Thanks,i may go with a ptz this year and a new nvr,i had 2 5442 that can work as spotters. You think 8' would be ok for the ptz.
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PTZs are one exception where you can mount them higher. Since objects are farther out, it kinda "flattens" the angle so to speak so that you can get a straight on shot of someone 150 feet away with a camera mounted 20 feet high. Now the exception is as they get closer to the PTZ, then you start to get more of the top of their head, but that is where the fixed cams come into play.
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I recommend at least 12 ft, mine are at 14-16ft. Depends greatly on your field of view.
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I recommend at least 12 ft, mine are at 14-16ft. Depends greatly on your field of view.
Smilingreen
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I have done this with my Hikvision cams. I have one fixed cam on my screened in back porch, looking the whole length of the porch (75') and out the screen door at the end. I have "line crossing" events setup on it, so it can see anyone coming out our backdoor or anyone entering the screen door at the end of the porch. It triggers a PTZ camera I have in the carport, normally to look at the carport and down the farm lane, to spin around and look at the screen door from the outside. When that triggers, it triggers a PTZ speed dome on the other end of the front of the house to spin around and cover the front yard and drive.
Each camera has several arming areas programmed into them so no matter what position they got triggered to, they keep monitoring for motion and monitoring their own set of line crossing tools. It took me a few tries to get it. I finally had to map out what arming area was covered and how many trip wires I had for each arming area and on what cam in a Excel spread sheet. That helped keep track of it while I was programming them.
Each camera has several arming areas programmed into them so no matter what position they got triggered to, they keep monitoring for motion and monitoring their own set of line crossing tools. It took me a few tries to get it. I finally had to map out what arming area was covered and how many trip wires I had for each arming area and on what cam in a Excel spread sheet. That helped keep track of it while I was programming them.
I feel your pain. Once you go to multiple zones and presets with multiple spotters, things can get weird fast! It takes some noodling to figure out all the scenarios..
Smilingreen
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Yes, it does. Then, you have all of the gains to adjust, sensitivities andother functions. I thought I had all of mine setup and working very well in the daytime. When night time came, it was a whole other game. Moths fly by, bats, owls and such. Then, the IR is so powerful on the Speed dome, the PTZ in the carport would see it's beam move when the speed dome was going back to home, which sent a trigger and sent the speed dome back to it's secondary triggered zone. It's a fine line of dancing, adjusting, looping, tweaking, holding your breath, cussing at it and then finally scraping the whole pattern and starting all over again before you finally find the sweet spot where everyone plays nice with each other.
You forgot the bourbon, that was the problem 
Smilingreen
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You forgot the bourbon, that was the problem
Bourbon....Rye Whiskey....I had both! I usually come up with my best ideas while sipping 3 fingers neat. I quit overthinking everything!!
Flintstone61
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Well I got to fiddle fuckin around, and creaTED CAMERA groups, and then fiddle fucked around with all the buttons and bells inside the BI and the Camera's preset GUi.
When I manually trigger, cam 11 or cam 13, ...cam 9 ( the PTZ will go to the call) but now that i'm home, and looking at email alrts. the motherfucker just stays were it is after wards.
Someday I'm going to smash that camera with an American made hammer.
When I manually trigger, cam 11 or cam 13, ...cam 9 ( the PTZ will go to the call) but now that i'm home, and looking at email alrts. the motherfucker just stays were it is after wards.
Someday I'm going to smash that camera with an American made hammer.
How old is too old to dye your hair that color?
Not sure of the exact cut off, but she’s past it 
Maybe there should a law that anyone who dye their hair in that color after college age should pay 10% more tax for community eye care service.
Hahaha, it took me a couple minutes to figger out what you were referring to
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Do you use Idle Motion or Time Task to return PTZ camera to its home preset?
J Sigmo
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Well, now I'm jealous, and imagining that I could spend entirely too much money and time setting up a similar setup. I'm impressed with how well this works, and fearful of how much time I'd have to spend getting something similar to work well!
Bravo, anyhow!
Bravo, anyhow!
You need to use time task to get it to return to its “home” preset position after being called away by a spotter cam to a different preset.
What AutoHome value do you use?
What will happen in the next case?
For instance the TimeTask AutoHome value is 120 seconds and the Autotracking time is 180 seconds.
IVS triggers autotracking.
What will happen after 120 seconds?
Will TimeTask cancel Autotracking or it will wait for 180 seconds before Autotracking finishes ?
If I recall the Time Task will take priority.
I have my time task set 1second longer than tracking time
That’s with using spotter cams to call the ptz away. With only 1 (home) preset, If it loses track it will return to its home preset anyway.
I have my time task set 1second longer than tracking time
That’s with using spotter cams to call the ptz away. With only 1 (home) preset, If it loses track it will return to its home preset anyway.
How do you get the ptz to move to a certain preset, 2 for example? I cloned a spotter cam with B>C zone to try and trigger my ptz1 that doesn't have auto tracking. I need it to move to preset2 from its home, preset1. It's on a schedule so it will move back to home. I cloned it to give it ability to go from 1to 2 when it gets triggered through its own zones.
See this thread I made.
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...