IP8M-2496E-V2 record and upload 1 minute of video every 5 minutes

[basssears]

I have tried a lot of different tweaks but can't tell if this is possible or not.

Trying to work video uploads via FTP in a low bandwidth environment, I'd like to be able to record 1 minute of video every 5 minutes, can this be done either through "General" or "Event" settings?

My setup is good so this isn't a question about FTP servers or anything like that, it's been working great for a long time just uploading snapshots to my FTP server, I can't upload 24/7 video (too heavy bandwidth) but would be great to upload a small video clip every X number of minutes.

Possible?

Thanks in advance.

-- Bass

[Revo2Maxx]

In theory the answer is yes and no..

Issue is you are not allowed to make that many record settings per day.. 1min x 5 min would be like 288 events and the schedule you are able to setup like 6.. So yeah not really a way to do that.. So really with Motion and alarm setup for normal event setup in a camera that would only leave 5 different full time recordings you can setup in the Schedule area.. Then because you are doing this in FTP might be even mote limited to what it will do in that case.. I mean if you were wanting to do a full min of recording per event. Setup motion and setup your Delay to 50 seconds and setup the pre record to 10 would give you a min event per motion but that wouldn't be what you are really looking to do..

Now if you had Blue Iris. You might be able to setup something like that but then wouldn't really need to FTP that footage it would just be on your local Bi computer but there are optoins outside of the DVR/NVR and or IP cameras setup..

[basssears]

Thanks, that's what I've been coming up with too. Had been hoping to do it all "in camera" without any external devices but can't make that happen so far. Plan B is to use a miniPC to receive all 1 minute video blocks (via local FTP, no bandwidth needed because no outside traffic) then write a script to upload every 5th block (via FTP to outside the network) to a webserver. We'll see if that works...

[ultimatecodewarrior]

Hi Bass,

Python would be your best bet. You can use PyAV to lock onto the RTSP feed of the camera, and download a minute of video and audio on pretty much any computer/os you want. Usually the amcrest IP cameras will allow multiple connections to the h264 RTSP feed and it won't diminish the quality of the signal to your NVR or other monitors. You could also use opencv if you just wanted video. With that you can grab a frame instead of a clip too.