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The end of the patch cable that was plugged into the water connector on the camera had visible damage to match the socket damage.
All this fix cost was a new patch cable. It could have been worse.

I measured the "short" with my Pockethernet tester. Previously good, 12 inch patch cable, now shows "short" on 5 and 6. The "smoke" / arc occurred inside the waterproof socket. The socket was "blackened", but I was able to remove the carbon with a Q-tip. The h...

Good news!! (for me) after ~18 hours of "drying" time, I plugged-in the camera. It WORKS!! Just like a Timex: “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” It was 45degreesF when I brought it inside yesterday. 22F now. I'll reinstall it when the weather cooperates again. This time I'll be ver...

IP5M-B1186EB-28MM wiring harness or IP5M-B1186EW-28MM wiring harness One of my cameras failed because water infiltrated the RJ45 connector on the camera harness. Likely a user error (i.e. my mistake) when tightening the water proof shield (left a gap). The connector shows signs of "smoke releas...

I recommend searching for and downloading the Amcrest HTTP API doc to learn what all the "Get" device capabilities commands are. There are a lot. I find this command to be the most useful to list the current active configurations... <ip>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=getConfig&name...

Now working on Home Assistant with the Dahua HACS integration https://github.com/rroller/dahua

I appreciate your quick responses. Thanks again!

This is the one that should work to display main stream video when placed in PC VLC Open Network Stream field. rtsp://admin:password@192.168.210.120:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0 It's described in the Amcrest API pdf. https://support.amcrest.com/hc/en-us/articles/213598927-Amcrest-HTT...

Hello and Welcome to the forum please run this and let me know what version comes back http://yourip/cgi-bin/IntervideoManager.cgi?action=getVersion&Name=CGI I have some that come back to 1.40 and some that come back to 2.77 returned value = 2.77 Do you know of a general "capabilities"...

Since the debug log says "subtype" is not recognized as a command what must be happening is that the shell you are executing the command in is interpreting the "&" to run the following text as a separate command asynchronously. This is normal behavior for a shell. Try just p...

I searched the User Manual at https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=14Dt ... t=download for an alternate RTSP url. I didn't find any specification for an RTSP url in the manual.