Dahua HFW3549, No Clips

Kaos

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Jan 11, 2015
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Dahua 5MP IPC-HFW3549 bullet cam, This camera has a built in alarm which is setup to activate on the human and vehicle tripwire setting. It works as intended. I have it running thru BI to send MMS to my phone on any motion alert. I'm getting motion alerts text, but there are no clips to view. I have it set on continuous recording, but can't figure out why there are no clips for the motion alerts. Any suggestions?
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As an aside, change the "combine and cut" time to one hour. Makes it easier to review a full clip when it's only an hour versus eight hours and they will rarely get to 4GB.

In the alert, do you have "include a snapshot" enabled?
 
As an aside, change the "combine and cut" time to one hour. Makes it easier to review a full clip when it's only an hour versus eight hours and they will rarely get to 4GB.

In the alert, do you have "include a snapshot" enabled?
yes. I am getting a snapshot.
 
Post a snapshot of the configuration for the alert.
 
Configuration for the alert...
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How about "Actions - On Alert". That's what's important and click edit on the action and post that too.
 
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Well Bi is doing what it is configured for. If you want a clip, go to the Trigger tab, Immediate Actions, add an email message and check the "add video" box and set what you want there in terms of length and so on.
 
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I was originally referring to the clips in BI. It was showing clips that were created for the time (8hr) rule. I changed that at your suggestion to 1hr. I restarted BI and now it it showing new clips. I'm a little confused as to why, but thanks for your help.
 
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It literally could have been a glitch when BI loaded that produced that. Strange things happen sometimes. I don't know that all this did anything but the restart sure did. Glad it's working properly again.