Not detecting car at night

I have a camera pointed at my driveway from about 30 feet away. It’s not detecting cars coming down the driveway with their headlights on at night. It picks one event up on occasion, but it usually it doesn’t. It works fine in the daytime.

Is there a combo of settings to adjust for this scenario?

The distance might be an issue, 30 feet is pretty far for these cameras to pick detection. The reason it works during the day is that there is much more light for the camera to pick up movement. I found that all my cameras work okay at 20 feet and less.

Light is good. :laughing: the dog walker is about 58 feet from the camera.

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Are you using smart detection where you are only getting vehicle detection? If that’s the case, I suspect that at night, the camera is essentially being blinded by the headlights and not able to identify the comparably dark car.

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Yes I am. I test using ‘All Motion Events’ to see if that makes a difference.

Changing from Smart Detection to ‘All Motion Events’ captured the car tonight. I’ll have to play with the sensitivity, because that mode captures every little thing.

Smart detection requires good light and fairly close distance (the less light, the closer it has to be).

As you’re seeing, “all motion” will capture everything. Sensitivity doesn’t help too much, but detection zone can make a big difference (so can camera placement and angle).

So you have to decide which is right for you.

As @K6CCC mentioned, headlights directly into the camera are also going to be an issue for AI detection especially at night in lower light (when the image sensor is really sensitive to light). In that case, camera placement and angle becomes critical to being able to use AI.

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Thanks for the detail.

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