can motion-detect trigger a still frame capture, as well as video?

cam235 · 2016-10-13T16:28:01+00:00

I have a 4MP camera, Dahua IPC-HF5421E. It's working fine with motion-detect triggering video record to the internal SD card. I'm using the MSIE web interface because I haven't fully figured out the SmartPSS program http://dahuawiki.com/Template:SmartPSS (I can't find a shutter speed setting there, for example) and the Chrome plugin won't allow login- I type user 'admin' but each character gets erased as soon as I type it, then 'no user found'. But the IE plugin works for most things at least. Does anyone know, is it possible for motion-detect to trigger both a still frame as well as video? What steps are necessary to enable still frame capture? I see the time of day/day of week record schedule tabs, there is a video tab and still frame tab and both of mine look identical (all enabled 24/7). I played around a little with the HTTP API (*) and was able to read out EventHandler, which showed RecordEnable=true and SnapshotEnable=false but so far have been unable to get "SnapshotEnable=True". On my Hikvision, it did not capture a still frame until I enabled FTP upload even though I was going only to internal SD and not using FTP in any way. Maybe there's a similar obscure setting here? * https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/9004-NodeJS-Module-node-dahua-api?p=118455&viewfull=1#post118455