Setting up in pieces

[Optimus Prime]

Just got another report on Nextdoor that another house was broken into, this time in my neighborhood, on my street. I think I'm going to begin piecing together a system, even through I'm not yet able to drop the money down on it all at once.

I'm going to start with two cameras, and have landed on using Hikvision. Until I can replace my old AMD Athlon 3100 XP system (and yes, I know it's an old dog), can the DS-2CD2732 itself handle storing photos and video clips for a couple of days at a time as long as I transfer once a day to my fileshare?

 

[fenderman]

Just got another report on Nextdoor that another house was broken into, this time in my neighborhood, on my street. I think I'm going to begin piecing together a system, even through I'm not yet able to drop the money down on it all at once.

I'm going to start with two cameras, and have landed on using Hikvision. Until I can replace my old AMD Athlon 3100 XP system (and yes, I know it's an old dog), can the DS-2CD2732 itself handle storing photos and video clips for a couple of days at a time as long as I transfer once a day to my fileshare?

Yes, use a large sd card...you can probably go for longer than a few days depending on how much motion occurs.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Thank you.
- Will the camera push to a network share?
- If not, can I map a drive to the camera and set up a sync protocol?

 

[fenderman]

Thank you.
- Will the camera push to a network share?
- If not, can I map a drive to the camera and set up a sync protocol?

Yes, but it needs to be setup correctly....I dont use this function.. @alastairstevenson can probably point you in the right direction..

 

[alastairstevenson]

The camera does have the ability to record video to a network share, but with some limitations.
This is a big thread, and a bit dated now, but lots of info: http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/54-Solving-some-NFS-issues-on-Hikvision-cameras/page7?highlight=nfs+share

Essentially:
In the Storage menu, you can create a connection to a network share using either NFS or SMB/CIFS file sharing protocol. There is a test button to prove connectivity and credentials.
The caveat is (and this is for the 5.2.0 and 5.2.3 firmware, I don't know if / how this has changed on 5.2.5 or even 5.3.0) that the size (not the free space) must be smaller than some ceiling between 200GB and 250GB, I don't know the exact breakpoint.
If not, after you do the required 'format' operation, where the camera creates a skeleton of folders and placeholder files, the 'initiallised' state doesn't stick.
The share size can be set by either the containing volume size or a user quota restriction.

Within that size limitation, recording works pretty well, and the playback facilities are almost like a mini NVR, if a little slow. Which you'd expect as the camera is busy doing lots of other things.