Sweet success thanks to my HA system (with video link)

[Chuck]

Thomas,

I have not been able to do that. These cameras go directly to the NVR and once they get there they are not accessible. I might be able to get these to Video Pitcher if I were to connect them to an Ethernet switch and then into the NVR. The problem with that is that all the images would travel from the switch through one Ethernet cable and that is a lot of data from 8 different 3MP HD cameras to go over one line.

They are also PoE and I would have to get injectors for each camera or get a PoE switch.

I am going to get a PoE injector for an extra camera I have and route it through my network before going to the NVR.

The other big problem is that these cameras take up a lot of storage space. I have 8TB and the will only get me 6 weeks of storage. If it’s raining it will drop down to less than a month. They are set for record on motion and if it’s raining they record all night long and will record in the daytime if it is raining hard.

Chuck

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Thomas Henry <tjhjr at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> So have you been able to interface the cameras with Video Pitcher and Web Remote through XTension?
> 
> Tom
> 
>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 11:29, Chuck <xtension4osx at mac.com <mailto:xtension4osx at mac.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> I have door and window sensors on all my structures. I also have motion detectors, both X10 wireless and X10 security sensors. They are all X10 and seem to work just fine most of the time.
>> 
>> He entered the back yard which the security cameras caught. It was over a 6 foot fence with some very thick arborvitaes up agains the fence. He entered the garden shop which was caught by the motion sensor. Then he moved on to my workshop and the backyard motion sensor caught that. When he opened the door to the shop the door sensor was activated and it turned on the lights AND the stereo (he got to listen to some music while he was stealing my stuff, I aim to please). The motion sensors showed him moving around in there.
>> 
>> The security cameras caught him entering the shop and coming out which is where I confronted him. The door was unlocked as I was helping my neighbor fix his RV and was actively using the shop for my tools.
>> 
>> As for the time stamps the security cameras are set for record on motion only so the time stamps change if there is no motion for a while. The police and the DA had no problem with that. I caught the guy on 7 different cameras and I showed the progression of events which coincided with the X4X log time stamps. It was a prima facia case with that kind of evidence. The only issue was that he left the scene but myself and my neighbors chased him 4 blocks and never lost site of him so we had the right guy.
>> 
>> The cameras shows him picking up the stick but not him taking a swing at me. It doesn’t show me picking up a much bigger stick and dealing out some pain.
>> 
>> My neighbors are pretty pumped about the event. We have had a rash of thefts from the folks at the large homeless camps that the city allows to grow uncontested. Package thieves are the worst and I have caught 5 of them on cameras. There is a direct correlation between the homeless camp growth and the increase in crime. Once the city removes the homeless camps the crime rate drops considerably. After we have a theft that I have captured on video I just go down to the homeless camp with police and identify the guy and he is arrested. This guy was homeless and lived in the camp that has now been removed by the city.
>> 
>> Here is the video link of the event. Keep in mind that I am close to 70 and this guy is 28.
>> https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0a59UlCq9rh06 <https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0a59UlCq9rh06>
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 5:16 AM, Mike Andrews <mikea0 at gmail.com <mailto:mikea0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Chuck,
>>> 
>>> Great story.   You also motivated me to get my flaky (wireless)  Foscam cameras working again.
>>> 
>>> I'm curious what you're logging in Xtension.   You mean door and motion sensors?
>>> 
>>> I knew in the old days that the courts wanted the videos to have the onscreen time stamps as evidence that the recording wasn't edited.
>>> 
>>> --Mike
>>> 
>>> On Feb 2, 2016 1:42 PM, "Thomas Henry" <tjhjr at mac.com <mailto:tjhjr at mac.com>> wrote:
>>> Chuck,
>>> 
>>> Excellent story. Thanks for sharing that. I hope to get my HA to that point.
>>> 
>>> Tom
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