Recording video from cameras..

[umby75]

Hi, I hope this is the right area..
I'm looking for create a system of three cameras that have to send continuously video and audio to my Nas installed at about 300Km far.
In my Foscam FI8918W I can send only the screenshots to my Ftp server. Then probably I'll be forced to use a hard disk or a nas into the flat where I have my cameras.
I don't know idea what is the best convenient solution.
I'm sure that my cameras unfortunately don't have the video sending to a Ftp server in their features.
What do you suggest me?



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[Netwörkheäd]

Sounds to me like you may want a solution that can capture the stream itself and then prepare it for storage.

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[Dieselboy]

I have a Foxcam at my home in England. I used to record with VitaminD as I just have the one camera. I did a re-install of Windows and went to get VitaminD but it's no longer free!
The good thing about Vitamin D is that I had set up areas on the camera so that it saves the video when something moves in that area. In the cameras view is a road, and so I fenced out that area. So I only end up with saved recordings of when there is movement in an interesting area, which is good. And then you can go back through the days / dates / times etc.

I've not yet found any replacement software and I had forgot about it until this post.

Googling brings up a few but check out the renamed VitaminD: https://www.sighthound.com/download

I might try this again today and set up the recordings.

[icecream-guy]

I have a Foxcam at my home in England. I used to record with VitaminD as I just have the one camera. I did a re-install of Windows and went to get VitaminD but it's no longer free!
The good thing about Vitamin D is that I had set up areas on the camera so that it saves the video when something moves in that area. In the cameras view is a road, and so I fenced out that area. So I only end up with saved recordings of when there is movement in an interesting area, which is good. And then you can go back through the days / dates / times etc.

I've not yet found any replacement software and I had forgot about it until this post.

Googling brings up a few but check out the renamed VitaminD: https://www.sighthound.com/download

I might try this again today and set up the recordings.

there are a few software repositories around that cater to holding on to old versions of software, you may want to do some digging, you might just find the old free version.

[umby75]

Thank you all a lot!!!
I don't know how does it work Vitamin D but it should be a sort of program that record video from cameras and it sends to a some Cloud. I also don't know if it works on my Foscam.
Thinking about the solution and considering I'd like to install other two cameras the best solution is a nas or something like that.
It would have been the best thing if I couldn't use the nas and I could send the data to my Ftp server 300Km far..even using an old smartphone I got but then I need to face the small size memory in my phone to capture that.
Anyway I need firstly to record the audio and I can leave the video streaming.
Even if you consider the nas it depends on which one I'm going to use because I'd like as I said only audio.
I know that there are some restrictions about software and hardware I'm going to use..

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[Dieselboy]

I have a very cheap foscam and was using vitaminD.

VitaminD logs in to the foscam via HTTP and captures the stream from there. I've not done packet captures to see what the stream actually is.

In my case I had an old 500GB laptop hard drive which was spare. I installed that into a computer where vitaminD was installed. I've told vitaminD to use the entire HDD for recording. If you configure fences on the vitaminD then you can only save the video which has interesting movement. you dont really need a nas but it depends on how much you want to record and how important the recordings are. In my case, my car was getting broken into during the night, and my proximity sensor on the car alarm would sound and send a warning to my remote to tell me that someone is waiting by the car. Of course when I lookd out the window, there was no one there because I was too late. The video camera recording showed once a group of teenagers punch the spare tyre on the back of the vehicle and then run away. Now that the camera has been noticed by many, there are less and less incidents anyway.

I don't record audio - i dont think my camera has a microphone.

[umby75]

Thanks. I have a pc there and it can record videos but I don't want leave it always turned on..


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