This camera is about 2' off the ground, and less than 5' from the edge the driveway, facing the entrance from the road. It's at that location and height to best be able to capture license plates as vehicles leave (TN is a rear tag only state).
It also lets me know if anyone is coming down the driveway. I have the following motion zones B (red), C (green), and D (yellow) turned on to trigger an alert - if ANY of these get tripped:
I also have zone A (the entire screen) turned on to record, but it will not trigger an alert. My motion detection settings are as follows:
I've decreased the sensitivity and require at least a 0.4 second amount of movement before triggering. Object detection is also enabled, requiring a 150 pixel movement to trigger. I've disabled "reset detector when", since any vehicle moving this closely to the camera will inherently result in a change of 100% of the video frame. With it enabled, it would ignore most vehicles.
With these settings, I'm still getting hammered with alerts (meaning B, C, and/or D are tripping) anytime a fast moving cloud casts a shadow:
There seems to be no middle-ground. Either I desensitize the detection settings to the point that I get no false alarms, and I miss out on nearly all legitimate targets, or I set it to catch all targets, but get inundated with false alarms.
Since this is a vacation property, which sits primarily vacant, and virtually all local homes have been burglarized at least once, it is essential that I can rely on the alert notifications. Lately, with it going off several times per hour, I've become desensitized to the point it's getting dangerous.
Ultimately, with my next visit to the property, I will tie my PIR driveway alert beam into the home automation system, and use that to trigger alerts in BI. But until then, I'm at a loss as to how to get BI to play nice.
It also lets me know if anyone is coming down the driveway. I have the following motion zones B (red), C (green), and D (yellow) turned on to trigger an alert - if ANY of these get tripped:
I also have zone A (the entire screen) turned on to record, but it will not trigger an alert. My motion detection settings are as follows:
I've decreased the sensitivity and require at least a 0.4 second amount of movement before triggering. Object detection is also enabled, requiring a 150 pixel movement to trigger. I've disabled "reset detector when", since any vehicle moving this closely to the camera will inherently result in a change of 100% of the video frame. With it enabled, it would ignore most vehicles.
With these settings, I'm still getting hammered with alerts (meaning B, C, and/or D are tripping) anytime a fast moving cloud casts a shadow:
There seems to be no middle-ground. Either I desensitize the detection settings to the point that I get no false alarms, and I miss out on nearly all legitimate targets, or I set it to catch all targets, but get inundated with false alarms.
Since this is a vacation property, which sits primarily vacant, and virtually all local homes have been burglarized at least once, it is essential that I can rely on the alert notifications. Lately, with it going off several times per hour, I've become desensitized to the point it's getting dangerous.
Ultimately, with my next visit to the property, I will tie my PIR driveway alert beam into the home automation system, and use that to trigger alerts in BI. But until then, I'm at a loss as to how to get BI to play nice.
