Have an Outdoor cam looking at my driveway. Have a V2 cam looking at my driveway but from inside, behind a tinted window. During the day the V2 does a fine job, At night it can’t see a thing. Cant turn on IR lights because its behind glass. Mounted Outdoor Cam outside on wall above the window where …

Trimming some of the plants might help as well! [Screenshot_20200810-165651_Chrome~2]

I might, but am holding off any landscaping until I see reliable patterns out of the OWC.

hmm, nighttime PIR is not firing, back to the drawing board for placement/settings.

@harner.bill You have to manually adjust the detection zone… and by that I mean the lower 2/3rds of the camera view look to be hardcoded to detect motion… therefore to adjust your detection zone you need to manually re-position your camera.

Just turned off notifications on my V2, turned on notifications on my WOC and walked by it twice. No notification from the WOC.

Just wondering… did you have a live stream going while you were walking by? Or were you running a Scheduled Recording? [image] Viewing playback on outdoor cam Cameras Something to keep in mind, especially for those reporting lack of events and/or notifications…

Ok. Same problem as everyone else. Have a support ticket but don’t know if they are even working on it. Only thing to add that I find strange is that if I bring the outdoor cam inside the house it picks up motion, sends notifications and records 12 sec events just fine. Then take it outdoors and no…

After reading your post, it dawned on me that you may have accidentally hit on something interesting. Would you mind trying it outside again without using the magnetic base and see if by chance that makes any difference at all

I did briefly by setting it on car sun roof & didn’t seem to matter. Need to further test in multiple locations outdoors. Just trying to isolate possible causes. Doesn’t really make sense so far.

Are you all sure you are connecting successfully through the base station when outside? If you don’t have an SD card and aren’t connected - it can’t save the motion capture Also there is a trace mode which connects the phone to the WCO without the base - is the live video from a direct connection …

Outdoor Cam NOT detecting or recording motion

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Just wondering… did you have a live stream going while you were walking by? Or were you running a Scheduled Recording?

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