SW with email alert?

[John Godden]

Greetings

I'm looking for IP/security SW that will generate an email and interface with a security system when a motion detection 'event' is triggered.

I've done some research on ONSSI netdvr and Luxriot. Somewhat different price levels. I only need 9 cam functionality and will probably only use 6 cams total. I don't mind spending the $'s if I know I'm getting a solid SW package that has some good support. Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Also, do any of these surveillance SW companies have help forums?

Regards
JohnG

[mike69]

I can recommend http://www.c-mor.us even it's not software only.

It's a nice system, a compact box with hardware and software, all is included. and it enables you to configure email alarm for each camera. You even can
configure external door contacts to generate alarm and move PTZ cams on demand to a pre-defined position.

They have a good support team and a forum.

Mike

[John Godden]

[Marian]

John,

I was looking for the same requirements and the only way to interface my Vista 20p security system and the video surveillance was this:

The BlueIris software is capable of making a phone call when triggered. if you add a phone module (in my case a 4286) to your security system you can dial in the access code and in this way when the surveillance triggers it goes ahead and arms the security system. It works well and is reliable. The whole process takes a few seconds.

Problem is that triggering on motion detection is not reliable. A bird, a spider the wind, anything that can modify what a camera sees will trigger a false positive.

I am talking to Ken Pletzer the author of BlueIris trying to convince him to add triggering on sensors using the parallel port. This way we can trigger using IR sensors which are by far more reliable. With this BlueIris will be the best software DVR.

Hope it helps,
Marian

[JerryC]

The product I use is Security Monitor Pro. It has low overhead and the alerts are customizable per camera - so one camera could record video and upload it, while another can send email alerts to my cell phone only at night on the entry door. Good product and the publisher responds to email pretty quickly.

Here's the URL - http://www.deskshare.com/smp.aspx

Hope it helps.

-Jerry