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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Fair comments, thanks for the detail. Perhaps I should be using IE more.
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Thanks, I am aware that most use IE, and I am aware it can be launched via a script, and I do use it with some systems. I usually use either Chrome or FF where I can, and it seems not to be an issue with these cams.
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    From memory I am fine in these areas.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Personally, I would keep them as they are, but it depends on your situation / goals. If you had a 2.8mm on the alley, and 12mm on the roof, you would have some tighter shots, but still not very tight - E.G you would have 2 'ok' views. I would be inclined to leave it as-is, with the 2.8mm 8MP on...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Thats understandable. Some motion would be good to see if possible. You could even walk around yourself if you like. 1/25 is 40ms, I believe, this is a little high. Not sure how precise you can be on the Hikvisions, but try speeding it up a little (smaller number is faster) - you will get a...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    It is possible using either ONVIF or RTSP - note however, there is less compatibility than Hikvision camera with Hikvision NVR, so adjusting all the camera parameters within the NVR is not possible. Good, but it seems you have skipped the 'Exposure' tab, which may be the most important in this...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    No problem. I am not currently running BI in this instance, a Hikvision NVR is being used for 24x7 recording. You could start by sharing some sample images from your cameras, your camera models, and settings?
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    ONVIF messing with time on EmpireTech IPC.

    OK,, I got fed up and just added the IPC to the NVR with the RTSP streams. Seems to be working OK for now.
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    ONVIF messing with time on EmpireTech IPC.

    I have been setting up a B54IR-Z4E from Andy, which has been a great cam. However, I have one issue, not specific to the cam exactly which I cannot seem to solve. I have the cam added to a Hikvision NVR for continuous recording purposes, via ONVIF. This works quite nicely. However, due to some...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    The noise is definitely less after these adjustments, and here are some still captures:
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Updated to this last night (forgot to press 'Post').
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    @bigredfish, wrote the above before your latest loaded!
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Reviewing historic footage, nighttime noise seemed to worsen between the AM and the PM on the 27th. Looking back on this thread, I found I posted this on the 27th: So looks like the lowered shutter (= less light into sensor) could be the cause. For getting good sill images of perps, do we...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    As usual, thanks all for the information. I have increased NR just a few points, and lowered sharpness to 44 as you suggested. Of course, this is always the goal. When viewing, and pausing to get some stills, I almost wondered if this issue was contributing to stills too. But perhaps not. I...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    What causes noise, or a kind of 'shimmering' in the video? This definitely was not present to begin with, but I am having an issue with it now. No sure what I changed though? Codec? I know I did reduce 3D and 2D NR a bit, but I thought I did this when I first set everything up, E.G before I...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Thanks. I have changed to .264H.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Yes, I understand. I think currently my cam is set to plain H.264 - I am not sure what benefit H.264H brings?
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Now increased to 10240.
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    I think it might have actually worked. I modified the shutter, as mentioned, whilst it was still in color / day mode. I know it didn't immediately start using this shutter, as the image was still perfectly bright, even though it was getting a bit dim outside. Later, I checked again, and the...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Very nice. You have a better angle of the street itself (of course the main purpose of my cam is people entering my driveway, but it's nice to capture them walking past too), and are possibly getting slightly better face captures. What is the best way to know if you are 'running out' of bitrate...
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Fear not - they are fully isolated, VLAN in use, decent firewall, no external port forwarding or other similar horrors!
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Annoyingly, I have just found that enabling HTTPS eventually breaks ONVIF access from my Hikvision NVR, which otherwise works very well. I have tried changing the ONVIF port to 443 in the Hikvision NVR, but this didn't help. So in an effort to get the camera back online, I had to disable HTTPS...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    The distance is about 60ft to those targets, plus a bit to account for the height of the camera (2nd floor soffit). So not too bad considering camera position. Mainly the onboard IR. The only additional light at in that example would be: IR from a small overview turret, but this is over 80ft...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Here are some folk at 1AM inspecting an item. Settings: Still a bit of face blur, not sure if this is motion-induced or likely just resolution (lack of, relatively speaking) blur. Anyway, I have since sped up the night shutter to 6ms, as there still seems to be enough light.
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    That sounds like a nice idea. Not sure if its worth the effort in this situation, but interesting to consider. Assume you mean a PC or server needs to be able to access the cameras? This is sometimes possible even when using the NVR PoE ports, with a bit of sneaky networking - see my last post...
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    I have set the Night shutter to 1/10,000, or something similarly ridiculous, and left the Profile Management mode on this setting: I will wait to see what happens when it gets a bit darker and the cam switches to Night mode / b&w.
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    Oh, I see what you mean. I will test it to verify 100% on this specific camera.
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    Hik NVR struggling to record RTSP streams reliably from certain cameras

    In my previous post I outlined how the problem seems to go away if the cameras are connected directly to the Hikvision DVR using ONVIF, rather than Hik NVR -> plain RTSP -> SPRO NVR -> ONVIF -> Camera. So my workaround is to create another interface on my firewall (at remote site), and patch...
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    No big deal, except if there are multiple cameras, in which case it becomes slightly annoying. Yes - this is the trouble. It is not my camera, rather part of a system I inherited at a site I manage, which must have been installed by a 6-year-old! Odd mix of cameras, I noticed at least 1 is...
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    Anyone have experience with the DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6? I am trying to configure separate settings (mainly shutter and gain) for Day & Night, however I am having some difficulty. This is the web UI: You can see there are 3 profiles to choose. What I want to do is configure my settings for Day...
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