Mike A.
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Damn. That is a big boy. Never seen a Bobcat that "thick."
Detecting wildlife with Dahua cameras
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MIke A.,
A Camect hub does not cost $500 annually.
The website says it costs $399 which includes 2 months of service. Service primarily provides secure remote access to hub, and alerts. If additional service is not needed, there is no further cost. Continuing service is $10/mo, or $99/yr, etc.
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Sorry, I meant to purchase the hub with the annual plan it's $499. Looking quickly wasn't clear whether you need the service. Can you receive notifications in some other way without their service? Either way, still about the same cost as BI and server.
"Can you receive notifications in some other way without their service?"
2021 quote from Camect in forum:
Without Camect Go(Service), what you have is like having a local NVR ... It will still record and analyze your footage, and you can connect and review locally -- i.e. when you are at home, connected to the same network that your hub is on, you can review alerts, view footage, etc. The main missing features would be the ability to view cameras when you're away from home, and the ability to have alerts delivered somewhere, e.g. via email or via telegram.
2021 quote from Camect in forum:
Without Camect Go(Service), what you have is like having a local NVR ... It will still record and analyze your footage, and you can connect and review locally -- i.e. when you are at home, connected to the same network that your hub is on, you can review alerts, view footage, etc. The main missing features would be the ability to view cameras when you're away from home, and the ability to have alerts delivered somewhere, e.g. via email or via telegram.
Mike A.
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So, if I have it right, you can go in and review whatever alerts may be set but without their service it doesn't actively send a notification to you in some way when there is an alert. Is that locally too? Remote access/viewing without the service would be easy to solve with a VPN. Notifications harder.
I think that would best be answered by a question at camect.com/contact, or at the camect forum. They are quite responsive. I have the service.
There is Camect API with some implementations available but I have not used it.
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Never felt the need for the "Service", and there's an app for viewing from your phone (Camect Viewer for iOS), not sure about Android apps.
Camect Viewer for ios and android are still being developed and has lower function than the browser iimplementation at this time..
Are you able to use IOS Camect Viewer without the "service", locally or remotely?
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Well, that's great. Perhaps they are eliminating the service for ios/android camect viewer. As a very early user, I don't pay for service.
I contacted Camect and they said Camect Go(the "service") is required to use Camect Viewer with IOS or android, remote and local. The PWA or Web UI does not require Camect Go for local access.
@Don't Look Up, you may have the "Service" and not know it.
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Sorry, I will stop posting on your thread about Camect, unless I'm asked a question.
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Don't Look Up
Getting the hang of it
I'm pretty sure I just paid for the base Camect at $400.00. Didn't pay for anything extra, Service wise. Never got billed for any recurrent fees either. All I can say is that the Camect Viewer app works for me when way from the "Fort" to take a quick look to see if all is peaceful. Don't use anything more than that with the App. I'm sure its not "Luck" and they accidentally gave me the Full Monty.... My "luck" is such that if I won the Lottery...they'd send me a bill :_(.
After my other posts, I thought I should add some wildlife content to the thread. Here are two wildlife detect clips from yesterday at 40 ft using 2MP 25X PTZ at 2X.
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I've got some good news, was successful detecting a fox using IVS triggers on the WizMind Z4E. Just got this camera up and running and flashed with this FW this evening and within minutes got an alert! (Albeit DS cancelled it for obvious reasons.) As I mentioned in my last post, this firmware also successfully flashed on a Z12E, so I assume it also will eventually work there too, that camera just gets less animal activity.
I'm sharing the video mostly to show how bad the visibility actually was, so it's pretty impressive it detected the fox! This camera gets very dark, so I have to jack the shutter speed and picture settings. Also doesn't help the pond is frozen and causing the IR reflection from the other T5442TM-AS camera (which actually got a pretty good shot of the fox, and DS still cancelled lol).
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And as I'm posting that I finally get a hit on the Z12E lol. Can confirm that's a good FW lol
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Does look kind of different in that image. I was wondering myself at first look.