To have an outside camera that you use for security w/o having detection settings on is almost useless. The detection settings make the camera worthwhile and I love this feature. Having said that, with detection settings turned on, the user cannot manually move the camera to probe other areas w/o it snapping back to its set position. Can this please be fixed or changed? The detection settings area is already limited because it needs to omit physical objects that may cause the alerts to erroneously go off. So if an event happens in an area not in my detection zone, I can’t check it out because the camera is locked in one position and snaps back before I can move to a different area of the yard. There are certain features that can’t be used simply because detection settings are turned on. This is just something I’ve observed that I hope can be looked at and fine tuned.
What exactly do you mean by “Detection settings turned on”? There is no setting with that term.
Sounds like you are turning on “Pan Scan” possibly with only one position set. If that is the case, turn off “Pan Scan” and you can manually move the camera around to your heart’s content and it will stay were ever you point it. If you want it to go back to the one set position (or scan between multiple positions if you have more than one position set), turn “Pan Scan” back on when you completed manually looking around.
Note, if you don’t know how to get to the “Pan Scan” setting, on the row of icons below the live video, swipe your finger left and you will see additional options.
One other thing about Detection Zone. If the camera is moving around, that ends up pretty worthless because for example if you block out the tree that is waving, as soon as the camera moves, the tree may well be back in a valid detection zone. Not much you can do about that on a camera that is moving around.
I do this with my camera set like this: With Waypoints set, Track Motion on, and Pan Scan off (I don’t have a Detection Zone set because, as @K6CCC indicated, trying to block out certain view areas from motion detection on a camera that is itself moving is difficult to manage and probably not very useful), I can manually move the camera into a different position in live view and leave it there as long as I want. When I’m done looking at whatever I wanted to see in that view, I just tap my preferred “home” Waypoint and the camera goes right back to what it was doing before.
This is very helpful information. I was unaware that motion events could trigger an alert without the detection zone being set and enabled. If this works it will definitely solve my issue. My issue is the app prompts you to first turn off detection zone in order to use Pan Scan. The positioning of my camera cannot capture both my yard and porch simultaneously. So, if I wanted to see my porch to view a person, package or just motion outside of my detection zone, by the time I’m able to move the camera to that position the person or motion is gone.
Yeah, my understanding of the Detection Zone is that it’s primarily intended for excluding areas in the camera’s view where you don’t want to receive detection notifications (for instance, I live in an area that’s frequently windy, so I have a Detection Zone set on my Video Doorbell v2 to mask out the part of the view that might catch a tree, flag, or wind chime blowing around). I have a vague recollection of the app prompt that you mentioned, and I think it just makes intuitive sense that Detection Zone and Pan Scan are incompatible because one will defeat or be useless in the face of the other.
I’m glad that was helpful, and I hope you find a solution to your problem. Depending on the area you want to cover and the camera functions you need, I wonder if a second camera might be an answer.
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