Adrian the hikvision like the one he is demonstrating doesn't have that screw to lock it down but others like annke do. I was disappointed when i upgraded to higher resolution Hikvision cameras to discover cheap plastic housing and no locking screw. Good clarity though lol.

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Hi, what NVR did you use for all those cameras? Thanks.

Same here. I used to whine when spiders were hanging around dome cameras, and in squashing them I made a mess. But I now learned the tricks of trade. I use reading glasses cleaning solution and a soft glasses cleaning cloth. Spray on the cloth and gently wipe around the dome. Repeat by rinsing the cloth in purified water and then wipe away with a soft, lint free tissue. Best advice is to wear rubber kitchen gloves when cleaning domes, as oil or natural grease from your hands break away and smears the cloth. So, wear the gloves and wash them while they're on. Then proceed with washing the cloth under warm water and dish liquid, then rinse well until no foamy water is noticed. I use gloves when handling this delicate piece of technology. Read on... Dome camera are subjected to rain drops, fog, grit, etc., and dust sets on it on windy days. At least it is much better that these natural elements settle on the dome than on the camera lenses which is harder to clean. Domes are usually made from toughened glass, even so they should still be cleaned with utmost care. The inner of the dome should be similar to a Halogen bulb, no smear, dirt, lint, fingerprints, streaks, etc., should be left inside the dome. Cleaning of the dome inner inner part is the same as the outer but the glass should never be touched. Once you know that you have cleaned to its best, raise the dome towards a bright light and inspect it for lint and smear, etc. If it is perfectly clean, place it on a paper sheet gently to stop any mini air disturbances that lifts any dust not seen with the naked eye. Then the camera lens itself also need to be inspected for any dust particles or tiny lint that may have adhered on the lenses. If it is clean process with reinstalling the dome. If not, but the lens is clean, just blow away any dust around the camera until clean. Next, reinstall the dome the smart way. Turn the camera so it faces downward and slowly lift the dome from the paper, slowly so that no suction draft will be created by lifting it really slowly for the first 2 inches but don't turn it over like a cup yet. Turn it when the dome is next to the camera, then turn it over and join it with the camera, then holding the dome against the housing put the screws in and tighten, yes, tighten but not in a round fashion, more like a criss-crossing star fashion, a bit at a time till they are all reasonable tight. This fashion is effective in tightening the dome to the housing without having to overtightening the screws and stress the dome round frame. Then clean the dome of fingerprints, etc., with the solution I mentioned above. I've done this for a number of years without any problems. Also camera IR illumination attract insects at night, especially in summer where big fat moths are recognized by the camera as giant monsters in flight as they approach the IR lights, then... alert, alert, the alarm gives false signals. Instead, switch the IR lights on the camera off and use a separate IR spotlight with a wide spread beam (sold separately). Insects then will fly to that light and stop annoying the camera. No more false alarm. Cheers.

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As someone who is in the know about vandal culture there is no such thing as vandal proof cameras. They can easily cover it with duck tape,spray paint or whatever they have. Ya have cameras on the roof and ya think those R safe??? Think again the vandals can climb up the building or use a drone with a attachment on it to cover them. Vandals R constantly adapting and planning behind the scenes.

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I have Hikvision domes DS-2CD6D54FWD-IZHS Panovu, DS-2CD5546G0, and turret DS-2DE7530IW-AE. The Panovu has 4 cameras which gives me 360. The 5546 covers a spot the Panovu couldn't get and the 6D54 looks out over a lake. The zoom on it is incredible and I can watch eagles fish and eat their catch from 500 yards away. Any kind of embedded IR is going to be just okay as it's focus is limited to the diameter of the camera chassis. It might spread with distance but then of course with distance you get diffusion. I supplment with IR "lights". My house has a nice overhang on all sides so I mount my cameras under the soffet. This also protects them from direct rain and sun. I buy all my camera equipment from an authorized dealer, B&H Photo.

Correct! I have 12 on our house in Ohio and 14 on our Florida home. The turret cams are hands down are the best.

