com/c/swann-dvr-camera-compatibility.html going off the FAQ section at the bottom of that page link it says "Analog CCTV cameras and HD-over-Coax security cameras (AHD and HD-TVI) can be wired to Swann DVRs using pre-made BNC camera cable or by custom cutting cable from a spool of RG59 Siamese."

Im surprised i missed this comment =( Im sure you must have answered it by now? Let me know if you still wanted the info =)

Hello TSM, Thanks for your kind words! To my knowledge, the 4k Cameras come with a higher quality BNC cable compared to the standard 1080P cameras. The notable difference is the colour of the connectors where the lower quality cables are blue and red and the 4K BNC connectors purple and red. So if your using the higher quality cable shouldn't have a problem with upgrading them down the track and using these cables, for any camera. If you use the blue and red cable, you might find that a higher quality camera (say 4K) will still experience reduced picture quality (down to 1080P), being bottlenecked by the cable =) I tried to find a few links so you get what i mean 1080P cable with Blue: www.ebay.com.au/itm/263328824005 4k Cable with Purple: www.bunnings.co.nz/swann-30m-white-bnc-extension-cable_p0093396 Hopefully, my response was useful to you! Cheers!

@@Lakish_Narayan yeah bro cheers just did the install today wow big f n day lol. My cables have purple end on the cables so good news for when I upgrade to ultra 4K. Cheers mate n stay safe.

@@Lakish_Narayan Gday ? On the app for iPhone or tablet is the video live feed slightly delayed or is it my settings I’m using. I am finding the image I see on my phone or tablet to be slightly msging to real life capture from cam. I have paired my device in the app and finding it to be delay of about 3 seconds or so. I have 5g network on my internet and 4g on all my mobile devices

@@MrFrosty888 hey there, sorry for the late message! Yes I beleive there is a reasomable amount of delay on the wifi, you could try comparing it to a live feed from the hdmi to see how the delay compares just to test is device is faulty because the live feed should be much more responsive. Hope this helps 😊😊

Great suggestion! That is exactly what I did, running four of each 👊👊 and I set up the other set of cameras to run the 1080p cameras. 🥳🥳

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Hey there, I can definitely look into doing another video. However, could you tell me what exactly you mean?

LAX playback videos for the last 24h playback for 2 days ago up 1 week. My SwannSecurity shows only 5mins playback.

@@QLHTilingWaterproofing Move the mouse pointer to the lower left edge of the monitor screen. The 6th button from the left side of the screen is the other playback button with much more functionality. What you found was the quick playback.

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Its highly dependent on your recording settings, but i would argue if your just looking to see data for the last few days it will be perfectly fine, otherwise you may use external drive connected through the USB port on the main Unit Yes you can you can connect to your TV via an HDMI cable =)

Tmk can do remotely if the TV is a smart one I.e can access the app store. Otherwise requires hdmi. There might be a makeshift solution but none that springs to mind .

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The Preacher Hi there! That’s a great question to which the answer is yes! It should have no problem meeting that request 😆 Cheers!

Johnny CincoCero hey there yes you can. There is a download button on the app

Hey there So I double checked last night and it seems that it’s not super straight forward. You need to go to playback on the app and find the footage. Then you need to press the video button at the bottom and press the channel you want to record (so you are recording the actual playback) which it then saves and you can find in record tab. It is from there you can export videos. Seems quite complicated haha 😂 hope this helps you!

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I believe 4k has less fps

Yeh the 4K has less FPS i think this is just the limits of the BNC cable. As you push the resolution up there has to be a sacrifice somewhere and FPS is the counterpart. I hope this helps you and I could be wrong but i am pretty that is what it is.

The 1080p is smoother when playing but if you pause it there is way more detail in the still image on the 5mp and 4k/8mp images. I cannot tell which model the car is when I pause on 1080p. When trying to identify a person or vehicle I think the clarity with 5mp or 8mp/4k might help especially for longer distances. You'll be able to work out what's best for yourself. Try pausing the video as a car is going by. How much detail can you see on each resolution?

Hey Len, Did you managed to get a response for this?

If its got a bnc cable I beleive any dvr from the range should work, as long as it has a bnc connection 😊 hope this helps you. Main thing is to check for the DVD quality so if your camera is 4k or 1080p just check to make sure that the DVD supports that 😉

@@Lakish_Narayan Yes it has a BNC cable... Basically I bought a single camera first and i thought i can buy the DVR later but now when i was searching for a DVR i found that it's coming with the whole set with the 4 camera's. I just need a DVR itself.

