Security Spy Motion (Steve Blethen)

Fri Mar 26 09:56:12 EDT 2021

I have SecuritySpy also.  Four Cameras currently but, more are about to be installed.

I use AmCrest cameras with SecuritySpy and have been in contact with their programmers over some oddities.  I’ve gotten false positives mostly.  I’ve chosen not to detect cars as our street is practically a highway of traffic, (thanks to the drugs dealers in the apartments behind the subdivision.)  No matter what, SecuritySpy still will detect some cars as people.  Amcrest also has a detection algorithm which I chose to turn off, not to get doubles on detection.  The detection has gotten pretty darn good though.  I’ve found that certain times of the day provide better contrast between the objects behind people that it’s detecting.  My cameras has pretty good IR illumination but, it’s fairly focused on the center of the cameras.  I plan to add an independent array of IR LEDS near the apex of the house that will provide more light at night.

Steve, I had problems with the Interface in XTension for SecuritySpy so I just wrote an AppleScript within SecuritySpy to target XTension.  It works well.   I’m wondering is you possibly might have tried the same thing and the “Action” is still left in SecuritySpy?

—Jerry

> On Mar 26, 2021, at 12:53 AM, ghandley at kc.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> This was a fascinating story from beginning to end, however there are some fuzzy places along the way I'm not sure I understand. This could be a controllable software or hardware feature or setting of the Security Spy Interface. Or, perhaps it's on by their default, and you need to change it or the lines may not stop.
> 
> If it get no signals, it tell you so. Wait... you said the times were, to the best of you knowledge, you acknowledge there were animals because the log entries do fit the times you know there was animal movement. It's got to be a Security Spy Interface thing.
> 
> Good luck, and I'm sure we'll all be interested to learn what you discover. 
> 
> George
> 
> PS I have 14 cameras 8 of which I monitor for motion, but all can be programed to report motion. I've had very poor luck with internal camera motion sensing. I've had Pelcos, IC Realtime and Speco, and not a one of them could consistntly accurately do the job. Heavy rain, snow, hail, lightning or the neighbor's cat can fool.  I learned that the best tech for doing that today is having separate special outdoor MW/PIRs, usually one for each camera. 
> 
> 
> 
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>>   1. Security Spy Motion (Steve Blethen)
>> 
>> From: Steve Blethen <ssblethen59 at gmail.com <mailto:ssblethen59 at gmail.com>>
>> Subject: Security Spy Motion
>> Date: March 24, 2021 at 12:57:39 PM CDT
>> To: "xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com <mailto:xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com>" <xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com <mailto:xtensionlist at machomeautomation.com>>
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>> 
>> A month ago I installed the Security Spy interface and showed it where Security Spy was.  It dutifully created the units to correspond to motion alerts.  After a while I decided to “back burner” my efforts to integrate motion alerts into XTension.  I turned off the interface to eliminate log entries regarding motion.  The log entries kept coming.  After a week of these mysterious log entries I decided to delete everything pertaining to Security Spy until I had more time to work on the project, I deleted all the units and the interface.
>> 
>> Now this…
>> 
>> Mar 24, 2021 6:41:35 AM  no object was found named "Motion Pig Cam"
>> Mar 24, 2021 6:41:50 AM  no object was found named "Motion Pig Cam"
>> Mar 24, 2021 6:42:04 AM  no object was found named "Motion Pig Cam"
>> Mar 24, 2021 6:42:19 AM  no object was found named "Motion Pig Cam"
>> Mar 24, 2021 6:42:35 AM  no object was found named "Motion Pig Cam"
>> Mar 24, 2021 6:45:00 AM  no object was found named "Motion Pig Cam”
>> 
>> These entries correspond to real actual motion at one of my cameras.  There were deer walking around nibbling.  I can compare time stamps between the JPEGS and the log entries and yup motion.  I just don’t want do do anything with this information With XTension. 
>> 
>> Where could these log entries be coming from?  What could possibly be trying to fiddle with a unit that has been deleted?
>> 
>> -Steve
>> 
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