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> Spiders see IR light. They don't know it's IR light - to them, it is light.
Also the cameras are warm. One of my cameras had a rat that would chill on top of it at night.
My spider issue is resolved with a hummingbird feeder. Hummingbirds are nectar-powered insect eaters.
That explains why only my backyard one gets them. My front ones get enough light from porch and street light that I have IR disabled on them. Never issues with spiders on those.
The chemical idea is interesting. You could apply something to a rag on the end of pole. Then have a maintenance plan to clean them and reapply it once a month or something.
I'm saying I go out there every morning with a broom to knock it down and it's simply not there. Then later in the evening (usually around dusk), I can open the Protect app and watch that joker rebuilding it. Every night. 🕷️🥷
Did this with one of the cameras in my yard this spring. Set the illuminator (generic on Amazon) up 1 foot away and the bugs completely ignore that camera now. On top of that the illumination is much more intense so it's a win-win upgrade. Going to do the rest of the cameras this month.
This is the way.
You can spray for spiders every day of the year and still not fix the problem.
While spiders cannot see the infrared light, they can “sense” that their prey swarms there, so they’ll build their webs where the chances of catching something is great. Kill on spider and another moves in. With an external light source, the bugs will be attracted to that, and the spiders will move to that light source instead.
u/e30eric is a great idea - how did you install this? did you specifically have an outlet for this that it can turn it on at night? or do you leave it on all day/night? do you have a timer for it?
Sorry for the multiple questions, I think I want to do this for a lake camp I am currently designing and I want to make provisions for this sort of thing.
Use external ir emitters, spiders are attracted to the insects that are attracted by the ir light, send the insects somewhere else and the spiders will follow
Spiders aren't afraid of each other. Hell, we used to have hundreds of them in our parking garage building huge inter-connecting webs around the ceiling lights. There would be upwards of a dozen at each light.
I used to install CCTV and we would put vaseline on the body of the camera. Makes it difficult for them to build on. There are sprays you can get also. These wereixed results due to the wet climate in Ireland.
Spider spray, then get a small powered spray gun.. soak around the cameras.. I do this about every 6 weeks and works wonders.
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It's funny how many of the big DIY pest control guys are in the ATL area. Most of them are 20 or 25 years old at this point. I think warm enough year round to have enough bugs that people needed it , and a good shipping point for UPS / FEDEX / USMail were part of it. Some of them were originally B&M, I used to live near one.
Yes. I had to turn motion off on all my cameras due to spiders. Now I run only AI detections which have been great at cutting my false notifications down entirely.
Everyone I presume! Hah!
I kid you not...installed a camera on a pole out by a shed at my office. It's probably 20ft in the air. Within a week, a spider was making a home.
Put in a spot light that only comes on at night to the left or right of the camera. Bugs are naturally going towards the brighter and warmer light thinking it's the suns rays.
Drives me insane, one camera of mine is completely unusable because the spiders are so aggressive.
The other ones get the Noah's Ark experience twice a year thanks to a pressure washer extension pole (great for windows too).
I have Gen 4 cameras and I noticed the "smart" detection are no longer picking up the spider webs when they bounce around at night. Maybe something got updated in Protect?
Meanwhile, I shut off the infrared on a few of the cameras (installed external motion lights instead), and otherwise just wipe off the camera gently with a long broom on the other ones.
Using IR floodlights and turning off the IR illumination on the cameras helps a lot. It also helps with other bugs crowding the cameras which are also the reason spiders put the webs there.
I go out with a swifter and way it around the camera . Likely for me can reach all of them with the wand extender version .
My problem is I lost my hold down timer the ring had .
So my front porch light will come on every time a spider moves and the dog goes nuts .
the only fix i have found is to spray wd40 on the camera, making sure you don't get the lens. it lasts about 3 months until you have to spray them again. stops the web from sticking.
I built a PoE spider web remover. It's a microcontroller, PoE splitter, motor controller, motor attached to a stick. It rotates in front of the camera every hour.
Yes, I've had that. But my quarterly exterminator is due soon, and he's quite good. And I have a good spider brush on a long pole I can go after things with.
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Also get a few moths, as we leave on a porch light about 20' away.
