motion or constant record

[dave888]

What do others do, constant record or do you find motion works ok? Im using Hikvision kit

 

[awsum140]

I record all cameras 24/7 and catch "alerts" as well. I'm using a mix of cameras and no NVR, just BI VMS. Four 2mp, one 4mp camera stored for a week is just under 2Tb.

 

[bigredfish]

24/7 with motion on select cameras in addition. Hard drive space is cheap.

 

[Shockwave199]

Record full time,every camera. I also enable motion too just to make searches easier. But if you're not recording, you're missing. It's just that simple.

 

[Terk]

I record 24/7 and detect motion to make finding activities easier as well. My motion detection catches most things as expected and excludes most I don't want however at least once a week it misses something that should have caused a motion alert so I won't rely on it completely.

 

[bp2008]

Motion detection is not fool-proof, so if you use it exclusively for triggering recordings then you will miss things occasionally. For example I have these two cameras looking at essentially the same place and people or vehicles will go by and sometimes only one camera will trigger.



If there are times when one camera doesn't trigger, that makes it all but certain that there are times both cameras don't trigger.

I personally run two servers, one doing continuous recording and the other only on motion. The motion-only recording box can keep close to a year of history whereas the continuous-recording box with more space and fewer cameras connected can only keep one week. You can technically set up something like this on a single system but it gets really messy really fast.