@@troyhickman8577 Thanks Troy, I intend to buy the turret cameras.

Outside I forgot to say.

Thanks!! I would install a dome with a bracket. A close second choice would be a bullet/gun style camera. I love the dome cameras but when they are on a bracket they do stand out a little more and lose that elegance... especially if they are on the middle of a wall.

Hrozno Zelene turret cams can be mounted flat on a wall or fascia. Installed 3 this way at my parents place, not one issue or even a single spiderweb in 6 months. (Hikvision 4mp EXIR) My 3 hikvision bullets always attract spiders because of the sunshade as mentioned in the video. Stupid thing about bullets is you only want to install them where they can't be tampered with meaning you need a ladder every time a spider moves in! None of my 4 turrets or single dome have spider issues.

“Vertical wall”?? Is there any other kind. “Horizontal walls” are called ceilings or floors.

Hrozno Zelene ...a good Hikvision dome can be mounted on a ceiling or flat on a wall. Fully adjustable. No brackets are needed.

This problem has been solved on the new generation of hikvision domes. they use a foam gasket that pushes hard against the acrylic dome thus preventing any form of IR reflections. In saying that the dome will reflect IR light if they are not cleaned once or twice a year. i love the professional look of domes and would recommend them due to their great vandal resistance properties.

I have a Hik Turret and was comparing my buddies dome in the exact same position switching it out. I did notice some more glare due to the direct sunlight at the time of day of the test so we''ll see. Sucks to live in a place with 300 days of sunshine :) I just got a dome and will point it away from path of sun.

I have installed hikvison cameras for a few years now and I prefer the turrets over the domes or bullets. Set screw helps keep it nice and tight and the new versions have a different mounting base so you don’t have to fight putting the trim ring on if it’s not a perfectly flat surface.

Nice! That one is on my list too!

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That's not true. Most of the Dome cams fit square jb

Makes sense. I think you are referring to Dahua, correct?

That's great! Sounds like a much better environment!

Agreed. A strong PC is required. My PC is at its limits with 15 cameras. I had to lower my frame rates to 2fps in order to bring down my resource utilization.

@@HomeTechDIY i use max bit rate, max resolution and 18fps can't even imagine the lose of so many frames in live feed like that. I have virtually one sec delay but no missing bits in between. That's a lot of cameras for a single pc maybe with a online storage like blue iris not so bad but still and the load on your local network as well. Quite a busy setup you got there

Good question. How far will the camera be away from the feeder, nest or perch? The smaller the lens size, the shorter the minimum focal distance. Let me know and I'll try one out with my feeder.

Agreed! Thanks for sharing!!

@@HomeTechDIY ok for home, just can't be used where NDAA compliance is required (e.g. any business that federal money touches and where states have adopted NDAA)

Hey Peter! On vertical walls, I agree, domes may not be ideal as it's tough to get that right angle. A turret or bullet may be your best bet there.

I've now seen that you can buy 3-axis dome cameras which should solve this problem. Thanks anyway for a great and informative channel.

I have a hikvision dome with 3 axis adjustment and no problems finding the right angle when installed directly on to a wall. No problems with IR reflections either.

Thanks! Turrets are also great cameras! Enjoy!

Just not sure as they will be mounted on side of house and not under an eve. So full elements... These are the ones im looking at.. www.ltsecurityinc.com/platinum-hdtvi-turret-camera-cmht1352n-28.html

Nice and compact and good specs. I like it.

That is how mine are at the front door in FL and OH. He is wrong on a few points, the turrets are GREAT cams .

Any camera can, it just depends on the surface you are attaching it to. My turret camera is at my front door and I have no roof over my front door and I have the camera at 10ft high and on a wooden facia board, it works great.

This is a particularly bad season for spiders this year. I had to clean off the cameras a couple times.

I have done both. Your PC will have access to the cameras in both scenarios.

