Logitech cameras builtin software vs secuitySpy software
Hey everyone,
Considering SecuritySpy for my Logitech Cams (3 750's) because I don't like that everything goes thru Logitech, so I had some questions. Eveidentally once you set up the cameras with the Mac software, they will run autonomously without the software. You can set up motion zones, and notifications and they work on their own. So my questions are:
1) Can I use make the logitech cams do all the heavy lifting in terms of motion control etc so the server doesn't have to do all the work? Would I need this? Or should I use them as straight cameras and let SS do all the work?
2) Can the cameras be rendered "dumb" so that they no longer are using logitech backend and then SS will handle things?
3) Wondering how much bandwidth they will be using if all three are going into my i7 mac mini constantly (i think the cams are 720p)...
Anyone using logitech cameras with SS have any thoughts?
Thanks
Considering SecuritySpy for my Logitech Cams (3 750's) because I don't like that everything goes thru Logitech, so I had some questions. Eveidentally once you set up the cameras with the Mac software, they will run autonomously without the software. You can set up motion zones, and notifications and they work on their own. So my questions are:
1) Can I use make the logitech cams do all the heavy lifting in terms of motion control etc so the server doesn't have to do all the work? Would I need this? Or should I use them as straight cameras and let SS do all the work?
2) Can the cameras be rendered "dumb" so that they no longer are using logitech backend and then SS will handle things?
3) Wondering how much bandwidth they will be using if all three are going into my i7 mac mini constantly (i think the cams are 720p)...
Anyone using logitech cameras with SS have any thoughts?
Thanks
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Hi ravedog,
To answer your questions from the software point of view:
1. The main "heavy lifting" here is the video compression, not the motion detection. The Logitech cameras provide H.264 video to SecuritySpy, which SecuritySpy can capture directly to disk with no further compression performed in software (see the optimising performance section of the user manual for more information on this). SecuritySpy will do its own motion detection, but this is an efficient operation that doesn't consume too much CPU time.
2. Yes - the cameras will be simply sending video to SecuritySpy and SecuritySpy will do all the rest.
3. H.264 is a very efficient format and the cameras are connected by wired ethernet, so unless you run them at maximum quality and frame rate, I don't think you'll notice any network slowdown. I'd suggest 10fps and medium compression quality to be reasonable settings.
Hope this helps! -
Thank you very much. Got them up and running today. Let the testing begin!!!
