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The results have been far from satisfactory, unfortunately. Given this is a budget installation I don't want to spend lots on IR lights.

Instead I will install conventional lighting with motion sensors. This will cover all of the managed zones and will do the job for me.

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Jason

It looks like playing with the contrast and brightness may have resolved the worst of the false positive problems with this camera...Under test conditions anyway. I'm going to reinstall this camera outside and see if it is more reliable with the new settings.

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Jason.

I have tried a variety of settings and while the occurrences of false alarms is reduced, there are still instances when movement is detected with the blob size over 90%. Essentially - not overly useful for motion capture. To test I wired up a second camera I had (little colour jobby) and it is ...

Hi all, I picked up a couple of relatively cheap b&w outdoor cams to monitor down the side of my house. Unfortunately I installed the cams (dragged cabling through the root etc) and setup the cams to find that they seem to be rather *noisy* I have to qualify the word noisy. The picture looks very ...

I have found the same myself - An IR camera advertised as 'up to 5 meters' seems lucky to do 1 meter. I was planning on putting one of the above emitters above each of the area's I really want to monitor, ie: 1 for the side entrance. 1 each for the windows at the side of the house. 1 for the shed ...

Thanks for that. For reference I was considering running 3-4 of these IR spotlights down the side of the house:



I was thinking 3-4 of these every 2-3 meters down the side of the house would provide enough illumination for the camera.

Has anybody used an external IR emitter ? What sort of range were you able to achieve? I have a number of camera's that are basically 'blind' at night, the inbuilt IR LED's just don't have enough power to illuminate anything that isn't right in front of the camera. This isn't a problem for the front ...

HI all, I have recently installed Zoneminder and now have 3 camera's (4 this weekend) monitoring all sides of my house as I have had a number of security issues lately - not to mention the geek factor ;) Now for the fun of playing with the zones to reduce the false-positives (shadows etc). Thanks ...

I'm not sure about the 'pushed' notes. I was thinking about wiring the chip in parallel to the video circuit so zm could capture frames as it always does, when a change is detected on-chip we could use that signal to trigger an input on a serial or parallel port, and trigger the zm frame analysis at ...

Has anybody looked into integrating a standard cam with the VMD-19 Video Motion Detector IC for off-system motion detection ? Could be a cool way to reduce the CPU overhead.

Ref: http://www.dontronics.com/farco.html