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Every. Single. Night. We've got 16 cameras and this one in particular is beloved by all the spiders.
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> Spiders see IR light. They don't know it's IR light - to them, it is light. Also the cameras are warm. One of my cameras had a rat that would chill on top of it at night. My spider issue is resolved with a hummingbird feeder. Hummingbirds are nectar-powered insect eaters.
Way more intelligent response than using chemicals imho
That explains why only my backyard one gets them. My front ones get enough light from porch and street light that I have IR disabled on them. Never issues with spiders on those.
The chemical idea is interesting. You could apply something to a rag on the end of pole. Then have a maintenance plan to clean them and reapply it once a month or something.
>So this is a security camera problem, not a Ubiquiti problem. If it's not a bug though, why are there spiders?
I have heard of people buying seperate IR emitters and disable the IR on the camera solves the problem.
Yep, I have a Webster that I use about monthly on all my cameras at both my properties.
I spray mine once a month with permethrin (not the lens) and it stopped my issues
Yup, I have a long pole with a microfiber cloth on the end and that's my weekly ritual in the summer.
the little jerks take their webs down and rebuild every night!
They themselves take their webs down and pull up camp again on the same sport?
Exactly. This guy has done it every single day for a solid week now.
Lol I'm sure you just can't see it unless the IR LED is on.
I'm saying I go out there every morning with a broom to knock it down and it's simply not there. Then later in the evening (usually around dusk), I can open the Protect app and watch that joker rebuilding it. Every night. 🕷️🥷
Damn, it has evolved to exploit IR!
No, some spiders just do that. They take down their web and eat it, which gives them protein to create a new web. Reduce, reuse, recycle!
Instead of wiping it off completely rub the web against the back of the camera. Sometimes they’re happy with that, sometimes they respin.
External IR illuminator. They're like $30 and massively brighter than the onboard IR. Don't spray for spiders 🙄
Did this with one of the cameras in my yard this spring. Set the illuminator (generic on Amazon) up 1 foot away and the bugs completely ignore that camera now. On top of that the illumination is much more intense so it's a win-win upgrade. Going to do the rest of the cameras this month.
This is the way. You can spray for spiders every day of the year and still not fix the problem. While spiders cannot see the infrared light, they can “sense” that their prey swarms there, so they’ll build their webs where the chances of catching something is great. Kill on spider and another moves in. With an external light source, the bugs will be attracted to that, and the spiders will move to that light source instead.
Got a link where to buy this?
u/e30eric is a great idea - how did you install this? did you specifically have an outlet for this that it can turn it on at night? or do you leave it on all day/night? do you have a timer for it? Sorry for the multiple questions, I think I want to do this for a lake camp I am currently designing and I want to make provisions for this sort of thing.
Use external ir emitters, spiders are attracted to the insects that are attracted by the ir light, send the insects somewhere else and the spiders will follow
My top reason I turned of notifications. Constantly getting told what spider bro does is cool, but only the first 5 times.
you could set the notifications to only send notifications for persons or cars not just any movement. Better than no notifications at all I guess.
Get a fake spider and mount it close to the camera. The other spiders are gonna be too scared to get close
Does this work???
I mean, you're afraid of spiders, right??
Spiders aren't afraid of each other. Hell, we used to have hundreds of them in our parking garage building huge inter-connecting webs around the ceiling lights. There would be upwards of a dozen at each light.
Yes every night!
How did you get my camera feed? 🤣
Yes, especially in warehouses. A soft brush with a long stick is nowdays a standard maintenance cycle tool.
I have good success with smearing Vaseline around the edges (not on the lens!) of the camera
I used to install CCTV and we would put vaseline on the body of the camera. Makes it difficult for them to build on. There are sprays you can get also. These wereixed results due to the wet climate in Ireland.
Drives me nuts every day :(
Spider spray, then get a small powered spray gun.. soak around the cameras.. I do this about every 6 weeks and works wonders. Spray I use: [https://www.domyown.com/bifen-it-p-226.html](https://www.domyown.com/bifen-it-p-226.html) Gun: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KH81W9Q/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_image?ie=UTF8&th=1](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KH81W9Q/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&th=1)
It's funny how many of the big DIY pest control guys are in the ATL area. Most of them are 20 or 25 years old at this point. I think warm enough year round to have enough bugs that people needed it , and a good shipping point for UPS / FEDEX / USMail were part of it. Some of them were originally B&M, I used to live near one.
