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    ONVIF messing with time on EmpireTech IPC.

    OK,, I got fed up and just added the IPC to the NVR with the RTSP streams. Seems to be working OK for now.
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    ONVIF messing with time on EmpireTech IPC.

    I have been setting up a B54IR-Z4E from Andy, which has been a great cam. However, I have one issue, not specific to the cam exactly which I cannot seem to solve. I have the cam added to a Hikvision NVR for continuous recording purposes, via ONVIF. This works quite nicely. However, due to some...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    The noise is definitely less after these adjustments, and here are some still captures:
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Updated to this last night (forgot to press 'Post').
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    @bigredfish, wrote the above before your latest loaded!
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Reviewing historic footage, nighttime noise seemed to worsen between the AM and the PM on the 27th. Looking back on this thread, I found I posted this on the 27th: So looks like the lowered shutter (= less light into sensor) could be the cause. For getting good sill images of perps, do we...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    As usual, thanks all for the information. I have increased NR just a few points, and lowered sharpness to 44 as you suggested. Of course, this is always the goal. When viewing, and pausing to get some stills, I almost wondered if this issue was contributing to stills too. But perhaps not. I...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    What causes noise, or a kind of 'shimmering' in the video? This definitely was not present to begin with, but I am having an issue with it now. No sure what I changed though? Codec? I know I did reduce 3D and 2D NR a bit, but I thought I did this when I first set everything up, E.G before I...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Thanks. I have changed to .264H.
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Yes, I understand. I think currently my cam is set to plain H.264 - I am not sure what benefit H.264H brings?
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Now increased to 10240.
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    I think it might have actually worked. I modified the shutter, as mentioned, whilst it was still in color / day mode. I know it didn't immediately start using this shutter, as the image was still perfectly bright, even though it was getting a bit dim outside. Later, I checked again, and the...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Very nice. You have a better angle of the street itself (of course the main purpose of my cam is people entering my driveway, but it's nice to capture them walking past too), and are possibly getting slightly better face captures. What is the best way to know if you are 'running out' of bitrate...
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Fear not - they are fully isolated, VLAN in use, decent firewall, no external port forwarding or other similar horrors!
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    Annoyingly, I have just found that enabling HTTPS eventually breaks ONVIF access from my Hikvision NVR, which otherwise works very well. I have tried changing the ONVIF port to 443 in the Hikvision NVR, but this didn't help. So in an effort to get the camera back online, I had to disable HTTPS...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    The distance is about 60ft to those targets, plus a bit to account for the height of the camera (2nd floor soffit). So not too bad considering camera position. Mainly the onboard IR. The only additional light at in that example would be: IR from a small overview turret, but this is over 80ft...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Here are some folk at 1AM inspecting an item. Settings: Still a bit of face blur, not sure if this is motion-induced or likely just resolution (lack of, relatively speaking) blur. Anyway, I have since sped up the night shutter to 6ms, as there still seems to be enough light.
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    That sounds like a nice idea. Not sure if its worth the effort in this situation, but interesting to consider. Assume you mean a PC or server needs to be able to access the cameras? This is sometimes possible even when using the NVR PoE ports, with a bit of sneaky networking - see my last post...
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    I have set the Night shutter to 1/10,000, or something similarly ridiculous, and left the Profile Management mode on this setting: I will wait to see what happens when it gets a bit darker and the cam switches to Night mode / b&w.
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    Oh, I see what you mean. I will test it to verify 100% on this specific camera.
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    Hik NVR struggling to record RTSP streams reliably from certain cameras

    In my previous post I outlined how the problem seems to go away if the cameras are connected directly to the Hikvision DVR using ONVIF, rather than Hik NVR -> plain RTSP -> SPRO NVR -> ONVIF -> Camera. So my workaround is to create another interface on my firewall (at remote site), and patch...
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    No big deal, except if there are multiple cameras, in which case it becomes slightly annoying. Yes - this is the trouble. It is not my camera, rather part of a system I inherited at a site I manage, which must have been installed by a 6-year-old! Odd mix of cameras, I noticed at least 1 is...
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    Day/Night Switch on Dahua DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6

    Anyone have experience with the DH-IPC-HDW1530T-S6? I am trying to configure separate settings (mainly shutter and gain) for Day & Night, however I am having some difficulty. This is the web UI: You can see there are 3 profiles to choose. What I want to do is configure my settings for Day...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Here are some night captures showing various specimens walking past on the path. This was the 20th/21st (took a while to process the video), so I am unsure exactly what settings it was running - probably very similar to what I showed a few posts back. I still have to try and tweak the focus at...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    True - I guess there are a huge number of variables here. I will try not get too hung up on the plates, considering this isn't even the purpose of the camera. On the gain point - does decreasing the gain mean the camera can actually use a slower shutter than specified in the Manual Shutter...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    This is a IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3, ordered direct from Andy. Reiteration to avoid confusion:): This camera is not intended for plate capture. This camera is intended to capture people / things entering or exiting the gateway, as well as perhaps pedestrians passing on the pavement as a bonus. In...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Of course! I'm forgetting the basics of cameras! I would usually call this 'aperture', so didn't immediate recognize the term. Makes sense. I will try and set this up when I have time to play with it. I can see why this is useful - I will continue to use Day/Night mode for now, as I don't have...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    Thanks for the suggestions - I will give these a go. I am assuming I am correct on my choice of Working Mode then? Should I be using Manual Focus for my chosen zoom level? Currently I think I have it on automatic. Finally, since everything seems to be a balancing act, what is the downside to...
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    Low-light struggles / improving image quality.

    First look at performance at night. Running the following settings: And its doing pretty reasonable. Here are a couple of taxi's passing in the middle of the night: The motion blur is worse than daytime, as seen by the blur on the vehicles and their plates - however, the main interest of...
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    EmpireTech web interface questions.

    That's done it. :cool:
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