Surveillance software for differend cams

[gsm]

Hi

I am looking for a simple software for motion detection and 24 hours recording for 5 different cams.
That is the main problem, 5 different brand name cams
I have a Netcam Stardot camera + a Foscam + Vivotek + the PT0078 from China and an other Foscam look a like camera like the F18908W
I am looking forward for your advice.

Best Regards
Nol

[buellwinkle]

The most common out there is BlueIris (http://blueirissoftware.com/). Also there's two forum members that post here often, timhillone and 40thfloor that look good. Tim's is http://www.h264soft.com/ and it works with lots of cameras. All three can be downloaded for free for a demo, try them out and see if it works for you. They also all very inexpensive to buy, under $100.

How do you like the Stardot camera? I saw them at the CES show in January and the image quality looked good and they told me they were working on improving their software to write directly to a NAS.

[gsm]

Hi

First of all, thank you for the response and the links
About the Netcam Stardot camera, I love it.
I did some research about the picture quality and that was amazing.
Then I bought this camera on Ebay from a company that have use the camera as a demo.
The only minus is the IR, the camera can not work with IR light. I understand that newer cameras can do that.
An other little problem that I have is that the camera is in a position that the evening sun is coming in the lens and that give stripes on the view.
But that is not a camera problem but the wrong position of the camera but I had no other choise.
Conclusion I can recomment the Stardot camera.

Excuse me but what is NAS ?
I am not so familiar with terms.

By the way, I am from the Netherlands

Best Regards
Nol

[buellwinkle]

NAS is Networked Attached Storage, or a disk drive that you can connect to remotely, on Windows via CIF or SMB or to Linux via NFS mount. Think of it as a USB drive you may use on your PC now, but attached via ethernet instead of USB cable and many computers & cameras can read/write to it. Also, many have an FTP server built in so some cameras that have FTP can write to it.

I use the Western Digital My Book World Edition, costs a little more than the standard USB Western Digital My Book. I hate USB drives because you can only connect to one PC at a time and it's limited to the length of a USB cable. A NAS can be anywhere on the network, even in another country and has userid/password security.

Be careful if you buy one because some cheapers ones only work with Windows and therefore may not work with the embedded Linux in cameras.

[gsm]

Thank you again for the explanation
I download Blueiris and 40thfloor and H264 and the last one has found 4 of my 5 cameras
I am busy to find out how I can find the last one and it is this camera :
http://www.securitycamera2000.com/products/Outdoor-Waterproof-IR-IP-Camera-for-Low-Temperature-Fixed-4mm-lens.html
Maybe someone know how to find that camera in H264webcam software.

Best Regards
Nol