Do any IP cameras stream only when motion is detected?

[tccmn]

Hello

I currently have multiple IP cameras around the outside of my winter home that stream continuously to my QNAP NAS using the QNAP Surveillance Station app. This works really well. I would like to add a remote indoor camera at my summer home to stream over the internet back to my NAS (located at my winter home) so I have a record of anything out of the ordinary while not there. This is easy to accomplish but it will cause an issue. The internet provider at my winter home receiving the camera stream does not impose any data caps, however, the provider at my summer home does impose a data cap. Using the camera's best resolution will cause me to hit the data cap at the summer home before the end of the month. I could reduce the resolution and bit rate to try to stay below the data cap, but what I would rather do is find a camera that can be set to only stream if motion is detected. Does anyone know of such a camera, or have another idea to accomplish the same task?

Thanks

 

[biggen]

If the camera can do the motion detection then you could set it up so it writes the video over the internet to your NAS remotely only when motion is detected.

Other than that, your choice is to buy another NAS and install it in your summer home. Then remote in to view clips on that nas from your winter home.

 

[tccmn]

All of my cameras can do motion detection, but they all continuously stream video with motion detection enabled. Two are Hikvision and two are Amcrest. Setting up another NAS at the 2nd location is an expensive option. I thought about running Blue Iris on a desktop locally, then running a script on the NAS to pull motion-only detected video periodically back to the NAS. If someone broke-in they would probably see the desktop running and either destroy it or take it. Same with a NAS unless hidden well.

 

[biggen]

Have the cameras send motion activated clips to your NAS. Setup SMB or FTP on your NAS and then input the NAS address in the appropriate area of the camera to send clips to the server.