All, I completed my testing this evening on 05-24 FW and am please to say that Dahua did take my additional feedback and have now applied changes across the entire HLC setting range from 0 - 100. I've tested all of these tonight with SmartIR on and each one adjusts correctly. I also repeated the flashlight glare test (to ensure HLC still adjusts for glare) and that works too.
I'm currently uploading the video and will post here as soon as complete.
My thanks again to Dahua for prioritizing these critical fixes and I hope now this code will be utilized on all SmartIR capable cameras across the Dahua portfolio as this bug I highlighted does exist there too.
I did notice that on this FW (05-24) a couple of recordings cut off prematurely (HLC 60, HLC 10, HLC 5 clips in the video when you see it) which was strange and had not seen that issue on 05-20 beta. However as SMD / AI detection algorithms were not touched on 05-24 this could just be an anomaly. Either way, I reported this back as SMD / AI detection is now being worked on by Dahua as they wanted to ensure SmartIR + HLC was fixed correctly first. This should now allow SMD 3.0 FW to continue being developed and hopefully in June a final release including the SmartIR + HLC + SMD / AI detection algorithms will be available.
Thanks again to Dahua for working with me directly, listening and acting on these bugs I reported and once again to
@EMPIRETECANDY for also helping drive this forward.
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