Using the SecuritySpy Browser to view archived captures
I keep about 10 days of captures on my SSD, then move the an HDD. Is there a way to view and search those external HHD captures with the built in browser?
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This isn't a feature, however one workaround could be to create duplicated / dummy cameras and point them to the capture destination on the HDD - then this footage would become available via these secondary camera instances. Or, simply capture to the HDD directly, which is presumably a lot larger than the SSD (although you then of course lose the performance advantages of the SSD, which may be the reason you are using it).
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Hm, OK, maybe in a future release then. ? I'm already using duplicated cameras in order to have more than 1 masking area. When you want to record all street action, but only be notified when a person is in your yard, you need 2 different masks, which isn't supported. So I duplicate cameras for that. BTW, wouldn't a Read-only demo mode SecSpy install be able to view the external footage? For example, installed in a VM or other server. But then I don't need it to actually connect to cameras, so then, you also have the option to Disable a camera in the UI, but then it's not enabled in the browser either. Ill play around with it.
On the topic of Masks and needing to duplicate cameras...
Now that you have added (I think its new) 2 buttons in the Triggers tab, a Motion Capture Triggers, and a Action Triggers button, that would be an opportunity to have a Motion Mask and a Trigger Mask. Masks are also on that screen, so clicking those 2 buttons you could show a different mask. "I want this mask so I capture all the Motion in area 1, and I want to get notified when Humans are in area 2"
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I also would love the ability to access recent (in primary storage destination directories) and archived (in an alternate location) from same interface in app and web interface. I store captures on SSD for a couple of weeks and then move to a NAS for archiving. Ideally, SecuritySpy could do the file management but understand if that would be too far from core feature set. But it seems like it wouldn't be too hard (says the guy who doesn't have to implement it) to collect a primary file path and an archive file path for each camera and have like a mode switch "Current / Archive" and just have Browser (and the web engine equivalent) point to the appropriate paths based on mode switch setting.
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Curious, are you guys archiving because you feel a need to keep extended footage ? Also what performance feature do you see the benefit of using a SSD as a transitionary target for recordings instead of using the HDD.
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For me, I find SSD much much faster at serving up scans/search results for recorded footage in Web interface and especially in Browser when reviewing "multi-angle" events (multiple cameras recording motion events at same time). I have a 4TB SSD and I record about 250GB/day, a lot of which are continuous captures from all 30 of my cameras. So I get about two weeks of recording on the SSD. Then I allow the Continuous files to be auto-deleted after two weeks (I don't archive those), but I archive all motion events to a giant (120TB) NAS--- kind of forever. Maybe I'll set those to delete after a year or so. I use ChronoSync app to do the sync'ing/backup/archive/pruning.
Admittedly, I rarely go back and look for very old footage, but it would be nice to have a full "Browser" experience (multi-angle playback + AI event filters) versus current situation where I manually search via Finder for archived files.
Maybe just using the NAS directly for everything would be OK, but I found it to be a bit slow when I had a lot fewer cameras. I haven't tried since I added all my current cameras. I expect to be at 32 total cameras soon. So perhaps my situation is a bit extreme.
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You could do some horrible symlinking scripts to copy off "old" data to the spinning drives and then create symlinks on the SSD. I think the Browser should follow symlinks... maybe.
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@ChrisNicholson Thanks Chris, interesting. Your use is much more comprehensive than mine but nevertheless I can see the benefit of ssd
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Update: we are adding automatic archive functionality to SecuritySpy (when the primary location fills up, files are transferred to an archive location, but still available throughout the software). Please let me know if you would like to test it and I will provide a link to the beta version with this addition.
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Update: SecuritySpy 6.13 has now been released, which includes the option to automatically archive old files. This is documented in the manual at Settings - Storage.
