I have an Amcrest 4K 2.0 mm camera near my front door. This camera points down the front entry walkway and captures my porch lights as well as a light pole. I have these lights set to turn on when the front door camera is triggered, turning my entry lights into motion lights.

The problem I'm having is when the trigger is done, I send an alert to turn off the lights. When the lights turn off the change is drastic enough to cause the camera to trigger, causing the lights to turn back on. This cycle continues all night. I've worked around this by suppressing the the alerts, but this is not ideal as it has two draw backs. 1) The camera will be triggered again, even if the alert isn't fired, wasting valuable disk space unnecessarily. 2) If there is legitimate motion, this will cause the camera to re-trigger. Once the camera is re-triggered it can outrun the minimum delay between alerts timer I've set, causing the cameras to trigger again.

Is there a way to have the camera not trigger for a set amount of time after they reset?

Does he camera have ptz?

Hi MikeBwca, no this is not a PTZ camera. I have an Amcrest fixed 4k dome 2 mm camera at the front door. Attached is an image of the front porch lights and the pole light that's causing the trigger event.

- How are you sending the alert to turn on the lights? MQTT, DDIO...?
- How do you tell BI to send an alert after the original trigger has completed?
- Even though the camera is not ptz, are the ptz buttons greyed out? Are the ptz command available in Alerts?

When you sent the alert to turn off the lights....
- Turn off motion detection on the camera.
- Issue command to turn off the lights.
- issue a 1-2 second WAIT command
- turn on motion detection.

- How are you sending the alert to turn on the lights? MQTT, DDIO...?
I'm using Webhooks to control my SmartLife light switches. (https://)
- How do you tell BI to send an alert after the original trigger has completed?
To reset the camera I send another webhook from Camera Settings -> Alerts -> On reset....
- Even though the camera is not ptz, are the ptz buttons greyed out? Are the ptz command available in Alerts?
The ptz commands are available under Alerts.

When you sent the alert to turn off the lights....
- Turn off motion detection on the camera.
How would I turn off motion detection on the camera, is this under the Do Command in the Alerts menu?
- Issue command to turn off the lights.
- issue a 1-2 second WAIT command
- turn on motion detection.

in the camera settings, Alert tab, under the timers section there is a bit that says 'Allow disarm time by delaying alerts' does this do anything?

Hi LOOPYLOOP, that setting from the documentation appears to be for delaying the Alerts. If you have the Sentry Smart Alert service running this will give it time to decide if it should fire the alert or not.

What I've done is set the profile to temp run 0 inactive on alert reset
Wait 3 seconds (run on profile 0)
Change profile to Run (on profile 0)

This should hopefully now have the camera ready for motion detection for three seconds after an alert it triggered. I'll test it tonight and let you all know.