I had always heard here that triggered recording was not reliable, but I have never seen such a clear cut case of it as I have now with a camera I have been testing in a temporary location. I have it set up near floor level in a hallway of my basement. I am still using BI4 with the triggering sliders set fully leftward for min. contrast and min. object size with the minimum duration set to 0.1 sec. When I reviewed the recordings I was surprised to see that I am always walking past the camera in the same direction. Apparently going in the other direction does not trigger the camera! Maybe I tend to walk slightly faster in one direction? It seems crazy that my giant feet could walk right in front of this camera and not trigger it. I am not sure if it is plausible that I can walk across the FOV in less than 0.1 sec.
Triggering trickery?
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Are you using "Object Detection" with directional zone crossings or "Zones and Hot Spot"?
That's what I use most of the time....maybe more false triggers but rarely misses one. Easy to set up, too.
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Its very reliable if you set the thresholds correctly. There can be many reasons why motion detection is not working properly including the camera dropping frames, having small zones that dont overlap, using limit decoding and/or not matching your iframe interval to your fps.