Motion and camera tampering alerts, mostly in the morning

[Whoaru99]

I have a cam in my garage and often in the mornings I'll get nuisance motion and tampering alerts. Of course, I have been checking the snapshots and sometimes a live feed but there hasn't been any actual disturbance/entry into the garage. Thinking it's lighting changes based on some reading I've done.

But, what I'm not quite clear on is whether this is a matter of changing sensitivity, threshold, both, or something else entirely. Recommendations?

 

[GCoco]

Record continuously. Motion records everything you don’t want and nothing you want.

 

[Whoaru99]

Recording is continuous, but I have motion alert and tampering alert set up to send me notifications on event trigger.

 

[SouthernYankee]

Are you using blue iris, NVR or camera motion detection. have you look at IVS ( Intelligent Video Surveillance System), like line crossing. Motion detection does not work well with the wind , light changes, flying bugs....

 

[Whoaru99]

It's presently a bit of mix-match. I plan to have a run at BI, working on a dedicated, higher-HP computer for that.

Presently, I have Dahua's SmartPSS / PC-NVR doing straight up 24/7 recording to an old Core2 quad Q6600 box wherein I temporarily installed two Purple HDDs . The motion detection and tamper settings and email notifications thereof are all set up directly in each camera through its respective IP and web GUI.

I'd initially tried IVS/tripwire but had no success with that so I went to straight motion. After some recent additional reading I may understand the failure with tripwire.

I was laying them out literally like tripwires, but based on the reading they actually need to be set up like a plane to break through, not like a tripwire in the literal sense. Is that correct?

 

[fenderman]

It's presently a bit of mix-match. I plan to have a run at BI, working on a dedicated, higher-HP computer for that.

Presently, I have Dahua's SmartPSS / PC-NVR doing straight up 24/7 recording to an old Core2 quad Q6600 box wherein I temporarily installed two Purple HDDs . The motion detection and tamper settings and email notifications thereof are all set up directly in each camera through its respective IP and web GUI.

I'd initially tried IVS/tripwire but had no success with that so I went to straight motion. After some recent additional reading I may understand the failure with tripwire.

I was laying them out literally like tripwires, but based on the reading they actually need to be set up like a plane to break through, not like a tripwire in the literal sense. Is that correct?

Check the power usage in the q6600...my folks had a dell from 2008 and last time i tested it was pulling 130 or so at idle. I tossed it into the trash.

 

[Camit]

Check the power usage in the q6600...my folks had a dell from 2008 and last time i tested it was pulling 130 or so at idle. I tossed it into the trash.

Holy crap 130 ... crazy

 

[Whoaru99]

Oh, I have no doubt it's a heater. I actually have a QX6800 I had planned to install and turn the screws, but never got around to getting a bigger cooler I suspected would be necessary.

All that plus a big video card...yeah, it's a coal burner.

I have a Kill-A-Watt. If I remember maybe I'll measure the Q6600 without the video card and the i7-3770 replacement for kicks.

 

[fenderman]

Holy crap 130 ... crazy

yup, they were only using it for an hour or two a day...they also had an old outdated speaker system hooked up to the pc, it drew 40w or so at idle due to a huge subwoofer- insane. i had enough. I just showed up with an i5-6500 elitedesk and some logitech speakers and swapped it out they are set for the next 10 years. I dumped the dell and sub at the recycling center.