Recently set up two new Pan Cam v3s outdoors and discovered with tracking on and a rainstorm sent them bonkers. The cameras were spinning out of control in all directions trying to track the rain. Tried lowering sensitivity to below 15% but it didn’t help. I had to turn off tracking motion which is going to be a problem since I’ve got one pointing at my driveway and I wanted to see any movement.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this situation or am I just stuck?
The concept of an outdoor motion tracking PTZ is a great idea, in theory, the ability to execute that in an outdoor setting with such a variability in motion due to weather, not so easy.
The only option is to turn off Tracking temporarily until the weather subsides. You may want to switch over to Scan during that time to cover more area.
Since these pan cams don’t have optical zoom, I’ve only ever used my pan cams as static fixed cameras, and flooded the areas I want coverage with multiple fixed cams. That way I don’t have to trust the motion tracking to catch what I want when I could have two opposing fixed cameras recording everything. Just a thought if you have the environment around your camera causing issues more than you’d like.
So I’m supposed to sit around and remember to disable tracking when there is a rainstorm and then remember to re-enable it afterwards? The first time I saw this phenomena was when I was out of town and looked at what events it was recording. When I checked the live view it was pointing straight up in the sky at the rain coming down.
I previously had a fixed V3 at this location but since it is at the end of my driveway, I wanted to see when people walk by and where they’re walking to as well as things like postal delivery. Recently there was an incident where this idiot neighbor, either drunk or high, came speeding down our street and took out a couple of mailboxes. Fortunately one other camera caught some of it but I would rather have tracking motion to really see what’s going on.
I don’t even do that. I have Motion Tracking disabled because I don’t want to deal with ADHD cams on a sugar bender when they are flooded with environmental motion in the FOV. How is the cam supposed to discriminate between different types of motion events? It has no onboard AI. It only sees one thing… Motion, regardless of what causes it.
I only use the PTZ manually when I need to Pan to another area. I can’t expect a Cam to track appropriately during bad weather when it is tuned for good weather and works 80% of the time but is inundated with constant motion during the 20% bad weather times. The cam can’t control the weather and has the same settings for all motion.