@@user-ns7vj4tz5h yeah you might need to look second hand 🤔

I don't think new product is sold with separate dvr

Hey there, thats unfortunate, i don't think the cameras in the box had the light feature. Did you buy these cameras as an add on? Cheers

@@Lakish_Narayan Nope, they were included. Having looked at Swann support forum, there is a big issue with their latest firmware (8.1.0-20190605). Half the functions including the lights, PIR do not function.

f maybe it would be better just to return it if there are to many issues with it I have never brought one with the lights on the camera so I haven't had that issue. Otherwise you might end up waiting for firmware updates, which I am not sure you would want to do. Cheers

my dvr wont go higher than 8fps////

Yes to my knowledge you can attach any camera with a BNC type connector, so the 5mp Swann camera (if that is what you mean) you can definately use with this system

Yes this is a limitation of the BNC cable, this links talks about this in a little detail matryxconsulting.com.au/index.php/considering-4k-cctv-here-are-3-important-questions-you-need-to-ask/ Hope this helps!

Hey! Unfortunately they do not 😅😅

I don't this set has spotlights? Are you sure these are the same??

Is that for the new cameras??

@@Lakish_Narayan yeah well these are new but not the latest models...I can't get the light to work at night...I tried everything but I'm guessing I might have to run new cables. I upgraded the system but not the wires.

@@Lakish_Narayan yeah maybe this set in the video doesn't have the spotlight...still I have it and the issue remains the same. Still working on it.

@@JH-mj4ms yes the 4k run on how higher quality cables to my knowledge. The bnc that swann provides is a purple one. You would also experience reduce camera quality if you are using a lower grade bnc. Maybe try and change one case first to see if this solves the problem 🤔

Hey, I don't work for swann, but I see them sometimes snooping around in the chat, maybe be best to contact them directly though?? 😉 of the top of my head theirs no two way audio

Hi there! To my knowledge i believe that it does, using the audio port in the back of the unit. I found this link support.swann.com/how-to-enable-audio-recording--HybpQFyb7 i think that this should work for this system. I am away from the system so i can't check but let me know how it goes!

@@Lakish_Narayan what cable do I need to get audio recording? currently getting static on the playback recording. audio is checked in the settings menu but no audio in cables in use.

Great feedback! Thanks for sharing mate 😊😊

Great feedback!!

Hi there! Please forgive me if I don't fully understand your question, but basically, the quality of the LIVE view in terms of FPS changes as the resolution quality goes up. This is a limitation of the BNC cables, so the FPS will go down as your resolution goes up, the FPS will go down. It could be the case the 5680 has been designed to work with only the 4K Cameras, so they only included the settings to support the cameras included in that box. To my knowledge, when I did this test, I used the 5580 DVR and attached the other cameras in; the camera was detected as being 5mp or 1080p and different settings did show up on the system hence the reason why you can see the 1080p cameras are much smoother. In hindsight, I should have shared how I performed the test for later reference, so my apologies here! Hope this helps you a little bit!

@@Lakish_Narayan yes, seems there is a problem on 5680. when you LOWER resolution, it LETS YOU CHOOSE higher frame rates, BUT when you copy-save a file on a pen-drive and then play in a computer, the metadata and properties shows than it will STAY on 8 fps even if you choose 4k, 1080p, 720p, THIS MODEL wont go higher than 8fps, and its a firmware error that needs updating......

@@liquidmind wow interesting problem... glad you figured it out. Great work!!

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Time reference please?

@@Lakish_Narayan Time Ref: 23:16

@@keithd5181 Good spotting! So when I recorded this video, I used the install process recorded from the previous model, which you can see in also used in the other video. I did this because the process is exactly the same for both these DVRs, it may have changed now, but they were the same at that time. I hope this helps you out!

@@Lakish_Narayan Thanks from Auckland, NZ.

@@keithd5181 No problem mate! and wow! A fellow aucklander loool

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Yes there is a constant whirring noise coming from my DVR, I contacted Swann about it and they said that it must be the HDD as there is no fan, I'm still waiting for them to come up with a solution.

Hey there, My apologies for the late response! I think the easiest way to answer this is to give you an actual noise reading. So i used my phone and got a reading of about 52dB average that link below for a rough idea of where that sits in the noise level chart. For me personally, i have it installed in the cupboard, so when it is day time i don't really hear it at all unless i open the cupboard and do something in that direct area. In the night time, if i walk past it i can hear it quiet humming away. Heres that link for your reference boomspeaker.com/noise-level-chart-db-level-chart/ How noisy the unit will be probably be more relative to the average noise level of the room you put it in. You can get a idea of how noisy it would be by downloading an "decibel reader" app and using your voice to match the 52dB level and then checking your room noise. I really hope this helps you! Cheers!

@@Lakish_Narayan wow 52 is still too loud. I see a lot of rackmount computers have around 25dB with their internal fans.

