What are the best Settings for “Indoor” HDW5442T Cameras?

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sunny0101786

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on the best settings for my HDW5442T indoor cameras. There are many threads discussing settings for outdoor cameras of the same model, but I couldn't find any for indoor cameras. Could you please share your recommendations for the following settings?

1. Working Mode: Self-adaptive, Day/Night switch, or Custom scenes?
2. AI SSA: Should I enable it?
3. Image: Brightness & Contrast adjustments
4. Exposure: All the available settings
5. White Balance (WB): Best practices

Additionally, I'd like to know the optimal settings for:
Main Stream & Sub Stream: Encode settings

Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
 

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There is no difference and there is no one setting combination for outdoor OR indoor.
I have 11 "Outdoor" cameras and no two have identical settings. That's fantasy.

Each scene is different.,

Whether Inside or Outside, 10ft or 150ft, it still comes down to the same things:
Ambient light conditions, Distance to target, Target Speed

And No one can give you valid setting suggestions without seeing a picture of the scene in the lighting conditions you are adjusting for
 
bigredfish said:
There is no difference and there is no one setting combination for outdoor OR indoor.
I have 11 "Outdoor" cameras and no two have identical settings. That's fantasy.

Each scene is different.,

Whether Inside or Outside, 10ft or 150ft, it still comes down to the same things:
Ambient light conditions, Distance to target, Target Speed

And No one can give you valid setting suggestions without seeing a picture of the scene in the lighting conditions you are adjusting for
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Do you have a villa or why do you need 11 cameras ?
 
I have a very small home actually. We downsized in 2022 and were fortunate to sell our former home at a very nice profit.
I'm looking at adding 2 more cameras actually. Many members here have more

Here's an example of why you need more cameras than you think.

This (very good) camera sees that there is someone in the street. Describe him to police without looking at the next image
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This camera is zoomed in at a choke point to capture facial ID. Did you call out the beard in the first photo?
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What color are his clothes? How about his backpack?
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Once you been burned on the 4 camera "I can see the whole neighborhood" Costco all-in-one-in-a-box special, you realize you need more cameras. I was like "I can place one on each corner of the house and see my whole property and the whole neighborhood." A newbie loves the wide angle "I can see the whole neighborhood" of the 2.8mm fixed wide angle lens. I LOVED IT WHEN I PUT IT UP. I could see everything that would be blocked looking out the windows.

It is easy to get lured in to thinking the wide angle "see the whole neighborhood" because you are watching it and you see a neighbor go by and you are like "Look at that I can tell that is Heather out walking." and "Yeah I can tell our neighbor 4 down just passed by". Or you watch back the video of you walking around and are like "yeah I can tell that is me".

Little do we realize how much WE can identify a known person just by hair style, clothing, walking pace, gait, etc.

Then one day the door checker comes by. Total stranger. Totally useless video other than what time the door checking happened.

Then you realize that this wide-angle see the whole neighborhood comes at a cost and that cost is not being able to IDENTIFY who did it. These 2.8mm wide angle cameras are great overview cameras or to IDENTIFY someone within 10 feet of the camera. At 40 feet out you need a different camera.

Come on @bigredfish, I just digital zoomed your wide angle and it looks about as good as your second image :lmao:

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bigredfish said:
I have a very small home actually. We downsized in 2022 and were fortunate to sell our former home at a very nice profit.
I'm looking at adding 2 more cameras actually. Many members here have more

Here's an example of why you need more cameras than you think.

This (very good) camera sees that there is someone in the street. Describe him to police without looking at the next image
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This camera is zoomed in at a choke point to capture facial ID. Did you call out the beard in the first photo?
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wittaj said:
Once you been burned on the 4 camera "I can see the whole neighborhood" Costco all-in-one-in-a-box special, you realize you need more cameras. I was like "I can place one on each corner of the house and see my whole property and the whole neighborhood." A newbie loves the wide angle "I can see the whole neighborhood" of the 2.8mm fixed wide angle lens. I LOVED IT WHEN I PUT IT UP. I could see everything that would be blocked looking out the windows.

It is easy to get lured in to thinking the wide angle "see the whole neighborhood" because you are watching it and you see a neighbor go by and you are like "Look at that I can tell that is Heather out walking." and "Yeah I can tell our neighbor 4 down just passed by". Or you watch back the video of you walking around and are like "yeah I can tell that is me".

Little do we realize how much WE can identify a known person just by hair style, clothing, walking pace, gait, etc.

Then one day the door checker comes by. Total stranger. Totally useless video other than what time the door checking happened.

Then you realize that this wide-angle see the whole neighborhood comes at a cost and that cost is not being able to IDENTIFY who did it. These 2.8mm wide angle cameras are great overview cameras or to IDENTIFY someone within 10 feet of the camera. At 40 feet out you need a different camera.

Come on @bigredfish, I just digital zoomed your wide angle and it looks about as good as your second image :lmao:

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Which camera would be sufficient for the long distance?
 
bigredfish said:
That camera is the 5442-Z4. Good for ID out to 60-80ft

Past that and out to 150-180 ft you would have to go to the 2MP Z-12
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For me, 60-80ft would be enough. However, I would have to combine this with an IPC-HDW3449H-AS-PV-PRO. Do you hang the cameras next to each other or how have you positioned them?
 
Mine are stacked 6" apart vertically
 
The Z4 is a Great camera, you'll love it
 
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