4-seasons: protect night frames from grey filter with brightness floor

A stddev-only filter would wrongly drop near-black night frames.
Now only skips a frame when BOTH stddev < GREY_MIN AND mean brightness
> GREY_DARK_FLOOR (default 30/255).  Night frames are dark so they
always pass; bad-signal grey frames are mid-bright so they are caught.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01C4jbd3waXG3eKZYbGUjLUQ

4-seasons.sh

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ mapfile -t all_images < <(find "$image_dir" -type f -name "*.jpg" | sort)
 # SEASONS_GREY_STDDEV_MIN=0 (default) disables the grey filter.
 # Set to e.g. 5 in sky-cam.conf to drop uniform grey frames (bad-signal captures).
 GREY_MIN="${SEASONS_GREY_STDDEV_MIN:-0}"
+GREY_DARK_FLOOR="${SEASONS_GREY_DARK_FLOOR:-30}"  # frames darker than this are never skipped
 images=(); bad=0; grey=0
 for img in "${all_images[@]}"; do
     # Empty or unreadable
@@ -106,10 +107,14 @@ for img in "${all_images[@]}"; do
         echo "WARNING: skipping corrupt frame: $(basename "$img")"
         ((bad++)) || true; continue
     fi
-    # Optional: skip uniform-grey bad-signal frames (low pixel standard deviation)
+    # Optional: skip uniform-grey bad-signal frames.
+    # A frame is bad-signal if it is BOTH uniform (low stddev) AND not dark.
+    # Night frames are dark so they pass even with low stddev.
     if [ "$GREY_MIN" != "0" ] && command -v convert &>/dev/null; then
-        stddev=$(convert "$img" -colorspace Gray -format "%[fx:int(standard_deviation*255)]" info: 2>/dev/null || echo "255")
-        if [ "${stddev:-255}" -lt "$GREY_MIN" ]; then
+        read -r stddev mean < <(convert "$img" -colorspace Gray \
+            -format "%[fx:int(standard_deviation*255)] %[fx:int(mean*255)]" \
+            info: 2>/dev/null || echo "255 128")
+        if [ "${stddev:-255}" -lt "$GREY_MIN" ] && [ "${mean:-0}" -gt "$GREY_DARK_FLOOR" ]; then
             ((grey++)) || true; continue
         fi
     fi

sky-cam.conf

@@ -257,13 +257,21 @@ AUDIO_BITRATE=192k       # montage-mvt.sh           — music track on movement
 
 # ── Frame validation (4-seasons.sh) ──────────────────────────────────────────
 # Corrupt or empty frames (e.g. first frame after a camera reconnect) are always
-# skipped automatically via ffprobe.
+# skipped automatically via ffprobe.  No config needed.
 #
 # SEASONS_GREY_STDDEV_MIN: also skip uniform-grey frames caused by a bad RTSP
-# signal.  These are valid JPEGs but contain a near-solid grey image.
-# Value is the minimum pixel standard deviation on a 0–255 scale.
-# 0 = disabled (default).  Try 5–10 if your camera produces grey frames on reconnect.
+# signal (valid JPEGs, but near-solid grey — no real image content).
+# A frame is only skipped when BOTH conditions hold:
+#   1. pixel standard deviation (0–255) is below SEASONS_GREY_STDDEV_MIN
+#   2. mean brightness (0–255) is above SEASONS_GREY_DARK_FLOOR
+# This keeps genuine night frames (dark + low stddev) while dropping
+# bad-signal grey frames (mid-bright + low stddev).
+#
+# SEASONS_GREY_STDDEV_MIN=0 disables the filter entirely (default).
+# Try 5–10 if your camera produces solid-grey frames on reconnect.
+# Requires ImageMagick (convert) to be installed.
 SEASONS_GREY_STDDEV_MIN=0
+SEASONS_GREY_DARK_FLOOR=30   # frames with mean brightness below this are always kept
 
 # ── Montage attribution overlay ───────────────────────────────────────────────
 # A translucent bar across the top of each movement montage, naming the