Motion detection
Hi Ben
I have a little question about motion detection zone (green)
is that the green area is the area in which performs Motion detection or is it an exclusion zone?
Thanks
I have a little question about motion detection zone (green)
is that the green area is the area in which performs Motion detection or is it an exclusion zone?
Thanks
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I use a bunch of Axis cameras with their MD build in but don't know how to let SS make use of it. Any suggestions?
1 I'm assuming the entire field of view is always 'active' by default ( Though one of my cameras is noticeably less sensitive dealing with motion coming into the filed of view from the left ??? A person can be halfway across the field of view before triggering anything )
2 I think the motion detection is always active in the camera so selecting or deselecting in the browser or SS doesn't turn it off or on at all but simply tells the software to ignore it or process it as 'movement'.
Try this. Turn off motion detection in the browser, open SS and turn MD on and make an active selection. If it works then it's as I thought, the motion detection is actually always on. So in that case SS can make full use of it. I wish though that the detection functioned more like PIR.
I wonder actually if anyone knows of a range of domestic cameras that DO function with PIR
Without a mask set, the full frame of the camera will be used for motion detection. There is no particular reason why objects on the left of the frame will trigger motion detection differently than objects on the right, unless the perspective of the camera's view means that objects on the right are closer to the camera (and therefore bigger).
In the Camera Settings window, I know it's a bit fiddly to draw the mask and we're going to improve this in the next major update. However you don't have to individually click the green pixels as suggested above; you can click and drag to draw lines and whole areas. So it's relatively painless to define a mask, and as Peter says, it usually only has to be done one.
Hope this clarifies a few things.
I'm having an issue where I'm constantly getting motion detection emails however I've defined my mask clearly over the areas I don't want motion detected (I'm very confident in this).
The camera is observing a door which has a glass window in it and the glare from the mid-day sun seems to be triggering the detection, although I can't tell where else on the frame to add exclusion areas.
It'd be great to have the option to have the pixels where motion was detected highlighted on the frame, either when it's emailed to you or saved on disk.
Thanks Ben,
Justin