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Guys, do you use your Foscam camera outside in the dark? I bought one and it does not wotk in area of 50m. I hoped it would at least work for items in range of 10-15m. Maybe I should cover dark-detector/sensor (however it is in english)?

Dears, as this will not be proffesional problem, I still hope to receive proffesional answer. I set up my first IP camera. I managed connection with ftp server. I have two problems: 1. My camera sent only 6 files on motion detection on e-mail. The problem is, that they are taken after somebody's move, when everything is to late - is it camera problem? Is it to slow or to cheap? (I would not like to spend 1000$ on the camera). 2. The camera has 24 IR diods. Indoor these diods are giving enought IR for the camera in the night. But outside we could see almost nothing, there are only building with light about 200 meters from camera. Camera is about 3 meters over the ground. What is wrong with it? Can snow absorb all the IR? Please give me some basic advice, should I buy additional source of IR or just make some light arount the camera? See screen below: Thank you for your support in advance!

Does anybody know if I can switch manually this "cheap Chineese" camera to node mode? I just wonder if it is really matter of snow. If I can expect that when it melt, camera will work properly during nights.

Just after the installation (during the day) the view was "perfect". During the night I reset it. So maybe because of the snow I should reset it evety time day comes into night and so on?

Cat5e - it is about 5m long. Here is photo from the day mode:

Most probably it is as you say. But remember that camera worked perfect when I checked in the office, it switched to noghti mode. But when I took it outside - it is as you can see. I do not remember to made something with turning off any switch for only day mode (I can't check it at the moment because I'm far from it, withour remote access). I wonder what external factor can cause camera not to switch to night mode - IRs are working, camera is in day mode. Can it be those lights far from camera? Snow? Should I direct camera lower, not to point at those lights?

When I stood in front of the camera, my eyes were flashing, so probably IRs were lighing quite good. Also I saw IRs were red (not like during the day). It means that I should check the phote cell. Can car lights from that far (about 50m) make camera switch from day to night mode? Sorry, I'm not sure if my seller gives proper information about the camera. I found one on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Wired-Waterproof-Network-36-LED-IR-IP-Camera-Software_W0QQitemZ220548099141QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3359b0ec45 which looks the same, but has more IR and different software. This staff is making me confused. I thought that it would be easer to set up home monitoring system, to inform about motion detection

Thank you for your answer, I will try to connect PIR motion. Yes, the camera wasn't expensive. I just needed to start with something cheaper for the beggining (I hope). Best regards

I was watching this night view for a while and it wasn't this this car, for hole night it was like that. I'm not sure if it is right name, but I found: ACTIO AC5289 I'm not advanced user, but seeing IP cameras manus on Internet, it seems that my has similas menu. I don't remember that my camera has any manual switch for Day/Night mode. Any ideas?

When I used the camera indoor, it was working properly, IR were lithiting and I could see in the room very good in BW. Can it be that lights on the attached JPG are making the camera think it is not dark? Or is it to far for it? Mayby I should lower the camera, not to see those lights?

Also wanted to say Hello from Poland. I started with CCTV a few month ago, but could not start make it work with old computer. So I change into IP cameras.