Too many night videos and other issues

[BrianQ]

Figured I would post a couple of pictures to show what I have. You can ignore the picture quality of cameras 4 and 5, my wife has been messing with them. On camera 3 you can see my night settings and they are the same for all cameras. I could not find a place in ASP to change the motion settings and anti dither and such, so I had to change those from my Amcrest Pro 2 app on my phone. If those settings are in ASP, I wish someone would show me where they are. All of my anti dither settings are randomly set to under 5, and my sensitivities are set between 50 and 80 to test a few things. In camera view 7 you can see my IR blaster in the distance on my detached garage. Keep in mind the property is pretty much pitch black, so the IR on the cameras is working pretty well in my opinion.

BrianQ

[BrianQ]

For a comparison, here is a SS from my 2k wireless Eufy cam. You can see the IR from 1 of my Amcrest cameras on the left. The IR blaster is right above my Eufy camera pointing straight out and lights up all the way to the trees in the backyard about 125 feet or so away. Huge difference when I added this. Before the blaster, you could barely tell if my garage doors were open or closed, and with the blaster you can easily see the back wall inside. Remember, pitch black there at the moment, so IR is awesome.

BrianQ

[Revo2Maxx]

Sure no problem. Here is a Picture but it is under DeviceCFG the device, then Event, then motion detection.

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[BrianQ]

Thank you for that. Is this supposed to have all the features of the NVR? If so I haven't found things like face and vehicle detection, those types of things. And a few others I'm sure I can't remember since I haven't been around the NVR in so long.

BrianQ

[Revo2Maxx]

So if you infact have the A2 format of the NVR or a Ultra Ai NVR then you can access the AI camera ability from the NVRs WebUI there is nothing in ASP as it pre dates the A2 and Orion is the next Gen of Desktop software.

So in ASP you will want to click on the DeviceCFG tab, then in the top of the center is Link To Web and it will pop up a Local Host that will infact let you log into the NVRs WebUI, From there you can click on AI, You will need to make sure you are on Smart Plan, then choose the camera you want to modify. Keep in mind that it might take little bit as you are working with Network tunnel from your ASP to your NVR again from ASP to NVR and might lag if your speeds are little slow.. If you are looking for IVS then you will want to click on the Light Blub, Then save, then you will go to IVS and again pick the camera, In there you will click the + and pick the type of EVent you want to setup. Tripwire, Then click draw rule below the picture, Then draw the line, then click save. then do the other cameras you want to setup with what ever you want it setup as.. Again don't know the camera but if it has Filter and you only want Humans then un check the Vehicle filter and save..

If you look in the Browser bar of my picture it shows what P2P link to web looks like to access the NVR remotely using WebUI. Only down side to doing this remote even local in P2P is that you won't have acess to the cameras WebUI like you can when you are local and use the NVRs real local IP address.. To see full image right click image and view in new tab and you can see full screen shot..

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[BrianQ]

I was able to login to my NVR. Thank you so much. Amcrest has so many features that are either confusing or not explained well.

BrianQ

[BrianQ]

When I say I have a lot of bugs, I mean I have a lot of bugs. It looks like it is storming, but it's just the bugs. I would have to find a way to turn off the IR at night, but have it turn on when there is actual motion. I believe the bugs are attracted to the IR, so it's kind of a catch 22. If the IR is out, the bugs won't come, but then I might miss some real motion. I do record all the time, so when the IR was not on at night, it would just be black being recorded. Maybe the idea with IR blasters scattered around would keep the bugs off the cameras.

BrianQ

[Revo2Maxx]

So humm, To be honest that don't look like bugs. They don't fall to earth that way. It looks like rain. Even if it is just a mist type rain.. You see the bugs are not in a falling to earth motion.

So I have some issues here as well, For me live in a large bug infested area and so much more, Humid, bugs, rain, and snow to name the main issues.. It is funny because when it is really humid out it makes it look like things are floating and going up rather then falling to the ground.

Now about your picture, Couple of things. 1 the camera is pointing to an area that it is reflecting off the soffit. next the camera is in a Blind spot because your other camera is facing it or if that is the camera with the Blaster it is hitting the lens and that is causing the Amcrest camera to adjust some settings to try and pull in the area of view.. So yes you could setup a IR blaster to be the Light for the Amcrest camera. It has to be facing the same area as the camera not facing the camera for best results.. Second if you only wanted the IR blaster to come on when there is motion then you could use a motion detection device and connect it to the IR Blaster *would need to be one with motion inputs.

Next The camera is kind of not great for really dark areas. For a 8mp camera in that location to have good night vision you would want one with a Sensor of 1/1.2 and a F/1.0..

Another thing, The camera as I said before is facing up to a point that the camera is reflecting off the soffit, I would point the camera down seeing you have other cameras with coverage of that area facing into it what this camera would be doing os picking up things that are closer in and by the time the person came from other camera area to your area here that other camera would have captured enough to detect, and once it is here this camera would be in a better area of interest and able to detect, even ID..

For me, on most of my properties I have my cameras in a Sprinkler type setup. Where 1 camera just over laps the other just enough that I can keep track of what is going on without any blind spots. My home here most of my cameras are just placed without a care about over lap or things like that because I have more cameras here then I should lol.. Yet I still don't have any that point right into the other and if I do umm like my ASH47 does face a 5mp Analog camera, But I have that one in IR at night and the ASH47 is in Color at night so I don't have any IR blasting out the other. Plus the ASH47 is facing down enough that it don't see the other IR in the face like your 2 cameras are..

Coverage just slight of the other. Keep the 2 out of the IR path of the other and the Amcrest camera will brighen up the cameras FOV little more if you face it down some..

[Pogo]

...try making the detection area only as big as necessary. The more precise, the better. You can also configure the detection area to simulate a tripwire.

Exactly. Twelve pixels define the trigger and alert for anything entering my driveway. Twelve. It's all that is required for the purpose and I receive very few nuisance triggers. Simple. Effective.

More pixels at high resolutions usually equals greater difficulty in tuning triggers unless used for very precise purposes or relying entirely on AI object recognition. Otherwise you are just throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks..., which will be all of it when applying generalized approaches to specific conditions. Then what do you have? Crap all over the wall.

[check6]

It looks like it is storming, but it's just the bugs.

What does the video show? I've never seen bugs make trails like that.