Blue Iris: Zones and Hotspots

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This video covers some of the reason why you might want to use the zones and hotspot feature for motion detection.
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[@1bagadonuts849]

Richard, your videos are super helpful. Taking complex topics and demonstrating via practical application is one of the greatest ways to learn. (Aside from messing things up...one of my favorite ways ha-ha) Great stuff on your channel, thank you.

[@hometechvideo5068]

Glad you like it and it helps!

[@androiduser4162]

thanks man my neighbours trees have been really bugging me setting off my cameras at the slightest breeze .thanks to your video i have them masked out now and its working great.

[@bricoletout1]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! greetings from france

[@markl6122]

Great video. It explained how to do exactly what I was trying to do.

[@KZ-1155]

Great Video... Im new at all this and currently setting up my system. Learning more every day.... Question: I have PTZ Cameras. I set up Custom Motion Zones on say Ptz Preset #1. If i move Camera to a different Preset point. Say Ptz preset #2 The Edited Motion Zones get messed up? The Edited Motion Zone Frame doesn't align itself into new Ptz preset area. Is there any know way around this? Thanks for any advice.

[@miles267]

If you are recording all cameras at all times, is this needed?

[@michelevitarelli]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@tomasmodin6173]

Great tips

[@dco5055]

You kinda got it but the best way to use zones is to create at least 3 zones. Zone A would be your road and most of your front grass ONLY. Then zone B would be your side walk and around your porch with zone A barely over lapping. Then Zone C would be your front porch ONLY then under Object detection Only have Object crosses zones "AB>C" and you would hardly ever get a false alert. You would only get a alert if someone from outside your property came to your front door. The way you have it there is a few flaws. Then what I do is add two camera of the same feed it only process one so hardly any additional bandwidth or CPU. One record just motion and other for alert(hidden) so it doesn't show up to of the same thing. Hard to explain over text.

[@hometechvideo5068]

Dcool Hi thanks for the comment! The purpose of this video wasn't to explain zone crossing but to just show how zones actually work. I have a separate video explaining your suggestion on zone crossing. Thank you for your suggestion, I completely agree with your suggestion

[@dco5055]

I see just watched it, I originally did what you did with zone but after visiting a BI forum awhile back many users suggested to have mutiple zones and lay them out horizontal over lapping (like 1 square or 2 overlapping) just a little . Then doing the "AB>C" or how ever someone sets it up with zone letters so when they walk from the road into your yard or driveway you get a alert and shadows couldn't travel from the road all the way to zone C. Either way wish BI would put out some examples on their help page to show the best way. Not that someone walking in your yard would know this but there is holes in your detection in your zones if they walk on the side straight back then out of view under the camera.

[@TheSzalkowski]

Thank You. Do you have anything that goes over the difference between ANY and ALL with multiple cameras. I tried two zones with some overlap and chose ALL thinking that it would be like a boolean kind of thing but it did not work as I expected.

[@hometechvideo5068]

Hello, From the Help file: "By default, Motion may occur in any of the 8 zones A-H if you use the Zones and Hot Spot feature. However you may limit alerts to occur only when motion occurs in specific zones in either an "ANY" (any one of the zones) or "ALL" (the motion travels through all specified zones) mode. I only use the "ANY" function for the alerts. Basically what the "ALL" is saying is that the object in motion must travel through ALL the zones configured and that you have a "Check" mark in the box (A-H) for the alerts to trigger

[@RuggedGoodLooks]

Is it not possible to have different sensitivity settings for different zones, ala Zoneminder?

[@hometechvideo5068]

Henry Methorst unfortunately not. This is a very requested feature that we may see in a future update.

[@zcguild5139]

Great videos dude. Subbed

[@leedye6687]

Why bother confusing folks by pressing INVERT? That is not a necessary step and you did not explain why you did this.