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Settings internal Motion Sensor of Zipatile
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Hi,
I wan't to use the Zipatile PIR (Motion) Sensor more seriously - but it's initial setting is not appropriate for my purpose. Does someone know how the settings work? I need to play around which takes it's time if I don't know how to turn the knobs.
- PIR Sensitivity (0..100). Is a higher number a higher sensitivity or vice versa?
- PIR no motion interval in seconds. What is this exactly.
- After motion detected, the PIR is ignored for x sec and does not report motion?
- A detected motion is signalling motion for x sec, afterwards no-motion is signalled?
- something else?
BR
Raffael
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Hi,
Partly answered it myself: PIR sensitivity is logical and as the first guess:
100 is highest sensitivity, 0 is practically turning the sensor off.
That leaves me with the "PIR no motion interval in seconds" - still didn't figure out what it exactly does (time response and time resolution of Zipatile also makes it difficult to design an experiment to find it out). Anyone has a clue?
Thanks
Raffael
Hi,
Partly answered it myself: PIR sensitivity is logical and as the first guess:
100 is highest sensitivity, 0 is practically turning the sensor off.
That leaves me with the "PIR no motion interval in seconds" - still didn't figure out what it exactly does (time response and time resolution of Zipatile also makes it difficult to design an experiment to find it out). Anyone has a clue?
Thanks
Raffael
Raffael,
Most motion sensor have this setting, some of them refer to this setting as "blind time". This setting makes the sensor to be "blind" or incapable of detecting MOTION, during that period of time after a motion event has been detected. This is usually used for more fine tune of the sensor, if this is a high transit area is better to increase this time to save some battery (in case of battery powered devices), this basically makes your sensor more or less sensitive to detect events one after another. I hope I made myself clear.
If you want to test this setting put it on the maximum and see how much time the sensor delays on detecting another event, you maybe want to make a rule where it sends you a notification or something like that so you see the change
Raffael,
Most motion sensor have this setting, some of them refer to this setting as "blind time". This setting makes the sensor to be "blind" or incapable of detecting MOTION, during that period of time after a motion event has been detected. This is usually used for more fine tune of the sensor, if this is a high transit area is better to increase this time to save some battery (in case of battery powered devices), this basically makes your sensor more or less sensitive to detect events one after another. I hope I made myself clear.
If you want to test this setting put it on the maximum and see how much time the sensor delays on detecting another event, you maybe want to make a rule where it sends you a notification or something like that so you see the change
Alberto,
Thanks, thats more or less what I did and it's most likely a blank time indeed. As usual when you wan't to try something like this out, you get a double strike of Murphys law. Zipatile is in a phase with rather slow update rate and the user is impatient, both doesn't fit. In such events a better description of features would be of help ;-)
BR
Raffael
Alberto,
Thanks, thats more or less what I did and it's most likely a blank time indeed. As usual when you wan't to try something like this out, you get a double strike of Murphys law. Zipatile is in a phase with rather slow update rate and the user is impatient, both doesn't fit. In such events a better description of features would be of help ;-)
BR
Raffael
I agree, sometimes descriptions are confusing or not completely clear.
Alberto.
I agree, sometimes descriptions are confusing or not completely clear.
Alberto.
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