It really depends on your purpose. Continuous recording would actually violate my purpose, which is to view all incidents of motion that occur during certain time periods. I'm not going to watch 12 hours of video from 8pm to 8am when the goal is to see the 20 minutes of motion that occur in that time frame. If on the other hand you have a human watching the cameras 24/7 and have legal compliance requirements, yeah, do what you want. BTW, Blue Iris allows setting a "buffer" to record prior to the motion detection triggering, which is highly recommended. I have mine set to record video starting 10 seconds before motion is detected, which catches most of those edge cases.
Nor would I...which is one reason why BI can place a marker on the timeline for specific motion events which occur when continuous recording is being used.
After viewing some of my videos I see what you mean. Milestone would have picked up the guys across the street, its motion detection is very finely adjustable. Blue Iris seems to have only some basic adjustments for motion detection and at the default settings doesn't seem to pick up obvious things like a cat walking across my yard -- I see the cat at the end of the yard, then a skip to the cat eating kibble on the patio. Going to see if I can fiddle with it some more, because I don't have the disk space for continuous recording -- I didn't need it with Milestone, my network just grew past 8 cameras at which point Milestone wants major $$$.
Blue iris can be set to trigger on motion very aggressively, just as aggressive if not more aggressive that milestone. You just have it setup incorrectly and need to read the help file on setup.
As I said, I have it set at the defaults for motion detection. Obviously the default is not very sensitive, and I need to fiddle with it some more. Thanks for restating what I said
. That said, Milestone has some *very* detailed mechanisms for adjusting motion sensitivity at a fine-grained level. If I have a tree that's blowing around in the wind, for example, I can omit tiny rectangles so that the tree doesn't trigger motion detection. It is a nice product, just expensive and overkill what what I need for a home network. Blue Iris lacks some of the functionality (I miss the 'play backwards' button, sigh), but (shrug). It is what it is, and it does the job for a price I can afford, so.
You said you see that the poster means, when you dont have a clue as to what he would have missed with motion detection as only a fool would leave settings at default. Why would the default settings every be relevant? You deliberately made it seem like you didnt need continuous recording with milestone but you do with blue iris, that you have to fiddle with blue iris more, when its clear, you didnt make any adjustments at all. Well duh. Motion detection settings will vary by the cameras view and scene. What you said was wrong, just clarifying your misrepresentation.As I said, I have it set at the defaults for motion detection. Obviously the default is not very sensitive, and I need to fiddle with it some more. Thanks for restating what I said
Maybe I was not clear. Milestone would not have picked up the guys across the street, because if I was only recording on motion, I would not want all of the across the street motion being recorded. Every time someone came and went from their houses, cars passing by, etc. But having 24/7 recording, I can view the other cameras (that I consider overview cameras and only send motion notices for events on my property) to see where perps came from and went to.