Argus PT Ultra with Auto Tracking... Testing!

KimchiGUN

Finally had enough time to post my findings... but I had to give it enough time to soak into my network and whole cam system.

I have this mounted on old unused DirecTV pole in my yard. My home is a little weird, the front door is on the side of the home. From the back yard, you can see the front door. The pole is about 50 ft from my home and 75 from the front door. Mind you, this pole is on a slight incline in my backyard. For perspective, this cam is eye level when you're standing in front of it. I had a camera (TrackMix POE) on there with a direct burial CAT5E cable. The cable finally died a few months back, after 10 years. I've been too lazy to bury another one. So this cam has came in at perfect timing.

I have an enterprise network installed in my home with 2 enterprise Access Points to cover 2500 sq ft within my home. I have an outdoor Access Point covering most of my yard and beyond. I get great signal from this camera.

I have a southern facing home. The pole gets sunlight from 1pm-4pm every day. It has been on 100% since I installed it. Until yesterday (1/17/25), I'm on the east coast USA, Rain and Polar Vortex coming through (AGAIN). It has dropped down to 97%. Last week we had 10 degree weather and the battery held and was charging. Note, I fully charged the camera in my home for 12 hours, before launching it into production. It was sitting at 40% out of the box.

Since the front door is 75 feet away and my back door is about 50 ft away... I had to turn my PIR sensor up to MAX. If you walk out the front door and take a left, you will be walking towards the driveway, it catches that moment and 10 seconds afterwards. If you walk to the right, you will be walking towards the backyard. Almost into the direction of the pole. It picks it up and keeps recording. I had to play with the timeout to monitor point a bit. 60 seconds is a little too early, roughly about 2-3 mins sits better. Walking my dog, while I was sitting still there and wait for her to poop, it would move back to move back to the monitor point.

I don't see cars from this POV, so I can't comment on the car detection. But I do have a lot of wildlife running through my backyard. It's recording quite a bit. My kids playing in the snow recently.

All in all this cam worked great. It will take some time to tweak each setting to your needs. Took me a solid week to tweak the settings to my needs.

So far so good!