Recent content by zhill29

Hey guys, just had this idea today and thought I'd share. Its been bitterly cold here in SD the past couple weeks and my furnace has been acting up. (Woke up this morning to a 50* house.) So I had this idea, I have an old thermostat I used to use with a shop furnace laying around so I hooked...

Yeah but it only seems like a push notification works if the BI app is currently running on my phone. Which its usually not.

Is there away to setup BI to make a phone call via voip without additional hardware and preferably for free? I have one camera I would like to make call me if it detects motion. (Email would work but I have a tenancy to ignore emails for a bit before I notice them) I assume there would be some...

I guess I'm not sure, but I think most of them are MJPEG

I have various ones. A couple are Advidia's, a Panasonic, Anran, Netcat, and a couple others I don't recall the brand names of. The only one that plays clips is the Panasonic because I have that one set to encode in H264 because I needed to flip the video in BI. (Camera doesn't give option to)

It is recording in BVR.

Just installed this, everything seems to work ok except for playing back clips. The only ones that play back are the ones that were recorded before I set the cameras up to record direct to disk. Any ideas?

Ok thanks, I will leave it as BVR for now and figure out how to import and play them on my laptop later. I just changed all but one camera to direct to disk and it made a huge difference on cpu usage. Dropped from around 55% to 28-30%

Is there any real advantage of using BVR format over AVI? I would like to have another computer on the network uploading some footage to a cloud server just in case the BI server was ever stolen. (There have been some shop robberies around here where they took the cameras DVR's while they were...

Nevermind, I just googled it. Now I know. I will try that out and see what it does. Now I guess I'll have to go turn on the time stamps on all the cameras again. :P

I've seen that said around here a few times. I assumed they were just referring to recording to a local disk on the computer vs network attached storage? Am I way off?

Yeah having it set up this way was nice, but as I added a few more cameras it started to take a toll on my CPU usage even with the continuous cameras set to the lowest resolution. (This computer isn't 100% dedicated to BI) I resorted to setting all the cameras to trigger if so much as a ant...

Thanks again!

Ok one more thing, I didn't see anything in the camera settings about cloning I'm assuming I would just add the same camera again? Or is there a better way?

Cool! Thanks for the fast reply!