It would help if the original poster told us what settings did this, was it PIR or video motion detection, and was this a new or changed setup.
I find it's helpful to send only small email alerts (still pictures or small low resolution videos), and save those 5MB recordings to local storage only. And I've set up a separate email account to receive alerts, so they don't overwhelm my regular email in case I get a lot of events. I would never set up to send 5MB videos to my regular email account (5MB is not the default size, it's the largest possible size, but the camera will let you set up to email 5MB videos to yourself if that's what you really want, this poster perhaps didn't consider what he was really asking for).
It's important to test new settings without waiting an entire day to see if they're detecting too much. Getting motion detection set right outdoors is tricky, where there can be a lot happening. The default video motion detection sensitivity that was on the camera out of the box was too sensitive for my location, I had to turn it down. I have noticed the PIR seems too sensitive for outdoors, so I'm either not using it at all, or using it for recording to local SD storage only. The DCS-942L camera has 3 sensitivity settings for PIR, it's too bad this one doesn't.
It's also important to get the best setup for motion detection, and that starts with camera placement. It's best to put it where there isn't too much motion you don't care about, like passing traffic on a busy road, or tree limbs that may move in the wind, and also best to place it where sun will never hit the lens directly (this means if you want to face it where the sun rises or sets, try to place it under a roof or someplace where the sun won't shine in it, or at least face it down toward the ground and don't include sky in the picture). You can overcome passing traffic with video motion selection that excludes the public road, but PIR has no settings for direction, so if your camera is near a road, you should plan on not using the PIR. Then, you should experiment with the sensitivity settings (for video motion detection), including walking in the motion detection area to see how it detects motion, and also see that it doesn't trigger too often (including in different conditions like day, night, sunny, windy days).
Even so, I still get too many alerts from mine at times. Lightning storms generate lots of video motion detection. Sunny, windy days are also a problem, because I have some tree shadows on the ground where mine is installed, and moving shadows tend to create a lot of alerts on some days.
And one other thing.. the camera detects motion each time it switches from day to night mode and back. It would be nice if it didn't send alerts for this.
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