StarfirePrime
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Greeting! After quite a bit of study, I went with the general consensus and deployed several HDW5231R-Z cameras. I am very impressed with their low light capabilities.
The cameras shipped with PAL format firmware and although I'm told that it shouldn't matter, I flashed the NTSC versions of 2.622.0000000.18.R, Build Date: 2017-11-10 and everything seems fine. I did a reset after the flash (except for the login and IP info). Subjectively, the NTSC firmware seems "snappier" in the Web GUI.
My current issue now is that I can't seem to get the camera to save two separate profile configurations (Day and Night) with respect to the IR settings. The SmartIR setting is probably fine and switches from off to on when night falls. However, I find that at night the IR is so bright and/or the Starlight chip so sensitive, that the auto exposure blacks out much of the distant background in the frame. I find that if I set the IR to manual with a setting of 1, then I get some of the IR illumination, but the aperture stays open enough to see more distant features.
So during the day I want the IR off and at night I'd like Manual 1.
However, it seems as if there is only one setting for all profiles. Regardless of the profile pull down widget state - when I change the IR setting it takes effect immediately. As a matter of fact, I can't seem to get the settings to change at all when I go to the top of the dialog box and pull down "Day" or "Night" or anything else. I've gone to the "Profile Management" tab and set schedules, and full-time Day or Night (sometimes I see Morning and Evening in the full time pull down - but not always).
So am I'm missing some magic incantation in getting different profiles to actually "stick" with different settings?
Thanks in advance!
The cameras shipped with PAL format firmware and although I'm told that it shouldn't matter, I flashed the NTSC versions of 2.622.0000000.18.R, Build Date: 2017-11-10 and everything seems fine. I did a reset after the flash (except for the login and IP info). Subjectively, the NTSC firmware seems "snappier" in the Web GUI.
My current issue now is that I can't seem to get the camera to save two separate profile configurations (Day and Night) with respect to the IR settings. The SmartIR setting is probably fine and switches from off to on when night falls. However, I find that at night the IR is so bright and/or the Starlight chip so sensitive, that the auto exposure blacks out much of the distant background in the frame. I find that if I set the IR to manual with a setting of 1, then I get some of the IR illumination, but the aperture stays open enough to see more distant features.
So during the day I want the IR off and at night I'd like Manual 1.
However, it seems as if there is only one setting for all profiles. Regardless of the profile pull down widget state - when I change the IR setting it takes effect immediately. As a matter of fact, I can't seem to get the settings to change at all when I go to the top of the dialog box and pull down "Day" or "Night" or anything else. I've gone to the "Profile Management" tab and set schedules, and full-time Day or Night (sometimes I see Morning and Evening in the full time pull down - but not always).
So am I'm missing some magic incantation in getting different profiles to actually "stick" with different settings?
Thanks in advance!
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