Avoiding glare from white cars during night

[rob_530137440497875]

I upgraded to a Reolink from a Hikvision a while ago and its great at detecting the various objects but at night it's a bit of a nightmare. It was not too bad when we had a black car that was parked in front of the camera (it wasn't great, the number plate still massively over exposed the image) but now we have a white car its really bad and all you see is the car and all the detail on the main picture is gone. Below is a sample picture from the camera.



Is there a better suited camera for this situation? I've seen the newer RLC-1212A which can have the always on LED but I don't really want a light constantly on all the time on the drive. Happy for it to be motion activated but the house has a number of these anyway but looking for a better picture for the night view. I did consider a separate IR LED but they are mostly very ugly.

Thanks

Rob

[Philippe]

@rob_530137440497875 Indeed, the detection algorithm is very poor at night. I either get false alerts or it fails to detect a vehicle entering my driveway at night. I have been discussing this issue with support for a year now, but there has been no improvement. I am considering switching to a different camera brand if this continues because, in the end, it's not very effective at night, especially considering the price of the cameras.

[joseph_1979]

@rob_530137440497875 that is caused by the IR reflections. Either use an external illuminator and switch off the camera IR lights or have the CX410.

[rob_530137440497875]

@joseph_1979 Does the CX410 require the lights to always be on to provide the "True Color Night Vision" ? I presume as soon as the IR is turned on it will suffer from exactly the same problem as the glate from the plate will wipe out the picture

[joseph_1979]

@rob_530137440497875 It has no IR lights. Just a low street lighting would ve more than suffice. Go to YouTube and watch some videos from independent persons.