Dahua IPC-HFW81230E-ZE won't focus...

[JayBart]

purchased a IPC-HFW81230e-ZE from Andy, thing will not focus -- it goes out of focus at night, I tried going directly to the camera web ip address and manually focus it, but by the next day, it's out of focus again. I tried upgrading to latest firmware, now it just stays our of focus..

any ideas?

 

[JayBart]

giving myself a bump...

 

[aristobrat]

Some Dahua models struggle with focusing properly when they're zoomed in 80%+.

If you have a PC that's always on, one of the admins here wrote a little Windows program (that runs in the background as service) that will connect to your cameras at sunrise/sunset and set them to a specific zoom and focal value. It can also switch the camera's profile from Day/Night.

Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

I wanted to use stronger noise reduction at night and weaker during the day, but Dahua seems to have made a mess of the profile management. On most cameras, there doesn't seem to be a way to have the camera switch automatically between Day and Night profiles when the camera changes between...

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I've seen posts where other folks have said running the camera in B/W 24x7 has helped, as well as sticking a piece of reflective tape near the area you want it to focus on.

 

[redfive]

Which firmare is loaded ? Did yoi try a factory reset ?

 

[JayBart]

Which firmare is loaded ? Did yoi try a factory reset ?

Thanks -- running 2.622.0000004.0.R, Build Date: 2018-06-25, downloaded from one of andy's posts. I'll try a factory reset

Some Dahua models struggle with focusing properly when they're zoomed in 80%+.

If you have a PC that's always on, one of the admins here wrote a little Windows program (that runs in the background as service) that will connect to your cameras at sunrise/sunset and set them to a specific zoom and focal value. It can also switch the camera's profile from Day/Night.

Thanks, through trial and error last night I found that zooming it in a touch -- I have it zoomed completely out, zooming it in a notch or two fixes the focus issue-- I'll try that windows program see if that helps keep it set at the zoom/focus values I manually entered.

I should also add that I have 7 additional cameras running -- all the same make model from andy, all running perfectly. So this isn't a knock on andy.

 

[redfive]

On the ULTRA cameras (IPC-HFW81230E-Z, IPC-HFW8232E-ZE and so on), I'm running the DH_IPC-HX8XXX-Nova_MultiLang_PN_Stream3_V2.640.0000006.0.R.190627.bin, let me check where is that fw ....
Edit ... take a look here, reset to factory default after the upgrade, and see if things get better