IPC-T54IR-AS-S3 Day/Night Switch

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Steve556

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Jan 17, 2023
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What I want is for the camera to be in color mode during the day, and in B/W (IR) mode at night. When I leave the camera in "Self-adaptive" it switches from color to B/W at dusk. It stays that way until my neighbor's light on the side of the house turns on, and stays on all night. As soon as that light turns on, the camera switches back to color. I want it to stay in B/W all night because I get a much clearer picture that way.

I tried every possible setting in the menu, and I cannot get around this. I can select B/W, but then the camera stays in B/W even during the day.

I tried every possible setting in "Self-adaptive" and "Day/Night Switch", and nothing works. I found a description of the "Customized Scene" setting in the manual, and thought that I finally solved this problem. "Customized Scene" should allow me to pick the time range when the camera is in day or night mode. I still can't get the camera to switch to B/W at a specific time because I just cannot figure out the menu. It is extremely complex and confusing. It looks like I can only set the time range for "day" and I am unable to select a time range for "night" no matter what I do.

I looked at many threads but could not find a way to do this.
 
You set a night profile and force it to B/W instead of auto and then use customized scene to set hours for day profile and hours for night profile.
 
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wittaj said:
You set a night profile and force it to B/W instead of auto and then use customized scene to set hours for day profile and hours for night profile.
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How do I do that? The menu does not allow me to pick the night time range for some reason. It only allows to set the daytime (orange bars). When I pick the profile for night, and set it to B/W, I get a B/W picture, but I am unable to set the time range in the "Time Plan Settings" for night.
 
It can be browser dependent. Best to use Internet Explorer (yeah we know but it is still available) or Edge in IE mode.

In the schedule when you are under night profile place the cursor somewhere during the night hours and hold mouse button down and it will start yo draw night.

It is kinda quirky until you get the hang of it.
 
wittaj said:
It can be browser dependent. Best to use Internet Explorer (yeah we know but it is still available) or Edge in IE mode.

In the schedule when you are under night profile place the cursor somewhere during the night hours and hold mouse button down and it will start yo draw night.

It is kinda quirky until you get the hang of it.
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Thanks. I will give it a try.
 
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