topic Re: Car number plates at night in Arlo Ultra

Car number plates at night

alanbo1234 — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:48:13 GMT

My Arlo Ultra is very efficient at capturing number plates during the day time, but at night time it is impossible to read number plates - see attached pic.

Re: Car number plates at night

TomMac — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:26:52 GMT

Prob to much reflection/ wash out from headlights.... surprised you can get plates in day, it is a hard thing to do.

Re: Car number plates at night

alanbo1234 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:13:27 GMT

I can get plates in the day in the zone I need to get them in. I can also get them in 4K live and when saved on memory card in hub. This is the reason I bought the Ultra.

Re: Car number plates at night

Mjbeuke — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:11:49 GMT

@alanbo1234 wrote:

My Arlo Ultra is very efficient at capturing number plates during the day time, but at night time it is impossible to read number plates - see attached pic.

I personally think the "color night vision" with the spotlight is crap. My picture is horrible with that on - you might try leaving it off and let the IR diodes do their thing for the night vision. The picture and detail is vastly more clear with the spotlight off! I can see license plate numbers 20-30' away with the color off.

Re: Car number plates at night

alanbo1234 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:27:52 GMT

OK many thanks, I'll try that.

Re: Car number plates at night

jsturess — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:03:57 GMT

This is with my Ultra camera but with an external IR light

https://my.arlo.com/hmsweb/users/library/share/link/D1F6F29430984483_201910