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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Yikes! Maybe just a better bracket then. Lightning isn't as big a concern up here.
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Maybe I'll give that a shot, I just did a quick survey and looks like I could hide a box near the base of the trees easily. I've got access to do a home run from that side pretty well too. Step 1, I'm taking my plate off my car tonight to see if the IR does anything useful with the plate pointed...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Yes I use BI I'm recording 24/7 on everything else, maybe I'll setup to record continuously at night and see what comes back. Unfortunately It's not my tree :( Maybe I could trench over to the big pile of trees instead. That might be a bit intrusive as the FOV would shoot over the end of my...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Well, I've got two issues haha, my night triggering hasn't been excellent and not many drive by at night as we're one of a few houses at the end of cul-de-sac. Day traffic? yes As for getting a more straight angle, unfortunately I don't have a great way. At one point in time I was able to...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    @wittaj couldn't get out there last night, but again I'm having issues with B+W mode. Is it possible there is some filter issue on my camera? This is the new night mode settings at nearly 8a, so much more ambient but again the license plate is white. It's like the BW filter is using a strong...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Ahh got it, ok I'll update that too then
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Ok let me fix at 1/1000 and up the gain. The red dots are definitely visible on the face of the camera that's for sure.. did you mean 70-100 for gain?
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    @wittaj Any thoughts on this: That is my car stationary, I went out to tweak my settings. Couldn't log into the camera from that location, poor cell coverage :( so I couldn't make updates. My IR is full 100% but my plate is blacker than black. I assume that would be running 1/333 since...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Ok gotcha.. alright I need to reposition again and dial in the night settings for sure. There is very little light on the street so I may need an external IR to get it to hit the plates effectively from 130ish feet
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    That was 1/1000 I know the car and it is standard metal with white background, red raised text. Now that I understand the focus issue can be resolved by manual forcing, I'm abandoning daytime b&w which seems to be the cause. It concerns me though because if there is some other filter that...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    Thanks for your input, I've been following your comments else where. You're right that's not a night shot, it's day but look at the plate.. wtf is going on there? I should also ask, does this mean I can use at 100% zoom? As long as I figure out the focus shift and force the focus properly with...
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    Troubleshooting LPR

    I'm using an HFW5241, for a while I've had this working quite well during the day but couldn't get it working well at night. I'm not there yet; however, in my hunt I found notes that these cameras have focus shift issues at > 85% zoom. Also switching color <-> BW can cause this issue. I'm...
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    Can't connect after factory reset - hfw5241

    ID10T error -- I didn't realize the search settings needed to be modified to be able to interact with the device... let this be a lesson learned for others.
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    Can't connect after factory reset - hfw5241

    I've got a 192.168.1.x network I've got no IP conflicts as I can view in my Unifi dashboard I can see the camera in question is sitting at 192.168.1.108 I'm on a different IP I cannot connect via browser I cannot ping I was able to bring up the Dahua ConfigTool and "initialize" the device but...
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    On a somewhat unrelated note, anyone experience a large delay in the cameras accepting picture setting changes? On all my other cameras (not 5241) changing the sliders result in almost instant updates, on the 5241 it feels like I need to constant refresh or reload to see updates, sometimes they...
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    Thanks a lot, what range is this?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    Duh I'm running a 5241.. is it that different?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    Looks like you're running different firmware? I've got Exposure comp in mine. Any thoughts for that?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    Got it I had the wrong series... $80 more expensive for poe but seems good
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    As for focus, I'm using the sunrise/sunset service to drive the camera to known focus every morning/night are we saying the focus shifts even if you keep that constant?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    No chance, got a lot of distance between houses. The 215 feet is ~1/2 way between our houses. And I'm shooting across my property to get a good angle so they'd almost be shining light back at me. I think the axton stuff looks good but I believe b&h is wrong here, doesn't look to use normal A...
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    That light looks awesome, but I'm not sure it's true POE. Nothing mentioned in data sheets or setup. They show a pair of wires to supply 9-18v, that's it. Would that work with a ubiquiti 60w poe switch?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    Where can the scene device be purchased?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    You think I have a chance with the image I showed above?
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    IPC-HFW5231E-Z12 LPR from 137 feet

    I'm back, my daytime is working well. Night not so much. Too dark. I'm thinking about getting tendelux 200ft illuminator. I saw somewhere that the light should source from near the camera so the reflected light returns to the origin for the camera to see the license plates. True/false? I have...
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    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    This turns out to be due to the settings not saving as the service was running while.i was modifying and saving Word to the wise, stop the service (aitools) make edits, restart the service for victory
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    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    Looking for some help with an alert issue I'm having. I have multiple cameras setup with cloned cameras working just fine. One camera doesn't seem to work. 1 - Manually triggering Blue Iris works 2 - "Test" button in AI Tools triggers camera in Blue Iris 3 - Motion creates an alert clip on the...
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    Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

    Well yea.. obviously haha
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    Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/tls-cipher-suites-in-windows-10-v1903 In 1903 they disabled that cipher suite. Apparently it is a now tagged as a known weak cipher suite. "The Microsoft Schannel provider will filter out known weak cipher suites when the application uses...