The summer has arrived and unfortunately whilst the plants seem to think this is excellent. It is making life difficult for the web cams. After attempting to do this in software it would appear that the range of bright light is just too much. So an initial first attempt at resolving this problem has been achieve by attaching a pair of my wifes broken sun glasses in front of the lense. After totally confusing the software it looks like it is an improvement – I believe applying an infra-red filter will probably be the way forward as this both filters out a lot of the visible light but also means I can monitor the plants through the night.