I like some of he recent firmware mods in DCS-942 ... for the DCS-933L and DCS-932L as well.
1-->> IR illuminator control features. --
I have same problem with window reflecting IR. With enough background lighting the sensitive IR camera does not need the illuminator. Plus I can put a more powerful IR illuminator in a separate place if needed
2-->> IR filter control feature --
There is an electro mechanical IR/Day filter slide in front of the camera sensor. That filter has two different sides that automatically shifts/clicks when you select day/night mode -- It would be nice to have option to be able to control that apart from Day/Nght mode... of course that should probably be on an Advanced tab with factory reset option.
3-->> Add finer Motion Detection block selection.
If the Motion detection blocks were all just quartered ( 1/4) then that would give much greater tuning of motion detection area.
**IDEALLY** : I would like to either add and slide smaller blocks around in position or drop and resize blocks rectangles or BEST.. free draw a line around the areas I want to detect motion (or block out). Define my own blocks/blobs. One area that I am detecting outside window has lots of foot traffic, objects, bushes and trees and I would like to detect what is happening near side of the trees, bushes and objects but not beyond or other side. The camera field of view and large motion detection blocks prevents positioning camera optimally for this type of motion detection.
4-->> Auto camera light exposure settings ?
Like on the digital cameras that have auto exposure settings for {evaluative, spot, centered, etc..} because I am having trouble with bright areas in image causing overexposure and the dark area being under exposed. I have tried many different Bright / Contrast / Saturation combinations to no avail however going to Night mode seems to help more but IR illuminator issue) Is there a way to fix this ?
4.1>> More camera exposure settings options
Standard camera or Image style settings such as Color temp, Tint, Sharpness, etc ...
5-->> Magnification Image Panning ability ??
I assume magnification is digital
if so then would it be possible to have a pan image option while using the magnification buttons ? currently it magnifies just the center of image and you lose the outer edges that you may be more interested in. NOTE this is just image panning suggestion NOT a camera panning suggestion.
6-->> Add Automatic get time from a computer setting or use last known time ?
We get frequent power fluctuations and the cameras reset their time dates to 1/1/2013 00:00:00. So the year is kept but month day and time all get reset to beginning and then I have to go back and reset them. We have NO local NTP server setup and that port/service is blocked by routers or firewalls
7-->> notification or summary e-mail for accesses/attempts to camera
8-->> Display wireless signal strength on camera web status page
9-->> Include more items on the status page (e.g. FTP, email, uptime, total uptime, etc.)
10-->> Motion detection indicator on the web interface to aid user in adjusting the proper sensitivity.
It is trial and error currently with frequent inundation with e-mail notifications
11-->> prevent motion detection just when camera switches from day to night mode
Thanks
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Topic: DCS-933L - Firmware Wishlist (Read 83135 times)