Lowering Outdoor Motion False Dectectoins - ACTI/Milestone

[personalt 0]

I run a ACTI ACM1231 that I bought from the wireguys a while back. I really like the camera a lot. I run it with milestone xprotect.

 

I am using a lot of masking in milestone for the shrubs on the side of my driveway but I still get a lot of flash motion detects. I realize when cars turn around in my neighbors driveway and the headlights shine in my yards it is going to detect a motion.

 

But I am wondering if there is anything I can do to lower the falses, especially for things like when a cloud passes overhead. From what I can see the camera then adjusts the exposure(makes sense) but that in turn appears to set off milestones sensor.

 

I tried setting the white balance mode to 'outdoor2' and have checked and unchecked 'lens compensation.' I assume I cant fix the exposure mode since this will cause issues as the lighting changes. Is there any settings that might help motion detection falses?

 

On thought i had was to try to use the motion detector built in to the camera. It appears that I might be able to pass events from the camera to xprotect. Should I expect the cameras motion detector to be any smarter?

[mike_va 0]

I use both Milestone (which I hate and someday hope to replace) and Vitamin D.

 

Vitamin D is analytics, if you don't want to be spending your life looking at footage. Really fantastic software, and fast! Some cameras have a little better built in motion, e.g. Axis has history etc. I really like running the analytics.

 

After the analytics which divides into object or person you set up rules for email notification or FTP'g of clips etc. Try the free demo. Rock solid stable and easy to set up. Handles most cameras that do mjpeg streams.

 

http://www.vitamindinc.com/

 

I use it with a i7 quad core, which is running at about 25% with 16 cameras. I tried a few other computers but the i7 left them all in the dust. Relatively low power consumption and you can get weeks of events saved with a 500G hard drive.