I understand where you are coming from, i guess you’ll have to look at another system, use some noise reduction/mitigation techniques or look to upgrade the internal components.

@willis23jm1 thanks for sharing bro!

Hey there, thats really unfortunate hopefully you have better luck with nest. If by chance you continue to have trouble you might wanna look at the power source, it might not be giving consistent power which may be the reason why your getting system components failures. Let me know how it goes! Always happy to help if I can 👍😀

I do agree!! I just got mine yday & am not impressed it has no microphones. I came here hoping to figure out the audio cables. I thought the 2 cables coming off camera, that 1 wud go into the camera input holes & the other would go into the audio input holes. Yes silly me didn’t know 1 is the power. I thought cameras wud get power via the box. BTW Wish they did colour coded connections 😵‍💫 My Q now is There’s 3 power cords(2 lge, 1 sml) so which goes into which? The sml 1 has red label saying it’s for camera, so that contradicts my reasoning that 2 lge are for cameras and sml is for the box. I cannot believe Swann do not give us a step by step video!!??!! I thought the QR code wud send me to everything but nooo, just give me a code, no website, nothin. Not even a link to their app. I’m frustrated!!

Yeah thats always a bit of a downer for these cams, would be amazing if all the cameras amhad audio. Or even 1-2 for key areas 🤔🤔

Haha yeah seems like it. I think once you set it up you don't really need to type much but you could probably do a lot of the extra programming from PC software. Hope that helps you!

@@Lakish_Narayan I just figured that out thru the app thanks. I'm a newby just bought it 2 days ago. Thanks.

@@protoolsfanatic7276 no worries great to hear that you solved It!

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My swann 5mp system in 9 months went through 2 cameras and 2 power supplies, swann are a nightmare for returns making you send them off at your expense, then thoroughly checking everything before they will send out new units, thats once you convince them you havent broke them. turnaround is 2 weeks, iv now had camera 3 fail, this junk is going, and im replacing with nest, also the google has never worked and swann dont know how to fix it, utter garbage app it literally takes 3 attempts for it to load. please avoid .

Did you end up picking up another set of cameras? what were they?

Yes this was a problem I faced with the 1080p cameras, the first video I made. The only way I have been told this can be fixed is using a separate infrared light and covering the camera one. The 4K is not true 4K from what I understand. Hope this helps you! 👍

I'll try and find a link for you that explains this a little further, would this help you?

@@Lakish_Narayan The 5mp 4k cameras are rubbish. I have had 1080p cameras that have had better night vision.

Hi Pollyfodder. We’d love to assist you with the issues you reported having with your DVR-4780. We’re giving you some information below which might be helpful for your case, but you can always reach us on 1800 788 210 (Australia) or tech@swann.com. The most accurate detection option on our wired systems is to use 2-factor detection (enable “PIR and Motion” within the settings menu). This detection method requires both factors to be true before you will get a recording, therefore the PIR sensor must detect heat AND there must also be motion in the image for it to be considered a true event. You can also combine the video based detection with features such as a motion mask so that you can further define movement to areas that you are interested in such as a path rather than tree branches, as you did on your video 3_LvBnif1nk, just have in mind that that masking applies to pixel movements, that’s not a mask for PIR. In your videos you rightly point out that the red PIR box is showing, however there is no additional ‘running man’ icon to indicate that the camera is also detecting motion, so in this scenario you should not be getting a recording or alert. Your camera is facing a concrete path so we believe this is likely to be radiating a high amount of heat given the hot climate where you live, Townsville. There is always the option to turn off PIR detection if you wanted to, which would revert the camera to solely video-based detection like on Swann’s older systems before we started including PIR heat sensors about two years ago. However you are likely to find that relying on a system with no PIR detection will have a significantly higher number of false triggers compared to using the 2-factor detection. We hope that some of this information may assist in improving the performance of your system. If we can be of further assistance, please let us know. Regarding the ghosted images: updating the firmware may solve this issue. Again, if you need any help with this, please reach us on 1800 788 210 (Australia) or tech@swann.com. If you’d like to have a look at the manual, it is available on the link below: www.swann.com/au/downloads/dl/file/id/2021/product/1426/4780_series_manual_en.pdf - Swann team

@@swannsecuritytv Nothing to do with what he said his problem was, he said the image was blurred, just like mine, its just rubbish, i make sure i tell everyone not to buy swann because they fix nothing, FIX YOUR APP.

@@sciroccomods which one should i buy then. Hikvision?

Shall i buy hikvision instead

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Sorry to hear that! 😞

Hey Danielle, Thanks for your message and highly unfortunate that you're having issues. 😓😓 Happy to help if you have any questions otherwise, hopefully, you will find a suitable replacement that meets your needs! Good luck!