Posts made by KimchiGUN

I dont think the CX820 is a PTZ cam.

Super awesome footage dude!

@reolink-oskar

I dont have one... Yet. If you want to send me one, I will gladly run through it and post my findings here.

@user_603788725944329_603788725944329

Add them per their UID that will create the cloud link between your app and the cams.

@joseph_1979 Thanks for the info! That makes way more sense.

@joseph_1979

@Chopstix

Reading on the FB group, that the current Solar Panels can not keep up with the unit on full time recording is a question mark for me. if its full time recording and the panel has a long period of sunlight, it can't keep up. I know it's probably outputting more power than taking in... Small part of me hopes they would make a bigger panel for the Altas. However, I wouldn't mind buying a bigger panel for it, if I could get more energy pushed to it.

@joseph_1979

Ah gotcha! Thanks for the explanation! It being 6F today and sunny, no charge... Now I know why.

So far, this camera has performed to my needs. it has been operating at 0F and -10F wind chills. So far so good.

@chopstix

LOL you are 500% right!

Its 0 degrees out right now... Bright, sunny, and not a cloud in the sky... and not charging. I wonder if the outside temp affects the solar panel? I wiped off the panel with a clean terry cloth rag, it looked "dirty", and no go. Unplugged the USB cord and reseated it, nothing. From 1pm till now (3:38pm) not charging.

It was working the week before until it got super cold. I'm assuming the cold weather is affecting it.

@reolink-oskar

Bring back the POE flood light. Or add every camera's spotlight into the "linked devices" so we can create "scenes".

Motion zones versus the non motion paint brush.

LPR feature or a LPR cam.

Software based NVR. So we can self host.

@chopstix

Forgot to mention this... Watching your video. I think your windchime distracts the camera. I had to disable "Other" Motion in the schedule detection type under recording. To reduce that cam confusion. I have this stupid bush that would distract my cam while it waves in the wind. I wish I could just cut it down, but my wife loves it. it would sit on the bush while my wife would keep walking the dog.

@chopstix

Since your post, I've been watching my camera's logic. I get very few fragmented recordings, but I feel like it happens when my wife and dog barely step out of range of the PIR sensor and steps back in. Increasing the "Time to Stop Tracking" to 1 Mins for both options seems to drop fragmented recordings a little more on my end.

This is my 1st battery/solar cam in my system. I have all POE cams. It has been a doozy pin pointing these settings for my scenario.

@chopstix

My cam shows charging when the sun is out. It shows a lightning bolt over the battery icon.

It hasnt charged since we are heading into another winter storm, polar vortex. Lots of cloud cover. Supposed to be sunny tomorrow but cold but we will see.

I did have a lot of fragmented recordings until I adjusted the monitor point timeout and raised my PIR to the max. it’s less now.

But this is my backyard, it’s not a highly active area. It’s really to cover my front and back door.

Finally had enough time to post my findings... but I had to give it enough time to soak into my network and whole cam system.

I have this mounted on old unused DirecTV pole in my yard. My home is a little weird, the front door is on the side of the home. From the back yard, you can see the front door. The pole is about 50 ft from my home and 75 from the front door. Mind you, this pole is on a slight incline in my backyard. For perspective, this cam is eye level when you're standing in front of it. I had a camera (TrackMix POE) on there with a direct burial CAT5E cable. The cable finally died a few months back, after 10 years. I've been too lazy to bury another one. So this cam has came in at perfect timing.

I have an enterprise network installed in my home with 2 enterprise Access Points to cover 2500 sq ft within my home. I have an outdoor Access Point covering most of my yard and beyond. I get great signal from this camera.

I have a southern facing home. The pole gets sunlight from 1pm-4pm every day. It has been on 100% since I installed it. Until yesterday (1/17/25), I'm on the east coast USA, Rain and Polar Vortex coming through (AGAIN). It has dropped down to 97%. Last week we had 10 degree weather and the battery held and was charging. Note, I fully charged the camera in my home for 12 hours, before launching it into production. It was sitting at 40% out of the box.

Since the front door is 75 feet away and my back door is about 50 ft away... I had to turn my PIR sensor up to MAX. If you walk out the front door and take a left, you will be walking towards the driveway, it catches that moment and 10 seconds afterwards. If you walk to the right, you will be walking towards the backyard. Almost into the direction of the pole. It picks it up and keeps recording. I had to play with the timeout to monitor point a bit. 60 seconds is a little too early, roughly about 2-3 mins sits better. Walking my dog, while I was sitting still there and wait for her to poop, it would move back to move back to the monitor point.

I don't see cars from this POV, so I can't comment on the car detection. But I do have a lot of wildlife running through my backyard. It's recording quite a bit. My kids playing in the snow recently.

All in all this cam worked great. It will take some time to tweak each setting to your needs. Took me a solid week to tweak the settings to my needs.

So far so good!

@user_798430758453403_798430758453403

You can look into your wireless router... It should show your cameras wireless connections specs.

It would be nice to have a 3 cam or a 2 cam option for Duo cams. Where it shows 2 duos as widescreen. or 3 cams with the 1 duo at top as wide screen and 2 cams below in a squared box.

PC Client already does it, with 2 cam setting.

Currently the only has a 4 cam option.

@ebaruk_673045617504343

I worked for a large tech vendor... their method to their madness between device revisions was internal hardware vendor changes. This usually doesn't equate to performance changes, just vendor changes. Who they bought the parts from. For example, if they bought their chipset from Vendor A, that would be V1, or vendor B, would be V2.

This was amplified during COVID, when stock shortages was on the rise. Most companies moved production locations to different countries, but that would negate a new version number. V1 made in China, V2 made in Vietnam... Just an example.

@johnsonm2_326272226037961

So if you did a factory reset... You will need to add the cams back to the channels.

The network ports the non functional cams are plugged into, do they have lights blinking on them? Want to confirm their active and hot.

@johnsonm2_326272226037961

Just to confirms ALL cams are plugged into the back of the NVR? Tried rebooting the NVR?

It would be nice if "linked devices" would include more camera models.

Almost all of the cams have spotlights and or sirens. Would be nice if we could active them in scenarios.

@user_830676047601836_830676047601836

I know on my reolink nvr, there is a auto scan feature when trying to add a cam to a channel. Does the Amcrest cam show up in that list?