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by Mister_Snuggles 2459 days ago
They're OK, but fairly old. I've switched to Amcrest as my go-to brand as I'm having a tough time figuring out if the newer D-Links will work with Blue Iris or if they will only work with D-Link's app/cloud stuff.

Some of them are starting to exhibit mechanical failures - I have one pan/tilt model where the connection between the camera and the rest of the unit has broken, and I have another where the mechanical IR filter is starting to stick and sometimes fails to engage or disengage. I think these failures are primarily age-related and I expect that my Amcrest cameras will eventually start to fail in the same way.

These days my main considerations are whether the camera can serve up an RTSP stream. I do all of the motion detection/notification/recording/viewing/etc via Blue Iris.