Security cam nuisance motion alerts

[vavet]

I have a couple cams on the outside of my garage with a dvr inside. The dvr is connected the router in the house with cat 5 cable and is set up to send an email to my primary personal email account when either cam detects motion. The email consists of 3 images from each came a few seconds apart.
I get a LOT of emails...several hundred a day from the dvr.
I have the motion detect set so that it doesn’t alert for motion on the street which is in its field of view. Mostly, it is detecting small bird or bugs flying near the cams. Sometimes it will detect the leaves on nearby trees blowing around in the wind.
How do I reduce the number of nuisance emails?

 

[GA_Brown]

When you figure it out, let me know, I had to turn mine off. It even alerted on the shadows of the trees moving when it was windy. I turned the sensitivity to the lowest setting.

 

[tthornto]

Depending on what dvr/cameras you have you should be able to adjust the motion sensitivity, specify the areas of the frame you want it to detect motion in and those that you don't, and also set a schedule for when you want to receive motion alerts and when you don't.

 

[rlitman]

Upgrade to a camera that has heuristics that can distinguish between human and other forms of motion.

 

[cspcrx]

I have a lorex system, with the larger higher quality cameras, and still get some. I found actually splitting up the area in the view into different zones with their own settings has seemed to help. The one in my front yard gets tricked a lot by the shadow of the tree if the wind is blowing it around a fair amount. With all of that I still get some from birds, bats, bugs etc but a lot fewer than I did.

 

[nafterclifen]

Wyze just recently partnered with Xnor.ai to bring AI to their cameras for this exact purpose. The bugs, shadows, etc were annoying motion alerts that occurred way too much so you'd have to disable alerts. But now with real-time AI software that runs on the device (camera) that can detect humans, alerts are now meaningful.

 

[polizei1]

You can't, simply put. Deal with it, or turn off the alerts, it's a double-edged sword.

 

[awdblazer]

turn down your sensitivity and make a area of what you want to sense off of, dont do the street but do your driveway
something like that

 

[Showkey]

In the software setting Turn down the sensitivity and field of view for the motion detection .......but........bugs and stray moving shadows will still activate. Turn off notifications......

 

[Tmart86]

What cameras and software? As said above multiple smaller motion windows and sensitivity adjustments. Some cameras also have short lived object settings etc to help filter out bugs.

 

[vavet]

It’s a q-see with the 1080p coax cable cams with night vision.