cglaeser 0 Posted January 3, 2011 I'm using Exacq with a Panasonic WV-NW502 dome. The 502 often fails to record motion in the middle of the night. The camera is located in northern CA where the temperature is rarely below freezing, well within the -22 to 122 degree F ambient operating temperature range. It records fine in B&W in the early evening and early morning, but sometimes in the middle of the night, it stops recording. If a vehicle drives by, all of the other cameras will pick it up, but the 502 fails to record. For example, it might stop motion recording around 11 pm and then resume again at 3 am. Other nights it might motion record all night. I never notice any failures to record motion during the day. Any ideas? Do you think it's temp related or something else? Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rory 0 Posted January 3, 2011 Does the lighting change around that time, get darker with lights turning off? I normally use motion in the day and continuous record at night because of the noise and low light. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cglaeser 0 Posted January 3, 2011 Does the lighting change around that time, get darker with lights turning off? As far as I know, the light remains pretty much unchanged during that period. On some nights, it will record a car driving past at 11pm; other nights not. Often, it will record fine until 10 or 11 or 12 pm, then stop recording motion, perhaps for a few hours, then start again. Other nights it will record motion all night. I normally use motion in the day and continuous record at night because of the noise and low light. The 502 has excellent low noise characteristics. Until this problem surfaced, the motion recording was very good. We get rapidly moving low flying clouds dropping in from the hills, and this can cause rapid light changes during the day, and the 502 will assume this is motion, but otherwise, it has few false positives and rarely missed an event until this problem surfaced. I do have a Redwall covering that area that triggers an alarm chime. Time permitting, I need to trigger the camera too to make sure I get the coverage I need. However, would still like to get the camera working like new again if possible. Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
