“Very good, came neatly packaged and arrived quickly. Not set up the camera yet but assembly and attaching it to the board is easy. Only criticism, which I don't think is Pi Hut's fault, the camera doesn't have great instructions for hooking up the IR cables for turning it on and off. It might be obvious to do it but I've not figured it out yet. Anyway, great service and will happily use again!”
“Excellent bit of kit - I am using it to monitor a bird nest. Please do note that sometimes the filter gets stuck. You just have to toggle it with a GPIO pin. (You need to solder the GPIO control cable for the filter separately.) There are reports on the Internet saying that this camera's design is out of Raspberry Pi's specs - it draws too much current. I haven't noticed this problem so far. I would put this one a cheap Raspberry Pi just to be on the safe side. I am using it with Raspberry Pi Zero W.”
“I bought this to set up a simple security camera with a Pi 4. It has taken me quite some time to realise that the IR cut can't be software controlled on a Pi 4, so now i have quite a bit more work to do.
In it's current state, you can't use the Automatic Brightness setting on Motioneyeos as it causes the image to constantly adjust the brightness levels.”
“This is a really good night vision camera. Just set it up with a Pi like a normal camera. It takes clear photos in the day as normal but in complete darkness it works wonderfully. Two things to watch. Firstly be aware that the IR lights do have a range limit and secondly watch out if trying to use it through a window as you may get glare messing up the photo.”
“The camera has a good quality picture and attaches nicely, however this particular edition isn't automatic and won't detect darkness on its own. This means coding in when it gets dark and then using one of the GPIO pins to output the high signal to activate the IR Filter.
Failing that you end up creating another small circuit to detect when its dark.
There is another edition which has a light sensor on it the same as the Infrared LEDs and will automatically cut over the IR Filter when it gets dark enough.”
