Outdoor PTZ Poe Camera, 30X Zoom 1080P IP POE+ PTZ Camera Outdoor, Auto Tracking High Speed 492ft Night Vision Camera

I would not purchase this camera it will be going back to Amazon. It calls home to China if you look at the packets with Wireshark. This camera is a security nightmare. I will say the hardware is awesome but the software is pure garbage. Half the settings, like SMTP will not disable. I turn it off and go back into the setting and it is turned back on. You cannot view it with a web browser. It ask to install a plugin that Windows warns you against (probably malware). I went head and installed it on a VM. Even after installing the plugin the live feed would not display in IE11. Chrome/Firefox/Edge you cannot even log into the webgui from. Has to be IE. This camera has the below ports open if you do a port scan80 - HTTP554 - RTSP8000 - HTTP / ALT???? WHY?8100 - xprint-server???8200 - trivnet1???8899 - ONVI

I REALLY wanted to like this camera. When I first got it, I was somewhat disappointed that it could only do human auto tracking and ignores everything else. It had been destined for the front of the house where I wanted to auto track cars and people. I decided to mount it in the back yard and discovered pretty quickly that it does great at tracking people and ignoring waving plants, the dog, and other stuff that I don't care about tracking in the back.Unfortunately, it keeps losing the main video stream connection to blue iris. After about 12 hours of initial setup, blue iris would get an I/O error. Rebooting the camera fixed it for a while but it would lose the connection again. Each time it lost the connection and I rebooted it, it would lose the connection faster and faster. Eventually it would only stay up for a minute or so between reboots.I discovered that a factory reset appeared to fix it but then my hopes were dashed when after about 12 hours, it started losing the connection again. Each reboot resulted in shorter and shorter periods between connection loses. So a factory reset just restored it back to the same state that it was in before.This camera was on it's own VLAN on my Unify network. I still gave it access to the internet but as far is it was concerned, it was on it's on private network and could see nothing else except the internet. The VLAN was setup to allow connections in but no connections to the regular LAN outbound were allowed. Outbound to the internet was still allowed although I would have eventually cut that off too as I don't want my cameras calling home to home based without my permission. It's possible that the camera was trying to make outbound connections back to the incoming IP address that Blue Iris was running on and that it was very unhappy about being isolated.Other negatives:1) The software interface is really bad.2) It requires running an activex control in IE in order to configure which is a security nightmare so I used an old laptop that I use just for setting up IOT devices that aren't secure.3) Video quality is probably the worst of the 22 security cameras I have during the day. Oddly enough, night time quality was decent.Pluses:1) Human tracking is awesome2) PTZ preset speed is very good.3) IR illuminator doesn't have excessive spill like other cheap cameras.EDIT: The seller had me change the RTSP network packet size from large to small and that appears to have fixed the connection issues with Blue Iris. It's been stable now for over 12 hours.I tried using the ONVIF device manager instead of the proprietary activeX control. I was able to get PTZ controls to work but live image streaming is very unstable. Also, video settings can't be modified and the network settings shown are not the actual network settings so it doesn't appear to be very ONVIF compliant. I'll update the review if I'm able to make any further progress on it.Raising to 3 starts because I was able to get Blue Iris working OK with it. Still docking a start for image quality and a start for not being able to securely configure the camera in windows 10.Edit: Well I spoke too soon. So it appears changing the packet size on RTSP helps a lot but blue iris still loses the stream. Just happened again for about an hour but did recover on its own.

HI how to reset the camera back to factory setting? I can find the IP with the software but doesn't connects for nothing doesn't connect for nothing?