Sure you can get alerts to your phone from an NVR....as long as the server the NVR needs to send it thru is up and running....We have threads here started all the time where someone isn't getting their alerts or they are delayed due to say the Dahua server being down.
There is still a learning curve with an NVR. To get full access to all the features, you need to log in to the NVR via a computer and web browser. At that point might as well go with Blue Iris.
There is a big debate here on which is better. Personally I found the NVRs to be too clunky and not very user friendly and got to the point that I was reactive instead of proactive. I literally tested BI and knew within a few minutes it was better than any NVR I ever had.
Most here using BI came from the NVR experience first and left it because it was so poor.
I have literally had 5 NVRs over a 10 year period, from crappy Swann before I knew better to Dahua. The most one ever lasted was 2.5 years before some component went out that couldn't be changed out (or easily), which necessitated a new NVR. But I found their respective viewing platforms to be clunky, slow, and lacking the ability I wanted to quickly look at things.
My folks still use a Dahua NVR and it is a painful reminder every time they ask me to pull it up to look at something that I am glad I no longer have mine for that purpose.
My BI computer is way more reliable than any of my NVRs ever were. I could run it 24/7 with zero attention, but it is as much a hobby now and squeezing every bit of performance out of it with things simply not possible with an NVR.
Some people are better off with NVRs. But many of those same people would also be content with a Ring system as well LOL.
The biggest misconception is people think NVRs are plug-n-play, which they are not. But many people that is all they do. Then they run auto/default settings. At that point they are better off with a cloud based Ring.
But once someone takes the time to go into each camera and manually change shutter, brightness, etc., then it starts to put the favor towards BI in setting it up.
I can setup a system on BI faster than I can an NVR. The default settings for BI in terms of motion, etc. are better than the default of the NVR.
It would take forever to scrub thru video on my NVR. I can literally scrub my overnight video in under 2 minutes with BI. It takes that long just for the NVR userface to pop up and key in the password with a mouse LOL. And the playback on the NVR was atrocious how long it took.
There is still a learning curve with an NVR. To get full access to all the features, you need to log in to the NVR via a computer and web browser. At that point might as well go with Blue Iris.
There is a big debate here on which is better. Personally I found the NVRs to be too clunky and not very user friendly and got to the point that I was reactive instead of proactive. I literally tested BI and knew within a few minutes it was better than any NVR I ever had.
Most here using BI came from the NVR experience first and left it because it was so poor.
I have literally had 5 NVRs over a 10 year period, from crappy Swann before I knew better to Dahua. The most one ever lasted was 2.5 years before some component went out that couldn't be changed out (or easily), which necessitated a new NVR. But I found their respective viewing platforms to be clunky, slow, and lacking the ability I wanted to quickly look at things.
My folks still use a Dahua NVR and it is a painful reminder every time they ask me to pull it up to look at something that I am glad I no longer have mine for that purpose.
My BI computer is way more reliable than any of my NVRs ever were. I could run it 24/7 with zero attention, but it is as much a hobby now and squeezing every bit of performance out of it with things simply not possible with an NVR.
Some people are better off with NVRs. But many of those same people would also be content with a Ring system as well LOL.
The biggest misconception is people think NVRs are plug-n-play, which they are not. But many people that is all they do. Then they run auto/default settings. At that point they are better off with a cloud based Ring.
But once someone takes the time to go into each camera and manually change shutter, brightness, etc., then it starts to put the favor towards BI in setting it up.
I can setup a system on BI faster than I can an NVR. The default settings for BI in terms of motion, etc. are better than the default of the NVR.
It would take forever to scrub thru video on my NVR. I can literally scrub my overnight video in under 2 minutes with BI. It takes that long just for the NVR userface to pop up and key in the password with a mouse LOL. And the playback on the NVR was atrocious how long it took.
