Someone in the master thread
Mini-Review - 5442-ZE-S3 AKA T54IR-ZE-S3 - Replacement to 5442-ZE wrote to use self-adaptive to work around the day/night CGI issue. I can't find the original posting, but thank you!
Reposting the work around here because it seems to work on both my Z4-s3 and Z12-s2 for getting the day / night profile CGI to function as expected. My prior use of day/night mode was not stable. Self-adaptive seems to be stable in allowing day / night profile selection via CGI. Moreover, it keeps using the last commanded profile.
1. Do all your day and night profile settings with camera in
Customized Scene mode. I also set all my schedules in customized scene to full time night. Save your settings.
2. Switch the camera to
self-adaptive mode. That moves the camera out of Customized Scene mode AND enables the CGI to accept day / night profile changes. I also set self-adaptive to B/W full time, but that is probably not necessary.
The camera will initially operate with the
self-adaptive mode settings. However, it WILL accept CGI day / night profile command and actually switch to your previously saved day and night profile settings.
3. Send a day profile, or night profile CGI command (or let Dahua day/night utiltity do it). That will actually switch profiles and that profile will continue to be active.
This takes advantage of what appears to be a useful bug in the firmware. Self-adaptive mode accepts and executes day / night profile changes.
NB: If you go back into the camera GUI, it will switch back
Customized Scene mode. Just be sure to switch back to
self-adaptive mode and send an appropriate CGI command to set your desired day or night profile.