Mask not working

[Billh210]

I just purchased the pro version and have it up with a Dlink 920 camera. everything seems to be working fine, I set the mask to below the window but it is still caching everyone that walks by.
any ideas?

[Billh210]

Ok, I went in a reversed the mask to the windows and told it anything outside the mask and it still records everyone walking by the window. Hmmm

[doug]

Billh210,

You say that it still "records" things that aren't matched by the rule. You should be aware that Vitamin D records _all_ video for a period of time (2 days by default). After that, Vitamin D Video will clean up any video that is not marked for saving. Thus, you will have all video for the last two days and then only "saved" video after that.

What does this mean? It means that if you search for "all objects" or "people", you'll find video from the last two days that includes things that were not saved by your rule. This is expected. You should also see a tag in your search results indicating that the video wasn't marked for permanent saving. Instead, try searching using the rule you created.

Generally, we suggest people leave the "record all objects" alone and then create additional rules for searching. That gives you the most flexibility.

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Now, if you're trying to debug why your search isn't matching what you expect...

Here's a link to the reference guide that might help: <http://www.vitamindvideo.com/support/ref_guide_tips_20.html>. It explains how rules work and gives some tips on debugging (you can turn on a mode where the region will be shown in the search results and also the relevant points (some triggers care about the centers of objects and some about the center of the bottom of the object). This one might help too: <http://www.vitamindvideo.com/support/ref_guide_tips_19.html>

Good luck!

-Doug

[doug]

...here is one other post that also talks about these issues: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=640

[ryan]

Hi Billh,

My post was just rejected because Doug had replied within mine, (with a more thorough response too!). I'll go ahead and add one portion of my post that might help:

If you are looking to catch people inside the office, I would suggest drawing a region that covers the floor area and choosing 'on top of' from the drop down. This will only record when the bottom of the tracked object's bounding box is inside your drawn area, and should be far enough away from anything detected near the window region to avoid false positives. Hope that helps!

[Semper Vaporo]

VDV could also be triggering on shadows in the gap under the door, so you may have to define the area such as to exclude that space and a few inches on "this" side of the door (however far the shadows extend into the room).

[Billh210]

I see I wasn't looking at the bottom of the video clip, I see that all videos were recorded and when I do a search by my rule it does only pull up the videos that apply.
Thanks for all the information and fast response.