multiple zones seem to cause cluttered alarm events
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:30 am
hey there,
maybe i need to explain the situation here a little bit. i am monitoring my appartment door from the inside with a direct front view. unfortunately i have a window on the right side which lets sunlight shine more or less directly on the white door. as this caused many false alarms i read through the docs and tried to play with zones and different detection sensibility.
i basically created two zones, one where most of the light/shadow take place with a low sensibility and one that monitors the doorknob area with a higher sensibility.
at first it seemed to work that way but after testing the setup it looks like when i come through the door the doorknob zone causes an alarm and records and if i close the door and move over to the zone "rest of door" it seems to cause another event and generates another alarm.
result now is, that i have two or three small mpeg movies that get emailed to me but i really would love to have one connected movie.
is there a way to, hmm, tell ZM "if an alarm is generated record everything and ignore the other zones until its quiet again"?
maybe i am doing something horribly wrong but even after playing a lot with ZM i seem not able to get this two problems sorted out.
cheerios,
toskala
maybe i need to explain the situation here a little bit. i am monitoring my appartment door from the inside with a direct front view. unfortunately i have a window on the right side which lets sunlight shine more or less directly on the white door. as this caused many false alarms i read through the docs and tried to play with zones and different detection sensibility.
i basically created two zones, one where most of the light/shadow take place with a low sensibility and one that monitors the doorknob area with a higher sensibility.
at first it seemed to work that way but after testing the setup it looks like when i come through the door the doorknob zone causes an alarm and records and if i close the door and move over to the zone "rest of door" it seems to cause another event and generates another alarm.
result now is, that i have two or three small mpeg movies that get emailed to me but i really would love to have one connected movie.
is there a way to, hmm, tell ZM "if an alarm is generated record everything and ignore the other zones until its quiet again"?
maybe i am doing something horribly wrong but even after playing a lot with ZM i seem not able to get this two problems sorted out.
cheerios,
toskala