In-expensive NVR for the Home User

[grinthock 0]

I have a few AIC250's and a few analog camera's currently connected to Analog to Network adapters here at home, so I can "see" everything - now I want to record based on motion.

 

Can someone here recommend something that's inexpensive? (less than $200) right now i'm uploading the images to my local server but it eats an insane amount of space, and it's unmanageable.... I saw the free NICEVision but it only works with AXIS cameras....

 

Any thoughts would be great, thanks.

[metafizx 0]

not sure what you consider "inexpensive" but the cheapest thing that I found to work is Active WebCam. There are other cheapie programs but I haven't tried them, such as BlueIris (never tried).

 

Active Webcam is a bit buggy but for a cheapie piece of s/w it works ok. Support is not very good, but they do come out with new versions. It actually has better features than many of the other programs I tried that were more costly.

 

I have it working with Axis 207, 221, and Panasonic CL-30 no problem.

Overall it works pretty good, I have had a few issues with it, but for the money there isn't anything I know that works better.

 

The motion detection works pretty good, but the frame rates seems to max out at about 8FPS and I can't get it faster. So for this reason, I am actually moving to Visec.

 

Visec isn't as cheap but still low cost, and it works a lot more efficiently, I get almost 20+FPS on a regular PC w/XP.

[chanyickwai 0]

I have a few AIC250's and a few analog camera's currently connected to Analog to Network adapters here at home, so I can "see" everything - now I want to record based on motion.

 

Can someone here recommend something that's inexpensive? (less than $200) right now i'm uploading the images to my local server but it eats an insane amount of space, and it's unmanageable.... I saw the free NICEVision but it only works with AXIS cameras....

 

Any thoughts would be great, thanks.

 

Where can I download a free version of NICEVision? What's the name of it? Is that working well?

 

 

Regards, Dove

[jameslou 0]

You can try CyeWeb at http://www.novosun.com.

 

It is inexpensive and works very well.

[chill 0]

Free NICEVision? NICE makes some very expensive gear, and I've never heard of anything of theirs that is free. I'm interested in hearing about where you saw this.