Noticed false alarm clips tend to always be the same length (the minimum) — strategies?

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Getting the hang of it
Jun 11, 2016
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I noticed after going through my clips day in and day out that almost every clip that has the shortest possible video time or so (= pre-trigger time + post-trigger timeout “break”) is useless. A false alarm from some bug, or some leaf, or something. I don’t mind recording these, but it gets old scrolling through them.

Is there a good motion trigger setting that will ignore such short motion? I can only find trigger length, but that doesn’t always correlate since interesting motion could be made up of a sequence of short triggers. Maybe a setting that only records on multiple triggers before the post-trigger timeout has expired. Or at least filters the clips by clip length, even an hourly script.
 
I noticed after going through my clips day in and day out that almost every clip that has the shortest possible video time or so (= pre-trigger time + post-trigger timeout “break”) is useless. A false alarm from some bug, or some leaf, or something. I don’t mind recording these, but it gets old scrolling through them.

Is there a good motion trigger setting that will ignore such short motion? I can only find trigger length, but that doesn’t always correlate since interesting motion could be made up of a sequence of short triggers. Maybe a setting that only records on multiple triggers before the post-trigger timeout has expired. Or at least filters the clips by clip length, even an hourly script.
You will end up missing motion. You can limit alerts in this manner.
 
You will end up missing motion. You can limit alerts in this manner.

Thanks, found that in the alert settings. Yeah, I suppose I would, but I’ve never encountered an interesting clip where it just triggers once and ends, so it’d be fine. I think it’s a great heuristic for determining what’s real and what’s not from my experience