Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

[EagleEye7]

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 and Night profiles, and have the camera automatically switch between the two profiles, as the light levels change (as is possible on Andy's cams). However, the only options under 'Profile Management' are as follows:

- General: I assume this just uses the 'General' profile all the time.

- Full Time: This sounds like it uses either 'Day' or 'Night' profile all the time.

- Schedule: Allows me to set a time-schedule for each profile, but the problem here is that there is only 1 schedule for 12 months of the year - achieving a balance that will work during all seasons, I imagine, will be almost impossible.

Am I missing something obvious? Does anyone have any ideas? I had a similar issue on an older PTZ, and put it down to the age of the firmware. But this is a much newer camera, and it is ridiculous if this functionality is missing.

 

[bigredfish]

I always used Schedule.

Yes you have to change it 3-4 times during the year but just takes a couple of minutes.

That’s a very low end model. Newer mid and high end cameras have an additional choice that many say works as you intend

 

[wittaj]

Yep, that is an older GUI.

But even then, most of us found that the day/night didn't work as intended. It would simply select a profile and then go to color or B/W based on available light and would not use the day and night profiles.

Maybe you have enough light that you didn't notice. But if you change night shutter to 1/10,000 the image should be black at night and that wouldn't happen because it was using the general or day profile and simply switched from color to B/W.

 

[EagleEye7]

Yes you have to change it 3-4 times during the year but just takes a couple of minutes.

No big deal, except if there are multiple cameras, in which case it becomes slightly annoying.

That’s a very low end model. Newer mid and high end cameras have an additional choice that many say works as you intend

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 obviously different and does have an additional Day / Night option, which I have yet to try, but assume might be more like what I am after?

 

[wittaj]

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 obviously different and does have an additional Day / Night option, which I have yet to try, but assume might be more like what I am after?

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See my post #3 above yours - this option on older GUIs doesn't work the way we think/expect. All it does is takes one profile and then changes from color or b/w based on available light. It will not switch between day and night profile settings for shutter, brightness, etc.

 

[EagleEye7]

Oh, I see what you mean. I will test it to verify 100% on this specific camera.

 

[EagleEye7]

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.

 

[wittaj]

Oh, I see what you mean. I will test it to verify 100% on this specific camera.

Many of us found this out by using a camera for LPR which requires fast shutter speeds, which means at night the image will be completely black except for the plate and we take advantage of the reflective properties of the plate to get the freeze frame capture to read the plate with the faster shutter speeds.

Because this day/night option didn't work the way we expected it to in the camera, a member here created a utility to allows us to actually go from day and night profile but it only works for those running BI or cameras not connected to NVR POE ports as it needs access to a computer.

 

[EagleEye7]

That sounds like a nice idea. Not sure if its worth the effort in this situation, but interesting to consider.

only works for those running BI or cameras not connected to NVR POE ports as it needs access to a computer.

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 here for details: Hik NVR struggling to record RTSP streams reliably from certain cameras