Dahua WizColor 5x59-PRO and SmartLight 5x59-IL new series

[steve1225]

you must downgrade also to older firmware.bin file...

 

[Chokolinho]

Looking forward to hear more from 'ya @CamCrazy
I assume they were delivered with the 0731 firmware(?) ... which I think is what most people are running - this has the "full" gain control.

No idea on the grid - that's weird and I've never seen that ... and in manual mode, I've done exposures from 100msec to 0.01msec.

All my cameras came with the 1R.

 

[CamCrazy]

Looking forward to hear more from 'ya @CamCrazy
I assume they were delivered with the 0731 firmware(?) ... which I think is what most people are running - this has the "full" gain control.

No idea on the grid - that's weird and I've never seen that ... and in manual mode, I've done exposures from 100msec to 0.01msec.

Updated post above with system info. Grid is bizarre, I am running in shutter priority tonight, got to get a grip on the profile situation!!

 

[alekk]

@Tinman: That looks like the Dahua firmware (logo and Product Documentation) per my earlier post. - I assume you downloaded it and it's the 0827 version.

Did you notice that there was a "web-x-squashfs.bin" file in the download?
I haven't seen that before and did NOT apply (usually it's just the two "IPC" and firmware .bin files ... that I apply in that order) - does anyone (@steve1225 ?) know what it is?

Note that dates below are when I unzipped the download.

 

[Tinman]

@Tinman: That looks like the Dahua firmware (logo and Product Documentation) per my earlier post. - I assume you downloaded it and it's the 0827 version.

Did you notice that there was a "web-x-squashfs.bin" file in the download?
I haven't seen that before and did NOT apply (usually it's just the two "IPC" and firmware .bin files ... that I apply in that order) - does anyone (@steve1225 ?) know what it is?

Note that dates below are when I unzipped the download.

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yes there was. When I did the upgrade I selected folder and it did the whole firmware the same time, only rebooted once.

 

[Tinman]

Holy smokes, the 54Pro ZE is running as is the S3, the S3 is as expected for the most part, nice step up from the earlier 5442. The 54Pro, initially is like an explosion of settings and options, this is going to be interesting! Working mode I need to dig around some more, Self Adaptive seems so far the only way I forced the colour mode with warm LED's at night! generally I trigger day or night with the DahuaSunriseSunset program, what are the people who know running these 54Pro and similar potential 'colour' cameras in with regards to this?

I found using these strings in BI new action set feature work great. These you do NOT have to use the Self adaptive mode as you do with ver4 strings.

user:[email protected]/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].ConfigEx=Day&VideoInMode[0].Mode=4

user:[email protected]/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].ConfigEx=Night&VideoInMode[0].Mode=4

 

[CamCrazy]

I found using these strings in BI new action set feature work great. These you do NOT have to use the Self adaptive mode as you do with ver4 strings.

user:[email protected]/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].ConfigEx=Day&VideoInMode[0].Mode=4

user:[email protected]/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInMode[0].ConfigEx=Night&VideoInMode[0].Mode=4


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Thank you, I will add this to my list

I've got new toy fatigue now so leaving the two new ones running overnight, see what the daylight brings, spent about 10 minutes on the S3 and 2 hours on the 54Pro

OK, went back to check something, even though I have shutter at 0-3ms and the scene without motion looks good, I am getting quite poor quality moving objects, ie car, was experimenting with WDR and had it set to 45, now normally I would not even run WDR but tried it and the image looked more detailed and natural, oddly enough! this is not normally ideal for motion so I switched it off and will leave it as is for the rest of the night. Shame, since the picture looked quite a lot better with it turned on, did try a touch of HLC to see how that worked out also. Guess the testing continues.

Just for info, with white LED's on full power it draws around another 4.5watts according to my HP switch, when compared to IR on full power. The LED's are quite bright considering, will be interesting to compare the 4K-T to see how they look. Compared to the 2MP starlight it replaces, the 54Pro looks quite the picture at night, twice the detail at least and no black and white to be seen, I also forget how wide the newer cameras image is! in most cases this is very welcome.

 

[Tinman]

I can't run my shutter very fast till I add some more lighting or I can't keep it in color mode. I did play using the intrusion and the alarm....it's pretty loud. So, I backed it off to 75% volume. It's going to serve my purpose very well once I get it ironed out.

 

[alekk]

@CamCrazy: Good info - cool that they are minimal power draw. I found that doing HNL=1 (yes, ONE) improved the image.

@Tinman: Good stuff. I took a screen grab of before/after LED turn-on and made the GIF below as I thought it might be interesting to see how the background is changing as the exposure is dropped - looks like it's going some WDR'ish/shadow-boost to try to keep those visible. Not bad ... plus at that point, the primary focus is on the intruder.

Speaking of which, I don't think you need a faster shutter speed to identify the person in the speckled blue sweats/PJ's! ;-)