I'm testing out the new Edge Vector motion sensor algorithm. I made clones of all my existing cameras. On the cloned cameras, the only thing I changed was setting the motion sensor algorithm to Edge Vector from Simple. With Edge Vector I'm missing people walking, cars, animals etc. Are any of you having the same results? If not, what other changes did you make in order to get it to work reliably? Thanks
Edge Vector motion sensor algorithm settings
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Contacted support and Ken said to disable "Cancel Shadows" and decrease the Contrast to help. See his response below...
With this new algorithm, you should uncheck "cancel shadows" if that was checked. Also, most sensitivity for the detector will help. The algorithm is all about consistency linear motion. If you have more random motion you want to capture, you may need to retain use of "simple".
What I'm finding, is the edge vector doesn't work well with zone crossing.
My driveway is zone A. The sidewalk, boulevard and road are zone B. I had a 1 pixel gap between A & B, and had zone G covering everything for tracking through the gap. I had 'object crosses zones' set to A-B, so that anything leaving or entering my driveway would trigger. Once I changed the motion sensing to edge vector, it was missing half the motion, even with contrast set to the most sensitive at 12, object size 250 (pretty small), object moves 250, and a make time of 0.3s.
I have now set the object crosses zones to just A. I also increased the make time to 1.0s, and increased object moves to 350. This now causes any directional motion on my entire driveway to trigger. I'll now have to wait for a partly sunny day with fast moving clouds to see what happens, and maybe increase the object moves distance.
My driveway is zone A. The sidewalk, boulevard and road are zone B. I had a 1 pixel gap between A & B, and had zone G covering everything for tracking through the gap. I had 'object crosses zones' set to A-B, so that anything leaving or entering my driveway would trigger. Once I changed the motion sensing to edge vector, it was missing half the motion, even with contrast set to the most sensitive at 12, object size 250 (pretty small), object moves 250, and a make time of 0.3s.
I have now set the object crosses zones to just A. I also increased the make time to 1.0s, and increased object moves to 350. This now causes any directional motion on my entire driveway to trigger. I'll now have to wait for a partly sunny day with fast moving clouds to see what happens, and maybe increase the object moves distance.
Updated to your settings above and triggers have been excellent. I also have sun/shade tree issues but it wasn't windy today. Let's keep working on this and see how things can be further improved.
I wonder if I should try turning off 'object size exceeds'. Although I have it set to 67%, and her car would only be filling 25-30% of the pixels.
Earlier in the week when I had zones A & B, a clip that missed her car backing out of the driveway, when I ran it through the test mode, it showed motion boxes on the entire car in zone A, but when the car hit zone B, all the boxes disappeared. Motion boxes didn't reappear until the car was fully on the road and driving off. I should have changed things and retested on that clip. I'll do that, but it won't be until Monday afternoon when I'm home, it's Thanksgiving weekend here and we're off to the cottage.
Earlier in the week when I had zones A & B, a clip that missed her car backing out of the driveway, when I ran it through the test mode, it showed motion boxes on the entire car in zone A, but when the car hit zone B, all the boxes disappeared. Motion boxes didn't reappear until the car was fully on the road and driving off. I should have changed things and retested on that clip. I'll do that, but it won't be until Monday afternoon when I'm home, it's Thanksgiving weekend here and we're off to the cottage.
Wouldn't hurt to try turning off "object size exceeds" as a test. It's interesting that I don't have the "use zones and hotspot" selected. It must still be using Zone A to trigger. Zone A has the entire view selected.