Motion Alert Issues

[BlakeRichardson]

I have recently setup motion alerts for a few cameras, the problem I am getting is every tiny little change in frame is sending an alerts through. I have done the below to try and mitigate the problem but I am still getting large amounts of motion alerts.

1. Set minimum event duration trigger to 5 seconds

2. Setup areas of interest. 

I have just enabled alert only on people detection to see if that makes any difference. If anyone has some fine tuning tips for MV cameras around motion detection I would love to hear.

[Ryan_Miles]

What is the sensitivity set at? If you lower the sensitivity it will help reduce the amount of alerts.

[Larry_Woods]

Ryan is asking about Motion Sensitivity and that is where you can really narrow down the alerts.  

https://documentation.meraki.com/MV/Advanced_Configuration/Motion_Alerts#Motion_Sensitivity 

[BlakeRichardson]

Sensitivity was set at 100 which I am assuming is the default. My concern was that its detecting motion outside of the areas of interest, is this normal? 

For example I have created areas of interest that exclude things like trees and shrubs to avoid false positives however motion detecting was still picking up on the excluded areas.