Worlds First Review - Dahua DH-IPC-HDW5849H-ASE-LED / IPC-Color4K-T - 2.8mm Turret

[Jeff25]

I have found a way to "hack it" using BI to have another camera's trigger turn on the lights of the 4K-T via API

API eh... Home Assistant could probably help triggering the on-board LED through the API.

 

[Keizer]

API eh... Home Assistant could probably help triggering the on-board LED through the API.

Make it so Number 1

 

[David L]

Thanks for the feedback, nice to see an active place


We have some new house lights and the clear LED bulbs are 3000k warm lights, maybe that will help with the blue issue you have?


Thanks for the input. Lots to think about, I'll be back haha!

I think you will be fine with the LEDs, I don't even know if I have any Incandescent bulbs left anymore. It was just a slight difference I noticed. Now, a bit older, these old eyes probably could not tell a difference.

I will add, when I first setup my CAMs, I was focused wrong in thinking I wanted 30 FPS, video production quality, but with the help of the great guys on this Forum I switched my thinking to that these are Security Cameras, not trying to make a movie out of the footages. I dropped my FPS to 15 and treated them as the cameras they are suppose to be, with the right settings. It made a huge difference in my playback videos...the key is to cap that crisp image/footage of the person of interest. People are not just standing around to give you that perfect shot, so in movement it is important to have the right settings. As @wittaj and others here preach, having a higher Res. won't give you a better cap in a moving object, especially at night. Hope I said that right

 

[tigerwillow1]

I have found a way to "hack it" using BI to have another camera's trigger turn on the lights of the 4K-T via API

I do this with a T180, which I believe has the same API as the 4K-T. The command to turn the LEDs on and off is:

http://admin:[email protected]=setConfig&Lighting_V2[0][1][0].Mode=Manual

(Modes are Off, Manual, Auto)

Select Manual to turn LEDs on, Off to shut them off (doh!).
This works only when the Night profile is running. The [1] subscript selects the Night profile. I use Manual to turn the lights on, but I guess Auto would work too. With manual it uses whatever brightness is set with the camera UI.

I have another camera using IR that overlaps the T180s FOV. BI is set up so when the other camera is triggered, it turns on the T180's lights, then turns them off after a minute.