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Outdoor Camera not picking up animals
Hello,
It seems that my Outdoor Cameras are not picking up any animal activity, despite the setting to detect all motion and sensitivity being at the highest level and every single activity zone being enabled.
I know the motion sensor works as it easily picks up human movement, but anything else and it doesn't seem to notice.
It seems that the sensor is only capable of picking up larger objects moving (e.g. a person or even clothes blowing in the wind as I have just discovered as I type this) as my two cats never register on the camera even when they're right by the camera on my patio.
Just wondered if anyone else has experienced this? Do I have a dodgy camera or are they all like that?
captain11
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6.2K Messages
4 months ago
@rj_charles Up front, must state my outdoor cameras have only been set to "People only" since I originally installed them and, after several firmware updates, do exactly that in the zones I set them.
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dlpsr
1.4K Messages
4 months ago
@rj_charles I'd have to say I have picked up a "few" animals including feral cats on the deck, detection only videos, live views usually too slow to catch them. An occasional raccoon or possum and skunk.
The two SS cams that do detect animals are all motion, high sensitivity. Decent detection.
If you're looking to detect animals, check in the app connection checker, you need all blue bars and and below -50Dbm. Strong WiFi. Mines Mesh wifi as are some others here, about the only way they actually sorta work with solar and batteries...one is -50 the other -56dbm.
The other thing, even though they detect cars and tree 50 yards away. Distance matters in mounting height, mine I can reach 2 by hand, the two I'm referring to above. Of 5 total.
They only detect real things, except trees, lol, to about 30 feet, may be worse or less with night vision. Mine are mounted low, hard down angle to eliminate cars and trees etc. as possible.
For good animal and people detection, you need cameras that use pixel detection, good night vision or exterior ambient light and run in color mode, which is what I do mostly. Even with these SS cams.
Pixel-based motion detection, also known as video motion detection (VMD), is a basic form of video surveillance technology that detects changes in pixel values between video stream frames.
My other cameras (12) have caught more animals than i was even aware of out back. Deer, foxes, raccoons, cats, dogs, etc etc. Many animals. SS isn't really designed for animals. No humans except us. Lol Yet...
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