I've got an IPC-T5442T-AS installed with a floodlight (motion triggered) 1.5m next to it. I've been running day/night as profile management. The first few weeks after installation, when the floodlight switched on during the night, the profile would switch from night to day (so from black/white to color). This was quite convenient, giving good license plate readability. However, last night this didn't happen. Although the floodlight was switched on the profile remained on night.
Until last evening I'd been running the night profile with standard settings (auto), but thanks to this forum (and reading a lot, special thanks to @wittaj !) I changed it to manual shutter. So I figured that would be the problem, and switched it back to auto. This didn't change anything; cam remained on night profile when the floodlight turned on. This morning it switched back to day profile.
I find this a little confusing. The only other thing that was different this night was the fact that it was raining, and the street was wet (so a little bit more black). Could this be the cause? I can't really imagine switchting from auto to manual shutter would result in not switching (although the picture is darker). How does the camera decide when to switch?
Until last evening I'd been running the night profile with standard settings (auto), but thanks to this forum (and reading a lot, special thanks to @wittaj !) I changed it to manual shutter. So I figured that would be the problem, and switched it back to auto. This didn't change anything; cam remained on night profile when the floodlight turned on. This morning it switched back to day profile.
I find this a little confusing. The only other thing that was different this night was the fact that it was raining, and the street was wet (so a little bit more black). Could this be the cause? I can't really imagine switchting from auto to manual shutter would result in not switching (although the picture is darker). How does the camera decide when to switch?
