New PTZ cam from Andy question.

I

ingeborgdot

Pulling my weight
May 7, 2017
691
162
Scott City, KS
I know I have seen people say that if a person sets a PTZ to tour or scan, that it will shorten it's life. How much? Does anyone know? My friend that I just installed a PTZ for wants to do this. It is actually a weather cam and he wants to pan about a 200 degree area looking at the sky. It will only pan or scan from sunrise to sunset, and then just go to the preset home. What are your thoughts on this?
If you think it is a feasible thing to do, where can I find the best tutorial on how to do it properly? Thanks.
 
Supposedly the newer cams they have eliminated it, but too new to know for sure!

Someone that got the warning had it on auto-patrol every 15 seconds (so 5,760 cycles per day) and got the warning at 439 days, or 2,528,640 cycles.

Here is one of the threads and you can read the back and forth.

Post in thread 'Review - Dahua SD49225XA-HNR 2MP 25x Starlight + IR PTZ AI Camera with Deep IVS & SMD Plus' Review - Dahua SD49225XA-HNR 2MP 25x Starlight + IR PTZ AI Camera with Deep IVS & SMD Plus

But setting up the patrol is easy. You first set presets and then you go into the PTZ settings tab and select patrol.
 
  • Like
Reactions: JDreaming
I was playing with it today. What it would be like is that it would be a very, very slow #1 speed pan. To go from the one side to the other I think it took almost 2 minutes. I would have a pause at the one stop for several minutes, and then start again, so I'm guessing that if I set it up the way I want, it would be 2 minutes on pause, 2 minutes pan, 2 minutes pause, and then start over again. So 6 minutes per pan total. That would be 10 cycles an hour, and depending on the time of year and length of day the total each day could vary. A 12 hour sunrise to sunset would be 120 cycles??? All he is looking at is the sky and the weather so the slower moving it is the better.
 
In some Dahua firmware versions, they call it a "tour". I haven't used the feature, but in the older grey/yellow WebUI, I read somewhere that you can save PTZ "preset" positions, then tell the tour to use a list of presets. YMMV by model and firmware version. :)
 
  • Like
Reactions: JDreaming
After looking at videos of people setting up the tour setting and using that, I don't think that is what I need. I won't need to zoom or do anything like that at all. All we need to do is go back and forth slowly looking at the sky since it is mainly a weather camera. I think I just need to scan. I would have to set a schedule for it so it only does it during the day. Thoughts?
 
  • Like
Reactions: JDreaming
Is it inverted? I mentioned in another thread I’ll bet that wears the servos out faster. You can feel how much easier it moves right side up vs inverted.
 
Okay, great. I do have a question for you about tour as compared to scan. All I need to do is pan about 200 degrees. Start on the left and pan right until it gets to about the 200 degree mark and then go back at the same speed, back and forth until sunset. No zooming, no nothing other than back and forth. Do I need to do tour or scan for that? What works best? I will also have to do a schedule for it. I need a good tutorial for it since I have not done the tour or scan before since I never needed it.
 
Okay, I can get the scan to work to go back and forth, and all setup on a schedule. It works great, but with scan I can't get it to stay at the end point for any given time. I can get the tour group to stay in place for a given time, but I'm having issues. All I need it to do is go back and forth. I would like it to stay at the end spot for about 30 seconds or so and then start back the other way. What is happening is that I set my preset to the place I want it to start from. I put the next preset where I want it to go, but it goes to the other preset but shows just the opposite of what I want to show. I've never done the tour before so, I guess I'll keep on trying. I just need it to go back and forth about 200 degree.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom