Motion Detection on Linksys WVC54GCA

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.
I would appreciate if someone could help me with this.
I am trying to configure this camera to record onto my network drive via FTP on a schedule - for example 9 - 5 each day.
Can recording be done based on these entered times or does motion have to be detected?
I have copied a screenshot of my settings at below url:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/15/settingsr.jpg
I have tried with passive mode enabled and disable and tried recording with a shorter internal between start and end times.
FTP credentials are correct, along with IP. I can access both locally and via the internet.
Thanks for your help.

The motion detection should be enable and the motion will be detected with-in the specified period of time.

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Does anyone know how to get the motion detection in the WVC54GCA to work correctly, without triggering contstantly
I have setup my camera to detect motion, and it appears to trigger (false positive) endlessly. Using R24 (also tried R22) when I turn the threshold to max/min or midway, or have fullscreen, 1,2 or 3 detection windows I will receive an emailed output at the frequency defined by the gap between triggers. It doesnt matter whether I ask for JPG output or Video (all files types) I fill my inbox very quickly, to the point where I have to turn off the motion detection, rendering the reason for purchase pointless. Like an idiot, I do have two of these cameras, so its also unlikely to be simply a faulty unit.
(I also have a WVC54GC earlier camera, which does trigger properly, but the ASF files generated are flakey to say the least)
The only thing I haven't tried is sending via FTP, but frankly I can't see how that will impact motion detection.
1. Does anyone know how to get around this? or have had success with automated motion detection capture and send ?
2. Are there any Linksys Cisco employees reading this that can confirm the firmware is still bing written and when the fixed version will be released, or should I eBay these to some hapless unfortunat, and buy Axis instead?
I realise my words are somewhat provocatory, but at least they are not fictional, unlike the marketting behind this camera, and I aslo believe I have the right to buy a functional product.
Thanks for reading
Richard

When you Enable Motion Detection on your Camera to capture JPEG files to be mailed on your E-mail, whats is the Interval Time you have set on your Camera. You may increase the Interval Time. Have you tried to Downloading the Latest Software from the Linksys website. You try downloading the latest software from the linksys website and try installing on your computer. Once you reinstall the software on your computer after this you can enable the Motion Detection on the software and check how it works.

Motion detection WVC54GCA setting custom area.

Now onto the next issue with the WVC54GCA.
When setting up the E-mail and configuring the motion detection with a minimum time between motions at 5 minutes I still get more then 100 mails a day.
IMO setting the custom area is not functioning. It just keeps detecting everything in the full window.
Does anybody know a solution or is it just this bad?
If so is there any new firmware coming out, or do we get a change to fiddle with it ourselves, by opening up telnet or any other way?
(Just wished I know the root password )
From the 100 mails are atleast 75 false. If I could bring that back to 20 or less it would be acceptable for me, but this is too much.
Maurice

great_white wrote:
You can check for the firmware on www.linksys.com/downloads.Try to reflash the firmware on the camera,reset the camera and reconfigure it from the scratch.
Sorry I should have said I have the newest firmware although you could have guessed, because I was asking for an update.
Maurice

WVC54GCA - Motion detection

Hi.
WVC54GCA
Firmware Version: v1.1.00 build 02
I've a problem with motion detection of subject camera.
The camera keeps on sending every 15 minutes (interval selected by me) an e-mail with the picture, independently whether a motion was detected or not. I tested all possible option but no success. It keeps on going.
Neither this forum, nor Google could help so far.,
Any ideas ... ?
Thanks,

Using Firefox ... when I click on "Set sensitivity area", I get an empty dark purple box. No buttons or video window in.
Using IE 10 ... I get the correct window with the sliders on the left and the video window, but the "Indicator" bar is always full (completely blue). Is that normal?
Could it be that the camera's webif requires a particular browser, version or addon (Firefox)?
Is all this working for for somebody?
Before I know this, I will not waste my time with factory resets and so on. Other people had the same ... but I AFAIK nobody ended up finding a solution.
e.g.:
http://community.linksys.com/t5/Cameras/Motion-detection-sensitivity-white-balance-on-WVC54GCA/td-p/...
Thanks,