@@HomeTechDIY Thanks for your reply. I have both a wirless and poe cameras connected to router both Reolink, I cant get more than 12fps with PC running Blueiris over wifi. I also tried running BI from laptop via ethernet same outcome. I have been trying for weeks to locate the cause. I also cant run my Reolin 422w at 5mp, constant pauses, skipping footage.

Interesting... are both the camera and BI configured for a higher fps? Can you try decreasing the resolution to see if less data will help get you over 12fps?

@@HomeTechDIY To test it I tried this on the POE camera and set it from Reolink Software to 25fps. I set in BI video settings May#x rate to 25fps. To aid there being wifi issues I plugged a laptop running the BI demo same settings and frame rates are 14fps,this was a test in the evening. At night they drop to 12fps. My resolution is only at 2304*1296 which is two down from full res. Bitrate is set to encode at 3072 mbps. Just trying this once again but during the day I got good fps all day solid 25fps, then as evening comes in the fps drop from 25fps to 14fps, and now in full darkness its back to 12fps on both reolink camera. At 12fps is better than what happens most evenings as the wifi camera can drop down to 3fps. The poe camera still stay at around 12fps although set to 25fps. Speed tests for the internet are still very good at 67mbps down, 17mbps up.

Depends on the camera. Some have no issues but some do have this issue.

I use BlueIris... it's ok but a PC resource hog. No, I have not tried that.

@First Name blue Iris looks good but I'm hoping for something that runs on Linux. I looked into Zoneminder but it looks too complicated.

Agreed! I'm not sure why most kits come with the bullets. Switching over would be costly... maybe people could add on a dome or two to their bullet kit.

We had -22F here last week and all my Hikvision domes worked great. amzn.to/2RL4PxW

Frankie S -use a POE switch box and then to computer. No need for NVR

Michael Williams you need a lot of hard drive and a strong pc

Elvis Putnoee -I use an old HP that was cleaned up of all programs that weren’t needed. Hard drive uses 20% of one terabyte. Records for one week of which I can extend to two weeks or a month. Basically PC is designated for cam system. Runs three Hikvision domes with IR out to 150 feet (50 meters). Great night vision, patrolling, masking, WDR, 20x zoom 16x digital zoom. IR is great, don’t have the problems others have mentioned. Use PC monitor to view live motion!

Michael Williams Thats exactly what i use and netgear poe switch but for some reason it starts to lag live feed after a day.. the recording quality isn't affected but can stop recording as well but in rare occasions. Live feed always is a trouble since we stopped getting suport on they're web feed servers now its just the standart program on pc i have class 6 wire and more than 200mb broadband and had no issues before now it bugs me.. Could the pc be the problem? Its just bare windows and hik program says pc isn't working too hard but maybe hard drive? Its not a new one but handles tings pretty easy..

Elvis Putnoee -what’s your CPU %? Could be your switch, I use a trend net eco 8 port switch box. Also the chip in the computer could be the source of your concern. I use cat5 cable (Poe) if you dedicate your PC to cams, you’re eliminating 90% of problems other have. I use Blue Iris software for cams...what are you using? (BTW, I got my cams from China direct with English firmware!)

These are all weatherproof (even the RJ45 connection), but it's best if you could install them somewhere protected, like under an eave.

Would the camera be directly above the house with a top - down point of view? If so, what is the distance from the camera location to the ice surface?

newfiebort Yes the camera would be directly above the house. The distance available from the ceiling to ice is 28 ft.

Quadflopper101 -wide dynamic range or WDR

Nice catch! I reviewed that vid about 10 times before uploading it and didn't notice I say "point" instead of "pan"! Thanks!

What do you mean its pan tilt like you can move it truh your fone or sum? Im trina look for one that i can move the camara les

Yes!! I moved away 20 years ago but still proud to carry that accent.

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Consumer 4k cameras have terrible low light performance.The larger the physical pixels on the sensor, the better the low light performance. If you keep the same sensor size but add pixels, the pixels get smaller. If you instead keep the pixel size the same but increase sensor size, you get an $$$ expensive $$$ camera. (See this as an example: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1428081-REG/axis_communications_01493_001_q3518_lve_4k_fixed_dome.html)

Because all those cameras are cheap. Look into better brands such as Axis.

