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Looks like the firmware may have fixed it. I didn't see it do the flashing last night or this morning and I haven't rebooted either. Hopefully that was it. Thanks for the help.

Hello all hopefully you can help me with an issue that started on one of my cameras about 2 weeks ago. I've got 3 of these cameras setup and have been running problem free for about 6 months. Recently I noticed on camera started doing flashing like its trying to do the day/night shift and just getting stuck. After watching it closer I did notice it does happen at both dusk/dawn but at dawn is worse to the point the only thing I can do is reboot the device. At dusk the camera does do the flashing a little but never to a point at reboot is needed and it will continue to work until dawn. At dawn it gets so bad and will continue doing it non-stop until I reboot. I've tried changing to schedule and that doesn't seem to do anything. Ive turned WDR off/on, changed filtering time to 60, changed sensitivity to 1 and to 7 all with the same results. I do notice the camera is already in Day mode before it happens. Out of ideas and what else I can do. Model PX-IPIR203 Firmware Version V5.1.0 build 131202 Here is a video at dusk. ZZuevJGP1rY and here is the dawn video vJcqVzrDxxI Thank you in advance

Has the problem resolved itself or are the cameras still flashing? I don't know yet, I upgraded it this morning when I saw it was still flashing. I should know tonight/tomorrow morning. Thanks

I went ahead and flashed the camera, upgrade went ok and still in English # prtHardInfo Start at 2015-02-04 07:13:31 Serial NO X-IPIR20320130724CCWR427983750 V5.2.0 build 140721 hardwareVersion = 0x0 hardWareExtVersion = 0x0 encodeChans = 1 decodeChans = 1 alarmInNums = 0 alarmOutNums = 0 ataCtrlNums = 0 flashChipNums = 0 ramSize = 0x4000000 networksNums = 1 language = 1 devType = 38917 net reboot count = 0 SD status = 0 (1:noraml;0:none) Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /data1/data_liwenwei/work/frontend_software_platform_IPC5.2.0 URL: https://192.0.0.140/Camera/Platform/Branches/frontend_software_platform_IPC5.2.0 Repository Root: https://192.0.0.140/Camera Repository UUID: df2d70c3-7593-7941-af1e-571b313c0946 Revision: 84909 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: chentianyong Last Changed Rev: 84908 Last Changed Date: 2014-07-21 21:47:41 +0800 (Mon, 21 Jul 2014)

Am I safe to upgrade to that 5.2.0 link? # prtHardInfo Start at 2015-02-03 14:14:05 Serial NO X-IPIR20320130724CCWR427983750 V5.1.0 build 131202 hardwareVersion = 0x0 hardWareExtVersion = 0x0 encodeChans = 1 decodeChans = 1 alarmInNums = 0 alarmOutNums = 0 ataCtrlNums = 0 flashChipNums = 0 ramSize = 0x4000000 networksNums = 1 language = 1 devType = 38917 SD status = -1 (0:noraml;none-0:timeout)

So it looks like the reset to defaults didn't help, I can see it doing it now at dusk. I forgot to add I moved ports on the poe switch also to try and rule that out, in fact I swapped ports with another camera thats fine to make sure it wasn't a specific port.

Agreed. There's no need to do any running around before you rule that out. I would upgrade but afraid they may go back to Chinese, not 100% sure since I did buy the cameras on Amazon. Ill be glad to if I knew that wouldn't happen.

Using a POE Switch http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0086SQDMM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Power supply is in my basement attached to the wall. Used the built in waterproof connector and the connector is up in the soffit out of direct contact to the elements minus just being in the soffit Recording to a SMB share on a 2012 Server, also use Milestone Protect on that same server Ran a standard bulk buy cat5e cable to the location, ~100 of cable if I were to guess.

The model in the webui above the serial is PX-IPIR203, from what I've read its pretty much an unbranded version of the DS-2CD2032. Temps have been in the 30s most days and then teens at night. I just did a restore to defaults so seeing if I maybe did some setting that dorked with it, Ill report back in the morning.