3 brand new cameras. Settings all checked. Why are they missing obvious motion detections?

[steve_t]

Because your motion detection sensitivity setting combined with your camera placement are not optimal

[Fallonprod]

Camera placement? The camera on the front of the house has the driveway in clear view in the top half of the frame and will not pick up the car pulling in or out of the driveway. The camera in the back of the house does not even pick me up walking through the middle of the yard. Sensitivity on both are set to high. Wondering if the cameras are not as great as Arlo would have you think. Not sure what else I would need to do. Would hate to send everything back... really want them to reliably work.

[jguerdat]

Positioning is key. Like any PIR detector device (think motion-activated lights), motion AT the camera is harder to detect than motion ACROSS the FOV. Post screenshots of what the camera(s) see for suggestions.

[Fallonprod]

Here is a screen shot of the two cameras... seems if I get within 10 feet it will trigger most of the time. But 20 or so feet, or a car pulling into the driveway it will not. That’s a pretty small field of motion right?

[steve_t]

"High" isn't a sensitivity setting. A car at 20 feet should be fine but you'll need to increase the motion sensitivity from what it is stock standard

[jguerdat]

I would try to tilt the front camera down some to help minimize the view. I'd also turn it to the left in increments to get action more across the FOV but it's rather limited to do so. For the back, the view across the yard is the killer. People detection is only 20 feet or so, best case so placing the camera closer to where action is anticipated would definitely help. It may require 2 (or more) cameras if you really need to cover the whole yard. You could then use nested rules where one camera triggers another, like this:

cam1 detects, cam1 records

cam1 detects, cam2 records

cam2 detects, cam2 records

cam2 detects, cam1 records

etc.

[Fallonprod]

Thanks all for the replies... will play with them in the next few days...