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wittaj said:
OK that is good.

and it is checked here:

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No, it is not checked there. I checked the box in the camera's IVS settings. I was following BigRedFish's recommendations to setup all that stuff in the camera itself. Looks like for some reason the camera's settings are not getting pushed back to the NVR, or the NVR isn't reading it properly from the camera.

I just double checked, and on the camera's login page, it's still checked.
 
What controls the image quality/size that gets sent from the NVR in the email attachment?

I set it up to send an MMS to my phone, which is working well, but a bit laggy. Thinking smaller pic or lower quality may help.
 
Kevin Doe said:
Is there a way to turn off the “intrusion clear” email that comes two minutes after?
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no unfortunately. I think some have played with email rules to discard it however..
 
Kevin Doe said:
What controls the image quality/size that gets sent from the NVR in the email attachment?

I set it up to send an MMS to my phone, which is working well, but a bit laggy. Thinking smaller pic or lower quality may help.
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I'm pretty sure the snapshot setting controls that
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What a huge improvement! I think you would agree it is a better video.

Consider dropping the NR down - you have enough light you should be able to go fairly low. Try 15 for 2D and 30 for 3D
 
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You can see the focus go soft somewhere between 5 and 10’. It is much better at this height!

Here you can see the cam. It was above the conduit and centered on the door. Now just above the tool box. Obviously I need to buy a white cable and properly secure it, but the orange was all I had so temporary. It just clears the box lid when opened.
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wittaj said:
I think it hides better there as well. Certainly not a place a perp entering the garage would think a camera would be!
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I agree it hides very well in the new location as well! Very happy with the move.

As much as I tried to learn and research before I the ran wires, and before I purchased the cameras, there is nothing like learning with experience! Would have changed many things.
 
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We've all been there and done that. It's called life.
 
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wittaj said:
Consider dropping the NR down - you have enough light you should be able to go fairly low. Try 15 for 2D and 30 for 3D
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I tried the settings you recommended for NR. The new settings look good with the garage lights on, but made the lights-off performance appear worse, at least to my eye. This is still at auto illuminator up to 15%. I don't particularly want to go higher on the built in LEDs, because that means the LEDs will be on all the time the garage door is closed with the main lights off, or at night with the lights off and garage door open. If I can't get good performance, I was thinking maybe some motion triggered lighting. That way it can be dark when nothing is going on, and the lights will come on when motion is detected, and get a lot more light than the built in illuminators. Thoughts?

 
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WOW - I am surprised it was that noisy given it was indoors in mostly white walls that would bounce the light around.

I guess going in your favor is it is a tight area so someone wouldn't be going really fast, so you could probably get away with a little higher NR.

What about the light at 25% - I have found that to still be soft and not overbearing.

Most here are not big fans of motion triggered lights due to the blinding it can cause the camera. But since this camera isn't going from infrared to color, that is negated some what, but you could see a brief white out in your video when you went from the camera LED to the garage lights.

But if they get triggered as the garage door is going up, that would certainly level out before a perp got in.
 
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The scenario that I'm more concerned about is that my kids leave the garage door open after dark. If I had motion lights I'd like for them to trigger as they walk in the garage, that way the camera could adjust before they're in too deep to get captured on the camera clearly. I did tweak the settings some more. I was able to get a little more shutter before motion blur, bring the built in LEDs up to 25%, and bring down the gain to get a clear image. A lot better, but still could use more light.

0-12.5 ms shutter (as long as 1/80 sec)
0-28 gain
Build in LEDs on auto up to 25%

When the garage lights turn on, it's very bright. Each light is 160W and 18,000 lumens, and I have 6 of them.

 
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