A drawback of this type of camera (among other things) is the lack of IR's however the reason for not having IR's is that it's nearly impossible to prevent IR reflection in a PTZ camera with a bubble covering the lens. There is no way to properly separate IR's from lens to prevent IR reflection inside the bubble. That's why all the IR PTZ's today feature external IR's / don't have a bubble with IR's inside.
Hikvision ~$300 Mini PTZ Tested
Published Jul 08, 2016 10:51 AM
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Comments (7)
UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Jul 08, 2016
Ethan Ace
Jul 08, 2016Well it turns out, Hikvision released an IR PTZ after we did our test on this, also <$300 online. It's clearly not as small/unobtrusive, but it's claiming 20m IR.
John Bazyk
Jul 11, 2016I get asked about low cost PTZ's all the time. This and other low cost options from Hik and Dahua fit the bill of many customers. They're more interested in pan and tilt than in zooming.
MG
Michael Gombos
Jul 12, 2016Does this camera have an auto-track feature, or were you manually tracking the subject in the test video?
Ethan Ace
Jul 12, 2016
Kevin Bennett
Jul 12, 2016You noted that it connected to Avigilon, but were the PTZ controls and/or motion configuration functions available through the ACC client interface?
Ethan Ace
Jul 12, 2016PTZ controls work fine. Motion configuration isn't available through the client.