I think this positioning is good all things considered. You'll get enough advanced warning if you set up motion sensing on the outer skirt of your driveway and there's a good chance an intruder will be approaching the camera dead-on which reduces blur and aids identification (capturing people...
Since the area of interest is still being lit by IR the issue seems to be that the camera under-exposes the area of interest since the IR flair around the edge is bringing up the average brightness of the scene. I have been meaning to test something in this scenario. If you set the shutter as...
Check if it's encoding in CBR
Check if it's encoding in VBR with too higher gain or sharpness at night causing grain which caps out the bitrate
Check if it's triggering excessively and set to save hi-res alert images upon trigger
Check if substreams are configured in BlueIris and if they are...
Do you get any complaints from people about running this PTZ on a residential property? I am considering one to supplement my very subtle 5442 turrets but I feel the size and overtness makes the PTZ almost a political statement.