I have the QC444 and I am using a static IP address. The email alerts on motion detection only work for a short period of time. For example I got 10 alerts on March 17th from 8:04PM until 9:49PM then nothing until I got 1 at 3/19 at 7:01 AM. Then 3 more from 11:37AM -11:51 AM of the same day. Then nothing until 3/20 when I got 2, 1 at 7:49PM and 7:50PM. Very strange.
FYI, I could not get any emails to work when I tried to use my gmail account to send the emails.
Now last night I turned on the FTP function and that is working almost too well. Since I turned it on about 16 hours ago it has uploaded 25800 images. I think I just figured out what I need to do to the settings to make it work better. BTW, anyone know of a good free/real cheap online FTP services? The one I am using now really sucks. I just picked the first one I found as a proof of concept.
Now after turning on the FTP I started getting the emails a little more frequently but still sporadically. From Midnight last night until 1PM this afternoon I had gotten 16 alert emails in 7 different spurts.
So I don't think the static IP is the issue. At least for the FTP. I was thinking that maybe I was having trouble with the network connection for the email but given the FTP is having no issues that theory is fading. Although since the email success appears to have approved maybe it is because the connection is being maintained. Any ideas.
