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    Christmas lights creating problems... found a fix

    The colored led strands do seem more bothersome to me than others, and I agree it seems the shorter wave colors are worse (blues and greens). My eyes are dark brown, 20:20... and I'm middle aged. As a hobby I fly small 150-200mph remote control pylon racing aircraft, and I have no problems with...
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    Christmas lights creating problems... found a fix

    David, I knew that was coming but last night I was just too lazy to grab images from the server. The proof is up now. :) tangent, excellent reply. The camera in question (Dahua starlight variofocal turret) has firmware that does not support 'Anti-flicker' for some strange reason... or there is...
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    Christmas lights creating problems... found a fix

    Some of us may run in to an unforeseen dilemma during the holidays... that perfect spot to string the Christmas lights puts a few bulbs right in front of a camera lens. In my case I have some cams mounted under the eves, and lights hung 2' away on the ends of the rafters. Four of the bulbs were...
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    Firmware for newer dahua cams as well as detailed specs available here

    The dahua api does have a manual focus and zoom function. I had issues with autofocus when switching between day/night modes; autofocus gives up (times out) before the exposure settles in after switching modes. This left my cameras out of focus. To fix it I programmed my vms system to send the...
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    Switch Dahua Day/Night Profile via IPC HTTP API

    LOL Darkflame, I like your avatar! You could try something like this. Dahua API v1.56, page 52: SetAlarmOutConfig http://<ip>/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&AlarmOut[port].Mode=<paramValue> -port = Alarm out port index starts at 0 -paramValue: 0=auto, 1=force on, 2=close alarm Kevin
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    Trigger blue iris with IVS?

    I did spend some time using highlighted motion in BI to tweak object size and sensitivity. I stopped playing with them after I got 'em down to an extra trigger or 2 only on very windy days. A guy could spend the rest of his life working toward zero false positives; for some situations that's...
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    Trigger blue iris with IVS?

    I tried playing with this using ODM with my 5231r-z (July firmware ...14...). I turned off motion so the cam is only using IVS. Under ODM 'metadata' it shows some info regarding the IVS messages, but they do not appear in "Events". Seems wierd ODM seems to find the IVS rules but fails to get the...
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    Multiple html commands in sequence

    Thanks Darkflame! It's time I refresh my linux scripting skills and that sounds like a good way to do that. I will also look into autoit and _iecreate. The curl method might also be a good fit with a dedicated linux lpr box. Kev
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    Polarized lenses

    I was aware of polarization angles and planned for testing whatever methods I try. In my case though, the putting a box out there would have too negative an impact on curb appeal. It is tucked in a small roof return on my single story home.
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    Switch Dahua Day/Night Profile via IPC HTTP API

    It depends on the cameras involved. Like the OP of this thread, I've got a bunch of Dahua starlight cams. They all have similar html get commands based on the generic Dahua HTML API. First I had to go in to each cam and setup both day and night modes according to my previous post, and set them...
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    Switch Dahua Day/Night Profile via IPC HTTP API

    It really depends on what you're doing with it. I'm no photography expert by any means, but I have found with security cams you have to keep a tight leash on shutter speed and noise reduction to stop motion blur. Here is an example of what seems to work well for me at the moment. My Z5 is used...
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    BI build question re: low end CPU

    Win10pro I bet you'll be happy as a clam with the i5 6k. Intel HD+BI is like a match made in heaven.
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    Multiple html commands in sequence

    I have been using BI event schedule and custom ptz commands to switch my dahua starlight cams between day/night mode, as well as refocus a few of them. On a normal day it's a great setup; just after civil sunrise day mode goes on, a few seconds later focus is done on the motorized lens cams...
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    Rainbow Corruption

    A quick note on #2 from my previous post: "ONVIF login/logout" lines do normally appear on my camera logs when BI sends html get commands from an event schedule (ie, morning time BI sends a command to switch to day mode then refocus). However when the log is due to a get command, there is...
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    BI build question re: low end CPU

    Mr.N00bLaR, I was born a diehard tinkerer. So I truly do appreciate the enjoyment that can be had by tweaking with voltages and clocks, but honestly from my limited experience with IP security cams I have to agree with what fenderman's suggestions. A proper and efficient hardware accelerated...
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    Additional triggers (TCP and MQTT)

    +1 I also would like to see mosquitto integration
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