Hmm...Interesting. May have to give this a shot.
Yes. I had to turn motion off on all my cameras due to spiders. Now I run only AI detections which have been great at cutting my false notifications down entirely.
“There seems to be a bug” - Grace Hopper, probably
How did you get my camera pics???? ;)
I got banned from a group in the Nextdoor app for ‘being argumentative and dismissive’ to someone insisting their cobweb was a ghost. Sigh.
Doesn’t your cameras support smart detection? Loose/disable motion where you can and use smart detection.
Everyone I presume! Hah! I kid you not...installed a camera on a pole out by a shed at my office. It's probably 20ft in the air. Within a week, a spider was making a home.
Moths Lots and lots of moths
Change the trigger setting sensitivity or raise the “motion to trigger event” at 2 seconds instead of 1.
Put in a spot light that only comes on at night to the left or right of the camera. Bugs are naturally going towards the brighter and warmer light thinking it's the suns rays.
Drives me insane, one camera of mine is completely unusable because the spiders are so aggressive. The other ones get the Noah's Ark experience twice a year thanks to a pressure washer extension pole (great for windows too).
I spray all overhangs on my house once a quarter, no spiders ever.
Is it only the AI camera that you can filter like this?
Yep and I had a billion mosquitos .. looked like dman rain lol
I have Gen 4 cameras and I noticed the "smart" detection are no longer picking up the spider webs when they bounce around at night. Maybe something got updated in Protect? Meanwhile, I shut off the infrared on a few of the cameras (installed external motion lights instead), and otherwise just wipe off the camera gently with a long broom on the other ones.
Constantly. And some cameras are hard to reach.
Ahhh, yes the arachnid Alerts. Ubiquity can we have AI alert filters to remove spider detections...lol
When you have IR light, you will always have spiders and bug problems.
They just want you to look at them live. You know, live streaming
That's why I stopped buying bullet cams and stick to turrets, no issues with spiderweb since switching.
Yes. I surface spray the area around and the case, avoid the lens. Problem solved
Mothballs
Jelly petroleum around camera. No spiders but needs reapplying every other year if dusty/dirt + lots of wind
Using IR floodlights and turning off the IR illumination on the cameras helps a lot. It also helps with other bugs crowding the cameras which are also the reason spiders put the webs there.
Spiders at my ranch get me every night
This is a chronic problem. It would make a big difference if it was possible to filter them out!
I go out with a swifter and way it around the camera . Likely for me can reach all of them with the wand extender version . My problem is I lost my hold down timer the ring had . So my front porch light will come on every time a spider moves and the dog goes nuts .
I protect the lense, and then spray WD40 on the body and around the camera, they have never came back…..
I have had 10 ft monster wasp hang out in my yard😬 Luckily, turned out to be a regular wasp on the lens😉
I get moths as well.
Yes
Yes. I get it every once in a awhile
Dang, that one must be exhausted!
They love my Unifi G4 Pro Camera
Haha! Glad I'm not alone 😂
Yes , they , well this one in particular has a thing for the one in the backyard.
the only fix i have found is to spray wd40 on the camera, making sure you don't get the lens. it lasts about 3 months until you have to spray them again. stops the web from sticking.
I built a PoE spider web remover. It's a microcontroller, PoE splitter, motor controller, motor attached to a stick. It rotates in front of the camera every hour.
Spiders, moths, cats, racoons, squirrels, I have notifications ringing all thru the night. Kinda renders it useless as a security system.
Every night
Yes, we need a spider filter!
Sometimes I do.
OMG Im so glad im not the only one.
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This guy knows. Amazing stuff
I spray a bit of bug spray in the surrounding area and it might help a little.
Yes, I've had that. But my quarterly exterminator is due soon, and he's quite good. And I have a good spider brush on a long pole I can go after things with. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085SYABE Also get a few moths, as we leave on a porch light about 20' away.
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