Motion Detection
Adjust Motion Sensitivity
Motion sensitivity may need to be adjusted for the following reasons:
- Improve motion detection sensitivity, particularly if you have only a few pods and/or Wi-Fi connected devices.
- There are obstructions that are making it difficult for your pods and devices to detect motion in some areas.
- You are getting too many false motion alerts because of your pets or robotic vacuums.
- Low (less sensitive to motion intensity)
- Medium (default)
- High (more sensitive to motion intensity)
If you choose High sensitivity, you can also choose the Have Pets at home option to help filter out their movement in your home. This increases the duration of movement needed to trigger an alert from 2 seconds to 5 seconds.
After choosing your sensitivity setting, use the Live View and test the results in all the areas you want to detect motion in.
- From the Home screen, select the App settings tab on the navigation bar. Tap the Sense
- Toggle Sense is turned off. It is turned off by default.
- Once turned on, you can choose your Motion Sensitivity
- Alternatively, scroll to Sense at the bottom of the Home Toggle Sense is turned off. Click on Sense. Once active, it will bring you to the Sense screen where you can adjust Motion Sensitivity and toggle Have pets at your home.
Motion Alert Notifications
When Sense Alerts is enabled, push notifications will be sent to your device whenever the system detects motion. You can enable these notifications to send all the time or only while nobody is at home using the Smart Activation feature.
Assign a primary device to each user to ensure Sense can properly determine when no one is home. Enable People notifications.
To enable notifications:
- From the Home screen, tap on the Sense
- Scroll down to the option Sense Alerts and tap on the Bell to enable the notifications.
For notifications settings:
- From the Home screen, select the App settings
- Tap on the Sense
- Under Modes and alerts, slide the Smart Activation toggle to the right if you want to receive alerts while nobody is at home. The presence of people is determined by each person’s primary device.
- Set the minimum Time between alerts to either 1 Mins, 2 Mins, 3 Mins or 5 Mins. This prevents you from getting too many notifications if a motion alert gets triggered immediately after another one.
Use the toggle at the top of the Sense page to turn Sense alerts from ON to OFF.
Creating Rooms
You can group devices by room to improve motion detection accuracy. For example, if a bedroom has a smart TV, smart speaker and voice assistant, motion detection on any of these devices can be localized.
- From the Home screen, enable Once Sense is enabled, a list of eligible devices will populate. Assign devices to a room.
- Tap on one of the devices in the unassigned device list.
- Enter the name of the room for this device. Tap on Save.
- If there is more than one device in that room, tap on the +
- From the device list, add a green checkmark next to all the devices in that room. Tap on Add.
- Repeat the previous three steps until all devices have been assigned a room.
