Switching to night mode...

[wpiman]

So I run the Dahua sunrise/sunset service to switch the cameras to/from night mode. It works ok.

I use BI tools to append the solar radiation I get from my local ambient weather station.

I noticed that day vision is ok down to about 5-6 watts per square meter, and then I'd like to go to night vision. Tonight it was pretty rainy and dark prior to sunset...

Is there a simple http command I could run from Homeseer or Homeassistant?

 

[wpiman]

Found this...

Switch Dahua Day/Night Profile via IPC HTTP API

took me a damn good while to figure this one out, so here it for anyone needing it in the future.. once again searches lead me nowhere so I had to resort to a bit of trial and error as the docs suggest this is not the way to accomplish this task.. but it is. First setup your camera to be in...

ipcamtalk.com

Implemented a Homeseer script with the solar radiation values. Tested it.. I'll play around with the variables a bit and see if dusk/dawn captures improve.