FoscamR4M - Super HD 4MP Home Security Camera - Dual-Band WiFi Indoor CCTV with Pan/Tilt, AI AI Human Detection, Night Vision, 2Way Audio, SD Card Slot - Inc Free Cloud - Compatible with Alexa

I have a few internal cameras to augment my mostly external CCTV system and as part of that had two R4M cameras for internal use since they came out.However I purchased a couple of these same models recently and they both have the same issue that randomly during daylight hours the whole image will change to have a had a very green hue. This happens all of a sudden and as I record all cameras 24x7 on a local server I can easily review exactly when this occurs.This is not the 'pink' hue issue that some Foscam cameras have due to the IR filter not retracting, and no amount of adjusting the camera's settings will restore it without a reboot of the camera. There is nothing that occurs at the time this happens, it just switches in an instant.These latest cameras both came with a recent new system firmware in addition to a newer application firmware. The former cannot be downgraded to see if that is the issue and I tried a couple of application firmware's but that made no difference and the probably persists every one to two days which makes them unusable.As I've install a few hundred cameras in my time, some thoughts on these (when working):1) They are only 3.5MP (2304 x 1536 max) and the higher resolution options such as this are not 16.9 but much squarer format which for many applications is not ideal.2) Low light sensitivity is good and hence night vision with IR.3) Colour accuracy is very poor and most daytime images appear over saturated and no tweaking to image settings will work at all times.4) The all import WDR feature appears next to useless and there are no other options (BLC, HLC) to improve scenes with very mixed light levels.5) Even in the non WDR mode the image is poor in terms of details in less lit areas, much more so that their C2 cameras and the older R2M.6) As a user that has a dedicated NVR type system, the setup of these is a pain. No option to connect by direct network cable from a laptop using a default static IP. Instead they have to be allowed to join a network (locked down VLAN in my case) and then use another PC/laptop on the same network subnet/VLAN with the Foscam search utility to find it get around the issue of random default passwords that aren't provided with the device. Professional equipment often forces users to enter a password on first connect which is so much simpler and if the Foscam tool can read default passwords from devices they're hardly secure to begin with.

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