Configuring different camera settings for Day and Night?

[Denzy]

Cameras: DS-2CD2387G2H-LIU
NVR: DS-7604NI-K1 / 4P(B)

Is it correct that there is no way to define separate settings for day and night usage?

AUTO switch removes gain control in exposure settings.
Schedule Switch just uses one global gain setting for day and night.

I would have thought the 'SCENE' settings could be assigned to day and night according.

So basically you can just have a global setting for day and night apart from the control of IR/White Light?

Do newer NVRs offer more customisation - this seems like a silly missing feature by Hikvision.

 

[johnfitzy]

Hi JB... I got the native generic Node-RED http request node working instead of using the Ultimate Hikvision nodes... it's way better this way... only 1 node is required (assumes all cameras have the same username/password) so it really cleans things up...

I'm working on adding a spreadsheet (similar to what you did in the other Node-RED thread) that lists the cameras to be updated...

I was looking around (asked somewhere else already) for the URL and body of the http request needed to toggle on/off the image parameters switch... if that's even possible?

 

[JB1970]

Hi JB... I got the native generic Node-RED http request node working instead of using the Ultimate Hikvision nodes... it's way better this way... only 1 node is required (assumes all cameras have the same username/password) so it really cleans things up...

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I'm working on adding a spreadsheet (similar to what you did in the other Node-RED thread) that lists the cameras to be updated...

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I was looking around (asked somewhere else already) for the URL and body of the http request needed to toggle on/off the image parameters switch... if that's even possible?

There is no on/off as such as you're always switching from one mode to the next according to time (or lux). If you mean to enable/disable the switching altogether, that'll be achievable with additional nodes. That would require a couple of things. First you would need some enable/disable switch from somewhere (in the absence of a smart home dashboard virtual switch, Alexa or IFTTT perhaps?). Then you would configure the 'off' of that switch to disable the flow and switch to a mode that was set up for auto day/night, such as the current 'Normal' scene.

 

[johnfitzy]

Hi @JB1970... I think I confused things by adding this at the end of my last post:

I was looking around (asked somewhere else already) for the URL and body of the http request needed to toggle on/off the image parameters switch... if that's even possible?

I'm looking for something like you provided for the scenes, but to turn the image parameters switch on and off:

"http://192.168.0.1:650001/ISAPI/Image/Channels/1/mountingScenario/"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MountingScenario version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.hikvision.com/ver20/XMLSchema">
<mode>lowIllumination</mode>
</MountingScenario>

I'd like to add the ability to turn all my camera image parameter switches on or off together from node-red... makes it easier when I'm going to make some changes to image settings (while I'm still using the image parameters switch, hopefully won't be using it if I get it running with a lux sensor eventually )

Thanks!

 

[JB1970]

Hi @JB1970... I think I confused things by adding this at the end of my last post:



I'm looking for something like you provided for the scenes, but to turn the image parameters switch on and off:

"http://192.168.0.1:650001/ISAPI/Image/Channels/1/mountingScenario/"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MountingScenario version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.hikvision.com/ver20/XMLSchema">
<mode>lowIllumination</mode>
</MountingScenario>

I'd like to add the ability to turn all my camera image parameter switches on or off together from node-red... makes it easier when I'm going to make some changes to image settings (while I'm still using the image parameters switch, hopefully won't be using it if I get it running with a lux sensor eventually )

Thanks!

I'm still a bit confused as to what you want to do. The only Image Parameters switch I can find is this one:

That just enables and disables the schedule (which you're not using if you're changing the scene in node-red) Or is that the point?; you want a means to go back to a schedule? If so I've had a look and it doesn't look possible to trigger that on/off using the API; I can't find a command.

 

[johnfitzy]

The only Image Parameters switch I can find is this one

That is the one... I can see how I'm confusing things... for now, I still use the schedule to set the scenes... so, as I'm working on this stuff, it would be nice to turn the switch on and off for all the cameras without having to log into each one of the 10 separately...

I'm using Wireshark and I think I may have it

 

[alfaclvi]

Hi

This is a very interesting thread
I had never noticed or payed attention on this Image parameters switch setting.
There are two options that I cannot understand or find anywhere else.
The Front Light(Green) and the Low Illumination(Orange)
Is there anywhere else in settings to set those two parameters?
What I can see in my image settings is only Backlight, WDR and BLC. No front light and no Low illumination.
Or there is some other way to set those options?

 

[johnfitzy]

Hi @alfaclvi ... they are not settings like backlight, WDR, BLC... they are scenes that group those settings for the image parameters switch... on the display settings page you will see "Scene"... that dropdown is where "Front light", and Low Illumination" are.

 

[alfaclvi]

Ok I saw that @johnfitzy
Thanks