Exterior security camera systems

[FoxtArt]

For the BI users out there, you can use the push notifications to a cell to get notification when someone is, for instance, pulling into your driveway. Use the motion zones and setup an A-->B (From A, to B) rule to make it one way. Additionally, you can duplicate cameras to setup more complex notification rules - so you can have your normal recording on the first camera, then duplicate it, and set precise motion zones with precise rules on the duplicate camera to send you push notifications, which you keep hidden. So many cases when that kind of precise notification is useful (kid, dog training, etc.) Lots more advance configurations you can do ofc too. You can also setup the rules like above (e.g. when A--->B) to trigger other cameras, like having a PTZ look at your door when another camera detects someone walking towards your door - but not away from it.

ETA: If your computer has the hardware to do it, you can also setup pretty much an unlimited amount of pre-recorded buffer on a camera. If you have headroom, you can easily do a full minute in advance of any trigger. The push notification also can be configured to send a jpeg image or video clip and in my experience, it is very fast (using an image). I don't have much of a need for a doorbell, or doorbell camera, for instance.

[brutal]

For the BI users out there, you can use the push notifications to a cell to get notification when someone is, for instance, pulling into your driveway. Use the motion zones and setup an A-->B (From A, to B) rule to make it one way. Additionally, you can duplicate cameras to setup more complex notification rules - so you can have your normal recording on the first camera, then duplicate it, and set precise motion zones with precise rules on the duplicate camera to send you push notifications, which you keep hidden. So many cases when that kind of precise notification is useful (kid, dog training, etc.) Lots more advance configurations you can do ofc too. You can also setup the rules like above (e.g. when A--->B) to trigger other cameras, like having a PTZ look at your door when another camera detects someone walking towards your door - but not away from it.

ETA: If your computer has the hardware to do it, you can also setup pretty much an unlimited amount of pre-recorded buffer on a camera. If you have headroom, you can easily do a full minute in advance of any trigger. The push notification also can be configured to send a jpeg image or video clip and in my experience, it is very fast (using an image). I don't have much of a need for a doorbell, or doorbell camera, for instance.

I had to do zone crossings in the motion triggers to keep down the false positives.

FWIW, someone might steal my computer, but I save the recordings on a drive location that gets copied to the cloud for safekeeping.

I think there was another security cam thread here where we all discussed BI quite a bit. I'm not using it anywhere near its full potential. Hell, I paid maintenance last year to get it and haven't even upgraded to V5.