trigger only adjacent cameras?

[piconut]

Greetings,

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to trigger only adjacent cameras. I'm familiar with the ability to trigger groups, but what about individual cameras? Here is the setup. Assume the property is a rectangular house with 3 cameras on each side (12 total) covering the left, center and right positions on each of the 4 sides of the house (North, South, East, and West). I currently have a North group, an East group and so forth. So if the North-right camera triggers by motion, I also want it to trigger it's left and right nearest neighbor (North-center and East-left) but preferably not trigger any other cameras. Then if the thing that triggered the North-right camera now comes into view and triggers the East-left camera, then I want that to trigger it's neighbors, the East-center and North-right camera, and so forth. Basically I want to make sure that if any camera triggers directly from motion, that it's adjacent neighbor also triggers. Is there any way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[wittaj]

You have one camera in a group instead of several. A camera can have several groups. I do that and it works great.

 

[piconut]

I'm using version 4 and I was thinking that I read somewhere in the forum that you can't have just one camera in a group (and have the group work properly), but I will try it.

 

[TonyR]

I'm using version 4 and I was thinking that I read somewhere in the forum that you can't have just one camera in a group (and have the group work properly), but I will try it.

FWIW, I'm running v5 with a group with only 1 cam as a member and it works great, even remotely using UI3 or BI's app.
I created a user that can access only that group.

BI's Help states:
"A group exists when at least 1 camera is a member. One caveat however is that a group will not appear for viewing remotely by the client app or browser unless it has more than 1 member camera.
A group is only deleted when all cameras are removed from the group.
A group should have a name unique from all camera short names in order to prevent conflict when requesting cameras and group streams remotely."