Do tripwires work at night with IR illumination?

[Wallop]

Hi Mark, just had a look at the lights are at the bottom of the camera. I had been thinking about packing the camera down 20mm or so. Will think more on it.

 

[Mark_M]

Hi Mark, just had a look at the lights are at the bottom of the camera. I had been thinking about packing the camera down 20mm or so. Will think more on it.

Okay. Worth a shot if it was around the other way.
See how it goes lowering down by 20mm with a shim.

 

[bigredfish]

Or you could just adjust sensitivity to 9-10 like I do on every one of my cameras and be done.

I’d also redraw the tripwire to be an elongated X across the entrance

 

[Ri22o]

I had to space some of my cameras down because of this issue with the soffit and gutter board. It doesn't take much for the IR to bounce back.

You should also move the tripwire up on the screen. This will get it into the gate opening in 3D, even if it does not look that way in 2D. I believe tripwires are tripped when 50% of a detected human has crossed it, so if you can get it to chest level, it will trigger sooner.

Also, if you are wanting to capture people coming through the gate, you may want to consider a B54IR-Z4E. You will get more zoom, more IR, and not be asking too much from one camera to cover the lot and the gate.

 

[Wallop]

Thanks again for the replies. I was planning on tilting the camera down today to see if that improves the IR but the wife decided it was time to reorganise the garage. So I will try that next weekend. I have increased the sensitivity on the tripwire rule, will see how that goes.

One plus with the garage reorg is that my tools are now in a shed, which I think needs a camera pointed at it. Hopefully won’t be to hard to convince the wife.