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Zoneminder : Alarm will not reset if camera is watching dark area

Asked by RGNCMExpert in Home Security

Tags: Zoneminder, Camera

We are using several IP cameras with ZoneMinder 1.23.3.

One panasonic and one TrendNet

The software is functioning very will with the exception of one area:

When the area we are monitoring is dark (but not totally black) and the alarm is triggered by motion, the alarm never sets back to 'Alert' and then 'Idle" - it stays recording forever, or until I 'disable alarms' and then 'enable alarms'. Turning the lights on in the area will make it reset too.

This causes us to record lots and lots of nothing.

I have tried the different Zone presets, and all do the same thing.

Is there any thing I can do shy of leaving the lights on all the time? (something I don't want to, and really can't do)

I think it may be caused by the 'video noise' triggering the alarm, but I don't know how to make it not recognize the noise, but still notice motion.

any help?

thanks

Ken

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Zoneminder : Alarm will not reset if camera is watching dark area

Asked by RGNCMExpert in Home Security

Tags: Zoneminder, Camera

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