Auto tracking
Hi Ben,
any plans to provide auto tracking in Spy and not to rely on the camera's feature? Of course the prerequisite for this is that the camera provides PTZ.
I would be willing to pay for this as an additional smart package oder whatever it could be called..
Br
Sotto
any plans to provide auto tracking in Spy and not to rely on the camera's feature? Of course the prerequisite for this is that the camera provides PTZ.
I would be willing to pay for this as an additional smart package oder whatever it could be called..
Br
Sotto
Comments
CEK
The only way this could work properly is with a pair of cameras: a fixed wide-angled camera that does the motion detection, paired with a PTZ camera that is then moved based on motion detected in the fixed cameras. This could certainly work quite well, but the issue here is how may users would actually implement this in their systems - I would be worried that we would spend a lot of development time perfecting this, only for it to be used by only a tiny minority of users.
I understand your explanation, thanks for your detailed view - this would be the super duper implementation of the use case.
A basic implementation would be (at least for me sufficient):
cam is at a "home" position, if a human is entering the field of view, the cam follows.
Once the human is out, the cam goes back to its home position!
this how the really cheap cam here is doing auto tracking: https://www.amazon.de/JideTech-Überwachungskamera-wasserdicht-Nachtsicht-Unterstützung/dp/B092QDD21J?ref_=ast_sto_dp
And it is sufficient to be tracking just humans, not any moving objects in general
We included two ethernets to a few locations during rough-in for this possibility.
I agree w/ above that tracking humans is most important. I wouldn't mind an option for tracking animals as well. The latter kind of falls in to the entertainment realm but people will pay for that as well. :-)
I have downloaded the trial of this software and was hoping for this use case. I want to have a 180 camera that looks up and detects movement in the sky, then passes that info to a PTZ optical zoom camera that will zoom in and record some quality eagles and aircraft flying videos while auto tracking. Easier said than done I'm sure. Feature requests are simple to make and take no programming!