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Tracing the paths and origins of ants around the house takes time and requires patience. CCTV camera could help in the observation. Mini PTZ Bullet was recording the fate of a small pile of sugar last night from a distance with maximum 12x zoom-in and the result was recorded from the fast...

Hi, In my experience the darkfighter camera is slightly more sensitive but the lightfighter camera has more dynamic range to e.g. capture a number plate next to a car headlight. Neither would not work without at least some light. Lightfighter model DS-2CD4A25 has a pretty powerful IR light up to...

This is a familiar shortcoming to me too. Did quite many of those 100 at a time downloads until once redirected timed images to NAS and have not anymore returned to use NVR-based image storage. The NAS could be even in a different network that can be reached by using a VPN connection between the...

The clocks in my two Hikvision cameras have been lagging several minutes already a long time. Today I studied it and found the problem to be within the NVR DS-7604NI-K1 running firmware V3.4.96 build 170921. When time was set manually then NVR immediately pushed it to the cameras. The NTP...

It is a real pity that the resources for Hikvision are fragmented this way into several different sites. I also just downloaded the V5.5.5 to my DS-2442FWD-IW and then connected it to the Milesight NVR.

Hi, my 2MP Mini PTZ was exactly the same in the beginning. Possibly there is some remaining moisture from the assembly site. The breathing vent should let it out in less than one day. I would be really interested to compare the low light performance between 5MP and 2MP models. One possibility is...

Shy the Northern lights seem to be - mostly escape direct observation. Yesterday evening my Milesight camera was ready and captured this sequence. (a temporary link with the same copyright notice as above) Dropbox - 2018-03-14-revontulet-15fps.mov

At -20C temperatures cars become stiff to handle and Pendolino trains tend to get delays or stop. So it was a good time to check whether the Mini PTZ Bullet camera was still able to pan and tilt. No problems :)

Hi, I have made some experiments and found CCTV cameras very practical in creating still image sequences for time lapse videos. The first experiments were made by recording to the internal memory cards of Hikvision DS-2CD4A25 and DS-2CD4526 cameras. One year ago, after recording many nights...

This set of features would be really useful and appreciated.

Thank you Phil. The current version is the latest 40.7.45.63-r6

Hi, I have a Mac too :) I went a different route to yours and totally avoided the headache in finding the PC for the smart tools etc. Connected a display+keyboard+mouse to the NVR temporarily. Then went to the network menu and checked DHCP active. Then rebooted the NVR, connected to network and...

Hi, Is there a guideline or other information on how many VCA functions can be activated at the same time? Are all Milesight models equal in terms of CPU capacity? Today I set up a standalone ProBullet camera recording to the SD card. Continuous recording was activated + advanced motion...

Hi, It is good to consider also other brands. I have been testing Milesight for some weeks. Today I configured also one Hikvision system to see which setup would be better in resolving register plates at night. Milesight has been a very positive experience in other usecases. Hikvision feels now...

Still occasionally checking how to improve the line crossing and intrusion detection. Regular motion detection creates too many false alarms.

Hi Daern, I have similar experiences with many cameras of the previous R6 and older generations. It takes a lot of experimenting in finding a decently robust motion detection parameter setting for each camera view. Hikvision is not bad compared to some other brands but it has some room for...

How does the interaction between a Milesight camera and higher layers of the system work for the advanced VCA functions (Camera <- -> NVR and VMS)? The camera has various options for VCA actions, e.g. local recording to SD card etc. There is also the HTTP notification that is so far the only...

Hi Dan, I don't know how many nice tool features I have missed, because I didn't succeed in installing the smart tools to my Win8.1 notebook. Safari web interface seems to enable all features of the camera after first getting the camera reachable. (Why isn't the automatic IP address enabled by...

Hi, Just before Christmas I was lucky to record a fireball on night sky by using both a Hikvision Darkfighter camera and my new Milesight Pro Bullet UI-2A62. The exposure of both cameras was tuned to observe night sky events. The Darkfighter sampled only 1 frame/s and it was possible to produce...

One of recent very rare moments of clear sky :) Here is a snaphot from a recorded video from UI-2A62 Pro Bullet. I think this is not yet the best this camera can achieve, but even with this coarse exposure setting a really good result. Here the dimmest stars are about 5th magnitude. (Cassiopeia...