Thats a sweet tip, and I should have specified that I've done that, and the help file is one of the best, however it doesnt really tell you how the settings interact, and to some extent it assumes I know what some of that stuff means. Also as I mentioned I seem to be making it worse rather than better. Im not apposed to reading things, but maybe something more like a blog that talks about all the related settings (another issue with the manual, if you dont know where the setting is, you cant really look it up), how the interact with each other, maybe some suggestions of what the normal ranges are. By normal I mean for example, the Min. Contrast (which is mostly what I've been screwing with) something like "ideally it should be between 40-60, anything out of that is typically too extreme and should only be used to handle X or Y"
And speaking of that one, the manual only says
"The Contrast will alter the brightness of the gray rectangle. When the Contrast slider is toward the left, the grey rectangle is dark, representing low-contrast, and when the slider is toward the right, the grey rectangle is brighter, representing a higher contrast."
which, is nicely specific, but its fairly obvious information, it tells me nothing about how to use it, what the min and max values actually mean. Hell Im not even sure which means "it takes a lot of change" or "it takes very little"... I dont work with this sort of stuff normally so "low contrast" vs "high contrast" doesnt click in my mind so that i can go "oh i need to do this"
so again.... i appreciate your quick response, and I can see how you'd jump to RTFM, I've told many folks to do that as well... and its much easier when you have some base knowledge around the topic area..
so all that being said... have I shown you enough evidence that im not just asking you to configure it for me, but to perhaps provide some links that actually talk about the settings rather than just tell me what they are.
Actually I kinda feel like this would fall under some FAQ
"it triggers too often because of light"
"wind is causing it to trigger too much"
Its complex enough that there should probably be a book on "how to minimize false positives with BI"
Also, perhaps this is a whole separate topic, but when I purchased the cameras some of the things I read made it seem like BI could take advantage of some of the cameras advanced features (the Dahua facial recognition) which again, is obviously not talked about in the manual.