And then you will find that one of the biggest complaints about any tracking PTZ (regardless of manufacturer) is that if an object stops, so does the tracking. You cannot change this timing.
You can usually get it to not loose tracking so quickly if you change the target ratio a bit or turn PFA off, and I think this thing learns LOL. If the target ratio is too large, it will miss faster moving objects and lose tracking faster when an object stops.
My 49225 when I first got it would immediately lose track if someone stopped. Now it will hold at least 10 seconds if someone stops.
I do think they learn though as my Dahua PTZ seems to linger on for 10 seconds or so. Part of that can be by not having it zoom in so tight that you don't give it much to work with. Mine zooms in tight enough that I can see the whole body, so when they stop for their dog doing its business, there is usually a tapping foot or something that keeps it tracking.
Once the tracking stops it will either return to the preset it started at or with a VMS system you could tell it to go somewhere else. It is why many of us use spotter cams to help get it looking the right way if an object stops and starts again.
With Autotrack PTZs once the motion stops, there is nothing for it to "track" and then it is sitting at a field of view with no Smart IVS rules telling it what to do, so it reverts back.
That is why a robust system is set up with spotter cams and multiple presets so that it can start to pick it up again.
Here is a great thread by
@bigredfish that shows how spotter cams can be used to get the object, whether the camera lost track of them or they stopped and it lost track.
I use spotter cams as well and it helps tremendously.
At least they had a good chuckle over it....
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