Sanity check my onvif trigger/ai+motion/alert setup?

TnGoat

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My goals
  • Rely on camera motion detection as much as possible
  • When on-camera motion triggers use BI Motion Detection to keep camera triggered and write JPEGs for AI Person Detection to evaluate
  • "Live" camera records 24/7 and has alerts marked when triggered by AI Person Detection.
All of my cameras support ONVIF based on camera motion detection and I prefer to rely on it as much as possible to save CPU on my BI Server. I'm also using this awesome AI Person Detection tool which handles having a person detected in Cam1_ai snapshots trigger Cam1_live.

What I'm currently doing to make this work is:
  1. Cam1_onvif
    • Hidden, Designated Clone Master
    • Trigger
      • Sources
        • Camera's Motion Alarm, Trigger until Reset
      • When Triggered
        • Trigger Camera Groups "Cam1"
    • Record
      • (nothing)
  2. Cam1_ai
    • Groups: Cam1
    • Hidden
    • Schedule
      • Only when triggered
    • Trigger
      • Sources
        • Motion Sensor
        • Camera's Motion Alarm, Trigger until Reset
      • When Triggered
        • (nothing)
    • Record
      • JPEG Snapshot every 3s only when triggered
      • Pre Trigger buffer 9s
  3. Cam1_live
    • Trigger
      • Sources
        • (nothing)
      • When Triggered
        • Capture Alert List Image
    • Record
      • Video: Continuous
      • Pre Trigger buffer 30s
    • Alerts
      • Fire when: This Camera Triggered
      • External (only source checked)

This all seems to be working pretty well. Is there some other way I can do this with fewer camera clones?
 
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