Interested in personal experience from the community on 2 topics for simple home use:
1) Using only the micro sd local storage on camera
2) Using only mobile app from camera vendor (does Dahua or Hikvision have a better app?) for
A) remote live viewing
B) remote alert notifications
C) remote viewing of limited history clips of what caused alert
I have simple home security requirements so really not interested in pursuing a NVR / BI (or equivalent) operation management software approach (at least initially) Understand that's debatable but I am comfortable with my approach.
The storage capacity of micro sd cards, cost of micro sd cards, and the near universal availability of micro sd card storage on many if not most cameras is compelling approach for primary storage IN CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS. Save the counter arguments for a separate thread. I have 18 months of experience with micro sd cards as my only storage mechanism on 8 wifi outdoor cameras and they have delivered. I know Dahua & Hikvision both support on camera micro sd cards for storage on their most popular home security cameras. Are both vendors equally reliable in writing to local sd storage and automatically overwriting older video as the cards fill up?
On the software operation side, focusing on remote capabilities (not being home by your cameras), the android apps supplied by the vendors (i.e. Dahua or Hikvision) or third parties like TinyCam pro seem to offer all the basics and then some. Again I have had good experience with this functionality in my current "cheapy camera" approach (Wyze). So does both Dahua & Hikvision provide a mobile app that does a reasonably good job of delivering on my requirements (2 A,B,C above)
Thank-you for sharing your personal experience
1) Using only the micro sd local storage on camera
2) Using only mobile app from camera vendor (does Dahua or Hikvision have a better app?) for
A) remote live viewing
B) remote alert notifications
C) remote viewing of limited history clips of what caused alert
I have simple home security requirements so really not interested in pursuing a NVR / BI (or equivalent) operation management software approach (at least initially) Understand that's debatable but I am comfortable with my approach.
The storage capacity of micro sd cards, cost of micro sd cards, and the near universal availability of micro sd card storage on many if not most cameras is compelling approach for primary storage IN CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS. Save the counter arguments for a separate thread. I have 18 months of experience with micro sd cards as my only storage mechanism on 8 wifi outdoor cameras and they have delivered. I know Dahua & Hikvision both support on camera micro sd cards for storage on their most popular home security cameras. Are both vendors equally reliable in writing to local sd storage and automatically overwriting older video as the cards fill up?
On the software operation side, focusing on remote capabilities (not being home by your cameras), the android apps supplied by the vendors (i.e. Dahua or Hikvision) or third parties like TinyCam pro seem to offer all the basics and then some. Again I have had good experience with this functionality in my current "cheapy camera" approach (Wyze). So does both Dahua & Hikvision provide a mobile app that does a reasonably good job of delivering on my requirements (2 A,B,C above)
Thank-you for sharing your personal experience