PTZ Motion Tracking Setup

[cwilson1996]

I have had a Dahua 4A425 for some time now, but have never setup up the auto tracking on it. I'm having a hard time finding any resources that detail the setup I would like. Hoping someone here will have some insight. I would like the camera to be on a constant pan from one side of my property to the other, but when motion is detected, it begins to track until the motion stops. Is this attainable?

 

[wittaj]

You do not want it panning. It only will start tracking when on a preset and not while in a pan. And the camera will be looking left and the perp comes from the right.

Plus they are only good for so many cycles and folks here have locked it up under two years with it on constant panning.


Much better to set up a spotter camera to tell the PTZ where to look.

Using Spotter Cameras to direct a PTZ where to look in an NVR or Blue Iris and setting a spotter cam as a priority in Blue Iris

We get this question from time to time, so I thought with the recent addition to BI, it made sense to have a thread we can point to. Previously in BI, if you had more than one spotter cam, you could not make one a priority, so if spotter cam #1 triggered the PTZ and it starts tracking and...

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Watch this video to set up tracking:

 

[Ri22o]

Tracking is caused by an IVS trigger being tripped. The IVS rules only exist while the camera is parked at a preset that has them. Here is a thread with a video and information on how my PTZ tracks after being called to a preset by the spotter.

Video of how my spotter cam's IVS rules call my PTZ to auto-track.

With more people looking to get a PTZ and asking about it moving to a preset and auto-tracking I decided to put a video together. This shows how the PTZ goes from parked to a preset based on an IVS trigger from a spotter camera. From this preset the PTZ has its own IVS rules to tell it to...

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