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Colorvu white light
Thanks. The issue is the LEDs aren't turning on at all when it gets dark--The picture is just black. When I had higher gain, it seemed to work correctly. I was reducing gain to try to reduce the noise in the image. I'm ok with a slower shutter speed since this camera is only monitoring a... -
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Colorvu white light
I'm having difficulty understanding how the supplemental light works on my Colorvu (DS-2CD2347G1-L and DS-2CD2T47G1-L) cameras. I've tried to improve the image quality by reducing the gain of the camera. However, for some reason now the supplemental light will no longer turn on automatically)... -
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Hikvision as a brand
As far as I could find, there is no documentation that you can read to learn it. You can eavesdrop on expert discussions on forums, but even they appear to be just exchanging things they have discovered through experimentation. This is a stark contrast to BI that has a solid vendor-created... -
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Hikvision as a brand
A few years ago I put in a system with 7 Hikvision cameras and a Hikvision NVR. I have a technical background (MS computer architecture) but didn't really know any thing about video so consider me a rank amateur. I found the Hikvision system easy to deploy. But getting it to work in a usable... -
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IPC-T54IR-AS-S3 Day/Night Switch
Using Blue Iris, but have set up the cameras so they correctly get DST. But that's the problem--the scheduler only allows you to choose a single day/night switch time for the whole month, but sunset occurs an hour earlier after DST ends. -
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IPC-T54IR-AS-S3 Day/Night Switch
I've been using the scheduler to postpone figuring out how to automate switching between day and night. Is there a way to deal with daylight savings time when using the scheduler (eg sunset is at 6:09pm on Nov 1 and 5:08pm on Nov 2)? Or will this be the forcing function to figure out how to... -
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Flock installed LPR's without permits and has now been banned from operating in two states
The quality is vastly better than Flock. We capture way more plates at way higher resolution. And we have overview video as well which Flock doesn't offer. Flock does have an advantage in ALPR, but this isn't really a feature we need. At some point I may play around with the Blue Iris add-on... -
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Flock installed LPR's without permits and has now been banned from operating in two states
We had one already and have gotten rid of it. There's no restriction on private use. The potential concerns come if authorities use multiple cameras them to track movements. Our issue was the system was vandalized multiple times and Flock's monitoring wasn't good enough to detect it. -
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Flock installed LPR's without permits and has now been banned from operating in two states
Fingers crossed. Ours are on a 12' pole and we painted them with camouflage paint so they aren't as obvious as the Flock camera was. Still, it would suck if someone painted them. I emailed Andy to see if he has any protective domes/film. This also looks interesting: BDF AG4M Window Film... -
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Flock installed LPR's without permits and has now been banned from operating in two states
Bad guys really don't like Flock. At first they cut the power cable from the solar cell on our camera. Now they cut the repaired cable, spray painted the lens, and hit the camera with something. The irony is that we've implemented our own cameras and Flock isn't even active any more... -
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Picture tuning suggestions
Yeah stationary cars looked great in auto mode, but moving cars were really blurry. I figure the cars are going 15-20mph at the capture point, so with my 20ms shutter they travel ~6" during each frame--already not great. With auto mode's slower shutter, they probably move 1-2 feet. -
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Picture tuning suggestions
Update: I ran the tests that I mentioned earlier. As most of you pointed out, there simply wasn't enough light in the scene for the camera. In fact, to get color on the stationary car with no headlights, I needed to use a 30ms shutter with a gain of 70. Headlights/taillights actually improved... -
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Picture tuning suggestions
Yes. There's a good chance this situation is just because I don't know what I'm doing...:) -
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Picture tuning suggestions
Nope they are off. Our previous Flock camera was disabled twice by bad guys, so we want to keep this installation more obscure. If we have to add light, we would use some kind of external lighting.