WVC54GCA motion detection in utility setup not working

After reading this answer that basically says that if you use the web-based advanced setup for motion detection, your recording is limited to only 5 sec., I disabled motion detection in the web GUI, and decided to setup motion detection in the utiity setup windows.
I can't make it work correctly: I have firmware V1.00R24:
This is what I do: I check Enable Motion Detection Recording in the Network Camera screen. In Preferences, I set the Recording Path, set 10 secs Motion Detection record before and after motion detection. I have 15 GB of available disk space.
Under Recording Schedule, if I set a schedule, say, daily from 7am to 7:30am (or any other interval), it will record for the whole duration independently of any movement or lack of movement in the field. If I don't set a recording schedule, it won't record anything.
I am not interested in triggering emails or FTPs, which apparently can be done only with the Web GUI anyway. I just want to record 10 secs before and after every instance of detected movement.
Am I missing something?
Thanks for any suggestion.

Well, I am still struggling with this motion detection.
@Carrot: Linksys seems to say that the 5 second limitation is only for the web-based setup, which I didn't use. If you read this answer from their knowledge base, you will see they recommend using the utility to obtain longer recording times. In any case, when I follow their recommendation, I don't even get 5 seconds. The only thing that gets recorded are the intervals I specify in Recording Schedule, and then it records everything, motion or no motion. Without entering a recording schedule, nothing gets recorded.
In any case, if you have any specific third party software in mind that would do a better job with motion detection, please let me know. I have been using successfully YawCam, which works with USB webcams, but I haven't found a way to make it work with this IP camera.
I may endup using my own video software (using avisynth) to detect movement from full recordings.

WVC54GCA- Enable Motion Detection checkbox, unchecked after 3 hours.

Motion Detection E-Mail, fails after 3 hours.
I checked the Enable Motion Detection box. Filled in for E-Mail. Sending to a g-mail.
Sending from a smtp mail(att.net)Using smtp port number 587,and filled in outgoing mail server(smtp.att.yahoo.com).Filled in my account name and password. On new motion trigger schedule I filled in Every day 00:00-23:59(Wanted this to be active 24/7).Test E-Mail works on all 3 cameras. Also getting motion E-mails sent to my G-mail as mp4 files, I can watch. This is really cool. However, after 2-3 hours the Enable Motion Detection box is unchecked on all 3 cameras, and there is of course no more e-mails being sent. When I recheck the Enable Motion Detection box, all previously entered info is still stored. I hit apply and I’m up and running again.3 hours later the cameras have disabled the Enable Motion Detection again.
All 3 cameras are still working. I can see the video. It’s only the Motion Detection E-Mail part that disables itself after 3 hours.
I am using a Linksys WRT330N.No other wired or wireless network problems on home- network(with 4 desktops,3 laptops, wired and wireless printers,wii,ps3 and x-box 360)
Anybody know what I’m doing wrong?

Thank you for your greeting from Canada.(What a great Country!).
I have tried with timers(connected to cameras),turning them on and off(2/3 times in a 24 hour period).
I realy like the cameras,but software is terrible.(or is it the camera?).
E-mail notification falls out(disapears/is unchecked)once a day.
Even the Linksys Camera Utility cannot remember/recognize cameras between PC-shutdowns.
Hope Linksys can do something about this.
Cannot buy more of these,when they are so unreliable.
The point with a web-cam with motion detection,e-mail posibility would for me, be that it works every time.
Unfortunatly,this product does not..
Unless,somebody has found the solution.. .. .. ......... .. ?

WVC54GCA - over sensitive motion detection, has anyone solved it yet?

My cams spam my mail account whenever I have motion detection enabled, the images it sends aren't anything to do with motion. This seems to be a common issue with these.
Has anyone got it working correctly?

Try upgrading/reflashing the firmware of your Camera. Follow this link .
After a firmware upgrade, you must reset the Camera to factory defaults, then setup the Camera again from scratch.
To reset the Camera press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds...Release the reset button...Unplug the power cable from your Camera, wait for 30 seconds and re-connect the power cable...Now re-configure your Camera...

