Dump Ring, Get Blink.

[Viper1j]

For the technically inclined you can roll your own 🙂.
There is plenty of C++ examples out there that connects to an IP camera and consumes the stream, with a little help from ffmpeg/libav its pretty straight forward to decode the stream realtime in code too, from here its only your imagination that sets the boundries, realtime motion detection etc and where you wanna store your videos.
I've done mine so I have motion detection and some other metadata that I store realtime, and then I am able to re-run detection/AI/plugin I've made on the metadata OR the real video itself over and over again. This comes in handy if you got action in one part of the feed, you put that part in a "detection box" (almost like enhance heh) and rerun with different plugin settings (higher sens, ai, whatever, this means you dont get false negatives on the rest of the frame) .. plus now I can run it 14 days back and see how many times the neighbors cat has used this path.
On my todo list is to encrypt the vids and store them offsite, right now end storage is just a local ftp server.

Listen to me and listen to me carefully. Fuck the cloud.

If you gonna cloud anyway, I would crack the software and reroute the remote storage destination to something local, encrypt, then move to alternate off site cloud.
Of course its a matter of time before the AI part of this thing is going decentralized and only work on your cloud data.. and then you're fucked.

I'm trying to figure out how to create an interface, that will allow me to view my cameras on my PC, rather than my phone or tablet. For one thing, the screen's a lot bigger. I'm sure there's got to be some kind of Android to Windows conversion tool box, I just haven't found it.

Yet.

 

[cytg111]

I'm trying to figure out how to create an interface, that will allow me to view my cameras on my PC, rather than my phone or tablet. For one thing, the screen's a lot bigger. I'm sure there's got to be some kind of Android to Windows conversion tool box, I just haven't found it.

Yet.

If its IP cameras and you just wanna watch, its probably rtsp and you can connect to the camera with something like VLC. If its not in the documentation then you have to sniff out the URL somehow. Probably could do with wireshark.

 

[Pens1566]

This.

But keep in mind, the police are unlikely to do anything even if you are the victim of a crime and have video of it. Average clearance rates for burglary nationwide are barely into the double digits.

Perhaps. But mine have already saved my ass in a homeowners insurance situation, and a dispute w/neighbor. They's also prove useful in any break-in situation regardless of police initiative.

 

[Pohemi]

I'm trying to figure out how to create an interface, that will allow me to view my cameras on my PC, rather than my phone or tablet. For one thing, the screen's a lot bigger. I'm sure there's got to be some kind of Android to Windows conversion tool box, I just haven't found it.

Yet.

If I understand what you're referring to, a program to run Android apps in Windows on your PC? Check out Bluestacks.

 

[Viper1j]

If I understand what you're referring to, a program to run Android apps in Windows on your PC? Check out Bluestacks.

Bluestacks is a major resource hog. I want a native windows program that will do what the Android app will do.

 

[Vic]

Perhaps. But mine have already saved my ass in a homeowners insurance situation, and a dispute w/neighbor. They's also prove useful in any break-in situation regardless of police initiative.

Fully agreed that cams are most useful for insurance. It's why I also have dashcams in my vehicles now.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Bluestacks is a major resource hog. I want a native windows program that will do what the Android app will do.

Windows was likely going to have a native Android translator but Microsoft killed it for some reason. It was their last ditch effort to save Windows Phone/Mobile. Not sure if Google threatened to sue or what.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Fully agreed that cams are most useful for insurance. It's why I also have dashcams in my vehicles now.

Yeah. Reminds me I need to get dash cams again. Used to have them in both of our vehicles but they wore out (well its more that the mounts for them wore out, as far as I know both of the dash cams still work, but not sure where they're at now; funnily enough the dash cams have lasted the Arizona heat but the mounts did not but I made sure to get capacitive ones instead of battery ones).

 

[Pens1566]

Yeah. Reminds me I need to get dash cams again. Used to have them in both of our vehicles but they wore out (well its more that the mounts for them wore out, as far as I know both of the dash cams still work, but not sure where they're at now; funnily enough the dash cams have lasted the Arizona heat but the mounts did not but I made sure to get capacitive ones instead of battery ones).

Yeah, that's the trick. Lot of models out there don't last very long. Good ones (non-disposable) are harder to find and more expensive).

 

[darkswordsman17]

Yeah, that's the trick. Lot of models out there don't last very long. Good ones (non-disposable) are harder to find and more expensive).

Mine were cheap chinese ones I bought off Newegg or Amazon for like $150 for 2 of them. I had a couple of nicer ones before but sold them before I moved since they had batteries. Just needed to know to buy the ones without batteries. They survived years down here but then the suction part separated from the rest of the mount and then the other one the plastic retaining part of the mount finally just snapped.