Hi!
Let me preface this by saying, I have no clue about cameras. BUT I have been battling what I've been told are rats but really may be mice for the past few months and have had a hell of a time capturing them on security cameras. I've tried different cameras, different heights and locations, more cameras, less cameras. If it weren't for the incredible destruction, unbelievable smell, hearing them, and seeing them with my own eyes, I'd be getting my head checked. The cameras I have tried are Wyze indoors and Pan, Nest indoors, and then Reolink Argus, Reolink E1 and then E1 Pro.
I ordered additional IR lights in the hopes they would help. I've been placing food out and the food is gone but there is literally nothing on the screen. Motion often is registered and tracked in some cases but the box is blank. I will see pixels moving in areas and detect two white dots. One got into a clear garbage bag as I was cleaning that was relatively empty and on the kitchen floor and it just registered blurry movement of the clear garbage bag--no gray or brown or anything (this was during the day, in color mode---in black and white mode I'll have a simliar type of shot but with what look like two small white dots). I have really been thinking I'm nuts. You may be too. Sidenote, I'm trying to capture them on camera for legal purposes, ugh. Second sidenote, I live in a small apartment in NYC.
Tonight I decided to run some tests using my latest cameras, Reolink E1, Reolink Argus 2, and blurams Starlight. I had two half-dollar sized bits of bread that I smothered with peanut butter and put on my white tile kitchen floor, about 2 feet apart. I got the IR extra lights turned on and then looked at the camera and they were undetectable and totally white, while the quarter that I dropped about a foot away was clear as day. I turned off the extra IR lights, the camera IR lights, fiddled with placement, tried a different brand camera--tried every different configuration and these brown bits just weren't picked up (I am using black and white mode). Then I went into my bedroom, where I have two other cameras set (used to be more but I thought maybe I had too many and that was causing me to not pick up the motion), and used a roll of gray duct tape and rolled it across the floor to see if that registered on either camera. It didn't. I even walked into the frame to go pick it up and it didn't register me as motion.
I'm at a loss and have googled all the things and can't find answers. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your time.
Let me preface this by saying, I have no clue about cameras. BUT I have been battling what I've been told are rats but really may be mice for the past few months and have had a hell of a time capturing them on security cameras. I've tried different cameras, different heights and locations, more cameras, less cameras. If it weren't for the incredible destruction, unbelievable smell, hearing them, and seeing them with my own eyes, I'd be getting my head checked. The cameras I have tried are Wyze indoors and Pan, Nest indoors, and then Reolink Argus, Reolink E1 and then E1 Pro.
I ordered additional IR lights in the hopes they would help. I've been placing food out and the food is gone but there is literally nothing on the screen. Motion often is registered and tracked in some cases but the box is blank. I will see pixels moving in areas and detect two white dots. One got into a clear garbage bag as I was cleaning that was relatively empty and on the kitchen floor and it just registered blurry movement of the clear garbage bag--no gray or brown or anything (this was during the day, in color mode---in black and white mode I'll have a simliar type of shot but with what look like two small white dots). I have really been thinking I'm nuts. You may be too. Sidenote, I'm trying to capture them on camera for legal purposes, ugh. Second sidenote, I live in a small apartment in NYC.
Tonight I decided to run some tests using my latest cameras, Reolink E1, Reolink Argus 2, and blurams Starlight. I had two half-dollar sized bits of bread that I smothered with peanut butter and put on my white tile kitchen floor, about 2 feet apart. I got the IR extra lights turned on and then looked at the camera and they were undetectable and totally white, while the quarter that I dropped about a foot away was clear as day. I turned off the extra IR lights, the camera IR lights, fiddled with placement, tried a different brand camera--tried every different configuration and these brown bits just weren't picked up (I am using black and white mode). Then I went into my bedroom, where I have two other cameras set (used to be more but I thought maybe I had too many and that was causing me to not pick up the motion), and used a roll of gray duct tape and rolled it across the floor to see if that registered on either camera. It didn't. I even walked into the frame to go pick it up and it didn't register me as motion.
I'm at a loss and have googled all the things and can't find answers. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your time.