I use Pan Scan with one waypoint because I want the camera to return to a specific position after detecting motion. Since the last update, I can’t enable Pan Scan with only one waypoint. Isa there a way around this “improvement”?
The camera will always return back to the position it was at before tracking motion, you don’t need any tricks for that.
Unfortunately all the tricks to force it back to a “home” position after someone manually moves it have been removed, it was causing a lot of confusion for people and I guess they got sick of the support calls.
But as long as you remember to tap your waypoint after moving the camera manually, you should have the desired result, that’s how mine is. I used to use a detection zone as this forced it to return to that “home” position after manually moving it, but that has been removed too.
I suppose you could try creating 2 identical (or very close) waypoints but then you may have the camera unnecessarily moving a tiny bit scanning back and forth. Pan/scan also interferes with motion tracking (causing it to sometimes stop tracking motion too soon) so using the two together usually isn’t desirable anyway.
It would be nice to still have a way to move it back “home” if you forget after manually moving it, but I’ve gotten used to it and rarely forget anymore. This change was actually made like a year ago (well the detection zone one, not sure about the pan/scan one, but assuming it was probably the same time).
Actually the detection zone trick (and I’m guessing the pan/scan one) was actually sort of annoying when you were trying to manually look at stuff as it would keep moving back unless you toggled those features off.
Thanks for the response. I only occasionally move the camera manually, but when it detects motion and moves there, it can no longer detect movement in an area it moved away from. Having it move back to “Home” solved this. I set two waypoints at the same point. That seems to work.
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Around 5 seconds after tracking motion (after the motion has stopped), it will move back to where it was before automatically. Having pan/scan enabled probably makes that happen a bit quicker.
Can’t say if there is any negative impact to having two identical waypoints, as long as it isn’t jerking the camera back and forth a bit, seems like it should accomplish what you had before.