At present, the brightness of most security cameras with spotlight on the market cannot be adjusted. Aqara’s G5 Pro is one of the few cameras that supports brightness adjustment. We will release more cameras of this type in the future. Do you think they should inherit the functionality of G5 Pro and design to maintain adjustable spotlight brightness?
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In the realm of security surveillance, the core requirements for cameras include 24/7 stable monitoring, quick response to environmental changes, and clear imagery of key scenes, all while considering cost and maintenance convenience.
For environments requiring adaptive brightness adjustment, cameras are ideal for most security scenarios. These include high dynamic range environments like urban road monitoring, plazas, or transport hubs, and all-weather outdoor surveillance such as perimeter monitoring in parks, highways, and forest fire prevention. Cameras with this feature offer the best cost-performance balance.
On the other hand, cameras without brightness adjustment are advantageous for their high stability, low cost, and low maintenance needs. They are suitable for fixed environments with low-light stability requirements, such as warehouses, underground parking lots where artificial lighting is used around the clock, or temporary monitoring points for short-term event security, providing low-cost coverage.
It is recommended to analyze the actual application scenarios and budget of the user group based on the product positioning to choose the most suitable solution. These are just some initial thoughts; I hope they are helpful to you!
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Good day Donie!
For me, I prefer as much as customizable as possible, so I’d say maintaining spotlight brightness adjustment is a good idea. But as Lorena said, there are different scenarios, in some cases, an auto spotlight brightness might be better. So, auto spotlight brightness as default and with an advanced option to disable the auto brightness and let users adjust it themselves, may be a good idea for everyone.
I also want to add that it might be cool to see an option to manually adjust the exposure value of the camera, as some enterprise-grade surveillance cameras are capable of. I know it might not be for everyone, but I think of it when I want to capture a twilight time at my house, my camera installed at that corner is Tapo C520WS which is impressive through the day but its auto exposure level adjustment is not currently very well. It always tries to get the image as bright as possible when it faces low-light conditions. That makes the image a bit overexposed and washed out in the highlight area, so my vanilla sky cannot be captured properly as my eye can see (it turns into white sky for the camera). I understand that there’s also something to do with the image sensor itself regarding the dynamic range when talking about this topic.
Anyway, the adjustable exposure value, along with adjustable spotlight brightness that packed in a Matter camera hub would sound very compelling for me.
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yes 100% as if front ward facing zonal could be used to turn on camera spotlight at a certian brightness when you come into home zone… would be a very usefull automation.
if facing back, if back door is opened and lux is bellow turn on camera spotlight at certian %
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