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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Here are some night captures showing various specimens walking past on the path. This was the 20th/21st (took a while to process the video), so I am unsure exactly what settings it was running - probably very similar to what I showed a few posts back. I still have to try and tweak the focus at...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    True - I guess there are a huge number of variables here. I will try not get too hung up on the plates, considering this isn't even the purpose of the camera. On the gain point - does decreasing the gain mean the camera can actually use a slower shutter than specified in the Manual Shutter...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    This is a IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3, ordered direct from Andy. Reiteration to avoid confusion:): This camera is not intended for plate capture. This camera is intended to capture people / things entering or exiting the gateway, as well as perhaps pedestrians passing on the pavement as a bonus. In...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Of course! I'm forgetting the basics of cameras! I would usually call this 'aperture', so didn't immediate recognize the term. Makes sense. I will try and set this up when I have time to play with it. I can see why this is useful - I will continue to use Day/Night mode for now, as I don't have...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Thanks for the suggestions - I will give these a go. I am assuming I am correct on my choice of Working Mode then? Should I be using Manual Focus for my chosen zoom level? Currently I think I have it on automatic. Finally, since everything seems to be a balancing act, what is the downside to...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    First look at performance at night. Running the following settings: And its doing pretty reasonable. Here are a couple of taxi's passing in the middle of the night: The motion blur is worse than daytime, as seen by the blur on the vehicles and their plates - however, the main interest of...
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    That's done it. :cool:
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Good grief, I had no idea there was a 2nd page to the 'Home' menu! The two dots on the bottom were nicely obscured by the 'Please install plugin' prompt, making it even less obvious! Thanks for pointing that out, I will now explore the Security menu...
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Crumbs, that's good to know! Thanks.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Aha - I was wondering what the difference between the two types of shutter setting was!
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    OK - I will try IVS rules at some point, after I have got the basics right. Zoom controls in the WUI are functional, so hopefully I am fine!
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Thanks @wittaj. Cams properly setup on their own VLAN, strict hardware firewall between the camera LAN and everything else (internet and other local resources). HTTPS is not for security, I just like to have it, and for the sake of slapping the cert of the Hikvision, it was worth it to get rid...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Been dialing in a bit for day at least, started off following this advice from earlier in this thread: This is doing pretty well - running full zoom, it can even just about get some plates from the vehicles going past on the street! Yes, the angle is terrible, and no, this cam is NOT intended...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    The B54IR-Z4E-S3 arrived yesterday - thanks Andy :cool: I have mounted it where the Hikvision was, and am now configuring. Further updates to follow... P.S - Made another thread specific to a few Web UI queries, whilst I am configuring...
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    I just installed my first EmpireTech camera, a B54IR-Z4E-S3. Below are a couple of questions regarding the web interface, which I am obviously still familiarizing with. 1. How do I (or can I?) install a HTTPS TLS certificate into the camera? On Hikvision's which are I am slightly more familiar...
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    Connecting to 2nvrs together through port forwarding on separate networks

    WG is good. Assume this is between two firewalls / routers, since you state "peer to peer" VPN? What routers are you using? Have you tried the method I mentioned earlier?
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    Connecting to 2nvrs together through port forwarding on separate networks

    Not totally clear if the methods shown in the video necessarily use the site-to-site VPN though. Would not recommend running the traffic in its raw form over the internet for security reasons. The method shown in the second video could likely work in over the S2S tunnel. See my previous post.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Thanks Steve. For now, I will look into replacing the 12mm Hik with a B54IR-Z4E (bullet). I will be pleased if I can get good face ID at night in this location. I will probably leave my other spotter / overview Hik which is covering the same area alone for now, because it is fulfilling its...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    So looks like the T54IR-ZE @ 12mm is not quite going to cut it for 40ft - I will see about sourcing a B54IR-Z4E and update this thread accordingly.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Looks like, very approximately, 40 feet + a bit for height. Actually slightly more than I thought! The perp (or harmless delivery driver) would likely move closer to the camera as they approach.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Good idea regarding the distance - I was hoping that by measuring, I could take into account the camera height and get the diagonal distance - I can still calculate this, perhaps will do so at some point. In that case, perhaps I will go with the bullet, as more IR is never a bad thing... Does...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Sorry, yes, attached is a full-size image from the Hik, at approx. 12mm, running 1/25 shutter. Seems the two candidates are the 54IR-ZE (turret) or the B54IR-Z4E (bullet). The bullet is more expensive, and probably slightly less optimal from an aesthetics point of view (the turret sits quite...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Here are a couple of examples from a few weeks ago, before I had tweaked the settings yesterday. Unfortunatley there is no motion to examine (nobody walking about at 12PM). This is the 12mm Hik: You can see how grainy the image is. And this was running 1/25 shutter, would only be worse at 1/50...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    OK, so looks like the 54IR-ZE might be a good choice then - price is not too bad either... Would rather avoid a white light in this scenario - motion sensing maybe, but then we have issues with the cameras having to adjust when the light switches on, blowing out faces etc... I did consider...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    @wittaj, thanks for your detailed post. I have tried playing with a few settings, as suggested, but I am not sure I have made much improvement. I'm sure I could dial things in a little better, but this is of course a little tricky (can only really be evaluated properly in the dead of night...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    So I have 2x Hikvision IP cameras currently covering a specific area. 1 is a DS-2CD2325FWD-I, with the 2.8mm lens, and this is a great overview camera, but, as you would expect, and especially since it is mounted quite high, it is no good for anything beyond Observe or maybe Recognize in the...
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    Hik NVR struggling to record RTSP streams reliably from certain cameras

    Did another interesting experiment. I got my hands on one of the troublesome-type cameras, and brought it back to my location (where the Hikvision NVR is). I connected it to my switch, and added it directly to the Hikvision NVR as an ONVIF camera. This has so far been recording as normal. So...
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    Connecting to 2nvrs together through port forwarding on separate networks

    Assuming you have your VPN routing configured correctly, you will need to input the local IP address of the smaller NVR into the larger NVR. The larger NVR should then connect to the smaller NVR over the site-to-site VPN tunnel. For example, if your smaller NVR is at 192.168.10.200, you have...
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    Hik NVR struggling to record RTSP streams reliably from certain cameras

    I don't think the network traffic variations are really going to be causing this issue (as only some cameras are affected, and its not just at night when the recording is problematic), but since it is really the only thing I have to go by at the moment, I decided to run a continuous ping to the...
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    Hik NVR struggling to record RTSP streams reliably from certain cameras

    No. I think that specific working camera is set to 25 FPS, and is indeed showing as 25FPS in the Hikvision NVR Live View window.
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