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phucyall@lemmy.ca 1 day agoHKSV has been decent, but the protocol relies on cameras doing motion detection and telling HKSV when events happen that need to be recorded. So it works pretty good with good cameras.
That said it still only records clips of events. With Aqara G5 Pro I tell the cameras to also write video to NAS so that’s how I get continuous recording in addition to what HKSV offers
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s been a year or two since I was looking into it and I didn’t have a NAS at the time, but another one of the issues I had was the tiny selection of cameras available. I tested some Aqara G2H Pros and the Logitech Circle View. The Aqaras I added local storage to and at least could get continuous recording, but event seeking is pretty terrible. The circle view was, despite very well built hardware, essentially useless. Keeping it connected to the network was basically impossible
I’m curious how writing to the NAS works. Is it just a bunch of files dumped to a network share or is there some sort of timeline viewing software available? Are they giant continuous files? Individual files for events? Without knowing the details it seems like it would be a nightmare to navigate and actually find useful information.