Yes, they can trigger motion alerts, depending how far away the road is. You can adjust the sensitivity and adjust the area to for triggering notifications using the browser web interface. The default is the whole camera view, with sensitivity set at 3. With the road about 60 ft away, it triggers cars going by, so had to adjust the trigger area to just the front walkway instead, otherwise you get continuous alerts. You can also turn off the alerts too, especially if you rather get notifications from your NVR.
If you read the thread, most, if not all, can be accessed from an NVR or surveillance software (
blue iris ispy, zoneminder, etc). One exception is bluecherrydvr, still waiting for them to debug the issue. Note that the two-way communications may or may not work with your NVR or software.
To access from your NVR, give the camera a static address or, if you are using dynamic addressing, use the MAC address and assign an IP address in your router such that it will always be assigned the same IP address. Then in your NVR or software, use rtsp:://xxx,xxx,xxx.xxx:554/Streaming/Channels/101.
Nighttime viewing is bad, too much IR reflection. This is a design problem, the IR lights should be outside of the camera dome. Only solution is to be able to turn off IR, but there is no option to do so. I've requested to Clare Controls to add that feature so that motion lights could be used or our own IR light...still waiting for any news if they are going to add this ability.
