Setting up zones

[PokerMunkee]

I have a camera on my front door. I'm trying to setup zones but the camera shows up with the black squares that I setup for my Hotspot or A zone.

I'd love to record any motion, including cars driving on the street, but only have alerts for the area directly in front of the door. So when I go through my alerts, I only see activity near the door.

Attached is a photo of what it looks like with Zones and Hot Spot enabled.

What am I doing wrong, this can't be normal??

 

[fenderman]

I have a camera on my front door. I'm trying to setup zones but the camera shows up with the black squares that I setup for my Hotspot or A zone.

I'd love to record any motion, including cars driving on the street, but only have alerts for the area directly in front of the door. So when I go through my alerts, I only see activity near the door.

Attached is a photo of what it looks like with Zones and Hot Spot enabled.

What am I doing wrong, this can't be normal??

First dont use hotspot, youll get false alerts all the time..
Do you see that image in live footage or only recorded ?

 

[PokerMunkee]

I am seeing it live on the server/phone and also in the recorded clips.

Attached are more screenshots.

 

[fenderman]

I am seeing it live on the server/phone and also in the recorded clips.

Attached are more screenshots.

uncheck "black out masked areas"

 

[PokerMunkee]

Well, that was easy! Thanks. Ha.

Is it possible to keep the selected areas for my "alerts" but still record motion out in the street? I can't figure that part out yet..

 

[anijet]

Well, that was easy! Thanks. Ha.

Is it possible to keep the selected areas for my "alerts" but still record motion out in the street? I can't figure that part out yet..

Clone the camera. One for alerts and one for recording. Works great, I have several cloned for that purpose.

Export settings for the camera, add a new camera, rename the new camera, import settings then change the settings to what you need (one for alerts and one for recording). This uses almost no additional resources.