Just out of my own curiosity, did Dahua do away with animal detection on newer cameras/models? Or is it just better on the older ones?
See my attached screenshot above. There was no 'animal detection' or anything like it before. All camera's would trigger just because something moved.
Newer camera's should still work like that if that checkbox in that screenshot is unchecked, but checking/unchecking that checkbox does nothing.
It's likely a very simple (firmware) fix but for some reason, Dahua does not fix it.
The only way to detect 'things' (like animals) other than people of vehicles, is to use the (far unsuperior and less reliable) motion detection, but that gets triggered by anything, including shadows so that's pretty much unusable. Or use external (recording)software like
Blue Iris/Frigate that can detect other things than people/vehicles.
That's the whole reason why I have 2 camera's installed in front of our house. An older 5231 and the new 5442 S3. The 5442 for the image quality and the 5231 for detecting things like cats, marters etc.
I would love to get rid of the 5231 (and place is somewhere else), but I can't. I need it for detecting animals the 5442 doesn't pick up.