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@gaven_5078576600539110 SOLUTION: After talking to Reolink support it appears the best solution is to not use the AVR buzzer at all, and instead use the built in "siren" feature of the new AI cameras - this also has a great feature where you can record your own custom sound for the camera alarm, so it can be made to be a quiet and short sound (i recorded myself saying "beep" on iphone!) - which solves a a lot of the problems I was having with the AVR buzzer noise being too loud and too long.
@joseph_1979 sent to support as requested
@gaven_507857660539110 I don't appear to be allowed to edit my own post here even straight after posting it?!?!?Another thing...With zoom cameras (like RLC-811A) the AI detection appears to be triggering for people that are not in current frame at all - and then triggering buzzer when nobody is visible in camera. ie. even when zoomed in, the camera triggers for the full wide view always??
I'm using multi-camera AI system (multiple RLC-811A, RLC-1212A cameras) using a RLN8-410 (N7MB01) Fw: v3.3.0.226_23031632 NVRThe buzzer feature (where it goes off if AI person motion is detected) could be very useful but it suffers from annoying problems to be useful to leave on or use at all.
Previous non-AI camera systems were completely useless because it went off for everything, but at least these AI cameras can be set to only go off on person detection, so it could be useful feature if improved.
"Best practice is to have a POE switch"Why? The NVR was bought to act as a switch ... it has a built in 8 port switch in it. I have my own network in house with all devices connected to various gigabit switches from Netgear... but I don't want to have to plug 6 cameras into my own home network causing interference and continuous bandwidth usage. The cameras all stay on their own network plugged into NVR and don't cause any extra traffic on my home LAN potentially slowing/interfering with PC gear.These cameras and NVR should work correctly together as paid for without having to seperate out cameras to another LAN.
@joseph_1979 I did - will see if they bother to try and figure it out. At least this time they do not have the "your hardware is too old - upgrade to latest hardware" excuse. I am software/hardware engineer too, and if I can't figure this out, when there is literally only about three sliders and a few tickboxes controlling it, then I don't know - something seriously wrong. Maybe its this new camera firmware that is on camera, and not on website causing it... maybe its only beta version. Was thinking of "downgrading" to website firmware of camera.
@joseph_1979 its kind of infuriating now I think of it... becasue the only reason I bought this new hardware version RLN8-410 (N7MB01) when I already had a working RLN8-410-E (N7MB01) was because Reolink support told me the spotlights and AI detection of 811A didn't work with that version hardware and I should buy the same thing again to fix the problems!!!
@joseph_1979 yes I already have "All Motion" unticked on all setup pages - but it doesn't seem to work or do anything because I STILL only get the "ball" object icon/notification on NVR display every time a car drives by!Also you say you don't even have the NVR so maybe you don't notice the problems with it not working right at all. I have not got a single PERSON detection working since this NVR arrived in house after first day.
@joseph_1979 What do you mean by "untag any motion"?I was in middle of trying this... but problem... the camera is powered by NVR over the ethernet cable so not sure how to power it up & test it in Reolink software without connecting it to NVR. I might have a third party 12V power adapter, but don't want to blow camera by putting in wrong polarity.Also not sure how software will see camera if its not on the network.
@joseph_1979,I do have motion sensitivity set to maximum for last few days (on phone app its all the way right at 50, and on NVR interface its all the way right at High)I have Person detection on phone at High (99) and I also have alarm delay at 0sFor last two days I have got ZERO person detection's... even though the day is clear and sunny and there are many, many people walking slowly through the camera view!The only thing I am getting is lots of the old non-AI "object" detection being triggered by any movement - I don't even want this... want to turn it off - I had that in my old NVR with old cameras - this is why I paid money to replace RLN8-410-E (N7MB01) with RLN8-410 (N7MB01). Right now I can see the camera triggering object motion when there is nobody in view - it is just seeing trees blowing in the wind - useless!The user interface is very bad - I can't see what is old motion detection and what is new AI detection. I want to turn old detection OFF completely.There is definitely something badly wrong... on first day for about an hour this camera worked and actually did people detection. I also tried a complete camera reset yesterday but it made no difference.
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