I purchased another home a few months ago and spun up an additional BI system with 4 of the the 4mm and 1 6mm of those turret cameras, they are on point! night vision is great, and the clarity is there! only issue i am seeing is even running full resolution at 20fps with iframe set at 20, i see about 20-30 "no signals" for every 40-50 triggers. I have yet to see an actual problem on the recorded video and the image does not blackout ever, but it just annoys me more than anything. i have the throughput set to 10240kbps on each camera as well feeding through a GB HP Procurve 48pt switch, not seeing any packet loss on the switch. I have a vivotek 2MP lipstick cam on order that will be mounting in a gable vent , this should determine if the signal loss is a camera specific issue or something else
And those are US version hikvisions, they came in the red retail box.
As for motion detection and alerting, with the BI software you can add the same camera multiple times to the
Blue Iris software. what this allows you to do is set up different motion detection zones/areas on the same camera and with different recording and alerting preferences. so for example, the lip stick cam i mentioned above, i have the same set up at my current house covering my front yard and reaching into the street. I have it set up three times, twice as a hidden camera. one feed is covering just my yard with full motion. one feed is covering just my mailbox, one feed covers the street. The street and mailbox feed record to a different hard drive that overwrite every 20 days ( lot of street activity), whereas my regular record profile is good for about 6 months. I did something similar for my front porch, except on that one feed has a motion area that spans out approximately 3ft from the front door. if that specific zone gets triggered it sends me a text. I typically see 3 or 4 false triggers on that one a week depending on cloud coverage/wind, much less than the other feed that covers the whole porch, shrubbery, and sidewalk.
