Important: App screens may look different depending on your device model, firmware version, and app updates. The instructions below are meant as a general guide.
Detection Settings let you choose how and when your cameras detect activity, send alerts, and trigger lights or sirens. You can also create Motion Zones so your camera only alerts you about activity in important areas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Tips to Reduce Unwanted Alerts
- Open Detection Settings
- Motion Detection
- AI Detection (Person, Vehicle, Animal, Package)
- Sound Detection
- Show Motion Bounding Box
- Auto-Tracking
- Explore More Helpful Guides
Tips to Reduce Unwanted Alerts
- Select only Person alerts in Settings > Device settings > Notifications & alerts.
- Decrease the Detection sensitivity in Settings > Device settings > Detection settings; increase only if events are missed.
- Use Motion Zones to exclude streets, sidewalks, or moving trees.
- Prefer Person & Vehicle detection over general motion in busy areas.
- If lights or sirens trigger too often, turn those actions off and re-tune zones/sensitivity.
Open Detection Settings
From the 
Home tab, tap
Settings on your camera's image preview, then tap Settings > Detection settings.
Motion Detection
- Turn Motion detection on or off.
- Set Detection sensitivity: Low (fewer alerts), Medium (recommended), High (more alerts; detects small or distant motion).
- To choose where motion is detected, draw Motion Zones:Note: Only motion that happens inside the highlighted zones will trigger alerts.
- Move: Tap and then drag to move the zone.
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Resize: Drag the points to adjust the shape of the zone.
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Add: Tap to add a new zone. -
Delete: Tap to remove a selected zone. -
Undo: Tap to revert your last change. -
Full screen: Expand the view to make zone adjustments easier. - Tap Save when done.
- Activate siren on detection: Automatically turn on the siren when motion is detected.
- Tap Save.
To automatically turn on the light when motion is detected, go to Settings > Light settings > Light activation.
AI Detection (Person, Vehicle, Animal, Package)
Note: Your camera may have different AI detection options depending on the model.
- Turn Person detection on or off.
- Set Detection sensitivity: Low (fewer alerts), Medium (recommended), High (more alerts; detects small or distant motion).
- To choose where a person is detected, draw Motion Zones:Note: Only motion that happens inside the highlighted zones will trigger alerts.
- Move: Tap and then drag to move the zone.
- Resize: Drag the points to adjust the shape of the zone.
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Add: Tap to add a new zone.
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Delete: Tap to remove a selected zone.
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Undo: Tap to revert your last change.
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Full screen: Expand the view to make zone adjustments easier.
- Tap Save when done.
- Activate siren on detection: Automatically turn on the siren when a person is detected.
- Tap Save.
To automatically turn on the light when a person is detected, go to Settings > Light settings > Light activation.
Sound Detection
- Turn Sound detection on or off.
- Adjust the sound Sensitivity with the slider.
- Enable Activate light on sound to turn on the light when sound is detected.
- Turn on Sound detection alerts to get notified whenever sound is detected.
- Tap Save.
Show Motion Bounding Box
- Turn Show motion bounding box on or off.
- Displays a visual box around detected subjects in Live view. (Does not affect alerts.)
- Tap Save.
Auto-Tracking
- Turn Auto-tracking on or off.
- When enabled, the camera pans & tilts automatically to follow people in view.
- Availability varies by camera model.
- Tap Save.