I wanted to take a minute to shout out about the new Camect NVR product I am using. I realize it is not fully production, is an Indiegogo startup and is a crowdfunded project, however it is hands down the best product I have used to eliminate as they call it "uninteresting" and "suppressed" alerts. The wasps, spiders, rain, wind, tree motion, shadows no longer haunt me in the middle of the night. The UI is a bit complicated and "by design" has limited options to tweak the behavior. The options present are excellent and aimed at using AI to learn about what the end-user considers an "interesting" alert and associated area. I don't want to spend my life setting up and constantly tweaking a camera security system.
The primary downfall IMHO is that it uses proprietary hardware. If you are a BI user that wants and/or needs total control over your environment, this is probably not a good fit. If you are a more casual homeowner that wants to use a product that does not require great technical knowledge and provides only alerts that are real, then IMHO, this is a product worth considering.
I have a six camera configuration, one Amcrest WiFi (inside use only) and five Dahua Starlight + IP cameras of varying resolution (2Mp-8Mp Eyeball). Two of those are at a separate location and connected via OpenVPN back into my local LAN. I started off using Blue Iris, which is a very capable product, but I could not tweak the multitude of settings to alert when I needed and not alert on uninteresting motion. There are several AI add ons available but I found short comings with them when compared to the Camect software.
The primary downfall IMHO is that it uses proprietary hardware. If you are a BI user that wants and/or needs total control over your environment, this is probably not a good fit. If you are a more casual homeowner that wants to use a product that does not require great technical knowledge and provides only alerts that are real, then IMHO, this is a product worth considering.
I have a six camera configuration, one Amcrest WiFi (inside use only) and five Dahua Starlight + IP cameras of varying resolution (2Mp-8Mp Eyeball). Two of those are at a separate location and connected via OpenVPN back into my local LAN. I started off using Blue Iris, which is a very capable product, but I could not tweak the multitude of settings to alert when I needed and not alert on uninteresting motion. There are several AI add ons available but I found short comings with them when compared to the Camect software.
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