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@joseph_1979 Hi, I was able to test the settings a bit yesterday and it is definitely much better. The alarm is still a bit late as it is, I could almost walk half way across the garden before it went off, but the camera seems to have pre-recording so I can see on the footage as I walk towards and through the gate. I'm hoping that adjusting the sensitivity will result in the alarm going off earlier, but it's already much better than the Argus. It also detects animals now, this morning a bird sat on one of my sunflowers and ate some seeds.

@comercial_403123693113500 well after adjusting the settings according to josephs suggestions it works pretty good! I think Reolink should optimize the software / app because most of the issues seem to come from wrong settings because it's not very intuitive to understand how some of these settings work together.
Covering the camera from rain is however a good idea but my cam is already covered because I have it ceiling mounted. As long as the rain doesn't come in straight it should not be affected by rain much and with the settings mentioned above, it will still detect any motion but only trigger an alarm if it's a person, pet or vehicle (depenting on what you want to detect). This really works so I think this is how you're supposed to set it up but again, this isn't very intuitive and should be changed.

@stingray_736374312435858 Check this link https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000583003-What-is-PIR-Detection-Distance/

I have the Argus 3 Pro, Ultra and DUO 2 and they won't detect person if he/she is farther than 9m at max sensitivity. And of course PIRs are triggered if the object moves across and not approaching. Therefore positioning is quite important.

OK, or maybe not because this makes a security cam useless. I mean, 99% of the time you want to see/capture someone walking towards a spot not across. So even if I'd put the camera so it would detect a person walking across I would have the same issue because it would detect the person only if it's walking through my garden and not when entering the door. Pointing the camera any different than towards the door diagonal across the garden would not work because of trees.

Also will the sensor detect every moving leaf on my trees if I turn up the sensitivity even tho I painted an no detection area round all the trees/bushes but still it triggers every time the wind blows through the leafs. But it would not detect me walking trough the garden???

I don't understand why that's not working, every other motion detector I know will detect motion in any direction, for example my lights, they go on no matter how I approach them, the sensor has differnt sensitivitry settings but it detects everything within 180°.

What about sunlight? Could this be an issue? I was testing during daylight when the sun was shining on the camera (not directly but in it's direction). Could this be an issue?