Enable motion sensor makes my camera goes nuts

[spybaz]

Camera: DZCCTVIPC 4K-8MP 30X Optical-Zoom Ai-Smart Security-IP Camera-Outdoor .

When I enable motion sensor and when recording is triggered for me, my camera goes nuts and starts rotating and reaches its gimbal limit. Then when I try to point it at a preset, it goes there but then keeps on moving. This only happens when motion sensor is enabled and when recording is triggered. It's unusable for me and I have no idea how to fix it.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[looney2ns]

Don't purchase no-name cheap Wifi cams if you expect them to actually work.

That said, You can try to set the camera back to factory defaults, then set it up again from scratch, see if that helps.

 

[spybaz]

Don't purchase no-name cheap Wifi cams if you expect them to actually work.

That said, You can try to set the camera back to factory defaults, then set it up again from scratch, see if that helps.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, this is my first foray into IP Cams. I tried factory reset on the cam but no change. The camera seems decent in every other way. Optics are great and all other functions work with BI - except, arguably, the most important.

Also, Blue Iris won't record a trigger unless I check "trigger with min duration", and that causes gimbal spasm so it looks lik/e I'm out of luck.

 

[wittaj]

As we have seen from many NOOB (and I was one once too and thought the same thing) you only think the optics are great because you are looking at static images.

Post a video at night of an object in motion - it is probably blur/ghosting.

I have boxes full of cheap cams before I found this site LOL.

 

[looney2ns]

Did you use Find/Inspect in BI to add the camera?

 

[spybaz]

Did you use Find/Inspect in BI to add the camera?

Yep, it successfully added to BI and everything works, except recording via trigger. I can manually record, it's just the trigger record that causes the gimbal spasm.

 

[spybaz]

Aha! I found the setting thats causing it: under the AI tab, I disabled "PTZ Auto Tracking"

 

[spybaz]

FYI - camera may be cheap (is $185 USD cheap?) but it works great (now) and records beautifully in 4K/30 FPS!

 

[wittaj]

We are always on the look for cheap cameras. Please share some night video of an object in motion.

 

[spybaz]

We are always on the look for cheap cameras. Please share some night video of an object in motion.

It's not dark at night where I have the camera. There's a big floodlight shining in the capture area.

 

[wittaj]

It's not dark at night where I have the camera. There's a big floodlight shining in the capture area.

That is fine, post a video example of an object in motion during night time hours with the big floodlight shining in the capture area as many have the same situation.