Good morning, Yolande. I did not find a setting that would disable autofocus - I didn't check the manual, but usually it's an easy setting to find on those cams that have it (and finding things in Vivotek manuals tends to be a bit of a challenge ). I only worked with the North cam since you were logged into the South - and we all know the North cam has some issues because the dome didn't get cleaned this year - so that did make it harder for me to tell what was happening with the focus. I did make one change - which you or any other zoomer can try on the South cam - I changed the speed for the focus from -1 to 3, which means it should change focus faster (fastest is +5 - and you're welcome to change it to that). That should speed up the autofocus; the potential downside is if you're trying to focus manually on something in the background, you will probably want to change the setting to somewhere in the minus numbers so it adjusts more slowly. The setting I changed is the bottom one here:Yolande wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:58 amMorning! firstly, the embedded cams at HM seem to be staying up and, on the odd occasion when there is some buffering, come back up on a reload - or on their own in a minute or so.
Thanks so much, Judy and Ken...!
There does seem to be a problem with the focus on both PTZs though. The focus will go slightly off - just enough to get a blur - when they are being zoomed. I find I have to refocus the SPTZ at least once or twice during a zoom. Also, even if the cams are focused before shutting down the PTZs, they seem to unfocus all on their own, and are slightly off by the next zoom.
I don't know much about it, but wonder if the default setting is now different since the cams last went down and the reboot that got them back... Haven't a clue.
This isn't a huge problem, but we aren't here all the time to refocus the cams, and the blur has been noted a few times in the HM forum.
Thanks ...
And as a hint for all zoomers, if the cams seem to be moving too fast or too slow when you're looking around - feel free to change those settings. My reaction time is slow these days, so I prefer slower settings (from 0 to -5) - but I know some of the zoomers who can follow the eagles when they fly off want the cams to move much faster.
If you have any questions, please let me know.