Need a little help with motion/Triggers and record setting

[deeuubee]

Two things...
1. I have two cameras IPC-HDW5231RN-Z. One points down the length of the house, one down the driveway.
When I leave my house to take the dogs out, It does not detect motion or trigger an alert.
When I come back the same route, It detects me and the dogs. I get an alert and recording on the computer.

2. How far away can I expect the cameras to detect motion? It's about 100' down the length of the house.
When it does pick me up on the return, it only starts around 20' from the camera.
What settings do I have wrong. Thanks

 

[wittaj]

Don't use Edge Vector and instead use simple.

Adjust contrast. Make it lower.

Without you showing the field of view, if when you leave and first enter the field of view, if you are more than 67% it will reset and not trigger. Uncheck that box as it is to eliminate false triggers and you have the opposite going on.