What is the best use of SD cards installed in cameras
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The Micro SD card once installed must be formatted via the cameras internal web browser. Once formatted you must also enable recording to the Micro SD Card based on your specific needs.
Such as based on IVS, Motion, Continuous.
If the camera is mated to an appropriate (Same Brand) supported NVR. If there was missing video the same could be backfilled from the camera to NVR.
Lastly, if you did not purchase / install High Endurance or Industrial memory. Get ready to replace the same in about 1-2 years of continuous recording is enabled.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction @Teken.
Somehow I had missed the appropriate settings at the cam, now I'm looking in the right place.
I can see my tests recorded something on the card, now have to figure out how to read the card across the network.
The cards in my cams are Samsung PRO Endurance rated at 140,150 hours, YMMV.
Somehow I had missed the appropriate settings at the cam, now I'm looking in the right place.
I can see my tests recorded something on the card, now have to figure out how to read the card across the network.
The cards in my cams are Samsung PRO Endurance rated at 140,150 hours, YMMV.
I'm not entirely sure what your overall intent is?!?! At this point if you did absolutely nothing your BI system would have the recorded video on board. That same data can be sent to another onsite / offsite NAS. Each of the camera's will have their own (limited) video security on board until rewritten.
You of course can also have the same video data sent from the camera to a FTP storage device etc. The video data on the Micro SD card can only be accessed through the individual cameras from a computer system, smart application.
As an aside, what I do which is pretty over the top for most people is the following:
There are four independent video security systems all running on their own isolated networks. Each of the systems video data is recorded and stored like this in parallel ->
Video Security 1: Cameras -> SD Card & FTP -> Local NVR -> Local NAS -> PtP Offsite 1 NAS -> Cloud 1
Video Security 2: Cameras -> SD Card & FTP -> Local NVR -> Local NAS -> PtP Offsite 1 NAS -> Cloud 1
Video Security 3: Cameras -> SD Card & FTP -> Local NVR -> Local NAS -> PtP Offsite 2 NAS -> Cloud 2
The forth video security system runs completely off grid and is powered by Solar & LifePO4.
Video Security 4: Cameras -> SD Card & FTP -> Local NVR -> Local NAS -> PtP Offsite NAS 3 -> Cloud 3. This system communicates using PtP Wireless, Cellular, Satellite, and LoraWAN. For cloud storage I use AWS, Box, Microsoft because each offer different levels of access, service, and geographic fail over protection.
When I got into IP cams, my starting point was what I learned from this forum,
Best as I recall, the general guidance was to install SD cards so that you have a backup recording of events, should primary recording on the Blue Iris PC fail.
So I installed a 256 MB SD cards in each camera as I installed it.
A couple of times I tried to get recording going, did not find my way to the right place on the menus, and put it off to "one of these days."
Today was the day.
Your kind response, followed by a couple of YouTube hits got me started on recording.
Not a whole lot more than that.
Am going to ponder over what you do, it sounds interesting.
Best as I recall, the general guidance was to install SD cards so that you have a backup recording of events, should primary recording on the Blue Iris PC fail.
So I installed a 256 MB SD cards in each camera as I installed it.
A couple of times I tried to get recording going, did not find my way to the right place on the menus, and put it off to "one of these days."
Today was the day.
Your kind response, followed by a couple of YouTube hits got me started on recording.
Not a whole lot more than that.
Am going to ponder over what you do, it sounds interesting.
My overall goal was to have backup, fail over, and resiliency. This is why I deployed my system as stated up above. There are hundreds of scenarios that can't be avoided if the above example isn't in place.
Someone breaks in and steals / damages the NVR? The camera fails, the Micro SD card fails. The house burns down to the ground, swallowed up by a Tornado, bush fire, flood. As much as I despise the so called Cloud I use it as it's intended to offer me another level of offsite data access / storage.