- Dec 24, 2016
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I set up motion detection in two zones on my front cameras:
1. Street/sidewalk -- this captures cars going by and pedestrians walking around. I figure these would help in a situation where a neighbor asks, "Hey did you see a blue camry go by?" or something like that.
2. Premise intrusion -- for the driveway and street cam, this is an area far in from the sidewalk, and for the front door, this is basically someone standing at the front door.
The multiple zones are great; I wish I cold name them and filter on them.
For the side of the house cameras, I'm using similar motion zones as I did on the Dahua NVR.
So far BI is doing a much better job than the Dahua IVS did, for a few reasons:
1. The event recording in BI starts on time, not 10 seconds after the event. So if someone walks up to the house, I can see them approaching, not just as they're walking away.
2. There are fewer false triggers. There are plants and a fig tree along the sides of the house and shadows and leaves in the breeze caused a few false triggers per day with IVS using line crossing.
3. It catches more things. I found IVS will miss some things entirely. So far BI has a leg up in that department.
