Can I use NVR to detect animals?

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Contadino

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Jan 25, 2022
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In understand that my IPC-T5442T-ZE is not good at detecting animals. I am using IVS set up in the camera. Is there some way to use my NVR (8 ch 5 EL AI) to detect animals? If so what settings would I use?
And can I have both the camera IVS and the NVR working at the same time? Could I use a substream???
 
There are ways that you can detect animals but if your device don't have an Animal Detection feature built in then you will need to tweak your detection zones to be over sensitive on motion and or turn off the Filter options on your IVS enabled camera. Setup an Intrusion zone and change from cross to appear and make adjustment to your detection size to meet the needs of your target animal..
 
Revo2Maxx said:
....or turn off the Filter options on your IVS enabled camera
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Can't turn off the filters in the 5442T-ZE. You would think you can because there's a setting that lets you turn them off, but it doesn't work. Only humans, vehicles, and fairly rare errors will trip the IVS.
 
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Sorry I am wrong.. I guess my camera didn't pick up the animal after all. I just had my Pup go out there and I guess the deer at the front and back cameras on my Dahua and Amcrest cameras didn't trip on the Intrusion but off a fluke of the human detection. I looked back last night when the Deer set off the camera to find it was detected as a Human on Tripwire..

Tested on a 5442 with fixed lens and yeah it didn't work either. I didn't think it did but seeing it could be turned off thought it worked.. Again seems it was off tripwire when both cameras captured the deer lol. Every once and a while a cat will set it off too but rare..

Yeah would think you can if the option was there to do so lol.
 
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I can't help with your question, but maybe consider a game camera? They're reasonably priced and you can record video or still shots to a micro sd card. Viewable on your PC or phone as well, with instant notification. I have 5 Spypoint cameras placed around my property for wildlife.


 
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Gotta upgrade to the S3 version like @tigerwillow1 has done or give it a go with BI and CodeProject.

He actually put together a decent thread about this issue as well:

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Thread 'Detecting wildlife with Dahua cameras'

I'm starting this thread to be a resource for people wanting to use Dahua IP cameras to monitor and view wildlife. If you're among the majority of users who want your cameras to ignore detection of cats, dogs, and other animals, you are fortunate that the newer cameras do this quite effectively, and the rest of the post is of no use to you. (Edit 10/16/22 - I added some 5-week test results in posts #40 and #41).

If you do want your Dahua camera to detect wildlife and animals with IVS I'm sharing what I've learned and hope others can expand the information. I'm in a rural area and...
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I only have two cameras (updated S3) that have Animal detection turned on.

The one overlooking my backyard and dock works extremely well (5442H-ZHE- the higher end model of the 5442-ZE)

*But with the disclaimer that its all within 25-35 ft of the camera, I use high contrast, and I have motion activated floods that work pretty well even on critters

coonfam1.jpg S3-Animaldetect-2.jpg S3-Animaldetect-4.jpg S3-Animaldetect-8.jpg Walter.jpgS3-Animaldetect-10.jpg
 
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Contadino said:
Ok so the camera can't send raw footage to the NVR and have the NVR do the analysis?
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Not until they add animal in a firmware update (if they do), but keep in mind if they do, having the NVR do the AI instead of the camera can cut the capacity of the NVR by up to half or more on some parameters.
 
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^^^^^
This

Plus it’s been shown the NVR can’t do as good of a job on detection as the camera even with current regular IVS
 
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