Looking for advice on a local storage only camera system

[Ben Catoe]

I have followed your advice and used IVS to set tripwires. I have not set any scenes as I don't understand them yet. There are indeed a lot of alerts which is expected. These are the 2 entrance/exits for the HOA with 183 homes. I also expect I'll need to make adjustments. Mostly I'll just be reacting if something happens inside the neighborhood, like the door checkers. Then I'd pull up the cams and look at the alerts in the appropriate timeframe. The exception to this is the top right cam I have a 1-way tripwire since we've had an issue with people driving in thru the exit side of the island. I plan to either check this weekly or have the NVR send an email alert. Ideally this one would actually flag the views for both cameras so I get the front and back of the car. I know there is a way to do that, just haven't chased it yet.

After I get the basics working the way I want I'll need to make adjustments to evening and night. Currently during twilight the video is too blurry to read tags. Pretty sure we're going to add a couple of spotlights to help with the nighttime views.

 

[bigredfish]

OK, something I do at an entrance to my old 'hood is to set separate tripwires/intrusion zones specifically for vehicles and humans and directional..like you have the top right "wrongway" tripwire.
And yes each rule can have its own email alert.

I tend to review footage over coffee of just the humans from the night before. Door checkers rarely come in a vehicle and mostly operate at night.

The I only check the vehicle trips if there is an issue or a suspicion. With 183 homes yeah you're going to have 400-500 alerts per day from vehicles

 

[Ben Catoe]

My tripwire IVS is working to record the cars driving in thru the exit. 1 of them even took the opportunity to have their passenger toss their drink cup onto the island...lovely. I've also realized I can set it to record both cameras when this triggers...so I get front and back. I've set it to email when these events happen but not getting the email. The test emails come thru. Do I need to do something more than this??

 

[bigredfish]

Do you have email set as an action on the camera also?

If so it may have to do with image attachments

 

[Ben Catoe]

Bigredfish, ahhh, thank you. Didn't occur to me it needed to be in the camera. I was thinking it would just be an alert rather than an attached clip. I've set that now and will see how that works.

 

[Ben Catoe]

Still not getting the email alerts thought the test email works.

 

[bigredfish]

Using Gmail?

I dont have it handy but there's a certain thing you need to do with Gmail and apps...?

here's a few threads

Post in thread 'Dahua NVR - Email Notifications - NVR test email works but no alarm emails?'

Dec 28, 2024

No, because GMAIL algorithms have got so good it can tell the "test" was initiated by a human and the IVS event was initiated by a machine and they are trying to block the machine generated stuff since that is how all the bots and spam is created.

We first dealt with that with SMS texting and now making its way into gmail and others. Switching to another email provider just kicks the can down the curb as eventually they will tighten it up as well.

It is why many have gone to Pushover app.

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Post in thread 'SMTP Relay server issues?'

Oct 4, 2024

What settings are you using for Gmail?

For Gmail to work you need to use app passwords.

Sign in with app passwords - Google Account Help

Important: App passwords aren’t recommended and are unnecessary in most cases. To help keep your account secure, use "Sign in with Google" to connect apps to your Google Account. An app password is a

support.google.com

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[Ben Catoe]

I'm not using Gmail. I have my own domain at Ionos though now that I think about it, I should change it to the Gmail that I have setup for the HOA. I will look up that app pword setting. thank you !!
I went in to change it, and noticed this...I guess the TEST works even when not enabled. Going to try changing accounts anyway.

 

[Ben Catoe]

The emails are working now and include a picture. I also get a 2nd email telling me that it is clear. I don't see a way to turn that off but certainly not a big deal. Thank you to everyone and especially @bigredfish for the help !!