Spiders driving my system crazy

[jmmatthews20]

I've been having trouble with spiders building webs on my foscam bullet cams and when they switch to IR I get motion alerts on blue Iris like crazy. I have been using the person detection but I still get a lot of false alarms. Any tips?

[TimG]

Hi, for my Dahua, I have turned off the IR, which is enough in the UK to prevent most spiders from sunbathing in front of the camera. Additional separate IR lighting could be one answer. I also have motion detection on that camera sending a json message to Homeseer to turn the normal outside lights on.

[HeneryH]

Bullet cams are notorious for that. Turrets fare much better.

I wonder if there are any repellents that work for decent amounts of time.

[TimG]

The added benefit of turning the camera IR off, is that it no longer trips repeatedly with fog. And we get a lot of that in blighty

[LOOPYLOOP]

i used some repellent spray from amazon once (spraying the sides and around the camera avoiding the lens), i stopped using it though just in case it was toxic to the blue tits that started helping clear the cobwebbs by eating the spiders. i now use a really long duster every so often to clear what the tits miss.

[TimG]

With my two analogue cameras mounted just under the eaves, the IR is simply on at night with no control available. These do attract spiders, and are terrible in fog. I noted that there are various ventilation holes in the horizontal boards which allow a new spider to quickly replace the one I have just removed, but spraying fly killer spray into the hidden cavity has massively reduced this.

[LOOPYLOOP]

but spraying fly killer spray into the hidden cavity has massively reduced this.

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