I received and installed my 3C Pro today. As advertised, the color is outstanding. But I have something wrong.
I am using the camera to monitor traffic in my driveway and the street in front of my house. There are no fancy curves. Straight driveway that slopes slightly down hill and meets the street at a right angle. Camera to the street is about 75 feet.
I have the camera on the right side of the drive way (looking at the street). In my testing I have found if I’m walking up the driveway I am not detected until I’m within 20-25 feet of the camera. I had similar experiences with cars coming up the driveway. And surprising, just as it started to get dark, the camera detected the neighbor’s cat. But was within the 25 foot range.
I have the Sensitivity set a 8 and have set the Detection Area set to extend well into the street and even across the street. There are no privacy zones set. The camera angle is sloped downward at a 15 degree angle.
Am I expecting too much? My SoloCam S340 detects cars, bicyles, people, dogs, etc that are close to 60 feet from the camera. I would think the 3C Pro would do as well.
Usually the detection range for eufy cameras are about in the 30 ft range.
It also depends on the way the motion is being detected, straight on the range is less, moving across its path it is further.
But yeah, I have a few cameras E220 SoloCam Outdoor Pro that picks up vehicles 80 ft. away (which shouldn’t be possible) and humans at about 25 to 30 ft away, but not consistently on the humans. It’s hit or miss on the humans at that distance.
If I turn off All Other Motion then vehicles won’t be detected.
I’m not sure what changed but the number of detections I’m now getting has become a bother. I see most, if not all, of the cars driving by the front of my house in the street that is 75ft away. I did fine tune the camera angle to assure it was at 15 degrees. Aside from that I think maybe it just needed to get “warmed up”. Maybe it has something to do with the radar aspect of detection. I’m not sure what that is all about. Last night at about 11:30PM the camera detected a neighbor walking along the side of his house. I have this area in my detection zone because intruders could get onto my property by first walking through my neighbor’s yard. Not sure what he was doing at 11:30??
Thanks for your thoughts. From my view point all is good.
On my phone if you press and hold the power button down for a few seconds a prompt will come up with a few options, one of them is screenshot.
Radar basically works like this, your camera is transmitting a radio wave signal out several times and that signal will bounce off of objects back to the cameras receiver.
If that return wave radio signal deviates / changes from the normal signal it receives then the camera will acknowledge that movement is being detected.
On iPhone if you press the volume button and the button on the right side at the same time it will take a screenshot. You can also set up under “back tap option “ if you tap the back of your phone either 2 or 3 times ( depending on which one you set up) you can take a screenshot. The back tap option has multiple functions to o pick from.
I think there must be a limited distance which the camera uses to detect motion. I’ll have motion kick off an event close to the camera and even though it continues, once it gets further away even though it is still clearly visible, the camera stops recording, cutting off the event prematurely.
You might want to try setting max length + end recording when motion stops, then walking down the driveway… Wait, then walk up the driveway (triggering a new event,) repeat several times. This might give you and idea of what the problem is and what the max range is to trigger an event. Don’t know if that could help?
I changed my detection zone to not include the street. Even though we live in a quiet neighborhood the camera was picking up every car that drove by. I may need to re-think calling our neighborhood quiet. It was driving me crazy. And the street is 75 feet from the camera. Since the change we, once again, have a quiet neighborhood.
