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Hello:

I have some preclusive zones set up to stop recording each cloud that comes past.

My problem is that at night, I have motion activated lights, and the preclusive zones stop any recording of any activity.

I tried different run states, but it appears that zones are configured across run states. (Unless I'm doing it wrong).

Does anybody else have a fix so that:
1) I can have preclusive zones during the day to stop cloud activity recording
2) I can disable preclusive zones at night to allow the capture of anything activating my motion lights?

I accomplished something like this by having two monitors configured to the same camera. Even though they have the same camera, each monitor can have a different zone configuration, and you can use run states that enable/disable each monitor depending on whether it's day or night. I have crontab entries that change the run states at a certain time in the morning and then at night.

Hope this helps,
Aaron