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Troubleshooting
Part 7

Troubleshooting

Expand the symptom you have and work through the checks from the top.

A rule does not run
  1. Confirm the controller is connected and monitoring has been started with Start.Nothing is detected while stopped.
  2. Confirm the rule's switch is on.
  3. Check whether any required condition is switched off.
  4. Check whether the schedule includes the current time.
  5. Confirm at least one ordinary condition exists.A rule with only sub conditions never runs.
Changes are not taking effect

Cause: the controller runs the settings it received at start time.

  1. Click Stop.
  2. Click Start again to send the new settings.
A rule runs too often
  1. Raise Sustained for and Reset after.
  2. Raise the confidence or threshold for the analysis.
  3. Draw a detection zone to exclude traffic outside the area of interest.
Detections are missed
  1. Lower the hold time and the threshold.
  2. Check that Detection FPS is not too low.If it is, brief events fall between analyses.
  3. For faces, check whether Min Face Area is excluding people who are far away.
A specific object or plate is never recognized

Cause: target values are compared exactly as written.

  1. Select objects from the list rather than typing them.
  2. Check plates for stray spaces.
A person is recognized as someone else
  1. Raise the face Threshold.
  2. Enroll additional photos of both people.
  3. Check that you enrolled them in the analysis of the camera that misrecognizes them.Each analysis keeps its own list, so enrolling on one camera does not affect another.
Notifications do not arrive
  1. Check the events area to confirm the rule ran.If it did not, see "A rule does not run".
  2. Check that the Grablo app is installed on the phone.
  3. Check that the app is signed in with the same account.
  4. Check that notifications are allowed in the phone's settings.
The log is empty
  1. Check that the rule has a Logging action.Records are written only by rules with one.
  2. If only older records are missing, check the retention setting.Records beyond the retention limit are deleted.
A video does not play
  1. If you see Recording…, wait for saving to finish.
  2. If you see No video, the file was not saved.If clips are too large, reduce the pre-event and post-event durations.
One camera shows no picture

Cause: the controller cannot reach that camera.

  1. Check the camera's power and network.
  2. Check whether the camera's address or password changed.
  3. Check that the camera is on the same network as the controller.
Overall performance is slow

Cause: there are more analyses than the hardware can support.

  1. Lower Detection FPS.
  2. Lower Mode.QR/Barcode, OCR, and Custom Classification have no Mode, so only Detection FPS applies to them.
  3. If it is still slow, delete analyses no rule uses.
A rule stopped after deleting an item

Cause: cameras, integrations, and analyses are shared between rules. Deleting one leaves the rules that used it without a target, and they stop.

  1. Open the stopped rule and select the target again.
  2. Next time, review the list of places an item is used, shown before deletion.
If the problem persists Use Contact Us in the account menu. Include the rule name, the time of occurrence, and the expected versus actual behavior to speed up diagnosis.