False"Snow" Triggering Cams.... HELP!

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n3wb
Jan 19, 2025
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I need some help to stop getting false triggers on cams. The location is nowhere near snow, though you can see the pictures where it clearly looks like snow...

Anyway, I have been working on tunning the settings in Blue Iris to prevent these false alerts, that happen every 2-3 days. While infrared cams or external motion sensors to trigger a PTZ might be possible, if that is only fix here, I want to at least make sure I have done my due diligence and attempted to get the cheaper cameras working first.

  • I am NOT using ONVIF triggers, due to using Tapo C110 cameras, and I didn't think that they would be better than Blue Iris. In testing with the Tapo app, the Tapo app gives WAY more false alerts, even after adjustments.
  • I have set the camera to color only mode, as the "snow" seemed to be worse when using the infrared lights.
  • Make Time: 2 seconds. I have experimented with longer, though it takes too long to trigger that someone is on the property.
  • I have turned off any pixel change for triggers
  • All triggers are setup as zones when crossing from one zone to another. The zones are setup like lines down the screen with big gaps between them.
  • I have also adjusted the max object size down to 50%
  • I am sending to AI, and ensuring 75% confidence for people or vehicles before triggering
  • The AI is also ignoring static objects, though this seems to fail during these "snow" storms

I am going to upload the .dat files from the AI, and hopefully between that and the pictures, someone can see where I have went WAY wrong on these settings.

I appreciate any suggestions!


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Some periodic bug spray around the light and camera may temporarily help.

Moving the white light away from the camera would help.

But probably an external IR blaster away from the camera and the IR off on the camera is going to be the long term solution.

Plus all those short vertical motion strips usually cause problems. Normally it is missing motion, but you have a mess of some bugs there LOL.