Why is my camera constantly telling me about vehicles?

[Jbutleruk]

 

 

  

[StephenB]

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@Jbutleruk wrote:

 Why is my camera constantly telling me about vehicles?  

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Likely the leaves/branches of the trees inside your zone are moving a bit.  Then if the PIR sensor goes off (either due to vehicles or the wind in the trees), there will still be enough motion inside the zones to keep the recording (and notification).

What model camera is this?  Generally motion detection range is about 20-25 feet, and it looks like your camera is too far from the area you want to cover to get useful recordings.

[Jbutleruk]

It keeps going off when there is movement in the road, not the bushes. 

[StephenB]

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@Jbutleruk wrote:

It keeps going off when there is movement in the road, not the bushes. 

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Understood.  

The camea will stream to the cloud whenever the passive infrared (PIR) sensor triggers.  That sensor isn't using the video, so that motion can be anywhere in the field of view.

Then the cloud applies looks at the video, and determines if there is any motion at all in the field of view.  If there is none, then it is supposed to supress the recording and notification.  Otherwise it keeps the recording and generates a notification.  So you might double-check for any motion (however slight) in the zones.  Artifacts could also result in the recordings being kept.

You can try deleting the zones you have and recreating them.  That might possibly help.

But you haven't fold us how far the camera is from the activity zones you want to monitor.

[Jbutleruk]

Ive deleted the smart notifications and also the activity zones and it’s still showing vehicles in the road.

Very annoying considering I’m paying monthly for this service.   

[jguerdat]

The camera positioning and the closeness of the road to the house leads to the problem. The camera needs to be positioned somehow to eliminate the road from view (pointing down more or in a different location). If possible, place the camera so it's only monitoring the specific area of need (sidewalk and door, for instance). Reducing motion sensitivity could help some but it's really the camera positioning causing the problem.

[StephenB]

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@jguerdat wrote:

The camera positioning and the closeness of the road to the house leads to the problem. 

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Yes. 

Also, I think the distance to the activity zones is too far to get good motion detection for people in the zones.  I asked about that, but received no response.