My solar cam pan seems to not recognize and record any motion until the subject is in the middle of the frame. I have a golf cart path running along the back of my property, and when carts or walkers pass by, the cam doesn’t pick them up until they’re in the middle of the view. Sometimes, if they’re moving from the right and move towards my property, they’re not seen at all. I have the detection settings set to maximum sensitivity and the range to maximum distance. Any other settings I should look at?
My immediate thoughts are to make sure that you don’t inadvertently have a Detection Zone enabled that would cause the Cam to miss motion until it’s near the center of the field of vision (FOV) and that you’ve followed the instructions in the Installation Guide for physical placement of the Cam. My understanding is that it primarily uses PIR to initiate motion detection (the bottom half of the Cam’s face is a lens over the PIR sensor) and that this works best when motion is crossing laterally across its FOV rather than approaching the Cam. I don’t know how you have Solar Cam Pan positioned in relation to the path you mentioned, but you may want to consider the direction of movement you expect to capture and adjust the Cam’s location/position accordingly.
I am having a similar issue. I have a 3 minute gap where a vehicle pulls up and the next thing I see the vehicle has already pulled out and on its way. I’m not sure what the issue is. These short clips instead of recording the entire event is frustrating.
My cam is mounted on the frame of my pool enclosure, and faces the cart path, with carts and people moving mostly right to left across the frame. I’ve adjusted the waypoint up a bit so the path is approximately in the center of the frame vertically.
Here’s a screen shot of how it appears when it starts to record movement. Previously I had a Cam Pan v3 in the same location, and that started recording almost as soon as the subject entered the frame on the right
Cam Pan v3 doesn’t have a PIR sensor and it’s powered by an AC/DC adapter which allows its image sensor to be enabled constantly, and it uses changes in pixels within the image to detect motion. My understanding of Solar Cam Pan is that its image sensor is generally not capturing images unless/until the PIR sensor detects something and “wakes” the camera to begin recording, so there’s always a bit of lag those functions. I think this is probably part of the design to preserve battery life.
If you’re able to supply continuous power to Solar Cam Pan (5V ⎓ 2A) so that it can act like a “wired” Cam and have the ability to do continuous recording (i.e., you’re also enabling Settings ➜ MicroSD Card ➜ Record Continuously), then I would expect that to always use the image sensor for detection and tracking, and that might give you better results. I don’t know if that’s something you’d want to try or not, but it seems like it might be a possibility if you were already running power to this location for Cam Pan v3 previously.
I also don’t know what the PIR’s effective practical range is with this Cam, so that could be an issue, but I think the main thing is probably the latency between PIR detection and the Cam activating its image sensor to begin capture. I think you probably have the Cam positioned correctly to capture movement along that path.
The image you shared is helpful, so thanks for that. 
That seems like a different issue. How do you have Settings ➜ Event Recording ➜ RECORDING SETTINGS set? What about Detection Range and Motion Sensitivity on your Detection Settings screen? Are you using a subscription? Feel free to post a screenshot of your Event Recording screen or any other Settings screen that you think might be relevant.
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