Confusing setting smart detection

jbhardman2 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:44:23 GMT

I’m confused by the options on the object detection options.

In this case, will packages be detected? I have turned it off, but enabled All Motion. I expected when I selected the All option it would auto select all choices.

Same question for audio.

Re: Confusing setting smart detection

StephenB — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:20:15 GMT

@jbhardman2 wrote:

I’m confused by the options on the object detection options.

In this case, will packages be detected? I have turned it off, but enabled All Motion. I expected when I selected the All option it would auto select all choices.

Same question for audio.

When packages are delivered the system will still trigger on motion and you will be notified. But the notification and recording will not say "package". It should say "person" if the delivery person was in the field of view, otherwise it will just say "motion".

On the other hand, if you turn on all the options except "All Motion", then you will only receive notifications when the system can classify the captured video as people, package, vehicles, animal, or fire. So detections of wind blowing the trees shouldn't give you notifications.

Re: Confusing setting smart detection

jbhardman2 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:30:43 GMT

Got it. Thank you.

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