Just got 2 cams from Andy.. cant find playback menu in IE
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Its a 512 GB high endurance card nothing will be overwritten for weeks if not months.. I guess you just cant understand.. Im not new to this been using ipcams for 15 years.. and notifications arent irrelevant.. Have a good day your input is not needed here.
looney2ns
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"Been using for 15 years", boy it sure does not show in your posts.
Didnt say i been using DMSS for 15 years.. And obviously this is the first time ive used Dahuas new web interface.. From what i understand they changed it up a year ago? Havent bought a new camera in prolly 3-4 years. If you look at the conversation between me and cctvcam It was like he couldnt comprehend what i was saying and seems he just wanted to argue and be condescending if i didnt use 24/7 recording. I understand that is best. But in my set of circumstances im doing the second best option in my opinion. Anyways not trying to argue.. Hope your day is blessed!
CCTVCam
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No one was being condescending. If you put your ego to one side for a second then you'll realise that notifications have nothing to do with recording. They're notifications. Triggers, trigger recording. A triggered recording will take place irrespective of whether it notifies you it's doing so. I currently have zero notifications when mine's recording as I don't have them set up. It still records on triggers though and it still records background 24/7 and it still uses space.
As for capacity, I get around 3 weeks from 2 cameras on a 4tb hard drive. Divide it by 2 and you have 2tb for 1 camera, or 4 times the capacity of your SD card giving 3 weeks. I do use higher bit rates though. 4,000kbs background and 16,000kbs trigger @ 4k. You could probably almost 1/2 those figures @ 4k (10,0000 kbs and 2,000kbs might be more typical), and get a decent output, but that still gives less than 6 weeks on 2tb for 1 camera, 4 times your capacity for 6 weeks. Divide 6 weeks by 4 and you don't get months but around 1.5 weeks. You've done the right thing by going for a large capacity high endurance. However, all you've done is buy yourself 1.5 weeks with 500gb at a reasonable bit rate. You might get your claimed months if you run low bit rates, but then there's the old addage, put crap in, get crap out.
Also, if you get more than 1-2 yrs life from that card I'll be surprised. I run dashcams with high endurance and the cards last around 3-4 years and they are recording for around an hour or two a day not 24/7.
Anyway, I'm out you clearly know it all, so my input isn't needed.
As for capacity, I get around 3 weeks from 2 cameras on a 4tb hard drive. Divide it by 2 and you have 2tb for 1 camera, or 4 times the capacity of your SD card giving 3 weeks. I do use higher bit rates though. 4,000kbs background and 16,000kbs trigger @ 4k. You could probably almost 1/2 those figures @ 4k (10,0000 kbs and 2,000kbs might be more typical), and get a decent output, but that still gives less than 6 weeks on 2tb for 1 camera, 4 times your capacity for 6 weeks. Divide 6 weeks by 4 and you don't get months but around 1.5 weeks. You've done the right thing by going for a large capacity high endurance. However, all you've done is buy yourself 1.5 weeks with 500gb at a reasonable bit rate. You might get your claimed months if you run low bit rates, but then there's the old addage, put crap in, get crap out.
Also, if you get more than 1-2 yrs life from that card I'll be surprised. I run dashcams with high endurance and the cards last around 3-4 years and they are recording for around an hour or two a day not 24/7.
Anyway, I'm out you clearly know it all, so my input isn't needed.
Man.. Did you read my post where i started with "Hear me out" I just dont think you are following me.. I dont have an ego problem and i dont think im a know it all.
Ill try and explain again..
I Know the notifications arent what triggers a recording. My tripwires and motion detection settings are what triggers a recording. I never stated that a notification causes a recording to start. If you think i said that you misunderstood.
What i said was
1. I have tripwires setup and they are set to send notifications.
2. I also have motion detection setup but its not going to send a notification. ( I understand motion detection will capture all types of things that are "false alarms" )
3. What i said was sometimes tripwires can stop recording after the "burglar" crosses the line and then stays on that side of the line.
4. This is why i also have motion recordings setup. So it can keep recording the "burglar" if he doesnt cross back over the tripwire for some time.
5. So if i get a notification from my tripwire and it only records some of the event i can then go and watch my motion recording to see the whole story.
6. Never did i say notifications are what triggers a camera to record.
As for the microSD... Our circumstances are different. Im NOT recording 24/7.. Im only recording tripwires and motion detections. My camera is recording in h264h with bitrate set to 12500kbs. If you configure your motion detection settings pretty good you wont get a lot of "false" recordings.. Some days you might get more than others but in general it wont be a whole lot. So after a few days of monitoring my sdcard i am averaging 6gb a day. 512gb divided by 6 = 85 days
Ive had dash cams last 10 years and the same microSD card worked the whole time.
You stated i was going to be watching hours of false alarms. That will NOT happen. By having tripwire detection send me a notification I will only be watching the tripwire recordings.. BUT if the tripwire recording doesnt capture everything i can check my motion recordings from the same time period to see what i missed. Hopefully this is understandable and you are following me?
I also kindly asked if you knew a way to tell the camera web interface to record 24/7 substream but also record my tripwires in mainstream..? From what i can tell you can only tell the camera to record main or sub but not both. I would prefer to record 24/7 substream over setting up motion detection but i dont think its possible. And i dont want to tell the camera to record mainstream 24/7 because yes that would put a strain/shorten the life of the SDcard.
You just kept telling me i was going to be wasting hours watching bugs and snow.. and that my camera would overwrite something that happened.. and my card would die.. Forgive me but after i mentioned none of those things would be the case and you just kept saying them over and over, I didnt feel your input was productive.. sorry but thats just how i felt.
Best Regards,
Jcams