Using SecuritySpy for Recording Animals
Hi All,
We've just posted a new blog article Wildlife Watch: Using SecuritySpy for Animal Detection and Recording.
We get frequent queries from customers interested in capturing the wildlife around their properties, and this post provides some pointers for how best to do this.
If you have spotted any interesting animals caught on your SecuritySpy systems, please post them here and we will include them in our new Instagram account dedicated to this purpose, @SpyTheAnimals!
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Just got this up and running today. Can you find it?
Eufy Cam, Wifi
Some of my most popular postings on social media are animal captures on SecuritySpy.
Scanning through for animals is much faster with the AI enabled. The only downside is 95% of those flagged are people walking their dogs. Visually finding the clips with JUST animals can be a bit boring.
If we had a filter option that gets animal and NOT human, the process would be super fast.
@pgh - thanks for posting this!
@guykuo - good point - we'll see if we can add a filter that can achieve this in a future update.
Hawk on attack vector. Cropped from 4MP Loryta IPC-T54IR-ZE varifocal turret.
Yes, Security Spy's animal motion detection detected and recorded the base clip. Some editing for stop motion, framing, and sound effects added.
Thanks @guykuo this is great - I wonder what it was going for!
There was a small bird being targeted. It was in a narrow slot between bushes. In the last frame of video, you see the hawk rolling to enter that slot sideways. Bird got away but not without a chase (seen on a different camera).
On a prior occasion, falcon caught a robin and proceeded to dine with the robin still alive. Robin's screaming didn't stop for a few minutes, ending only when hawk finally beheaded the robin. Too graphic to post that video.
Here is a crop from prior incident. The robin is being held aloft by the hawk. That pile to right is feathers and other bitlets.
In terms of better animal detection, an option that would work well is motion and not (human or automobile). That would catch some events that animal detection fails to grab. Yes, there will be false positives, but avoids misses and automatically removes numerous dog walkers and cars. It's pretty easy to visually inspect a bunch of motion clips in web browser grid display.