@@zouloum9607 Thanks for helping me understand.

Buy lts dvr from a direct from company store 18 in us right now,full warranty and any kind of camera will work with Siamese cable,i have it for last 3 years and not a single problem.

Not with that model, but I am very curious. I did a review of the Mini PTZ which doesn't have IR lights and pretty awesome low-light abilities. There is some footage in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNujkqSgtaq8n4U.html

I use BlueIris.... it's ok, but not awesome. A junction box is a hard plastic or metal box for protecting wire connections from the weather. They often have screw holes for attaching and securing electrical fixtures. The are where endpoints of wires (electrical, internet, cable, telephone, etc) are stored and kept safe until they are ready to be connected to a device.

thanks! Have you heard of the open source NVR software called ZoneMinder? Thoughts?

Good to know. Thanks!

I used Xinray on Aliexpress. No affiliation at all but I surfed the security cam web forums for a while and this was someone who was recommended. ipcamtalk and cctvforum I recall.

It really depends on what you needs are (besides 16 channels and 5mp). Are you looking for a kit-type solution or something more custom? How far will the NVR be from each camera? Do you have a camera style(s) or type(s) in mind? Do you need night vision and if so, how dark does it get and how far is your scene from the camera? Are you looking for PTZ cameras or any zoom devices? Do you have access to the wiring areas (inside the wall/ceiling)? What is your budget? Will these cameras be inside or out? Is this for a business or residential? How much footage are you wanting to store?

I have not used them but I hear they are decent consumer brand devices.

@@HomeTechDIY thanks for the advice!

When a property is being built and there are plans for security cameras, the electrician would rough in the network cables and have them tucked away in an in-wall junction box. The male RJ45 connection is then added to the wire. When it comes time to install the camera, the bulky connector will live in the junction box. If installing cameras after the property is complete, the in-wall box cannot be easily installed. An outside junction box can be used or a camera mounting box to hold the bulky connection, and the hole in the building would only need to be drilled for the size of the network cable. But sometimes the easier solution is to drill the large hole and pass it though the hole so the install looks cleaner and there is no extra costs for boxes or mounts. Agreed, it's a large hole.

you can buy bulk Siamese or rj45 cable run thru wall with smaller cable and attach the adapter after you done.No big hole, installing this way for last 10 years.

I was referring to the incompatibility of attaching the camera to a cover of a metallic inset junction box. A lot of my drops terminate in a standard in-wall octagonal box and the mounting screw configuration of a camera unfortunately does not align with the threaded holes in the junction box. One would require a weather-sealed 4” box cover to protect the wires within the box but the camera’s larger radius does not permit access to the junction box’s screw holes once the camera is fastened to a drilled box cover. Same applies for the external 4” PVC junction box given the cameras in my demonstration. Using an adapter or a non-standard junction box would lead to additional costs.

does Hik make an adapter plate to a 4 3/4 in junction box? (I know they sell the a propietary junction box, but when adding to a system that has drops already in standard size junction boxes, what then?

Well the main truth is they were an OEM of Hikvision. If you look at the NVR or DVR from any of the many others that re brand their systems they all look the same. Only difference is they have their name on the system, and if you need Support you would have to contact Hiwatch. However in a time not so long ago. They became a Dahua Reseller and seems all the products they sold under the Hik brand are no longer for sale. Part of the deal as most have to be on Contract as only sales of their products.

goata007 dome camera would be your best choice since you can clean it very easy from outside, unless you installed it on a very high level that you can't reach it easily?

I live on the prairies and it's quite dusty as well. I clean my domes a couple of time per year, but mostly due to the cobwebs. The dust on the domes can cause some glare with the nightvision. The other cameras should be better when it comes to a lot of surface dust. Hope this helps.

