What I meant was that you cannot trigger a backup based on an outside alarm. (you can always suggest this to the developer but you will need added gear for your bi machine to communicate with your alarm).
EnvisaLink came to my mind when reading that sentence. It's a neat product (attached to your alarm system and to your router) that exposes API which can be used to get the status of an alarm (and even triggered zone). It also sends an email when an alarm is triggered (with zone information).
Imagine
Blue Iris using this information to do certain tasks like:
- backup of a certain camera-feed positioned at the triggered zone during the alarm trigger.
- increasing the resolution/bitrate or motion sensitivity during an alarm-trigger.
- activating patrol-mode on PTZ-camera's during an alarm trigger.
- emailing images or temporary/limited BI accounts to the neighbours so they can login and see what's going on through BI.
It would be a wonderful collaborating system!
But fenderman is right that the whole system will fall once the network cable (or telephone cable incase of ADSL) is cut by the burglar...
Burglars tend to get smarter/technical though and have a 'skill' of recognizing and taking all that is valuable/electronic (including a fancy looking network drive).