{"id":426,"date":"2012-02-03T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2014-03-13T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:43:55","slug":"diy-home-security-part-2-configuring-motion-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/03\/diy-home-security-part-2-configuring-motion-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Home Security Part 2 – Configuring Motion Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heart of my home security system is motion detection and alerts. As I mentioned in the first post, I selected Blue Iris software as a desktop controller. It more than compensates for the shortcomings of the surveillance alert features that are missing from the D-Link camera and for the poor D-Link (free) Windows software supplied with the cameras (D-Cam View). For reasons I don’t understand, the more expensive DCS-942L camera does not have an email motion alert function. The less expensive DCS-932L does, but it is pretty limited. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The image above show the D-Link email setup.<\/p>\n

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In contrast, Blue Iris has plenty of choices for alerts. Obviously a computer has to be on 24\/7 to use the Blue Iris controller (or the D-Link Windows software).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here’s an email alert I received when I opened my front door:<\/p>\n

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I’ve set the system up to send me two frames\/snapshots, and this number is user configurable. The system can run independent alert schedules for each camera, too.<\/div>\n
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The Blue Iris desktop controller is exceptional and the author is always adding features and improvements.<\/p>\n
Once my four cameras were set up, from the server computer, I have a complete view of everything:<\/p>\n
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Double click a view and see a larger image:<\/p>\n
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Right click an image in either view and a shortcut menu appears. Select camera properties to configure features like alerts, etc.<\/p>\n
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I’m very happy with the combination of D-Link camera and Blue Iris, but set up is not trivial. Up next, camera and network configuration, dynamic DNS, and port forwarding.<\/p>\n
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The heart of my home security system is motion detection and alerts. As I mentioned in the first post, I selected Blue Iris software as a desktop controller. It more than compensates for the shortcomings of the surveillance alert features that are missing from the D-Link camera and for the poor D-Link (free) Windows software […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47,132,89,25,35],"tags":[311,308,96,30],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"

The heart of my home security system is motion detection and alerts. As I mentioned in the first post, I selected Blue Iris software as a desktop controller. It more than compensates for the shortcomings of the surveillance alert features that are missing from the D-Link camera and for the poor D-Link (free) Windows software supplied with the cameras (D-Cam View). For reasons I don’t understand, the more expensive DCS-942L camera does not have an email motion alert function. The less expensive DCS-932L does, but it is pretty limited.                      …<\/p>\n","category_list":"Connected Home<\/a>, Home Automation<\/a>, Home Security<\/a>, Networking<\/a>, Technology<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"barbbowman","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barbbowman\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-6S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}