A few Problems

In recent days, there have been a few problems:

The automatic gain control of the camera seems not to operate properly. In the morning, after sunset when the image gets very bright, the gain control does not properly adjust and instead remains on a very high sensitivity setting, therefore completely overexposing the picture. The reason for this is not clear; it may be that the PC is not powerful enough, because the gain control appears to be done through the software device driver. I had to restart the camera capture, then the gain control worked again.

Today the weather here in Leeds was so warm and sunny, that the room in which the camera is hosted, heated up significantly. This prompted some people in the room to open the window - and this knocked down the camera, so for a while the image was taken while the camera was simply dangling from its cable. I did now place the camera at a higher location, so that opening the window would not disturb its mounting.

Right now the cam is operating properly, but it needs a close watch, in terms of the faulty gain control and the mounting position.