Newbie Questions: Camera vs NVR Motion Detection

[Rob Bond]

So with a Hikvision NVR, should I disable the camera's motion detection and just configure this in the NVR (or does the NVR configuration essentially push the motion detection settings to the camera?)

On a related question, what about motion alarm reporting (e.g., via e-mail, to Surveillance Center, etc). Do I just set this via the NVR and not in the cameras?

Initially I did not have the NVR, so my testing of these motion related features was a the camera level. Now that I have the NVR I am trying to under if I should undo the camera settings and rely on the NVR exclusively.

--Thanks!

 

[alastairstevenson]

So with a Hikvision NVR, should I disable the camera's motion detection and just configure this in the NVR

For motion events, and other events such as as intrusion detection and line crossing detection and PIR detection etc, the camera simply notifies the NVR of the event, and the NVR takes whatever action you configure, usually a recording action.

Do I just set this via the NVR and not in the cameras?

This setting is 'passed through' to the camera, and also stored in the NVR so that it can periodically refresh the settings in the camera.
If you change a camera setting via the NVR, and then look directly at the camera via it's web GUI, you will find that the change has been applied to the camera.
In effect, the NVR provides a convenient holding place for a subset of the camera configuration settings, particularly as they relate to the NVR operation such as recording the video.

 

[Rob Bond]

For motion events, and other events such as as intrusion detection and line crossing detection and PIR detection etc, the camera simply notifies the NVR of the event, and the NVR takes whatever action you configure, usually a recording action.

This setting is 'passed through' to the camera, and also stored in the NVR so that it can periodically refresh the settings in the camera.
If you change a camera setting via the NVR, and then look directly at the camera via it's web GUI, you will find that the change has been applied to the camera.
In effect, the NVR provides a convenient holding place for a subset of the camera configuration settings, particularly as they relate to the NVR operation such as recording the video.

OK, so for the most part the processing is done by the camera and the NVR-based camera configurations serves as a centralized gateway to configure the cameras.