How to make IVS 'break' the Idle Motion?

[zaqik]

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I have "Idle motion" within three presets (using "Tour group"), it starts after 1 minute of no action. IPC 'walks' between the presets' points, stays at each for 15 seconds.

Also I made the IVS rules for each preset. My issue here when IVS rule goes off, the camera completely ignores it. I mean the IVS has no priority or influence over the Idle motion whatsoever! From the logical perspective: when something happens within a scene, I want to stay at that scene to record it. So I want:
1. Idle motion to stop when IVS rule has been triggered;
2. If IVS triggers multiple times, each time the countdown to continue Idle motions has to reset;
3. If no IVS is triggered for 1 minute (or whatever time amount set to wait before the Idle motion starts) - continue Idle motion.

How to achieve such behavior?

 

[bigredfish]

I don't think there currently is
Idle motion command as well as a slave/spotter camera command overrule anything the PTZ is doing regardless.


We also have another similar problem of the PTZ losing acquisition and retreating to its preset too quickly.
The ideal would be to allow the PTZ to have a "dwell" setting or time that can be user set to stay at a position before leaving due to inaction (target goes behind a wall then re-emerges say 10 seconds later)

The problem is that a solution gets mighty complicated mighty fast.

How much time should pass before it gives up and returns
How is the camera to determine its the same target object?
Without an IVS rule for this random position it is in when it lost the target, how will it re-acquire the target?

 

[zaqik]

For me so far as a half-measure is using 5 copies of the same preset, then picking that presets in Auto Patrol: the camera 'stays' (actually it 'goes' within identical presets, so it looks like it stays still) where I want for 25 seconds. Better than nothing, I guess...

 

[The Automation Guy]

I don't have a solution, but I would say you really shouldn't use the auto-patrol function on any PTZ camera. First, there are the practical limitations were the odds of the camera being pointed in the correct spot to capture an event is pretty low. Second and most importantly, using auto-patrol will cause your camera to fail prematurely.

The servo systems that provide the movement for these cameras have a defined life expectancy. Obviously each camera is different and you might want to check into the specs of your specific model, but generally speaking they are designed for 3-5 million movements. That sounds like a lot, but when you are moving the camera every 15 seconds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, that amounts to over 1 million movements per year. At that rate, it is very likely that your camera will stop moving after just a couple of years of use.

It is recommend that you leave the PTZ in a static position and use "spotter cameras" to move the PTZ when/where needed. This is a much better setup and helps alleviate both downsides of using the auto-patrol functionality of a PTZ camera.