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Sorry for the reply reply - been out all day. The bit I've highlighted in bold - there might be a bit of that. It's placed vertically in line with a ridge on a gable side. There are 2 fascia boards that meet at the ridge. It sits right under where these 2 boards meet. Like in the following...

@JB1970 - thanks for the reply & I wish I'd thought of that. ;) Anyway plugging it into the back of the NVR with a longish lead and propping it down in front of the TV stand, facing the room and making sure nothing was nearby to reflect the IR, I got Lit room: I've cropped the image...

Looking thru the footage for the day - it seems that upgrading the FW on the 2342 camera and doing a "reset" (apart from login info etc) seems to have cured the issue\s I was experiencing. I also did a Simple Test on the HDD which was successful as was an Extended Test. A Bad Sector test showed...

On the 2385 - the best I could get altering the Smart Supplement Light to Manual & 30M and setting the BLC to left was: all other things staying at default (apart from those mentioned in the original post, i.e. quality, H265+ etc). Whereas putting the 2342 back in the same spot and identical...

Many thanks for the reply. The 2385 is or was brand new and sat in the box (in a warm place) since I bought it. Playing about with the BLC did help but the image was\is nowhere as good as the 2342 - just been back out and swapped them over. I've got the 2385 in my hand at the moment and...

I've changed from a DS-2Cd2342WD-I (with latest firmware v5.5.82 build) set at highest quality, 15fps, H264+ ON, Bitrate of variable and with everything else at default (did a reset), which gave the following night time image to a DS-2CD2385-FWD-I (firmware is latest at v5.6.5 build 200316)...

I saved off the camera config - took a few goes to realise that IE will only save files in My Documents. Then I reset the camera - using Restore (Rest all the parameters, except the IP parameters and user information, to the default settings) from System - Maintenance - Upgrade & Maintenance...

Looking at the recorded footage in the last 24hrs - - it seems night time footage is as expected. I can scroll thru it with no missing gaps. - the issue with gaps, missing footage, frozen footage and discrepancies in the time code between the blue bar & the embedded time code in the picture are...

The camera is POE powered from the NVR. I normally use iVMS-4200 to browse footage etc. But use IE to check config and up\down grade firmware, as I did this time. The NVR is not connected Hik-Connect portal. Just a single camera. Cable length - somewhere around 20M. I have since found the...

Hi, I bought a DS-7608NI-I2/8P (fitted a WD Purple 2TB HDD) and 2 cameras (DS-2CD2342WD-I & DS-2CD2385FWD-I) a couple of years back. I only ever got around to installing the 2342 - the 2385 sat on the shelf. I followed the installation\configuration Mega Thread and had the NVR record...