OD Cams not detecting motion, people, or vehicles past 20-25’

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I have several V3 cams at my house that work perfectly. Unfortunately, at my lake house I don’t have the opportunity to use V3s so I purchased 3 OD cams. I’m having trouble getting them to detect motion, people, or vehicles farther than about 20-25’ away.

  • all 3 cams are on Cam Plus
  • the detection zone is completely open
  • the target range is within the PIR Effective Range
  • the Close/Far distance is set to 100 but I’ve also tried 75 and 50 with no change
  • the image sensitivity is set to 100

The attached videos are from each camera but of the same event. The screenshots are the PIR. I think the way they are set up they should be picking up motion much farther out.

Do I just need to scrap these cams and figure out a way to replace with V3s?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.



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The WCO are not real good at detection when motion is straight at the camera, motion crossing left to right, right to left is good. I have never gotten people beyond about 28 feet, I have gotten motion a little further, and vehicles at about 55-60 feet. The garbage truck is at 55 feet, the face of the cam is pointing in the direction of the red line. I think you should turn your cams a little left or right a few degrees at a time until you get the view you want and a little crossing motion. It doesn’t take to much the view and PIR are very wide.

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Thanks for the info. I had one of the cams at a pretty good angle (see below pic) until today. It was reacting the same way so I thought moving it closer would help. Maybe I’ll split the difference and see if that helps.

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I only moved my 4 cams six times before I got it right :grin: If it doesn’t work to your liking get some V3 cams. I currently only have one because I don’t have any power without drilling holes through walls and siding. I put one on the house by the garage because I only had to drill a small hole through the wood siding to get the power USB cable outside. I really like the V3.

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The V3s are awesome. I have 3 at my residence.