Hi,
I was wondering if the red vs. green motion detect rectangles have a meaning?
Sometimes I will see both colors at different places on the same capture.
In addition to security i also use cameras to detect animals. Where I live, this time of year, pigs come down from the hills and destroy almost every lawn. They only do it around 2:00 - 4:00 am. In the past I tried the motion detect water sprinkler but after a while they just ignore it.
So with Blue Iris I set it up to send a text to my phone which is on my nightstand and wakes me. Of course false alerts have to be reduced as much as possible and I was able to do that by careful masking and setting for black and white. I get on average 1 or 2 false alerts from car headlights which is acceptable since the problem only occurs about 1 month per year. Usually no false alerts in the backyard where raccoons are the problem.
i also realized that for me visible cameras are much more effective for theft deterrence than hidden cameras such as the ones being advertised so heavily now. Before the cameras I had packages stolen from my porch. When I put up 2 visible cameras it stopped. I had the house painted and it took a while for me to get the cameras back up and in the interim a package was stolen.
Blue Iris is a great product for the tech savvy and I have recommended it to several people. My wife initially wanted to me a get a camera package like they sell at Costco - check the reviews on those, typically they last about a year and I'm not sure they are even digital (they seem to use coax)?
I was wondering if the red vs. green motion detect rectangles have a meaning?
Sometimes I will see both colors at different places on the same capture.
In addition to security i also use cameras to detect animals. Where I live, this time of year, pigs come down from the hills and destroy almost every lawn. They only do it around 2:00 - 4:00 am. In the past I tried the motion detect water sprinkler but after a while they just ignore it.
So with Blue Iris I set it up to send a text to my phone which is on my nightstand and wakes me. Of course false alerts have to be reduced as much as possible and I was able to do that by careful masking and setting for black and white. I get on average 1 or 2 false alerts from car headlights which is acceptable since the problem only occurs about 1 month per year. Usually no false alerts in the backyard where raccoons are the problem.
i also realized that for me visible cameras are much more effective for theft deterrence than hidden cameras such as the ones being advertised so heavily now. Before the cameras I had packages stolen from my porch. When I put up 2 visible cameras it stopped. I had the house painted and it took a while for me to get the cameras back up and in the interim a package was stolen.
Blue Iris is a great product for the tech savvy and I have recommended it to several people. My wife initially wanted to me a get a camera package like they sell at Costco - check the reviews on those, typically they last about a year and I'm not sure they are even digital (they seem to use coax)?
