Instant record switch on PTZ control

[Numb-nuts 1]

I have only one 27 x zoom PTZ camera at home. The reason I got it was because I want to get close up shots

of the troublemakers that loiter in my street so I can support a diary proving it is a regular and frequent occurrence

and that the young adults are often intoxicated and extremely intimidating to residents, guests and passers by.

 

When I sit at my computer, I can see and view the street from my CCTV monitor. When something occurs I want to instantly

record, so I thought that I would put a toggle switch in one of the DVR's alarm ports and set the record to alarm in so I can just flip the switch, recording the 20 seconds before the alarm triggers and all the action until it is switched off again.

 

Can anyone see any obvious flaws in this strategy?

[Soundy 1]

I have only one 27 x zoom PTZ camera at home. The reason I got it was because I want to get close up shots

of the troublemakers that loiter in my street so I can support a diary proving it is a regular and frequent occurrence

and that the young adults are often intoxicated and extremely intimidating to residents, guests and passers by.

 

When I sit at my computer, I can see and view the street from my CCTV monitor. When something occurs I want to instantly

record, so I thought that I would put a toggle switch in one of the DVR's alarm ports and set the record to alarm in so I can just flip the switch, recording the 20 seconds before the alarm triggers and all the action until it is switched off again.

 

Can anyone see any obvious flaws in this strategy?

 

Yes, you have an extraneous line break between "instantly" and "record".

[Numb-nuts 1]

Very useful Soundy, could you elaborate please, for those of us that didn't go to school when they should have?