I got around to upgrading a few of the security cams over the past couple months. These things have improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Even relatively low-budget models now come with high resolution and other nifty features. The critter cam on the northeast corner now sees the whole creek/park area north of the house. It was pretty cold here yesterday, so I spent most of the day re-organizing the server to leverage those, and the results were good.
I’ve been through several iterations of different security cam software over the years. They seem to have made good progress since I started using them, but support and configuration issues involved with the all-in-one cam systems is just not ready for prime time, IMHO. It’s time consuming and tedious to do it manually with an FTP server and bash scripts, but that’s the only reliable way to manage security cams these days unless you are paying high prices for commercial software and subscription services.
The cams will do everything on their own if you just take the time to learn them.
