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it is used for LPR - day or night. it will work fine for 1-3 days or so and then for no reason will change to "no signal" in BI and will stay that way until I Disable/Enable the cam. The POE switch has plenty of capacity left, and like I said, even if I switch the 2 cams ethernet cables...

Bit of a strange problem. I have 2 IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E-S2 cameras. 1 drops signal in Blueiris (but shows video when connecting to the cam directly) - the other never drops signal. BOTH cams are set up exactly the same way, same bios, firmware, same system, same settings, same everything. (other...

So far, so good, have been checking every day and every night... without fail, the settings have auto-set exactly correctly on both cameras both in day and night. Looks like maybe they officially got that fixed :)

Nice! Sounds like you are definitely on the right track. And I completely agree with your assessment to "not trust OCR" - It's definitely NOT a perfect science. What I do like about using LPR is that it "alerts" on the pates and even though the OCR may read it wrong, it makes it MUCH faster to...

Absolutely :) That's the only reason that I posted my settings, along with setup (cam to road) diagram... it sounded to me like we had similar situation/set up - other than it sounds like is traffic moves a bit faster. I will add 1 general note too... I thought that having a nearly straight on...

I'm sure that you've already done this... but for me the MOST HELPFUL thing for tweaking my cam settings in was to have my wife go in her jeep to my main focal point and just sit there in the jeep so I could tone it in... if someone came and she needed to move then she moved and would go back to...

Because, like I said before, it seems to be built into the interface...

Day #2, BOTH cam settings auto-returned to correct daytime focus on their own.

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It definitely wasnt the schedule changing. I disabled it when it didnt work an hour ago. (An hour befor the cam auto switched to night) I'm going to watch it over the next few days/nights switches to verify.

Interesting update... both of my cams just auto-switched to night b&w - and BOTH of them auto-set to the correct 1370 and 1487 (what they were set at last night. This morning, both cameras auto switched to 1356 and 1475 - I get that I could have "just gotten lucky" when they auto switched to...

@Swampledge I am using the newer IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E-S2 at about 200 feet or so, just the cams, no extra ir illuminator and here's what I'm getting in what sounds like a similar angle to you, though mine may be a little more straight on as mine are literally on my mailbox... but I would say "yes"...

What commands are you using on the new GUI?

The API doesn't appear to be the same (I'm assuming this because it didn't work when I went through the instructions and tried to induce)... so now I'm on the hunt for the right commands.

Ahh. Ok, gotchya. Ty

So far the new IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E-S2 cams have been working GREAT for LPR... tweaking the setting in BlueIris has been a bit of a PITA - but once dialed in the cams do a great job both in day AND at night. The following clips are about 125 feet or so from the cams zoomed in @ 1020 & 1060

No... but in the camera it's on "Manual Focus" - what I'm saying is that the manual focus settings seem to have auto-adjusted back to what I had them set at yesterday.

Surprisingly my daytime focus settings were auto-adjusted to the right settings... Now to wait to see what happens tonight. fingers crossed that they will auto adjust correctly again! :)

not working. I'm done with this stupid thing tonight. I'll change settings tomorrow during day and see if it switches back tomorrow night. My patience for this thing right now is quickly lowering.

ahh.. yea... that might have been it, I was using firefox and chrome.... I'll try edge in ie mode real quick.

I'll just adjust the "daytime" settings during the day tomorrow and see if it switches to night time settings tomorrow night.

Yea I thought about/tried that as well... but I think it might be broken too.... with night highlighted I don't see a way to adjust "night" in to the schedule.

NOPE... can't get it to switch (and stay) in "day" profile to set settings.

That's what I thought too... but as soon as I change that setting to "day" - then go to "Live" to adjust the zoom, when I return to "camera" it's back to "night" - I'm assuming it's getting switched automatically because it is night time... maybe tomorrow during the day I'll be able to set the...

Thank you for posting this, I was just about to come on with an update and ask how to force the focus change for day/night as I don't see the option in my cameras settings ... Left Cam (Zoom 1060): Day Focus = 1356 / Night Focus = 1370 Right Cam (Zoom 1020): Day Focus = 1475 / Night Focus =...

The cams Are on manual focus. Left cam is set to 1060 zoom and 1356 focus right cam is set to 1020 zoom and 1475 focus I guess I assumed that the "focus" wouldn't change... I'll go out tonight and check focal points and see what the #'s are. tweak tweak tweak and some more tweak... can't...

ok cam wizards... this is what's happening now, any advice would be greatly appreciated. During the day, I'm getting great shots, and great responses. License plates are clearly in focus, are set to manual focus, and all is good. But at night time, it's like the cameras shift their focus, which...

I have it working pretty well in daytime now... changed the zones and lowered the trigger time to 1 sec and max trigger to 1 sec. - it's working almost every time now... other than annoying vehicles like this that have that stupid plate cover designed to beat readers (i think):

Nope... no dice... on the right it triggered the video ok, but no plate. On the left it was late on triggering video. Oh well, It's 1:15 am and I have church in the morning... to be continued... tomorrow. Thanks for your help :)