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Anyone Using Arlo Cameras? Got a weird issue.

thestrangebrew1

thestrangebrew1

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I've got 3 pro cameras facing my front yard and street. The cameras are located about 25' from the road. One of the cameras picks up motion no matter how low I set it to detect. Last night I changed the sensitivity to 1 and still got notifications and recordings of cars passing my house. As of right now, I'm averaging about 30-45 notifications a day, and today I'm at 22 already. My other cameras, each situated about 25' from the street are not this sensitive, and are actually set to the default 80. Looking for thoughts on what else I can try to do to reduce the sensitivity.
 
Are these cameras still better detecting motion from side to side versus coming directly to the camera? The first generation Netgear cameras were like this (this brand eventually morphed into the Arlos...I had that system for awhile and am happier with the traditional wired cameras now)....
 
They have a pretty wide FOV so I think they're good. But I have no experience with other setups. This is my first set. My only complaint is there's a pretty significant delay, something around 3-8 seconds from when motion is triggered to recording.
 
Did you read this part of your setup instructions?

Ensure that side-to-side traffic crosses Arlo's field of view. Arlo's motion sensor is much more sensitive to side-to-side movement across its field of view than to movement directly toward or away from the camera. The best area for motion detection is 5 feet to 20 feet (1.5 to 6 meters) from the camera position.

Is the camera that you are having issues with the one that has street traffic going from side to side in the field of view? can you lower the camera so it doesn't pick up the street?
 
All of my cameras have street traffic going side to side in the field of view. For whatever reason, no matter the sensitivity I set it to, this particular camera senses 3-4x more cars than the other 2. I have to pull it down tonight to recharge, I'll probably just have to point it down to not get so much of the street traffic. Reason I've go them pointed at the street is because we're on a corner with 3 way stop signs. Unfortunately our street is one of the only outlets to get out of town so we see more cars, and people are running the stop signs. Someone actually ran over one of the stop signs and it ended up in our yard so I decided to make the cameras face more of the street to pick up cars.
 
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