This is how I do it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nZ-KZN2HmJy0f6s.html

It's a tidy place to keep your wires protected from the elements where they join. If the box has a cover, the camera can attach to it and the wires would feed through the cover and into the junction box for protection. It also eliminates the risk of having them get lost inside an eave, ceiling space or behind a wall. Some builders will terminate CAT6 cables inside a junction box for camera installs at a later date. Here is an example of a basic one: amzn.to/2Nq9eFQ

Of the cameras I show in this video, yes... but some of the newer versions of these cameras are coming equipped with mics.

Thanks for watching and for the great questions. 1) No junction box is needed and you can install them right on the eaves. I like to use junction boxes if I can to give myself some space to store the excess cables and to keep the connection is a "safe" area. 2) Without seeing you plans, it would be hard to give solid advice, but I would recommend 2 outside drops on each corner of the mainfloor. If you mount them on the eave of the second floor, you are less likely to capture faces. Also, avoid capturing the sky, especially direct (or even near direct) sun. I also try to get a camera pointed on each outside door and then another camera over the door to get any one approaching. For inside, maybe a ceiling drop for a baby cam, mud room to keep an eye on pet food bowls and in the utility room to watch for boiler leaks. I have a wall plate drop in every room for whatever comes up in the future. 3) I would say to run the wires and leave them without wall plates. I try to avoid breaks in the line where possible. Hope this helps.

newfiebort omg you are a champion. for no.2, you mention wall plate drops, is it wall plate on the wall or inside the roof cavity for future use? also, for no. 3, whar do you mean by breaks? I forgot to ask, I am trying to get some flood lights with movement detector on the eaves, the thing is the best position for them will on the same spot as the cameras and I dont think I can place them higher than the cameras as the cameras are already on the eaves. any ideas on where are the other positions to put the flood lights?

Hey, glad to help! For the wall plate, I mean like on the wall... like an electrical outlet. For breaks, I mean having the line terminated with a female connection in the roof area. I'd just run a line with 2 male ends; one in the PoE switch and 1 in the camera. For your lights, I have something similar where I installed lights centered over a garage door. Look at my video for installing motion LED floodlights on my shed... I now have cameras under the eaves of that shed... maybe that will help. Maybe you'll have to find a different style of light... that's a tough one.

Your reply is so helpful. Many thanks! I have drafted out the points to have my security cameras already on my plan. I will come back again to learn how to install hikvision cameras later on. Thanks so much for your videos! Hope youtube is paying you ok with all the ads now in front. :)

Glad I could help! KZfaq don't pay much at this point... almost enough to cover the cameras... not the studio equipment and hundreds of hours of story-boarding, scripting, filming, refilming and editing... We'll see what happens as the subscriber base grows, lol. Feel free to reach out again if you have questions.

I ended up buying a Nest be camera and I'm very happy with it. I can point it out the be window and it captures movement and people and distinguishes between the two. Very glad I paid the price. I could watch the comings and goings at my house in Canada from our vacation in Florida.

Great question! Check out the operating temperature of the camera before buying. This might not prevent it from fogging up however. I had a dome in the hot sun for a couple years and the glass turned a little yellow, so be aware of that too. Normally, cameras have silica inside to help stop fogging but at extreme temperatures, this isn't perfect. I would lean towards a turret style camera or bullet as there is less glass for a greenhouse effect. Maybe try just a single camera first to ensure it performs ok. Also, if possible, see if neighbors are using cameras and if they have had issues.

Thanks for the comment! Do you have any suggestions for systems which you have total control over that are functional online/remotely? How can we be sure the firmware on these devices are not communicating IP addresses, credentials, etc back to a home base?

If you buy any cameras, buy directly from the dealer or amazon, at least with amazon ya have a good return policy, with ebay, I would use paypal to get a refund if they screw me over, but I prefer to go direct or amazon.

Hikvision company policy is they do not like dealing with the end user. You have to buy from one of their preferred distributors/installers. The 3 year warranty that Hikvision offer is not valid unless you purchase through one of their preferred distributors.

MD Moto exactly !

There are sellers who offer legit Hikvision, I was worried about that too but I’ve gotten 2 from amazon and they were fine