in case anyone finds this valuable i was able to manually trigger day/night mode on my icamera2's using cgi.. Auto Mode /adm/set_group.cgi?group=VIDEO&dn_sch=0 Day Mode /adm/set_group.cgi?group=VIDEO&dn_sch=2 Night Mode /adm/set_group.cgi?group=VIDEO&dn_sch=3