Re: [Motion-user] Night vision detection is bad

[Andrew H. <ham...@mc...>]

Bruce wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently bought an ir camera that has 420 lines of resolution and an 48 ir led s for night vision in black and white. Day time is color.  
> Motion has a hard time detecting pixel changes while at night time. Meaning I can walk in the path of the camera and the only pixel change detected is my feet, not my entire body.  Anyone see this on their end?  I adjusted the threshold down to 50 pixels but it doesn't help. Anyone have an idea?
>
> Thanks. 
>
>   
As Kenneth mentioned earlier, setup mode will probably help you out a 
lot here.  Something that I have found useful in the past as well is to 
enable 'ffmpeg_cap_motion' so that you can see a movie of the pixels 
that Motion sees changing.  This may give a hint to the issue.  Good luck.

-Andrew Hamilton