I am in the process of setting mine up now and testing and only have it hooked up in my office...the picture is terrible...fuzzy and out of focus and almost ghosting double image.. I havent had a chance to take it outside to test it out yet and was hoping maybe the poor image quality was due to being in such close focus...thats why I was also asking Andy in my earlier post what the most updated firmware is for the camera as well...
Try upping the bitrate - for testing, run it at its max and see if it improves.
Thank you @wittaj. I did try that (8192, 10240, 12288) earlier but did not see any improvement. I received the first one of these cameras a few months ago and it’s identical to this latest one that I’m having the issue with.
Is this a 2022 thing? I'm looking forward to a dual lens model, but it looks like these are OOS now.
I personally prefer to use 21-09-30 currently.This still needs work (reported bugs and improvements back to Dahua already) but is the best of the current batch. The August FW in my testing was not as good
I have the same issue although worse. I still need to install it outside quite high but for now I also get blurry, out of focus images >6m away
Thanks, appreciate the offer and will take you up on it. Will send a DM tomorrow as out atm
I still havent mounted mine outside the house...just testing it inside the house to get familiar with BI and the cam before installing(hopefully soon) but I did flash the 0930 firmware Andy posted and the image it already better than it was before...but of course most everything is pretty close compared to what it would be outside...but in any case the image is clearer..
No, don’t mount higher. Optimal in this case for a Dual Lens is in line with regular recommendations that I and others make here so in this case around the 7 to 7.5ft max. Remember you are splicing an image from two lenses and calibrating on a critical focus point that as I mentioned in my review has a sweet spot closer to its CFD (Close Focus Distance) of approx 6.5ft to target. Therefore don't sacrifice quality of target detail to height. As I show in my test, you can certainly pickup color and detail at distance BUT remember that where the lenses converge is key to a sharper, more aligned overlay of the image. This is especially critical IF you want an install that will provide great quality in both day and night scenarios with lighting as shown in my review. Therefore no higher than 7.5 ft (and again, that's the max I would recommend) with about 6.5 to 10 ft distance to target choke point. Dual Lens alignment is something that as I shared here, I've taken to Dahua on ways to improve this including manual alignment options. If those get implemented then I absolutely think that distance to target can be tweaked but for now, follow my recommendations above and reach out if you need help dialing in and I think you'll be happy with the results.
From the BI console, top left, the line of icons under the PROFILES is a little mic icon.
Thanks... yeah I get sound with UI3 but no option to speak... I paid for the BI mobile app but have not been able to get it working with the STUNNEL setup...maybe when I have a day off I can try to tackle setting up VPN and see if it will work with that
