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Title: Motion Detection - DCS-920
Post by: gdiaz22 on July 27, 2010, 07:50:28 PM
I bought a DCS-920 camera to monitor the surrounding area of my home and it seems that at night I record an enormous amount of false motion events. I am only recording a black screen. However, when my motion activated light comes on, the camera fails to record motion! I am using D-ViewCam 2.03 (the latest version). I have tried to follow a previous post where the moderator recomends filling the entire screen with squares when setting up the parameter for motion detection. I have set "sensitivity" to 20 and percentage to 80%. The moderator had recommended 10% for sensitivity but I decided to increase it since video is not recorded when my motion activated light comes on.
I am assuming that I am getting too many false motion events as a result of electronic noise in the camera. Consequently, I need to optimize these parameters for this situation. My problem is that I don't understand the function of "percentage (%)" in the software. I can guess what is the function for "sensitivity (%)". Knowledge of how "percentage (%)" and "sensitivity (%)" affect motion detection would very valuable for anyone here since the manual does not explain this. Does anyone here know the role of these parameters?
Title: Re: Motion Detection - DCS-920
Post by: ECF on July 29, 2010, 12:23:10 PM
I would highly recommend using D-ViewCam 3.0

ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/D-View%20Cam/DViewCam_300.zip

Title: Re: Motion Detection - DCS-920
Post by: seawolfdet9@comcast.net on August 05, 2010, 12:39:07 PM
I thought that 3.0 was not compatable with the 920 cameras??
Title: Re: Motion Detection - DCS-920
Post by: Mackerel on August 06, 2010, 01:04:45 AM
Yup, and so it 3.01
Title: Re: Motion Detection - DCS-920
Post by: gdiaz22 on August 07, 2010, 04:15:37 PM
Thank you very much ECF. It works very well.