The manual focus option works just fine. The cam does not try and focus when it goes from day to night, at least my two do not. The focus for me is the same day or night.You also need to figure out how you will deal with the nighttime focus issue - at a 1/2000 shutter the image will be completely black and you will need to either force the focus using the sunrise/sunset utility that a member here created
Yeah. I just do not see what is wrong. And @bp2008 no longer supports that utility.Bummer you cannot get the utility to work on newer units. It works just fine with my 5442 I bought on the Black Friday sale.
So. is the Night and Day in the Web UI a choice that will not change as darkness falls and sunrise begins? If you choose Day Profile, thats it. Its stuck on Day profile all night right?
I just never tried it before last night. It was one of those things that I said "Gotta do this, sometime". No, all the cam's user is admin. All of the cams passwords are the same. I actually was only trying one cam just to get it running. When the LPR-E cam would not connect, I went to the LPR-W cam. Then the Intersection cam (B5442 Z4). Then the driveway cam (T5442 6mm). So them I tried the HDW5431 and it worked. As did the HDW5231 and all of the other older cams.I wonder how many cameras the utility can support?
Currently, my cams are set using Schedule.So. is the Night and Day in the Web UI a choice that will not change as darkness falls and sunrise begins? If you choose Day Profile, thats it. Its stuck on Day profile all night right?
If you manually go to this web address in your browser (Chrome, IE, whatever) on one of your cameras what happens:The manual focus option works just fine. The cam does not try and focus when it goes from day to night, at least my two do not. The focus for me is the same day or night.
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I am on the following firmware:
V2.800.0000000.22.R, Build Date: 2020-11-19
Make sure you pump up the IR:
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PS: I tried all last night to get the Dahua Sunrise/Sunset utility to work with no luck on any of the cams I bought in 2020. I can get it to work for all of the other, older cams, but not the newer ones. I just can't figure it out.
No issues with the HDBW4231's, HDBW4239's, HDW5231's, HDW5431, or the SD12203T-GN's.
But my HFW5241's, T5442's, B5442 Z4, and the T2231 all will not connect. If I use port 80, I get
3/12/2021 9:01:58 PM Exception thrown attempting web request (): The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
If I use port 81:
3/12/2021 9:02:25 PM Exception thrown attempting web request (): Unable to connect to the remote server
So the IP address is correct. The ports for every cam are the same:
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So I have given up.
http://admin:password@ipaddress:port/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].Config[0]=1
...Config[0]=0
to go back to day mode....configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].Config[0]=1 (bold letters are uppercase)
http://user:password@
stuff and just dohttp://ipaddress/cgi-bin/configManager.cgiaction=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].Config[0]=1
and it should ask for user/password.