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Depends on what you mean by "in a certain area". You can mark off areas in the view of a camera that you consider interesting, and, if a person is detected in one of them you can get an announcement played on any cast receiver (i.e. any chromecast device, android tv, Google Home device, etc), or...

Yes, the option to do that is still available. Send mail to support@camect.com asking about it and mention that you came from this forum. Thanks.

Not Camect. Your video is never sent to the cloud. Camect AI is 100% local to that little box with a Celeron J3455 and 4GB of RAM :-). It will work even if your internet connection is down. Without internet, you won't be able to get notifications or email alerts, but you can review the alerts...

There aren't any filters for weather, and you shouldn't need them .... One major point of Camect is you shouldn't get nonsense alerts from weather. Camect sends you alerts when it detects specific objects in the video... so if you get any alerts from snow, it would be due to incorrect detections...

5 cameras were used as an example in the price comparison -- if that's what you're looking at -- because the price comparison gets more favorable to Camect the more cameras you use, and 5 is still what an "average" home has. The actual limit is roughly 24MP of total camera resolution ... i.e...

The "5th generation or later" covers the GPU -- The later intel processor generations have much better integrated GPUs. What you'll need also depends on how much camera capacity you're hooking up to it, of course -- hence the requirement to include cameras and resolutions as well as processor...

It can mostly replace your NVR, except that it does not have a PoE switch built into the back of it like your Dahua NVR does if your cameras plug into the back of the NVR. If you want replace your NVR outright, you'd have to plug your cameras into a PoE switch to power them and connect them to...

For people of sufficient technical ability, we do provide the option to try running our software on your own intel x86 hardware as long as your hardware meets the minimum specs. You must minimally be very comfortable with the idea of reinstalling an OS from scratch, as you'll have to do that if...

We are not looking at SmartThings yet, but it is a reasonably popular integration request and we are likely to look at it eventually after we get to the top two, which are Alexa and Google Home. Note that we'll also have an integration API that someone else could use to do an integration even...

By the way, in case anyone is still following this thread, we set up a live demo of Camect object detection alerts by taking two random cameras (not under our control) that are streaming publicly to youtube, hooking them up to Camect, and sending email alerts produced to a Google group. You can...

Thanks so much for the support, and please do feel free to spread the word. We need whatever publicity we can get to get it off the ground. We're also offering an 11% commission on referrals (via camect.kickbooster.me) in case anyone wants to convince their less-technical friends that this is...

No concrete promise on this, but like many other intro subscription offers, it's very likely that if you sign up at $60/yr we're going to let you renew at that price too as long as there is no interruption in subscription. The price for signup after device delivery is yet to be determined. And...

There's no explicit limit on USB disk or NAS size that we're aware of. (None that we impose, and I don't think the linux kernel does either.) If you really load it up with a giant NAS and also have max camera load it's theoretically possible that it could start to have memory issues having to...

It is actually wall-mountable, more by accident than by design. (We used a standard case offered by the factory, and it turned out to be wall mountable.) 24M is the max recommended total resolution of your cameras. (If they add to more than that, your load is likely too much for this CPU to...

Oh... Thanks. If that's what he meant then the answer is yes, as you suspected.

Earlier on in the thread I asked if anyone was willing to share access to a camera so we could hook it up for a demo of the object detection. I didn't get any volunteers for that, but I don't blame people for not wanting to port forward. For Nest, Arlo, or Wyze access can be shared securely, so...

Unless your network is close to the edge, yes, Camect will work fine in parallel with BI. It will pull a separate copy of the video stream from your cameras (which isn't going to be a problem for most cameras) and will thus double the amount of video traffic on your network. It's $60/yr for...

All of this stuff is "just" software ... so it probably could be incorporated with enough effort, and I expect that someone will eventually do something like this for BI, but we wouldn't want to be the ones doing it :). That's in part because it's hard to tell whether the market is large enough...

Camect and BI aren't really intended for the same type of user, so it doesn't make sense to make claims about which is better per se -- Maybe about which is better suited to what you're looking for. We're trying to be a system based on local video that's accessible to the type of person that...

We're using SSD + MobileNet with quite a bit of our own tweaks ... When we started working on this, the results were much better with SSD (given the constraints of our platform) than YOLO v2. Since then YOLO v3 came out and we need to redo the comparison at some point, although the SSD results...

The AI analytics are mostly on on the CPU at the moment. We do use the integrated intel GPU extensively for encoding and decoding though. No support for an external GPU yet.

Just in case there was any confusion ... Port forwarding is not something you'd ever need to do using Camect the way it's supposed to be used -- i.e. recording from cameras on your own network. It was mentioned purely in the context of wondering if anyone wants to try the analytics with us...

Camect does provide an alternative to a VPN, but it cannot make an Arlo or Nest more secure -- because your cloud camera is still going to send its data to the cloud. Camect works by fetching the data back from the cloud -- These integrations are mainly a way for people with Nest or Arlo to try...

Yeah, I mostly agree with you about the Vstarcam. That's a pretty old recommendation and at the time we added it it was quite cheap compared to the others. Now that we support Wyze it might be a better "cheap camera to play with" recommendation. The only downside (for an unsophisticated user)...

FD: I'm one of the Camect founders. Camect's subscription isn't required. You get a perfectly usable system with functionality comparable to BI (but targeted at a less sophisticated user) with no subscription. BI does give you alert delivery, whereas we don't ... but on the other hand we give...