Recommendations for outdoor IP camera with good AI

bigredfish said:
So step back for me, what camera model is the one in B&W currently?

What are you trying to accomplish? If more light at the Mailbox, I would first try a $45 external illiminator leaving cameras as you have them. This one does a good job to about 120-150ft
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The mailbox camera is an EmpireTech IPC-B52IR-Z12E-S2 1/2.8" CMOS 2MP 5mm–60mm Ultra Low Light Starlight WDR IR AI Network Bullet Camera.

More light is what I am looking for, yes.
 
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Ok so without stepping up to a $800-$1500 PTZ, you're not going to get any more zoom or IR, so unless you can mount something closer, I think the image isnt bad with more light and Id try that $44 solution first. More light is always good.
 
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Here is that illuminator as seen from a VF 5442 zoomed to about 6mm, and the Z12 is under it, just like you would have. The big tree dead ahead is 120ft

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I've adjusted the night settings for both cameras, but for whatever reason, they are not sticking. The settings are there, and when I make the settings or go to the settings, it shows the brighter image. However, after a period of time, the image reverts back to the darker brightness, and I can't see anything.

It's as if the day settings are taking over at night instead of using the night settings.
 
There are a couple of different places this can be fixed. Go into the schedule and put in the day and night by month (below).

Depending on the camera, it may have a day/night switch option that you select to have it change profile based on light.

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One of them has the day/night switch, which I will try. The other only has the time settings. Not easy to do with daylight savings time, but I suppose it is what it is.

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Yeah, with the old GUI we had the ability to send APIs for day and night profile based on actual sunrise and sunset times. Some of the newer GUIs we have figured out the APIs.

But in my experience, if you only have two profiles, the day/night switch option actually works as we expect now.
 
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Thanks!

I have two more issues I am trying to figure out.

1. The time on the cameras is wrong. I keep resetting it and syncing to the computer and it shows correct for a while, but then reverts back to being off an hour.

2. This image here is seen easily when looking at both cameras. However, if I double click the mailbox image on the right so that I can zoom in on it, I can't find this time clip... it skips from 11:30:27 to 11:30:32... 5 seconds of it that I can not locate.

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Turn off NTP, and Disable the DST time.


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That is how it is set now. I just clicked on Sync PC again and this is what it looks like on both cameras, but I'm pretty sure it won't stick because we are in daylight savings time right now.

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I have one camera that did that so I just changed the time zone tonneau that was one hour off mine and it resolved it.
 
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If your country using DST , why have you turned it off ?

DST combined with NTP works fine for me. If all cams have the same time settings (dst, timezone and ntp) it should work fine.

pc sync is useless, it will reset after short time.

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good choice of cams, with reolink you wouldnt have this image quality.

i dont like the color 180 degree. sadly dahua has no IR version, need to buy ankee/hikvision for IR with bad sensor/mp ratio
 
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