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More testing showed that sometimes the camera auto focus takes so long that the focus commands arrive while the camera is still thinking. My scene has very few edges for the auto focus to work with in night mode. Adding more time between commands in the config should solve this issue.

After carefully checking all settings and restarting the service, mine is working fine. I was surprised to see that the focus numbers would be different day vs night even when focused on the same point. I think my first testing used the same numbers in both modes.

Yes. I just started using this, so I'm still walking through my config to see if I missed anything. Simulating sunrise and sunset works, but the cameras did not shift to day mode yesterday.

I just want to thank you for releasing this. I have a couple of small-time programs (so no formal code review, co-developers, change control, etc) at work that I share internally, so I know what's it is like to go from "it works for me" to "throw it over the wall and see what happens"...

Well, it is certainly a practice. I have a professional aversion to the phrase "best practice" because it shuts down alternative discussions.

why are you syncing to your local machine and not a network time source?

In Night mode, under Backlighting, turn on HLC. Highlight compensation should tame the headlights.

Does anyone have recommendations on micr SD cards to use or avoid with these cameras? All of my camera are/will be 2MP starlights.

Yes, Firesticks are tied to an Amazon account.

I bought a fire stick and Tiny Cam Pro. The fire stick is a tiny cheap computer that plugs into an HDMI port. I live Tiny Cam running all the time, so I just change my input source.

Wrapping up my issue. The POE connector is definitely bad. Andy of course offered to cover it under warranty. The POE splitter works and it good enough for my needs, so I will keep the camera.

With Andy's OK I opened the camera. The cables were all secure. I think I'll get a POE splitter and see if I can power it that way.

Tested with a couple of known good switches and cables. File this under "Rare, but it does happen." Thanks again.

Thanks again. A full reset did let me get into the camera with the Config Tool. Sadly I still cannot power up via POE. I had a chance to take the camera outside and I'm very impressed with the image quality in the dark. I'm sure Andy will get me a replacement shortly.

Thanks for the recommendations. The camera powers on with an external supply, but will not power on via POE. Known good cable, known good POE+ and POE devices. I am able to get to the camera via the web interface (1.108), but the ConfigTool doesn't see it. I'm not too concerned about that, but...