how would you scrub a 24 hour video in 30 seconds?
the cameras produce video & snapshots simultaneously. both can be sent to an ftp server. idk how much load that would be on WiFi though.
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the cameras produce video & snapshots simultaneously. both can be sent to an ftp server. idk how much load that would be on WiFi though.
Yeah being wifi cams certainly adds a dimension of inconsistency and issues.
Every situation is different, but many of us have ours setup something like this:
Cameras set up that alert for what we are interested in on our property. So obviously most of the days the cameras haven't triggered, so no real need to look at those.
Cameras set up to trigger on people walking past on sidewalk or street. I can look at the alert thumbnail and see if it is someone I recognize or not. If I recognize them, no need to look further. If I don't recognize, I pull up the wide angle and see are they checking car doors, going up to houses, etc. Throw the video on 16-20x time and can scrub that incident fast.
That can be done via multiple cameras or one with different rules set up for different things (1 rule for on property, another rule for off property).
LPR camera that gives me a list of the list of cars that are new or low number count. If all that went by are neighbors, no need to look further. If they are new, I pull up the overview and see are they going up and down every street or was it a middle of the night Amazon delivery, etc.
So I pull it up and if it doesn't show me anything out of the ordinary, it is closed pretty quickly. With the cold temps we have had, nobody is out, so that has been like a 5 second review LOL.
Every situation is different, but many of us have ours setup something like this:
Cameras set up that alert for what we are interested in on our property. So obviously most of the days the cameras haven't triggered, so no real need to look at those.
Cameras set up to trigger on people walking past on sidewalk or street. I can look at the alert thumbnail and see if it is someone I recognize or not. If I recognize them, no need to look further. If I don't recognize, I pull up the wide angle and see are they checking car doors, going up to houses, etc. Throw the video on 16-20x time and can scrub that incident fast.
That can be done via multiple cameras or one with different rules set up for different things (1 rule for on property, another rule for off property).
LPR camera that gives me a list of the list of cars that are new or low number count. If all that went by are neighbors, no need to look further. If they are new, I pull up the overview and see are they going up and down every street or was it a middle of the night Amazon delivery, etc.
So I pull it up and if it doesn't show me anything out of the ordinary, it is closed pretty quickly. With the cold temps we have had, nobody is out, so that has been like a 5 second review LOL.
the road is out of range of the closest camera. it will zoom to give a good view of the road; there there is the issue of the treees in the viewscape.
these conditions generate 'false triggers' all day long because of tree motion in the background...
Yeah, so why do you want to fill a drive up of photos of false triggers that you have to scrub thru?
Use a system that will scrub that stuff out with AI. Make the list more manageable to review.
Cause I guarantee you will not want to go thru thousands of photos everyday for leaves blowing.
Use a system that will scrub that stuff out with AI. Make the list more manageable to review.
Cause I guarantee you will not want to go thru thousands of photos everyday for leaves blowing.
its not thousands. the cameras don't have AI. the BI generated a lot more photos than the cameras do individually. whereas a camera might generate 150/day BI was behaving as if it was triggering every .25 sec or so for each camera.
I was being a tad sarcastic with thousands LOL, but on windy days, it will add up more than you would like LOL. Especially if you start adding more cameras.
Again, either take the time to dial in the BI settings (I have no idea what your settings where but triggering every quarter second means you have it way too sensitive), or use CodeProject AI within BI to knock the photo count down to just items of interest.
I wouldn't want to look at 150+ photos a day of shadows and leaves blowing. One of the reasons why I use the LPR module. Sure I could look at the 150 plates per day and start to recognize the neighbors, but why? Let the computer do the heavy lifting. Let it tell me these 3 vehicles are new and I not bother with viewing ones with neighbors.
If I want to see the triggers that didn't meet my criteria, I can sort by all the images that were canceled because it triggered for moving shadows, but the AI knocks these all out so I am left with only seeing the thumbnails of the ones I am interested in.
Again, either take the time to dial in the BI settings (I have no idea what your settings where but triggering every quarter second means you have it way too sensitive), or use CodeProject AI within BI to knock the photo count down to just items of interest.
I wouldn't want to look at 150+ photos a day of shadows and leaves blowing. One of the reasons why I use the LPR module. Sure I could look at the 150 plates per day and start to recognize the neighbors, but why? Let the computer do the heavy lifting. Let it tell me these 3 vehicles are new and I not bother with viewing ones with neighbors.
If I want to see the triggers that didn't meet my criteria, I can sort by all the images that were canceled because it triggered for moving shadows, but the AI knocks these all out so I am left with only seeing the thumbnails of the ones I am interested in.
afaik i reduced the sensitivity by selecting a larger pattern of field detection - that did not seem to change much, if any.
the photos of branches blowing in the wind are easy enough to skip since the time interval patterns are easy to identify & skip.
i will check these before configuring the ftp server...
after trying the FTP server, it did not receive the same photos that were triggered by the camera. it received photos not contained on the SD card of the camera? WTF? idk, so this is not a good way to go.
will the blue iris allow me to connect to the cameras solely to download photos from the SD cards en masse or by folder/sub-folder? this is really all that is needed. don't want to remove SD cards for this.
No - BI cannot access the SD card of the camera - it accesses the live video from the camera and records to the drives in the computer.
well is there any software that can do this - access the SD for file download by directory/sub-directory?
Most camera's will let you log into them using their IP address and then you can download the files from there. It is pretty fast.
My Amcrest and EmpireTech camera's will let you do bulk downloads. All you have to do is check all the boxes and hit download. I do not believe there is software what will let you log into your cameras like you are wanting.
thanks. this is the way it seems to be.
i found something about a python routine on sourceforge, but haven't determined this will work.
there is the stated belief that plugging a laptop into the USB port of a camera provides a direct link to the SD, but this hasn't been verified yet.
there's always removal/swap the SD card, but don't want to do this. still...
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if the camera SD card has a path you can find, you could try accessing it with rsync from a pc command prompt. Then if that works you could create a batch file (windows) or crontab to run it x times a day.
Or maybe ftp, I think some cameras support this functionality.
Here is someone doing a similar thing.
github.com
Or maybe ftp, I think some cameras support this functionality.
Here is someone doing a similar thing.
Access the micro sd card installed in the camera over wifi or ethernet · gtxaspec wz_mini_hacks · Discussion #591
Hi there, Is there any possibility of using this lil' piece of software to gain access to the micro sd card in your camera and download the video files over your LAN connection? Having to physicall...
github.com
yes the cameras have ftp & i set it to send to a linux ftp server, but it still saved photos to the sd card & the motion triggered images went to the card, while 'thin air' images went to the ftp server. it seemed that disabling save to SD changed nothing. so the wifi apparently is too slow since some of these cameras are ~200' from the tplink AP outside.if the camera SD card has a path you can find, you could try accessing it with rsync from a pc command prompt. Then if that works you could create a batch file (windows) or crontab to run it x times a day.
Or maybe ftp, I think some cameras support this functionality.
Here is someone doing a similar thing.
Access the micro sd card installed in the camera over wifi or ethernet · gtxaspec wz_mini_hacks · Discussion #591
Hi there, Is there any possibility of using this lil' piece of software to gain access to the micro sd card in your camera and download the video files over your LAN connection? Having to physicall...
there is a separate path to the SD card.