I just installed this PTZ camera and I'm learning about its capabilities. So far, I have set up 5 presets that cover areas of interest in my back yard. It doesn't have tracking capability as far as I can tell, but I do see tour ability. I'm thinking about trying to set up something that will go to each preset area for 5 minutes or so and look for motion events. Thoughts?
My first PTZ from Andy - How do those of you with a PTZ use them?
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Or as you add cams (and you will), set up one or more as an overview cam and have motion in one of them call the PTZ to a preset for a better look.
IIRC, @bigredfish has that going on.
IIRC, @bigredfish has that going on.
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I’ve not played with Tour much, Murphy’s law says you’ll always miss the important event while the camera is pointing somewhere else.
Are you running a Dahua NVR? Do you have other Dahua cameras? If so, as Tony mentions, you can leave your PTZ parked at the highest priority preset and have the other cameras act as spotters and tell it to zoom in at a predefined preset when they see movement.
Are you running a Dahua NVR? Do you have other Dahua cameras? If so, as Tony mentions, you can leave your PTZ parked at the highest priority preset and have the other cameras act as spotters and tell it to zoom in at a predefined preset when they see movement.
Excellent ideas. I'm not running a Dahua DVR, BI is where I have all 16 of my Dahua cameras setup. The PTZ is capable of seeing my entire backyard as it is mounted in the center of my house. At each back corner, I have a 5442. So, it sounds like they could act as spotters for the PTZ. I'll just need to figure out how to set that up and then have the PTZ return to its overview preset. Thanks!
PTZs are only rated for so many cycles, so running a tour will end its life earlier than needed. Plus as mentioned above it will be looking the wrong way.
Using Spotter cams is a much better way.
Here is a thread I started showing how to set that up. Obviously the part about tracking doesn't apply, but with an overview cam and cloning it in BI, you can create a poormans tracking with this PTZ. I did that before I got a tracking PTZ and it worked surprisingly well. I had 7 clones going.
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Using Spotter cams is a much better way.
Here is a thread I started showing how to set that up. Obviously the part about tracking doesn't apply, but with an overview cam and cloning it in BI, you can create a poormans tracking with this PTZ. I did that before I got a tracking PTZ and it worked surprisingly well. I had 7 clones going.
Using Spotter Cameras to direct a PTZ where to look in an NVR or Blue Iris and setting a spotter cam as a priority in Blue Iris
We get this question from time to time, so I thought with the recent addition to BI, it made sense to have a thread we can point to. Previously in BI, if you had more than one spotter cam, you could not make one a priority, so if spotter cam #1 triggered the PTZ and it starts tracking and...