Gary J

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It sounds a lot like the EverFocus DVR. Have you compared them?

Equipment - DVR ECOR264-9X1 Cameras Speco CVC5300DPVF (5) I get hundreds of motion events per day no matter how much I tweak the grid selection, sensitivity and min area in the Edit Motion Grid. Even shadows from clouds create events and bugs flying in front of the camera at night. Smart Search helps some where I can pick a point in the grid and search for movement there over a time period but even that returns many events. Is there some kind of primer or tutorial for selecting motion event criteria?

My testing is not showing much difference if Motion Delay is set to min 1 or max 5. And the wind and shade seems to set off motion alerts all day long. But at night I am only getting a handful of alerts on all cameras and night is what I am most interested in.

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Here is the response I got - Hello Gary Thank you for contacting EverFocus technical support in regards to the ECOR264-9X1. Motion delay allows you specify how many samples of motion are needed on the image before the DVR considers it as a motion triggered event. So if more than one object moving is needed to trigger a motion event, this will be the feature to allow such that. I hope this information helps. Regards, Does that mean one person should trigger a motion event in the masked area if Motion Delay is greater than 1 or not?

That is probably a good guess. I should probably call tech support to make sure. My understanding is recording is 24/7 with space re-used as needed. Events can be deleted but that is probably just marker information.

The manual that was packed with the DVR does not even mention Smart Search. The manual is a firmware release behind the DVR. The cameras are PIR. I am getting better results by limiting the motion alert areas to a smaller set of pixels. Another parameter in the Edit Motion screen not mentioned is Motion Delay. Any idea what that might be? The three parameters are - 1 Sensitivity 1-10 2 Min Area - number of pixels that must contain movement to trigger alert 3 Motion Delay - 1-5?

As I said, too many motion events occur per day. I am looking for ways to tweak the DVR so they are more likely people, animals, vehicles, etc. and less likely changes in brightness from clouds, motion from smaller objects, etc.

Thanks, I am getting better with Smart Search being able to not miss an event I want while limiting the number of results. Anyone else have any tips with regards to what I have to work with?

Thanks but I need to work with this current DVR for which I paid good money in a residential application.