Welcome to the user community @Hooiser !
I am sure that the others here in the forum can help with your data usage concerns. I don’t have a data cap on fiber so I have never considered usage. But, cutting down on events has to help.
When I installed my V3’s over PIR Motion Sensor Security Floodlights, I had the same event activation issues. See my post about that here:
Because my floodlights are PIR sensor activated, when my cams went into Night Vision mode and turned on the active IR emitters for the night vision, it flooded the detection field with IR and set off the floodlights. Because that caused a massive light pixelation change in the cam when the lights came on, the CamPlus AI always tagged it as something. At first, they fought each other all night long because the IR emitters would go off after the lights came on, the timer on the lights would shut the lights off, the cam would go back into night vision and the cycle would repeat.
Over time, I was able to get the lights to play well and get along with the cams by setting my cams to NEAR on the IR settings so they didn’t emit so much IR and dialing back the sensitivity of the floodlights PIR sensor. I also lowered the detection sensitivity on each cam to reduce false positive AI Events.
It took time and a lot of testing and monitoring, but it eventually calmed down to an acceptable level.
Hope this helps!
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