Chuck Hast wrote:
>> Also, it has four LEDs on the front. Is there any way to turn them on?
>>
> I did not see part 1, but those LED's are probably infrared and if it works like
> the ones I have, they turn on and off based on the amount of ambient light,
> at night depending on where they are spectrum wise you may be able to
> see them if they are the 720nm variety, over even the 800nm ones, but if
> they are the 900nm ones you will not see a thing. The previous visibility
> info also depends on your red end sensitivity, so you may or may not be
> able to see the 700 and 800nm. If the camera can see things in a dark room
> indeed they are working. Also if you are setting in a lit room but the light
> is not too strong you may have sort of a "blueish" tinge which is caused
> by the LED's being on and the camera seeing the IR, which it shows as
> sort of a very light blue or almost white color.
>
> As to capture I would probably start out with VLC, the good old swiss
> army tool of video... I have used it to capture video off of USB cams, I am
> assuming that is what you have. Most of what I have around here are
> IP cams, if you want to take a look at my security cam system you can
> go to the following address:
> www.wchast.com/zm
> Login = guest
> pw = guest
> and take a look at some IP cams. I do not have any infrared on them so
> those that have no lighting will appear dark or you will only see any light
> sources in the FOV.
Hi Chuck,
Finally, something makes sense. The wifi one is connected wirelessly?
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