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Aiming Your Camera
PIR Motion
Detector
The Passive Infrared Motion Detector on your HyperFire 2™ camera is aligned with
the camera lens to give you the best chance of capturing subjects that come into the
field of view of the camera, while not triggering on subjects outside the view of the
camera.
The motion detector can detect movement up to 100 feet (30 m) away. However, the
detection range is dependent on the size and temperature of the subject (relative to
ambient temp) as well as the speed at which the subject is moving.
The HyperFire 2™ Security camera’s active detection zones are identical to the
detection zones on the 1
st
generation of Hyperfire cameras (shown in red below).
Camera aim is critical to maximize detection range. The default setting for PIR type is
“Long Range”.
So, by default your HyperFire 2
™
camera will be a bit more sensitive
to motion than your original HyperFire camera was. If you would like it to be identical,
choose “HF Legacy” for PIR Type.
For the camera to trigger two things need to happen:
1)
An object with a temperature different from the background temperature must be
present within the field of view of the motion detector (shown in red) (i.e.
something warmer or colder than the ambient temperature).
2)
That object (with a temperature differential) must move horizontally within the
active zone approximately 1/8
th
of the way across the field of view of the camera.
