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1. Re: Threshold_maximum (Travis44)
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:32:55 +0000
From: Travis44 <[email protected]>
To: Ted Romer <[email protected]>, Motion discussion list
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Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Threshold_maximum
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Here are two examples of a good hit and a false hit. If I set the max threshold
to 25000 I?m assuming I would not have gotten the false hit. I get them in the
living room, downstairs, driveway, and back deck with every passing cloud. I
think a max threshold will solve these false alarms.
Travis
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:57 PM, Ted Romer <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you set the threshold that high, won?t that defeat the use of the pi?s as
> security devices? I have a pi aimed out my front window to watch my front
> porch and driveway. The house is close enough to the street that the street
> is in the field of view. The garbage truck did not hit that threshold.
> Neither did the UPS truck that stopped on the street between my driveway and
> the neighbor?s driveway.
>
> Ted
>
>> On Jul 19, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Travis44 via Motion-user
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> John,
>> I?m using several pi?s with motion as a security system. I have the
>> stills emailed to me when motion is detected. On partially cloudy days I
>> get many false alarms when the clouds move under the sun. With the
>> threshold max above say 20,000 pixels I?m hoping the false alarms will stop.
>> I didn?t realize all I had to do was add a ?threshold_maximum? line to the
>> config file (super easy)! Thank you ThomasD! I?m testing tomorrow.
>> Thanks for the listserve help everyone!
>> Travis
>>
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>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:56 AM, John D. Gwinner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> I would love to set a threshold maximum but I don't see the option.
>>>
>>> I?m thinking out loud here ? what would a ?max? threshold do?
>>>
>>> If the amount of motion is above threshold, you record.
>>>
>>> If it?s above the max you what ? record? Stop recording?
>>>
>>> Would that mean if there?s TOO much motion you don?t record, like if
>>> there?s a huge glitch, or the camera falls?
>>>
>>> == John ==
>>
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