Hik Vision CCTV Line Crossing

[Alan G]

I have recently purchased an HIK CCTV system and I am struggling setting line crossing ,

The Motion Detection works fine with Hik Connect on my I Phone , but I do get loads of alarms due to Cobwebs , Spiders and Pigeons etc , It was suggested to use Spiderex spray along with line crossing , I get how to set up line crossing but am unsure which recording settings it needs to run with:

Continuous
Motion
Alarm
Motion | Alarm
Motion & Alarm
Event

The retailer tells me I can only use it on one channel but the manual suggest it works on all 4 either way it triggers the line crossing on the one channel I have used to test it but sends no recording to playback on Hik Connect just the pop up as a message . Is it my recording settings? Should it run under Motion Detection and do I just clear the down areas in basic motion detection , will it only work on one channel?

Any advice would be much appreciated

Alan

 

[Phil23]

Event recording is what you want here.

Got caught out in the same way with my NVR in the early days.

Cheers.

 

[Alan G]

Thanks Phil I won't tell you how many hours I have spent on this! So I turn off motion detection then replace it with Event for that channel , do you have any idea if there is a limit to the channels I can have line crossing on?

 

[Phil23]

I use either Line Crossing or Intrusion detection on all 12 or my cameras on a DS-7616NI-I2 / 16P.

Some cameras use both & have one of the events linked on a time schedule to the alarm output.

The alarm output is connected across the switch of a wireless doorbell so I get a notification inside after hours for intrusions in certain areas.

Much less false triggering than motion detection, although some of the areas are still triggered by the odd stray cat.


Cheers.