Weather Cam project with IPC-HDW5231R-Z Starlight

New firmware, new (old) problems... With the last upgrade to .2r and same settings, now the cam stuck all day long at 3 frames/s. Although the picture at day and with sun is normal as ever. Resetting to defaults doesn´t change it.

@nayr can you please test it with your´s ? before i downgrade. Profil normal and customised settings like these : Weather Cam project with IPC-HDW5231R-Z Starlight
i proved the frame rate with tinyipcammonitor.
 
I'll check it out tonight; im a lil too high on cloud 9 right now to be any use to anyone (see my profile message)
 
Best wishes to you and your wife :D
for me two children's are enough, more wouldn´t fit in my caravan LOL
 
this is our 2nd, cant have 3 or I'd need a damn Minivan; already not too pleased that im giving up my Diesel Golf for a Diesel Toureg.. I mean yeah its an upgrade; but I love having a 6spd and a compact car.. but 2 car seats in a Golf leaves no room for anything else, like dogs.. or even a small bag heh.
 
Here are some updates to the new firmware release 2.460.0000.2.R, Build Date: 2016-12-16

But i will try if now the day/night profil switching will allows normal frame rates at day.

And some more playings, 3dnr grade with 25 is much enough with 3 frames/minute. That´s nice.
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A full moon is beautiful, auuuuuu :cool:
 
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A good point, later on i will see how i can reach this. On the camp side, i have only an sdcard in the cam. Maybe possible, i am not sure how many frames I need to generate to this. Maybe 1 frame/min ?
 
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A good point, later on i will see how i can reach this. On the camp side, i have only an sdcard in the cam. Maybe possible, i am not sure how many frames I need to generate to this. Maybe 1 frame/min ?
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would give you a 25 min replay each second at 25 fps, sounds good, try it at night when no cloud to check stars moving in the sky but if you have a lot of light pollution it may not be as good as full night.

But you can also use a PC that will call the snapshot URL of the camera every minute and then use any JPG->MP4 convertion tool (command line or with graphical interface) and may be the camera is able to do regular snapshot itself and send them somewhere on a FTP/NAS
 
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ah thanks for the follow up; that explains why I could never replicate your profile issue.. I been in the habit of changing to the profile then configuring it and saving it, never tried selecting a different profile than what I had forced on schedule... mainly because if you temporary change profiles on the exposure tab it will randomly switch back while I was testing; there's like a timeout in there too if you dont hit save where it switches back to what's set on the schedule tab
 
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I hope the summer sun will not burn in or damage the sensor. The backlight compensaition is working fine.
 
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I hope stars will be better visible without ground lights. But for now, it looks nice.
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And a small update for the Framerate problem of profil switching, although I deactivated auto rebooting I noticed today, that the daytime framerate is fixed again at 3f/s. I don't know how it was possible, I changed nothing the last weeks. I changed it back to 25. Let's see how long it lasts.
 
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The cam is now on the caravan. I am not 100% satisfied.
- I didn't expect the bending effect so much at 90 degrees
- It's difficult to find a balanced setup for seeing stars. I hoped they could be better visible. It's the 3dnr it kills darker stars, I tried to lower it as much as possible, but then the noise is getting to much. With black and white it's not much better.

What do you think?
 
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I am thinking about mounting a pole for the birds, but they also like the cam :D
 
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The youtube stream:

Stream trough raspi:
Code: 
avconv -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1subtype=0 -t 12:00:00 -pix_fmt + -c:v copy -c:a copy -strict experimental -f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/YourCode

Its using h264 with smart codec on.
i wanted to use h265 but Encoding/hevc
shows hevc but when i use the option i receive an unknown option error

Can somebody help?
 
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