Detection zone, but record all motion

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Just got my Bulb cam, and for the most part I’m loving it. So easy to set up.

Now I have a problem though. I’m using it above my front door. I live in an apartment building that has 3 apartments, all with our own outside door, so this is good (so far).

Where I have it covers outside my door, the area my rubbish bins are in, and the mailboxes (sweet, all 3 in one cam!). It also covers a bit of sidewalk and street in front of the building.

If I setup a detection zone for notifications (narrowing it to the door/bins/mailbox area) it seems motion is not detected anywhere else after setting that up. Is this correct? I only want motion alerts in the detection zone, but I want it to record ANY motion it sees, even outside the “detection zone”. Is that even possible?

The way it is now I cannot turn on notifications because I have to turn off detection zone (otherwise I get a notification every time a car passes the buidling, or someone walks by n the sidewalk).

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Yes, that is what the detection zone is for, to ignore things outside of that area and not trigger recording or an alert.

If you want everything recorded, even stuff outside the DZ, then you need to put in an SD card and set it to “continuous” recording.

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Software really needs both… a Detection zone, and a Notification zone.

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With the Pan cams, it also needs a “motion tracking” zone. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll see it anytime soon.

I know the Blink cams have two different zones, a detection zone and a “privacy” zone. I can’t recall exactly what the difference is but it may be something along those lines, alert but don’t record or something.