bigredfish
Known around here
Looks great! You seem to have gobs of white light available. Mind posting a sample clip of a person in motion in that same setting?
Looks great! You seem to have gobs of white light available. Mind posting a sample clip of a person in motion in that same setting?
bigrob444
Getting the hang of it
- Apr 8, 2017
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Very weird, I installed a second one of these and I can control it via the SmartPSS app. One works, one doesn't.... very odd.
Yes, I have two 20w LED flood lights come on automatically after dusk. The four lights you see inside the gazebo are Hue color Lamps also set to turn on automatically.
On recordings, people/pets moving around at night with the flood lights on look just about the same as they do during day time. I'm intending to record people movement tonight, with the flood lights manually turned off.
I haven't tried updating the firmware. After years on IT, with all my firmware updatable devices, I've learned to manage my anxiety levels and waiting at least one fortnight before taking the plunge.
looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
Turning the flood lights off and leaving the 4 Hue Lamps on result in black and white picture with a fair amount of ghosting. Did not like the results. I'm in a hurry going out tonight, but will try again with the Hue Lights off as well when I return.
Turning all the lights off yields about the same ghosting on moving people as seen with Hue Lights on. Not happy with it now.
Can one of the experts suggest manual settings I should try. I know it all depends on distance of the still and moving objects in picture, but I would appreciate a no-no settings list for night footage without any additional light on, as my cams and network equipment is on UPS power, meaning I would like to be able to obtain usable footage even during mains blackouts.
Please take into consideration that I just got this camera a few days ago and haven't had time to play with manual settings, which means I'm mostly on factory default settings now.
Thanks in advance.
Can one of the experts suggest manual settings I should try. I know it all depends on distance of the still and moving objects in picture, but I would appreciate a no-no settings list for night footage without any additional light on, as my cams and network equipment is on UPS power, meaning I would like to be able to obtain usable footage even during mains blackouts.
Please take into consideration that I just got this camera a few days ago and haven't had time to play with manual settings, which means I'm mostly on factory default settings now.
Thanks in advance.
I read a thread on here somewhere that if your "noise reduction" is set too high it will cause a ghosting effect during movement. Maybe reduce it until you don't get any ghosting (if this is the problem).
Both of his camera's have the 3D DNR feature so I assume that's what it uses. It's in this thread: Sanity Check - Better cameras, IR Illuminators or tweak Blue Iris?
Ok, reduced 2D NR from 50 to 40. Left 3D NR on it's default of 50.
I intend to capture some movement on footage tonight, to see if ghosting is reduced somehow. Will post back with the outcome.
I intend to capture some movement on footage tonight, to see if ghosting is reduced somehow. Will post back with the outcome.
looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
Tried that and the image still remains blurry. The only thing that made a "bit" of a difference was to decrease the camera's aperture right before screen goes dark. Pretty sure it's a lens misalignment issue.
rspan
n3wb
- Jul 16, 2017
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I have had mine installed for about two months. Recently, I've noticed it having issues auto focusing when I zoom into its max zoom. An attempt to manually focus it in is a hit and miss. If I zoom out a bit it will then be able to focus it at some point. I'm sure what mine is doing isn't any setting since it has always worked fine before, even with default settings right out of the box.
rspan
n3wb
- Jul 16, 2017
- 3
- 0
I am curious if anyone has had any luck figuring out the IVS auto tracking with the newer firmware versions. It seems Dahua took away the ability to have any control of it by removing the Calibrate tab in IVS. I have tested and tested, tweaked it left and right, and nothing seems to have any real effect. In some ways, it seems better to only enable IVS and not create any rules, set target filters, or any of the other adjustments they left. That seems to work just as well or better...to only enable it with no configuration. It gets obsessed with the tree trunk and moving leaves in my front yard. It will be panning across tracking something and sometimes will lose it by stopping to focus in on the tree trunk or leaves. I see no way of excluding them. Maybe I'm missing something?
