As I recommend &
@wittaj mentions here you should monitor through the web GUI in IE (don’t use other browsers) to see what’s happening live and if you have (or can pickup an SD card) then even better as you then have the luxury of reviewing from card.
You mentioned it only tracked for 5 seconds, did your settings (Alarm Track) remain at the number you set or once you connected back to BI did the 15 second default return ? If the 15 second setting returned then your BI config is adjusting the cam settings.
Now separately onto the 5 sec track. 5 seconds is not a definable (in cam) track time therefore assuming that BI did not adjust back to the default of 15 (yes it’s longer than 5 but my point is whether BI is adjusting settings in this example) then it points to your config not being set correctly to track consistently and continuously through the track time (or majority of it) which in turn means it then loses target. This potentially then points back to what I mentioned above which is ensuring you have the config dialed in for your FOV and target.
This config critically includes setting IVS rules, tracking target size, the actual chosen FOV itself (zoom level, what’s on scene, adjusting for foreground / background objects present etc), type of target(s) you are wanting to capture, adjustments to cater for speed and distance to target which include exposure and picture adjustments etc, PTZ speed setting etc
Either way more fault isolation is needed first. Start by:
1) checking to see if settings have changed (if you connected back to BI)
2) view live tracking through the web GUI in IE and
3) if possible throw an SD card in so you can review over time rather than having to watch and wait.
Just remember that PTZs take time to dial in and have more requirements on location and config that fixed but if you do it right you should be very pleased with the results.
Let us know here after you isolate further and then if you need further help dialing in and want me to jump on your system this week then feel free to send me a DM.
HTH
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Checked that the track time stayed and it did. I then went in and disabled any external triggers and alerts for the camera in BI. Now it will go longer than 5 seconds. So it looks like BI is somehow resetting the camera while tracking.
I'm in the process of changing the camera settings in the WebUI to get it tracking better and then I will go back and try to see why an external alert would be making the camera stop tracking.