Outdoor camera keeps randomly detect motion at night

@Woowee_oowee  I have two outdoor cameras, both using the AC adapter so I don't worry about climbing ladders to swap batteries. Highly recommend you use the AC adapter or the solar panel. That aside, note that rainfall, sleet or snow can make your camera start recording. Depends on lighting conditions, tree limbs in the wind moving etc. Mine rarely now record in error but it took some "tweaking" to get them there. First, use the provide "zone" settings to exclude any area you wan the camara to ignore for motion. For me, if its beyond the sidewalk next to the street, don't care, so they are excluded. Next, the sensitivity setting. Mine are both set on medium, not high. If still an issue call support. Good luck.

@Woowee_oowee the Captain has some excellent advice. I would also add that the Outdoor Camera does use a built-in Motion Sensor that works like the one we have for the main system; that is, it works by detecting sources of heat that are moving around in the scene. So if you're getting ghost triggers, it might be worth thinking about heat-generating objects nearby. Maybe outdoor lamps or vents?

Unfortunately I am seeing the exact same issue, recording every other minutes, no video whatsoever! I’ve adjusted motion to almost nothing, switch the night vision and even took it down face in a corner with nothing going on.

I'm having the EXACT same problem. It happens only at night and it's detecting motion every 3 minutes at dusk. By the morning, the battery is dead. The outdoor camera is basically useless. 

I have 3 outdoor cameras and they all did this the first week I had them.  I removed the battery and changed the setting to high motion and PEOPLE ONLY.  I have not had an issue in over a month.  Hopefully they will fix the glitch, because I would prefer all motion.  

Does anyone know if this has been fixed?  I just got an outdoor camera.  Installed it yesterday and it went off constantly last night.  Battery drained itself within 4 hours.  First 3 hours there seem to be recording but no motion of any sort,  the last 1 hour of "motion" the recording was all blank.   Was planning to buy another 1/2 dozen outdoor cameras but not if they don't work.
I had motion set to low, set to people only and set lots of zones not to monitor.  Didn't seem to make any difference.  Also set night vision to standard, but in the recording it looks like the spotlight is still lit.

I continue to experience the same as many on this thread - the constant recording of nothing!  Is there a fix for the constant "triggering" of the outdoor cameras?  I have three cameras monitoring my driveway and house exterior, and it happens to each one.  During the night, once something triggers the camera - animal, early morning paper delivery, etc. - the camera records all night long, every three minutes, until daybreak.  Conversely, if nothing triggers the camera for the first time after dark, the camera remains quiet all night.  I do not think it is where my camera is located, nor do I think it's a bad camera as, it happens to all three of my cameras.  I have also tried a variety of settings and it continues to happen.  Extremely frustrating.  As another piece of info, when I replace the outdoor camera, same location, with an indoor camera/exterior cover, the camera works as I would expect.  It only records "expected" motion.  I would prefer to keep the outdoor camera because it is a better weatherproof camera.

i have giving up on this, it’s been months the fact that many are reporting this and the have not made it a priority to fix shows where they stand. Maybe all with this issue should start calling in because posting on hear only notify those of us that post it following the post 

Having the same issue. In fact, I actually turned off motion detection completely and I  am still getting push notifications detecting motion. The spotlight is on too even though I have disabled that as well. Beyond frustrated with the product

Same thing just started happening to me this evening. I even turned off motion events and notifications and I was still getting notifications about non-existent motion. 

Same issue for me.

I have had my camera for less that a week and yesterday around 630 pm it started "capturing motion" every 2 minutes but there is no video of whatever it keeps capturing. I have tried everything I can think of to stop it but nothing works. I mean literally NOTHING will stop it. Before going to bed, I disabled notifications because I didn't want my phone going off every 2 minutes and even turned off motion detection and yes I did save it but, I get up this morning and the battery is dead because it was still detecting motion after I turned it off. I checked this morning and motion detection is still off.

VERY pointless to have a camera with a dead battery.

I just dumped ADT because my cameras would never notify me and they were always off line.

Now I have a camera that notifies me about everything under the sun and moon but doesn't even capture a video and then because it is so over agressive, I'm left with a dead camera.

SMH.