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  4. Posted

    thank you all for the tips. Its getting better but I am still almost regretting pulling out my HD-SDI system

     

    The night time live view is absolutely horrid. I cannot understand why its so bad.

     

    And I just looked at the specs. You are correct its limited to 80mbps

     

    so in this case, would I be better off getting a 16 port poe and drive it with a computer using a software solution?

  9. Posted

    Not sure if this is the right forum but here goes.

     

    I am just on the tail end of changing out my entire 16 channel/16 cam HD-SDI system with a full Hikvision 3mp cam and 16 channel NVR.

     

    Because I do not want to go through another cabling change, I purposely went with Cat7 all the way around. I even have done cat7 from the NVR to my Netgear nighthawk 7000 router which has a gigabit connection. Its for future proofing alone.

     

    So I have 13 cameras up right now and with each channel in live view, I am getting a second or two freeze every 10 seconds or so. I have moved the bit rates way down (had them all at 12288 and couldnt even get more than 8 cams up) and now in the 2k range.

     

    I am not sure if its a router setting (upnp or Qos) but with the network I have the backbone certainly seems big enough to handle this and with no stutter

     

    Its interesting to note, my HD-SDI running at 2mp had zero freeze?

     

    Cant figure this out

     

    3mp Hik bullets and 3mp turrets

  13. Posted

    well I think I made some headway to night.

     

    I set up a camera in my office and just played with settings.

     

    The NR does help a good amount. I also realize now when you said tight focus.

    I dial the cameras in night mode to be ever so slightly out of focus (with still looking good)

    and when the lights come on the focus is almost perfect. I guess thats the trade off....

     

    So the tweaking continues and I am thankful I found you all for help and moral support....

     

     

    P.S. can we embed pics here with img code?

  16. Posted

    I understand and appreciate your comments.

     

    The challenge with these bloody cameras is all the settings are outside at the camera and makes trial and error quite a pain in the butt.

     

    I was hoping someone could scan the menu and say stick with these basic settings. Not expecting miracles but I have to believe that

    the menus are there to dial them in but beyond my level of comprehension.

     

    If I could just clean up the night image a little they would be workable.

     

    As for the clicking, I believe its the IR reacting to the light and I am going to do a factory reset again.

     

    One more question. The Lens has three options, manual, video and dc. Any idea which is best?

  17. Posted

    yes what I am showing you is a direct feed from the dvr displayed on monitor.

     

    Here is the menu system. I started with Lens and worked my way through. I think photobucket uploaded them in reverse order though so the

    very last picture is actually the first menu to come up and so on

     

    I am going to do a link to the library of pictures because there are too many to upload here.

     

    http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/galeic1/slideshow/camera%20pics

  18. Posted

    the menu system shot is from my monitor. I am planning to do a run through of each menu option and sub menus.

     

    Principally its the night image that is causing me the most grief. It actually worse looking than my D1 cameras which is a surprise.

    the image is quite degraded and a lot of noise.

     

    Be back with shots of the menu system

  20. Posted

    I am not noticing any change in the picture when it happens. I am starting to feel its got something to do with the IR's during daylight hours

    It seems that the clicking is when the IR turns on and off. Still experimenting

  21. Posted

    fortunately (depending on how you look at it) this issue has affected 3 out of my six domes.

    I tested them all and 3 of the 6 do make that clicking noise. It seems to happen when a person

    is standing close to the camera.

     

    That said, I have 10 bullets that function ok but the night time image is sorely lacking.

     

    I think its enough for me to post up the menu system with the hopes of making some improvement.

     

    Day time is very good.........night time is where things get messy.

     

    Returning isnt an option at this point and all 16 cameras were just under $1500 shipped.

     

    It would be an expensive mistake to go through but I am going to remain hopeful that with some expert guidance here I can get

    them to a reasonable point for night time viewing.

  22. Posted

    thanks again for all the comments.

     

    What I am going to do is document with pics every menu option and setting.

     

    Maybe that will help me get out of the woods a little.

     

    The camera shot your looking at, the IR is on.

     

    I am searching for a previous shot of my swann D1 camera which had a fixed 3.3 lens for comparison.

  23. Posted

    no fan what so ever. and the odd thing is all the domes do it so there must be some common denominator I am not thinking of.

     

    What do you mean by "too strong a focus"

     

    I didnt touch anything and did a reset to all of them.

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