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Understanding Activity Zones and Motion Detection

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Ghall_00
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I am trying to understand how the activity zones work and the motion detection. 

I have activity zones set, and my door bell armed, but any and all motion that comes into view of the camera send me a notification. Is this because it is armed?

 

If I disarm my doorbell will it notify me when something enters my activity zones? or not notify me at all? 

 

I guess I don't understand how to properly use activity zones without getting notifications for any and all motion in the frame of my camera regardless if they are in the zones or outside.

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jguerdat
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Activity zones can be confounded by IR reflections. I use a zone that eliminates the street but also use a motion sensitivity setting of 25 which works well for me. Testing in your environment would be needed.

 

If disarmed, the doorbell press still works - it's the camera motion detection that will be disarmed.

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