Hello - I am testing an IP3M-943B camera to see if I want to buy more of them and have a question about the modes.
What exactly is Normal mode? My guess was that in this mode the camera would automatically switch between day and night modes and my setting for the day and night profiles would apply when the camera changes mode. But that does not seem to be the case and it almost appears that Normal mode has its own profile/settings. In my situation the Normal mode fails, especially at night, to show any thing much. But I can configure the Night mode to give me a decent video image when I switch to it manually.
So how do I configure the day and night modes to the way I want them, and have the camera switch automatically between the two (without using a predefined schedule) based on light levels?
If this cannot be done then it will be a showstopper for me and I will have to look at different products.
Thanks for any and all help/suggestions... Marc..
Normal, Day, Night modes
Re: Normal, Day, Night modes
Hello and welcome to the Forum.
That is some good questions that while I to don't really understand it all as well. However to try and answer to the best that I can. I think Normal would be when you set a Schedule for when you want Day and Night to go. So you set it to Normal and it will follow that Schedule. Then if you Pick say Night it will be in B/W all the time and if you Pick Day it will be in Color all the time. So that is where you can set things that happen at them times as well. So under Normal it will be as you set for B/W and for color at times you picked in the Schedule if that made since...
That is some good questions that while I to don't really understand it all as well. However to try and answer to the best that I can. I think Normal would be when you set a Schedule for when you want Day and Night to go. So you set it to Normal and it will follow that Schedule. Then if you Pick say Night it will be in B/W all the time and if you Pick Day it will be in Color all the time. So that is where you can set things that happen at them times as well. So under Normal it will be as you set for B/W and for color at times you picked in the Schedule if that made since...
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Re: Normal, Day, Night modes
Sorry left some stuff out... So if you look at the area where it says Night and Day and Normal.
Setup then Configuration. In there you can pick Profile, Then make the changes in that for say Day, Then make changes to the way you want it to work for Night. changing the settings for each. Then if you go to Profile Management you can pick Schedule and then a bar will come up for Time that you choose to have Day run and time run for Night time.
So like for me I want my Night time to be Set to Color, There is a setting that you can change Night to Color only under the night config area. That is how I have mine set. But reason it is important is because settings for Night are not always going to be good for settings for the daytime. So under the day time area I can make the changes in there to make my Picture look good that might not look as good for how I have it set at night if you get my meaning...
Like day time might have BLC turned off and at night have it set to HLC or some other setting that makes your night time picture look better...
Setup then Configuration. In there you can pick Profile, Then make the changes in that for say Day, Then make changes to the way you want it to work for Night. changing the settings for each. Then if you go to Profile Management you can pick Schedule and then a bar will come up for Time that you choose to have Day run and time run for Night time.
So like for me I want my Night time to be Set to Color, There is a setting that you can change Night to Color only under the night config area. That is how I have mine set. But reason it is important is because settings for Night are not always going to be good for settings for the daytime. So under the day time area I can make the changes in there to make my Picture look good that might not look as good for how I have it set at night if you get my meaning...
Like day time might have BLC turned off and at night have it set to HLC or some other setting that makes your night time picture look better...
Be Safe.
Re: Normal, Day, Night modes
Darkstar wrote:
"So how do I configure the day and night modes to the way I want them, and have the camera switch automatically between the two (without using a predefined schedule) based on light levels?".
Auto change Day/Night Profiles when the camera changes the IR/night vision on or off.
This uses the Amcrest API. jantman developed this, and I have used it successfully. In a browser, use this URL with your camera IP address in it. That's it.
If you ever change any settings in the Profiles and Save using the Web UI, that will disable it and you have to use the URL again.
Let me know if it works for you.
"So how do I configure the day and night modes to the way I want them, and have the camera switch automatically between the two (without using a predefined schedule) based on light levels?".
Auto change Day/Night Profiles when the camera changes the IR/night vision on or off.
This uses the Amcrest API. jantman developed this, and I have used it successfully. In a browser, use this URL with your camera IP address in it. That's it.
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http://192.168.1.101/cgi-bin/configManager.cgi?action=setConfig&VideoInOptions[0].NightOptions.SwitchMode=1&VideoInOptions[0].NightOptions.Profile=3Let me know if it works for you.
Re: Normal, Day, Night modes
Thanks Jack7 but no joy! I tried the URL you suggested and what happens is I get a login prompt. If I type in the correct user name and password I get represented the login prompt. If I type in an incorrect user name and/or password then the login prompts stop and I get an error message (as I would expect) So for some reason this procedure is not correctly processing the login info.
Marc...
Marc...
Re: Normal, Day, Night modes
Marc,
I just copied the URL directly out of my post and it works fine in Windows 10 Chrome or IE. I believe your problem is that something after your ipaddress/ is wrong- missing or added characters. Another login window after your first login occurs when the camera doesn't like something in your requested command. The first login should respond with "OK".
Jack
I just copied the URL directly out of my post and it works fine in Windows 10 Chrome or IE. I believe your problem is that something after your ipaddress/ is wrong- missing or added characters. Another login window after your first login occurs when the camera doesn't like something in your requested command. The first login should respond with "OK".
Jack
Re: Normal, Day, Night modes
Jack - I wanted to get back to you even though I have yet to fully test out your solution and let you know that I finally did get it to work. I had to copy paste your URL into an emacs editor and get rid of a hidden format character that my browser was evidently inserting. I then used the cleaned up string and that seems to have done the trick...
I haven't run the camera for a full 24 hour period yet but did start it last night and woke up this morning to see that indeed the camera had switched from night mode to day mode as far as the video shows me. The camera settings remain in Normal mode. It did seem a bit squirrelly though in getting the settings to stick, I tried testing the camera along with your URL after doing a save and noted sometimes the camera didn't behave quite as I had expected. I will try to do some more tests this weekend to perhaps characterize it better but for now am going to see if it will switch properly to night mode tonight.
Again, thanks for your help, seems to be working! Marc...
I haven't run the camera for a full 24 hour period yet but did start it last night and woke up this morning to see that indeed the camera had switched from night mode to day mode as far as the video shows me. The camera settings remain in Normal mode. It did seem a bit squirrelly though in getting the settings to stick, I tried testing the camera along with your URL after doing a save and noted sometimes the camera didn't behave quite as I had expected. I will try to do some more tests this weekend to perhaps characterize it better but for now am going to see if it will switch properly to night mode tonight.
Again, thanks for your help, seems to be working! Marc...