Add Sunrise Sunset to Time Plan Settings

[CamCrazy]

It has been a few weeks since I began using the newer cameras with the Time Plan Settings schedule. Previously a user (still am for older cams) of Dahua Sunrise Sunset application, this worked flawlessly for years now, even setting focus on ALPR cams.

Now I know it has been raised before by others, but am I surely not alone in wondering why Dahua have not yet implemented Sunrise/Sunset times into the Time Plan Settings. Assuming other feel the same, what do we need to do for Dahua to take notice, I doubt this can be that hard to implement. I did flag it with @EMPIRETECANDY but at this point I would love a direct line to Dahua just to offer some 'feedback' for this and the new Pro camera range.

Currently testing the api commands via Blue Iris schedule/trigger but this is not only painful, relatively speaking, but simply another unnecessary link in the chain.

The Time Plan Settings is far too basic, the transition windows has to be very large to cover each month. Often you simply require a 15-30 delay or advance for the switch from day to night. Those who think that leaving the cameras in one profile for day and night, need not apply to this one

 

[bigredfish]

To me it’s a losing game and not worth the effort.

Some observations

• adjusting camera settings specific to dawn or dusk is usually a poor choice. More important to adjust for the 11-12 hours of daylight/night
• an example for Orlando for Nov shows a max of 21 min diff in sunrise and about 15 for sunset

- I see little benefit for adjusting for 6:40 vs 6:50am. So I’ll typically set night profile to end 6:45am
Currently there is light at 6:27am as I type this but not enough for color daytime settings. Official sunrise is 20 minutes from now

• overcast or bright clear mornings/evenings mess with the time anyway
• one could setup a 3rd or even 4th profile to allow for specific dawn/dusk settings for roughly 20-30 min but…
• Each camera location/scene is different anyway

 

[bigredfish]

Then there's this for 30 minutes well before sunset