The situation I had was that I wanted to set the camera in a portrait orientation so that I can view part of the house and a narrow long driveway.
After a few minutes on the phone with Armsec (massive thanks for that guys!) I’ve got it all sorted. So I thought that I would make this post for whoever may be interested in doing the same!
I had a dome camera with a 3-axis adjustable lens. So the first thing I did was to pull the cover off and rotated the lens. It sorted half of the problem – now I could see the whole driveway but I had to turn my head side-ways to view it.
So the next thing I did was to use what Hikvision calls ROTATE MODE and, as the name suggests, it flips the picture by 90°. Unfortunately, for some reason, the mode was disabled (greyed out) and I could not change it.
So this is where the tech help was handy – following their instructions I updated the firmware (I wont go into detail here as I’ve seen there is a post on this already) and then temporarily switched off the default H.264+ compression in the Camera Configurations. I then rotated the picture!
PS: Once you’ve flipped the picture you can set H.264+ back on if you choose to do so.
Hope this helps!
Thanks for sharing!
#Hikvision #DIY #RotateMode
Tnks for your help with this!
@CrzFrog Thanks!
Hi, I've got an issue with the rotate mode ... I have two cameras - one on the wall the other soffit - the one on the wall I want to rotate so that it looks down the driveway. When I check the pciture in the browser - all is ok but when I log into my synology, the picture is extremely pixelated and low quality.
Does anyone have the same issue?
I think that's because synology makes it a bit more difficult to process and adjust for the rotation, so it basically flips the picture - so, say, if you have 2560 x 1600 resolution, when you use the corridor mode it just flips it to 1600 x 2560.
I think the best thing in that case would be to physically rotate the lens if your camera allows for it!
@CrzFrog Thanks! Will try