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My porch camera has not been detecting any motion. Need to move sensitivity to make it work.

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My porch camera has not been detecting any motion for over a week. I can walk past left, right, and do jumping jacks in front of it nothing. I moved sensitivity back from 90 to 100 and it’s working again. This has also happened with my patio camera and the problem is usually that I would then get videos every 5 minutes from the wind with the 100 sensitivity.
Does anyone else have this issue ?

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@scoops wrote:
My porch camera has not been detecting any motion for over a week. I can walk past left, right, and do jumping jacks in front of it nothing. I moved sensitivity back from 90 to 100 and it’s working again. 

Perhaps try the motion detection test, and see what setting it needs.  https://kb.arlo.com/1114344/How-do-I-use-the-motion-detection-test-for-my-Arlo-device

 

Walking across the field of view is a better test than doing jumping jacks in the middle of the field of view.

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Yes I’ve had 4 cameras for over a year and I know when a camera is totally dead or not. It hasn’t recorded motion for over a week. What’s weird is that it recovers when the setting is brought back to 100. But then it trips continuously. It works ok for a month or two when the setting had been stable and operating correctly at 90.
Is it a software glitch ?
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Is it a software glitch ?

I don't think so - my own Pro-2s are detecting motion properly and recording (using the default threshold of 80).

 

Did you try swapping two of the cameras, just to confirm that your problem moves with the camera?

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