WVC54GCA motion detection and port 25 blocked

About a month ago, I stopped receiving motion detection emails believe its because ISP is now blocking port 25...can successfully send and receive test emails but do not receive any messages with motion detection...can anyone suggest a solution to this problem, thanks much

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PVC2300 - Alternative to Motion Detection Event / FTP Upload

Hi Cisco Community,
My apologies if I am not posting this in the correct section / allowed to post here.
I've got a PVC2300 mounted inside a pelco enclosure that is positioned 6 meters high. Sometimes the motion detection event doesn't work to well (this is due to the fact that its in an enclosure and pointed out towards the ocean at a beach location).
Also the motion detection event is pretty much useless at night without surrounding illumination.
In Australia we also have severe lack of broadband speed and also download allowance, therefore it is not practical to broadcast streaming video (we would get charged excessive fees for exceeding download quotas and only one person could view the camera at any one time).
I've written a custom windows service that reads the PVC2300's MJPEG stream over http at a specified interval and saves a single .JPG file in which the windows service uploads the .JPG file to a specified website. This means that you will always get an updated image from the camera every 5 minutes, rather than based on motion detection. It would have been nice if cisco / linksys implemented this within the camera's firmware (maybe in a future version?).
Anyway, communities share things with each other, so i've made the software freely available to anyone who wishes to use it. I would appreciate any feedback from Cisco / Linksys.
http://www.airbiscuit.com.au/pvc2300-service.html - PVC2300 Windows Service
http://www.airbiscuit.com.au/camera.aspx - The actual PVC2300 in operation
Regards,
David Zielinski

You came to the right place and thats a very cool post IMO.
First, thanks for using Cisco Small Business products and you can look forward enhancements and options in our line, of course. I think I noticed your other post mentioning you are in Australia? We have a few really top BU folks (TMEs and Biz Dev) down under and they are very active in the BU solutions area for Small Business. Do you know Leah Davis and Dave Harper (they are Participants on this community as well)?
In any event, I think compressed streaming is a very valid design idea and we are actually looking at similar partners in the US experimenting with the same. In one Partners case he has a lightweight application (java) that runs on your mobile and allows all the mobile streams to come compressed from a server farm.
Typical use case is a Day Care where 15 parents want to watch the same camera, and the compression benefit becomes crucial in scale. But your case is a financial one (therefore good too) where you would have to pay for streaming video.
While we dont offer this today (the external managed service that is), I am sure you have played with the camera GUI and realize you can try some of the following to reduce bandwidth
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2- reduce motion detection size (seconds)
3- Purchase a local NSS2100 or NSS3x00 to store High Quality video on the LAN and only alert for motion via email (not realy friendly for remote monitoring I admit).
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For night illumination without an external IR Illuminator, have you tried the 'night schedule', which activates (or deactivates) the IR Cut Filter?
For the periodic updates, I'll let Davin Oishi comment as he is about ready to announce the PVC300 and I know it offers a browser based periodic refresh and I am not sure how far he has extended that to an API for external access.....
Thanks for your post
Steve DiStefano
Systems Engineer in the US field channel
RTP, N.C.

Pvc2300: false positive with motion detection

Hello!
I bought 3 pvc 2300 cameras. I tried motion detection with camera's software and with "Active webcam" software and I received a lot of false positive mails.
1. with camera's software, I set event with motion detection & sent mail, but I receive a lot of mail when there isn't motion (I saw registrations and images)
2. with Active WebCam software I use Linksys cameras and Panasonic Cameras. With Panasonic cameras all is ok. With Linksys cameras, about every hours there is a black frame, so I receive a mail from motion detection. Black frame arrive about every hours, after 60 minutes from last black frame. That is very strange!
I changed sensitivity, check frequency, number of frame at second, but I have same problem.
Can you help me?
Thanks
Mary

I have 2 Panasonic cameras too and I need one software to manage all cameras.
sensitivity: on active webcam software, I changed sensitivity of motion detection
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Just want to record motion detect video with WVC80N

All I want to do is record motion detected video while I'm at work and view it when I get home. I don't want remote access and I don't care about email notifications. Does someone have some SIMPLE instructions for how to get this working? I've read many of the posts on this forum and found all kinds of complex setups involving multiple webpages and port forwarding, etc., etc. I just can't believe it's this complicated just to set up something simple. BTW -- I have no problem viewing live video either through the camera utility or via web browser. I can do instant recordings, but no motion detected video. IMHO the camera itself is great, but the support is pathetic. Camera utility program is terrible.
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http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=93&login=1&vw=1&app=search&articleid=22473&userrole=Links...
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The problem only seemed to occur when using the Motion Detection. Shortly after using it, I'd get a Microsoft error prompting the WebCam Center to shut down.
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