LPR Setup SUCCESS with HFW5241E-Z12E

[IReallyLikePizza2]

I tried it, and it sucked. The motion clips ended up with artifacts, and switching to the live stream took too long for me. I'll try it again in a few months

I have no issue with CPU right now, so I don't really have much to gain anyway

 

[wittaj]

I meant for the other person maxing out their CPU lol. At 100%, it is certainly worth a shot - even a few cams at that may bring it down enough to be a somewhat functional system.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

I'm too tired, I thought they were you

 

[wittaj]

Running crackheads out of your hood takes a lot out of ya

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Nothing a few more cameras can't fix

 

[biggen]

Weird you were having issues with sub streams. I’m running them on all five cameras at my house including my LPR cam. Running the latest stable version of BI and they work fine.

For sure give it another try when you get a chance.

 

[patrocle]

OpenALPR uses a fair amount of CPU, I just moved mine to a separate system. That also means that if one is being rebooted/updated etc, I still get a plate no matter what since I'm recording the LPR Cams 24/7 anyway

I have 10 total now, CPU usage is 20%. Only the two LPR cams are using the sub-stream feature to lower CPU, none of the rest. It was a little to buggy for me, but maybe they fixed it. My LPR box is using a fair amount, I gave it 8 cores and its at around 60% all the time with two cameras

Here is my video settings

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For time being i removed my z12e from my dedicate pc as the openalpr software was consuming a lot of cpu about 35 to 40% with still 16 cameras now... and installed openalpr soft on my main pc witch is an i7 and just link up the cam stream into the software and i am back in business. But i still have to look at the at my dedicate pc regarding the streams, i may use sub-stream 1 not the main on some cameras that are not really important.
May have to do some reading about the streams as i just left them alone at the time of the install, so in my case all are linked to main stream.
Found this in the forum :

Good guide.

 

[patrocle]

Oh, I just looked at your sig and we actually have different cameras, you have HFW5231E-Z12E and I have the HFW5241E-Z12E's

Just updated all my Dahua firmware , i was way back in versions my self. Now works better , plus seeing the video in browser is a plus.

 

[patrocle]

Now to goback to the LPR , Looks like is capturing plates okay @ day time but kind not that good at night. I may have to move it to the right a little and i think i have it about 166ft away.





That's where i am kind setup right now:

 

[wittaj]

I don't think you are at max zoom either - I would zoom in a little more as well to help with the night shots. I use the sunrise/sunset utility from this site and have zoomed backed out a little during the day to capture a little more and then it zooms in at night to help get the plate.

 

[patrocle]

Yes, i m not zoomed all the way yet.
Video of my settings:
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Maybe move the cam just a little to the right to get the full width of the street, me thinking...


I used that utility before but i re-done the dedicate pc and also moved from different city and never got into the lpr thing again but time has come again for it.
The Dahua night / day still does not work properly when it comes to zoom for day and zoom for night? as i know there problems before some years ago.

 

[wittaj]

Oh yeah you have some zoom left! And yes the Dahua day/night still doesn't work properly, especially for the zoom/focus and fast shutter speed for LPR.

 

[patrocle]

I am trying to config the Dahua day/night utility but at the moment i am just not getting a clear picture of the plate, not even seeing the place.
Can you tell me from your Day zoom setting ,how much is your camera zoomed in for night? I was for day zoomed @ 900 /1616 and now i went to 940/1720
trying to config this looks that night setup is more difficult
Here is my night screen what i have :


Now in your utility do u have something like this:



Regards,

 

[wittaj]

You need to hit the "get current zoom/focus" button to get the correct settings, which will be a decimal point less than or equal to 1.0 and then copy that into the respective boxes. So you set the zoom/focus for daytime on the camera and then hit this button and copy those numbers into the daytime box and then go back and set the camera to the nighttime settings and hit that button and copy those settings over.

Also, unless you know that the night focus is indeed focused at 1548, you will need to get this number by going to B/W during the daytime. At night at that shutter speed, it will be out of focus unless you confirm that number. Or send someone out and park a plate in the field of view and get the focus number and go about it that way.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Interesting, Ill have to try out that utility!

I'd zoom way more in

Just got the cables run for this, looks better

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

My non-optimal angle paying off, this would not be visible from the trees at the front

 

[wittaj]

Yeah, I am a fan of the off-angle to be able to get these type of things....but then the next vehicle comes by that a straight on shot would have been better LOL.