Mavrik

I want to run an IP cam over coax, what balun do I need? I got a couple of BNC to RS45 baluns labeled 'twisted pair' but these don't work at all.

I have wireless cam going about that distance going though 4 walls and partially blocked by a refrigerator and a steel medicine cabinet. All wireless cams are LAN wired too (for setup), so you can always go to wired if wireless doesn't work there. But since your laptop works there, it's a good chance the cam will too.

holy ssss those are expensive. I can buy a spool of cat5 cable for less. What do I need to run several IP cams over one cat5 cable?

I have a cam pointed outdoors and no matter what I adjust, any kind of shadow turns solid black (like it's being painted black), even with a light colored objects in direct sunlight have black in shadow areas. What causes things to turn black? I need to see into shadowed areas. IQeye701, 1/2" rainbow 6mm lens.

I updated the firmware and it looks a little worse.

I was able to get the scene look like yours, however objects are still 'painted black' in direct sun or shadows. Solid light objects turn black in shadowed areas on objects, direct sun or in shadows. Even setting an exposure window in a shadowed area, objects turn black, out of shadows are totally washed out. My scene FOV is approx 15x15'. What would tell the camera that a slightly dark area is black?

Now that I could live with, I can even see a drain cover and the rest of the scene is not washed out (what I was getting). I'll have to wait for some afternoon shade for my test area to resume adjusting. I don't have the baluns to put it in the working location yet (did have it running analog there, but too much of a pain to adjust settings) and I don't really want to move my desktop computer outside

My enable protection mode is already unchecked. What I did is sort of what ssmith10pn suggested, added the cam IP address to local intranet (no other changes) and now I can see the save files in windows.

I'm sure this is all operator error, but this operator is just getting frustrated. There is a difference with the exposure window now, looks like bad positioning on my part. Your grass area in the far bottom right is more what my scene looks like. My scene is all soil. See if you can adjust to be able to see that part of your yard. Thank you for taking all the time for the screen shots, that's allot of work.

I tried all your suggestions, also played with the lens iris with different settings. I placed an exposure window only in the shaded area and it didn't make any difference. Right now I can't see in a shaded area at all, totally black, different scene and time of day than before. Scenes are going to constantly change because this is going on a pan/tilt. I had a Monalisa cam in the same scene and it looks fine. I'm starting to get discouraged with the real IP camera world. Suggestions?

I forgot to mention, I didn't get the admin permission request like you did.

It's being used for outdoor scenes that have constant shade and direct sun. First thing I tried was the contrast and brightness, then messed with shutter speeds and other settings. The cam has been set to factory defaults, I've been adjusting from there. Flexible? But I can't seem to tune it look at one scene all at once with shadows and direct lighting.

Very weird indeed, it seems like some sort of virtual folder/files are created. I'm using win7 64 bit.

I'm using Internet Explorer, snapshot doesn't work in firefox.

I don't have a 511, I do have a 501 in transit. The same thing. The folder I created and can see though the webviewer is on the desktop, but I can't see this folder on the desktop.

Using an exposure window for sampling to see certain areas would mean I need to constantly change settings in order to look around, this sounds very inconvenient. I didn't have these conserns with my analog cameras, set once and good to go, day or night. Even my IP webcam handles exposures better than this 701. In the world of real IP cams, constant adjustments is what I have to look forward too? I do appreciate your help, I'm just getting a little frustrated that is isn't more plug and play.

In firefox using Java the option for 'snapshot' disappears.

This is an activeX viewer, it will only run in IE. I don't have another machine. I wasn't sure where to post this, I just thought since IE runs the camera.

Exposure is on auto, what should it be on? I just found a "darkdetect" setting and I can now see in shadow areas, but bright areas are washed out.

It's about two weeks old, the box claims day/night, 600TVL.

Not all 'monalisas' can see IR, my DFL-20S can't see any and some vendors claim this model is TDN.

Sometimes one can reduce 'washout' by shading the lens from sun rays. This could be as simple as foil tape on top of the lens. In this pic, the round spots is from the sun hitting the lens.

My cam is a "Frankenstein", a 300' IR, 10X optical, hi res, bullet cam strapped to pan/tilt.

Looks like the side of the house cams are getting IR flashback from the walls. Point the cams away from the walls.

Looks like using an auto iris is the way to go for improving night vision. One can adjust the iris with the DC or Video control and make it quite bright. It will washout during daylight depending how much one opens up the iris.