Ben

Last betas not playing all captured video
Good to hear you managed to resolve this. I'm not sure why there could have been duplicate copies of the captured files - do you know why this happened? Thanks.

Comment by Ben January 18 permalink
Schedule for nighttime cars, daytime no cars?
If there are parked cars, then I would suggest simply using the standard motion detection for this, and turning off the AI, so that SecuritySpy records all motion. This should work well both in daylight and at night. There is no option at present to…

Comment by Ben January 18 permalink
Human Detection Only Seems to Happen at Dusk
It's difficult to know what's going on here. Could be a lighting issue or camera position issue. Please email us and include an image from the camera in question both in daytime and at night (to save an image, right-click on the camera and…

Comment by Ben January 18 permalink
Help needed to test the video processing capabilities of your Mac
Thanks @sgtwicki your results did come through. This is very impressive hardware-accelerated performance that you have managed achieve on this older Mac Pro!

Comment by Ben January 18 permalink
Cannot use USB webcam in BigSur
Hi Ed, did this work in a previous version of SecuritySpy? If so I will provide you with a link to the previous version so that we can compare the two. I'm not sure at this point why this could be happening - there should be an option in Securi…

Comment by Ben January 18 permalink
Web view
I agree that it would be nice if the web view could do some of the things you are suggesting. From a development point of view, it's difficult having to maintain four different interfaces (SecuritySpy UI, iOS app, tvOS app and web), and sometim…

Comment by Ben January 16 permalink
Amcrest ASH21
I can't think of anything that changed in 5.3.1 specifically that would have an impact here. A timeout indicates that the device is not responding at all, or the address for the device in SecuritySpy is incorrect. This is consistent with the pr…

Comment by Ben January 16 permalink
Mac Mini M1 (Apple Silicon) + SecuritySpy = CRAZY
Many thanks for sharing your experiences, it's great to hear the M1 mini is working so well for you. The new chips are quite amazing!

Comment by Ben January 16 permalink
New WiFi 6 Router and not seeing cameras
Do you mean the cameras were on the 5 GHz band and the computer was on the 2.4 GHz band? This shouldn't be an issue - the network should be functionally the same. However there may be some strangeness with this particular router. In general, I…

Comment by Ben January 14 permalink
Cannot use USB webcam in BigSur
Hi Ed, please try deleting SecuritySpy from your Mac (this won't affect your settings - simply drag it to the Trash and empty the trash). Then download and install a fresh copy from the SecuritySpy download page and open it. Then do you see the…

Comment by Ben January 13 permalink
New WiFi 6 Router and not seeing cameras
I'm afraid there's not enough information here to diagnose the problem. We would ideally need to know what errors you are seeing in SecuritySpy. My guess would be that the cameras now have new IP addresses perhaps, and SecuritySpy is still…

Comment by Ben January 13 permalink
iOS notifications lose snapshot until iPhone reboot
Sorry for the late reply. I'm afraid I have no idea what could be going wrong here. This isn't a known problem and is not being reported by any other users. The fact that you get the image if you long-press the notification means that Secu…

Comment by Ben January 13 permalink
Apple TV Camera reconnection issue
This is a known issue with the current Apple TV app, whereby it will not always reconnect to cameras after disconnection. We do plan to update the app soon to address this.

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
AFP vs SMB
Thanks for posting with this information. SecuritySpy remembers capture destinations using macOS "bookmarks", the contents of which are managed by macOS and opaque to SecuritySpy. For network locations the bookmark will certainly contain i…

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
Disable camera by schedule
Great to hear this works well. I think you will be pleased with your M1 mini :)

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
Trigger "All Cameras Record" through HTTP(S) Remote Access
Hi - in the latest beta version of SecuritySpy (currently 5.3.2b4), we've added the option to trigger all cameras via the triggermd HTTP request by specifying a camera number of -1. Hope this helps - please confirm this works as expected.

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
Web view
Thanks for your suggestions. Assuming the viewing computer is a Mac, you will get a better viewing experience (including fitting multiple video views in a window that keeps a nice layout when the window is resized) by using another copy of SecurityS…

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
Help needed to test the video processing capabilities of your Mac
Thanks @7RDR7 !

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
Suggestion for Triggers Option
This is a good point, thanks for letting us know about this. I'll see what we can do in a future update.

Comment by Ben January 12 permalink
Finished videos to have same name?
You can control the ordering of the components of the date via Preferences > General, but beyond that the file naming is fixed. We wouldn't add such an option as a built-in feature, but it's fairly easy to do via AppleScript, as follow…

Comment by Ben January 11 permalink
How do I migrate my settings and preferences to a new machine?
Please see this FAQ: How do I move SecuritySpy from one computer to another, retaining all settings?

Comment by Ben January 11 permalink
Help needed to test the video processing capabilities of your Mac
Thanks @Neurobit, much appreciated!

Comment by Ben January 11 permalink
Failed to decompress incoming video frame - Mac mini 2020 M1
For any affected camera, please try this: in the Camera Info window, show the "Video Hardware Decode Status" column (click the header bar where you see the column names to show/hide the columns). The indicator should be "HW", ind…

Comment by Ben January 11 permalink
Finished videos to have same name?
There is no built-in way to do this, however SecuritySpy has a feature whereby you can designate a script to run for each completed captured file. This script could do the file renaming. Please see the "ProcessCapturedFile" section at the …

Comment by Ben January 10 permalink
External Drive for storage
Sounds great - thanks for reporting back with your solution, I hope this will be useful to others. It's very interesting that SecuritySpy continues to be able to access the files via the symlinks - this is not something we designed for, but it&…

Comment by Ben January 10 permalink
Failed to decompress incoming video frame - Mac mini 2020 M1
We've seen this problem specifically with Hikvision cameras and the M1 Macs. At this time we're not sure what the cause of the problem is, or if there is a workaround. We are investigating. @7RDR7 - are you using Hikvision cameras?

Comment by Ben January 10 permalink
Disable camera by schedule
In order to disable a camera so that it is not streaming to SecuritySpy you must go to Preferences > Cameras > Setup and untick the "Enable this camera" option. There is no built-in way to do this on a schedule, but it is possible w…

Comment by Ben January 9 permalink
Continuous Capture Settings for Time-lapse
Hi Rick - 1 frame every 30 seconds is a frame rate of 0.0333 and 1 frame every 60 seconds is a frame rate of 0.0167. Just divide 1 by the number of seconds to get the frame rate.

Comment by Ben January 7 permalink
Timestamp Options?
Currently you are limited to the default formatting, font name, and colours (though you can change the date ordering/style under Preferences > General, which is reflected in the overlays). We'll take a look at expanding the options, however…

Comment by Ben January 6 permalink
High frame rate camera
There are a few cameras with high frame rates, for example: Lilin UFG1122E (2 MP, 120 fps) Lilin ZFR8122EX2 (2MP, 120 fps) AXIS Q1645 (2 MP, 120 fps) AXIS P1377 (1 MP, 180 fps) Lilin and Axis are both excellent brands, so these should all perform …

Comment by Ben January 4 permalink

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