Help setting up CCTV to home network

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forrestfanstill, seen this and thought of you. only 1mp but £17 + postage???
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/digoo-bb-m2-mini-wifi-ip-camera-16-73-banggood-2631550

forestfanstill

Our driveway is where the crossing is and as we are a corner house having the cameras cover our driveway and cars naturally covers that anyway it is not that we are actively recording them. once a car skidded due to not seeing the crossing and went into the back of our car pushing it into the porch and house insurance would not pay and driver who crashed was not insured so we lost out

EdwardB

I was looking at a standalone camera of a friend, was a Swann, a pile of junk mostly but I was able to get to back end, it had FTP, Email etc but my concern was that it was being set off all the time by cars or lights.

On motion detect it generated 4mb files but they wanted to have it on 24/7 without a PC or DVR, it generated 8gb or 9gb in videos while I was testing. Even if I could find online storage the upload speed of ADSL would be an issue.

I thought these things used compression

I did look at iSpy and a few other solutions

I loved this plugin for iSpy

http://www.iplugs.eu/pl_playonce.html

forgotmyname

If its half decent it should compress to H264 which is quite good, unless your trying to compress 4k or better video or have 16 camera's.

A cheap DVR with a 1TB+ drive works well. I picked up a cheap 16 camera one a while back. Looked similar to the ones Maplins sell, but for a fraction of the price. UK seller also, local one so i picked it up.

EdwardB

it is H264 but i think there are still some settings, but sort of defeats the objrct if te quality is too poor as will not be able to ID them.

Is it normal for car headlights to set off at night?

I tried reducing sensitivity but then it would not pick up people walking across the zone.

Owain_Moneysaver

Strider590 wrote: »

DPA doesn't apply to domestic CCTV.


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/aug/31/householders-cctv-public-highway-film

That was in 2010. The law has since been clarified by the European Court and the ICO has revised its guidance

If your camera covers, even partially, any areas beyond the boundaries of your property, such as neighbouring gardens or the street, then it will no longer be exempt from the Data Protection Act (DPA) under the domestic purposes exemption. This does not mean that you are breaching the DPA but it does mean that you might need to take some steps to comply with it.

https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/cctv/

forgotmyname

Headlights will be detected as a change in the image so yes they can be triggered as movement.
What you should be able to do is set certain areas of the image to be removed from the detection zones.

Mine gives a 12 x 12 grid and you can select which ones activate the movement.

Is it not recording 24/7? It could be saving the video twice, one as the main recording and another for movement.

Whats the bitrate for the files? Are they actually H264?

EdwardB

forgotmyname wrote: »

Headlights will be detected as a change in the image so yes they can be triggered as movement.
What you should be able to do is set certain areas of the image to be removed from the detection zones.

Mine gives a 12 x 12 grid and you can select which ones activate the movement.

Is it not recording 24/7? It could be saving the video twice, one as the main recording and another for movement.

Whats the bitrate for the files? Are they actually H264?

Yep has a grid but lights seem to set it off before they even get close

24/7 is not going to be an option because it uses too much space

This was from an alert, 19 sec video taking 4mb

EdwardB

full time recording do not have details in file, they are 500mb for 2.5 hours.

kwikbreaks

I just took a look at my H246 DVR,

I have 2 720p cameras recording 24x7 at 2290Kbps 12fps + 2 more 720p on motion detect only + 1 lower res camera on motion detect.

The recodings show as starting at ~13:00 on 24th Feb til now ~ 23:00 on 14 March

I think you are either misinterpreting what your disk is holding or you have something wrong in the settings. A 1TB drive should be good for at least a week with 4 720p cameras recording 24x7 and longer if you set the bitrate or framerate lower than mine.

If you want to monitor a parked car you need it 24x7. I have mine split into 15 min chunkx so you can skip through files looking for the one where some change took place. If there is no noticeable change then you are pretty much scuppered without a very good time estimate.

Here is a clip from my earlier lo-res camera from when a bag was stolen from a neighbours car. It took me an absolute age to find because I only had a rough time and there was no obvious scene change. They put the video on Facebook and the culprit was recognised by several people despite the poor quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXU9Bj_MVPQ

My new setup is a lot better although this clip demos a fault...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hDSjwTtO3c