How to Set up Smart Motion Detection for Your Camera

In this section, we will gather the guides on how to set up motion detection for your camera. If you are in a mess dealing with such a problem, please read and follow them step by step.

Applies to: All Reolink cameras with smart detection (except battery-powered cameras)

First, you could adjust the detection sensitivity for any motion, a person, vehicle, or pet:

• How to Configure Motion Detection Sensitivity for Reolink Cameras

Second, you can customize alarm delay to reduce AI false alarms. For example, if you set a 2s alarm delay for a person, and if the person moves within the camera's detection area for less than 2 seconds, the camera will not be triggered:

• How to Set up Alarm Delay via Reolink App

• How to Set up Alarm Delay via Reolink Client (New Client)

What's more, you can set a minimum/maximum object size to reduce AI false alarms. You could filter out those people/vehicles/pets that are too large or too small:

• How to Set the Maximum and Minimum Object Size via the Reolink App (Video)

• How to Set up Object Size via Reolink Client

Last but not least, if you don't want the camera to detect motions in a certain area, you can set a detection zone. 

• How to Set Up Motion Detection Zone