Well my FC3 install has been up for almost two weeks and on the whole problem free. However:-
1. The placement of the camera means it gets a lot of bright sunshine/ shadows on it which seem to trigger alarm events - any ideas on what to tweak to reduce this?
2. Also, alarms get triggered by the whole picture going from dark to light or light to dark which i can only describe as looking like a line scan - it's a fairly cheap camera - again any ideas?
3. Other than backing up images, are there any other house keeping routines i should run/ look out for as i have never had a machine running 24x7 before?
My thanks to all involved in producing a really great piece of software.
Couple of questions running 1.2.3
light/dark
I am experiencing similar problems (1 and 2) in my setup.
Things I experimented with:
I set my ALARM FRAME COUNT to 3 (in the Buffer Tab in the camera source)
This tends to work against sudden light changes, but if you set it to high you risk loosing short events.
On some monitors I also experimented with small PRECLUSIVE ZONES to catch sudden changes in light or camera analomies.
Ad 3) I've installed CACTI to monitor and graph the PC stati (Diskspace, Temperatures, etc...).
Things I experimented with:
I set my ALARM FRAME COUNT to 3 (in the Buffer Tab in the camera source)
This tends to work against sudden light changes, but if you set it to high you risk loosing short events.
On some monitors I also experimented with small PRECLUSIVE ZONES to catch sudden changes in light or camera analomies.
Ad 3) I've installed CACTI to monitor and graph the PC stati (Diskspace, Temperatures, etc...).