5231ZE cannot read license plate even in day time.

[roycantos]

Hi,

Bought 5231 from Andy. I put the cam at 7 feet, and the car is just 7 meters away from camera but I cannot read the license plate.

I have the hated reolink 511, and i can read the license plate.

Guys, can you check the attached picture if my 5231 is ok... seems blurred and out of focus

Thanks

 

[awsum140]

Use the Windows snipping tool, not a cell phone, to post screen captures. Those two images aren't any help at all.

 

[bigredfish]

Agree with @awsum140 you need to post better images.

That said, from the snapshot youre trying to do too many things with one camera. If you want License plate recognition, you need to focus the camera on the street, not try to cover the drive and the street at the same time. You need two cameras.

 

[alastairstevenson]

seems blurred and out of focus

Maybe it's the sub-stream.
Are you recording the video / what with?

 

[roycantos]

thanks for the tip. is there a way to focus to the top right quadrant? thanks

 

[Walrus]

Loosen the screw, physically rotate/reposition the camera, then zoom in on the camera settings web interface.

 

[aristobrat]

If you want to see plates at night also, you'll need a dedicated LPR cam. See the LPR section of the forum.

@roycantos, this ^^^ is important.

To see plates at night, you'll have to make some pretty big settings changes on the camera (i.e. reallllly increase the shutter speed, etc). These changes will make it a lot more likely the camera will see plates at night, but the side effect is that the camera will pretty much only be able to see plates at night. Just about everything else will be too dark and not show up well in the image. This is one of the reasons why folks recommend dedicating a camera for the purpose of capturing plates and nothing else.