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It is very hard place for the camera and motion detection I guess. Road and drive (UK term, is where you park the car in front of the house). And shrubs on each side that sway in the wind. There is sunlight too. But right now the challenge for me is understanding the way to use settings. I'll keep a...

I'll work with this again. I've never been able to crack it, I'll need to make the time.
Thank you.

Maybe this helps to assist me. I forced an alarm when a person walked in front of the camera, on the pavement not on the road. Event Id 4501 Frame Id 647 Zone 1-front-entrance Pixel Diff 51 Alarm Px 17779 (2%) Filter Px 0 (0%) Blob Px 0 (0%) Blobs 0 Blob Sizes 0 (0%) Alarm Limits 0,0-0,0 Score 0 But...

I forgot to add. It's a dome IP camera facing from a hight of about 2.5 mtr. So I have an angle, with a perspective. Same object (like a person) smaller on the road than closer to the door.

I find it hard to disagree. I rely on them to begin with. It drives me to distraction that I can't get to set suitable settings to capture movement adequately. Not a failure of ZM but mine. I read and re-read the explanations on the docs and the good old examples. It seems the concepts are far too c...

Hello. I'm trying to tweak the settings of my zones to actually capture movement. Presnetly I am having to mocord until I do. The problem I face is that after a make a change of settings in the zone, save, wait for movement and then go back to adjust, I can't see what the previous preset used was. S...

Hi. It's well worth checking the FAQs if you haven't tried already https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html

Of course, the problem is the user. Instead of deleting it, I had set it to disbled, the default zone covering all. I didn't think of it at the time, that would just be ignored. It didn't occur in my mind to look at that again because in the zones screen it doesn't appear anymore once set to Inactiv...

I've reduced the Image Buffer size to 5 and restarted. Now even restarted the server itself. No change, still no alarms.
Thanks for your help Andy, much appreciated.
I'll keep rooting around and hoping for someone's further ideas.

I've lowered the blend, and reduced Min/maz thresholds to 1 and 255, it won't allow 0. Nothing Here are my settings. Would you mind having a look? I might have something else wrong. https://i.ibb.co/H4M4cTZ/ZM-13-07-2022-zone.png https://i.ibb.co/ZccW8WR/ZM-13-07-2022-general.png https://i.ibb.co/hV...

Hey. Definitively on Modect mode. Reference Image Blend %ge is 12.5% Outdoors. Alarm Reference Image Blend %ge is 6.25%. I'll change now to match yours. It is an unusual English summer weather in that is very sunny, it might be a factor. Also my ZN version is 1.36.12. I've added the "proposed&q...

Nada.
The min Pixel threshold down to 5; the min alarmed area and min filtered alre all the way to 5 with the units still in pixels.
Min blobls also on 5.
A large truck, a sedan car and a few people passed independently, at normal speeds, and nothing generated an alarm.

Any ideas anyone ?

I've reduced the min Pixel threshold down to 15; the min alarmed area and min filtered alre all the way to 100 with the units still in pixels. Min blobls also on 100. The Maximums have been cleared in case images are hitting a high boundary that is not needed at the moment. Not even passing cars tri...

Thanks. I have done that and gives me a pixel count of around 1600 pixels. I imagine that the image has to be actual size and not be scaled, so put the viewer at actual scale, then took a desktop snapshot and then used an image editor to draw the box and count pixels. I hope that's a way to do it. T...

I really appreciate the help and sharing your settings. I've copied all except the max alarmed and filtered areas. It seems you're using about 71% of your one area, so I replicated the percentage. No alarms yet but it gives me values to start from. I will now start lowering from the 8000 and see if ...