DashOne Pro motion detection setting?

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  • #17710
    T_Holloway
    Member

    Got the DashOne Pro set up last week and it’s fine for driving. But the motion detection mode in parking keeps triggering on random stuff like trees moving. Is there a sensitivity setting I’m missing? Not trying to record every leaf that blows by.

    #17731
    Mike Steel
    Member

    Mine picks up swaying branches too, and changing the angle so the hood fills more of the frame cut most of it out for me. The menu does have a sensitivity option, it’s just buried in the parking settings rather than the main menu.

    #17755
    HanSoloHanSolo
    Participant

    Motion detection on these things is pretty crude no matter what the box claims. Mine fires at passing clouds if the light shifts enough, and there’s no real sensitivity slider to fix that. Turning it off and just leaving normal parking recording on ate through my card faster but at least it caught actual cars.

    #17776
    Derek Sloan
    Member

    Sensitivity menu is there but it barely does anything on mine. I turned it down and the thing still went off every time a shadow moved across the hood. I just leave parking mode off now, the constant clips were eating my card anyway.

    #17799

    Motion detection on these is basically a light sensor, so it’ll never ignore everything you want it to. I’d just leave parking mode off unless the car sits somewhere you actually care about. The driving footage is the part that matters anyway.

    #17819
    Rob CRob C
    Member

    Sensitivity slider is about the extent of it, and it’s not exactly a precision instrument. Mine went off for a plastic bag once, so I just set it to low and accepted the false alarms as the price of having it at all.

    #17838
    Lisa Muller
    Member

    Mine mostly behaved once I set it to the lower sensitivity and pointed it slightly down, so the sky isn’t in view. It still catches a car door opening in the next spot, which is what I actually want it for.

    #17856

    Sensitivity is there but the bigger issue for me was the recording length per trigger. Mine would fire at a car pulling out of the driveway across the street, record a short clip, then go quiet for a bit before the next trigger. So even with the slider turned down I was getting a bunch of little files that were mostly nothing. What actually helped was moving the cam so it points more at my own bumper and less down the street. The parking mode is only watching that slice of the frame, so if there is less open space for stuff to move through, fewer triggers happen. Not a perfect fix and I still get the odd one when the light changes hard, but the random ones mostly stopped. If you want parking mode on for actual security, the tradeoff is you kind of have to accept some junk clips. Curious how long your clips are running before it resets, since that might tell you if it is really the motion setting or just the loop timing.

    #17874
    T_Holloway
    Member

    I haven’t actually timed the clips, so I couldn’t tell you if it’s the loop timing or the motion setting. The sensitivity slider is the only adjustment I’ve found in the menu. Couldn’t point out a better fix than that.

    #17892

    If the slider is all you’ve got, then the menu isn’t hiding anything else from you. I’d just set it low and check the card after a day or two to see how many junk clips pile up. If it’s still constant, parking mode might not be worth leaving on for your spot.

    #17918
    Mark Carrell
    Member

    The sensitivity setting is easy to miss since it’s buried a couple menus deep, but even at the lowest notch mine still fired pretty often in the driveway. What surprised me was how much of the trigger came from the headlights of passing cars sweeping across the hood rather than actual movement. I ended up turning parking mode off for home and only using it in lots where I actually care about footage. For the price it does the driving part fine, which is most of what I wanted anyway.

    #17938
    HarrY
    Member

    The sensitivity slider is the only control, and it’s pretty coarse. Mine still picks up moving shadows at the lowest notch, so calling it a real fix is generous.

    #17962
    Sam Writes
    Member

    Mine still triggers on the neighbor’s porch light flicking on.

    #17980
    Devon Lee
    Member

    Motion detection on these things is basically a coin flip in my experience. Trees, shadows, a cat wandering past, it all counts as movement. The sensitivity setting helps a bit but it’s never going to know the difference between a leaf and a person. I’d say park facing away from anything that sways if you can, that made more difference for me than fiddling with menus. Also worth pulling the card after a day or two just to see what it’s actually capturing, sometimes it’s less junk than you’d think.

    #18000
    Nate Harlow
    Member

    Mine quit false-triggering once I dropped it to the lowest notch.

    #18022
    Mike38
    Member

    Is the motion detection actually adjustable on this thing or is the parking mode just one fixed setting? That would be my concern before buying. Trees setting it off constantly would get old fast.

    #18040
    T_Holloway
    Member

    There’s a sensitivity slider in the menu, so it’s not one fixed setting. Whether it’s enough to stop the trees is a different story. I’ve only had mine a week and haven’t messed with it enough to say.

    #18062
    Mike38
    Member

    Good to know it’s at least there. A slider that barely does anything is still better than nothing, but I’d want to hear from someone who’s actually parked near trees for a month before I count on it.

    #18085
    Ella Riddle
    Member

    I’d just turn motion detection off when parked and rely on the impact sensor.

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