What are these motion events?
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What were the clips?
It appears as tho the entity/spirit(s) entered the camera for a moment. Check out my video when the same thing happens right before it moves my camera.
watching your video, you see a light flash on the left hand side of the street, lights reflecting off of the windows, and closer to the camera you see either insects or rain fly or move.
those could trigger and continually trigger the event.
Which Camera are you using?
The 5 minute cooldown is shown based on the time interval you are seeing. therefore, I would bet it is either an insect or the flashing lights off to the left
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Are you sure it’s not the car alarm blinking on the dash?
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Enable motion tagging (green box) so you can see exactly what it is. Then you can play with sensitivity, angle, or detection zone as needed. Of course if it is bugs, sometimes you can’t get rid of them other than disabling the camera’s internal IR and putting up a night light (to give enough ambient light for color night vision) or an external IR illuminator so the bugs go over to that.
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I agree with @spamoni. If you watch the video in landscape mode you can see a bug fly across the screen and a 1/4 second later there is a green box where the insect was. I watched it happen 3 or 4 times.
Have you tried adjusting the sensitivity down a bit? Or turning off IR. See if you have enough light for a decent image.
I’m assuming you do not have Camplus.
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Heh, I didn’t even watch, I assumed if they were asking they didn’t have motion tagging enabled…
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I was thinking that as well. However, when my vehicle is in front of my camera, it does not seem to pick up on that.
Turning on Motion Tagging is a great suggestion @dave27 .
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Apparently they have it on (I was too lazy to watch the video and not a fan of clicking random looking links), seems like it is bugs causing it according to @ronl4625, the nemesis of any IR camera.)
Motion tagging is on.
Figured it out but not sure why it only happens when colour night vision is off. Night vision mode is set to Auto but this issue only seems to happen on the nights color night vision is off. I only see black & white events & that’s when this issues issue happens. Camera is sitting on external alarm siren box which has a flashing red light & it seems to flash every few seconds.
See attached screenshot of last night, flashing alarm siren light not triggering motion. Events you see are from cars driving by.
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IR light attracts bugs, that’s why it only happens when color night vision is off (which turns on the IR LEDs).
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It’s not the bugs. Camera is placed on outdoor siren which has a flashing red light that flashes every 15 seconds. See attached pic, took it when it flashed just now. Why is it triggering motion only when colour night vision is off?
OK I watched the vid. The camera is far more sensitive in night mode and the red light is probably also putting out some stray infrared. If you watch the vid it is clearly over-exposing the lens causing a motion event. “Motion” for these cameras is just how many pixels change and how quickly, in your case when that light flashes, a lot of pixels change drastically all at once.
In color night vision the flash probably isn’t as severe, but would need to see a video to confirm.
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Here’s a video with color night vision on, you can see the light flash at 03:57:38.
Also, what controls color night vision. How come some nights it’s off?
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You probably have Night Vision set to Automatic. If you camera senses enough light Night Vision will remain off and you will see a color image.
If your camera does not sense enough light it will switch to Night Vision and you will see black and white.
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They’ve done tweaks to try and prevent lights from creating events so that flash is not enough to trigger it, but that really only applies to color, when in IR mode the flash is really washing out the image and that’s going to trigger it.
As long as your street is always lit up like that, just change your “night mode” to “off” so it never kicks in.
If you do need night mode due to it being darker sometimes, maybe block off the top of that red light - won’t affect its visibility but maybe block it from hitting the cam (hard to say if it will be enough or not).
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