Combine activity into single clip?

[wetsnapper]

I read this FAQ @ https://www.sighthound.com/support/its- ... many-clips however my question was not addressed there.

I'm finding that too many clips are created for a single event. Is there a way to adjust how quickly a single movement is chopped into small clips? If a person walks into frame and pauses momentarily, then begins walking again, is there a setting to combine these into a single clip / alert?

[Devin]

Hello wetsnapper,

There currently isn't a way to combine clips in Sighthound Video. Are you by chance using a region or boundary rule? These can create several clips if someone stops right on the edge of a region or boundary.

Regards,

-Devin

[wetsnapper]

No, the whole camera is a single boundary.

[ryan]

Hi wetsnapper,

It sounds like you're using the default "Any object, anywhere" rule. Are you referring to many clips being generated in the search view of Sighthound Video, or in the actual files on disk? Sighthound's data files are not intended to be directly interacted with and don't line up with what you see in the application in a way that you might anticipate.

If you would like to export files for sharing or archival, you can right click a clip and choose export. You can also configure a response to automatically send clips matching a given rule to a local directory or to an ftp server:

https://www.sighthound.com/support/export-local-folder
https://www.sighthound.com/support/rule-editor#ftp

If you're referring to clips as displayed in the application, these should not be subdivided by a momentary pause, though if someone is completely stationary for a long period of time (on the order of 15 seconds, not 1) they will stop being tracked until they move again.

Best,
- ryan

[wetsnapper]

Hi Ryan,
No I am not accessing the files directly from the disk. I am referring to the push notifications to the mobile app, and the associated clips. I am definitely not seeing anything near the 15 second mark being combined to a single clip.

[ryan]

Hi wetsnapper,

What type of rule are you using to search? Are you seeing different results between the desktop and mobile app?

As long as a rule is consistently firing (objects in a region for example) there will be a single corresponding clip. If there is a break however, even short (object A leaves the region and object B enters 2 seconds later) these will be displayed as separate clips/events.

Best,
- ryan

[wetsnapper]

I've done some tuning to the rules and reduced how many clips are produced. I think what I should have said originally was that the number of push notifications is my bigger complaint. As such, I've opened a different thread under Feature Requests.