Security Camera Archive and Internet

[Tyrosen]

I am trying to record 5 home security cameras, and taking all the video, and putting them in a NAS. How many Mbps will this take up you guys think if this is run all the time?

[MrBucket101]

Would depend on a lot of things, primarily the bitrate and resolution of the video being recorded. Are you not storing the footage locally? 

 

Also, WD make drives for this specific purpose. I would get some of them. Think they're the purples

[Tyrosen]

8 minutes ago, MrBucket101 said:

Would depend on a lot of things, primarily the bitrate and resolution of the video being recorded. Are you not storing the footage locally? 

 

Also, WD make drives for this specific purpose. I would get some of them. Think they're the purples

So say, 480p record, and no, I am not storing locally because I would really like to see the archives on different computers and mobile devices

[MrBucket101]

8 hours ago, Tyrosen said:

So say, 480p record, and no, I am not storing locally because I would really like to see the archives on different computers and mobile devices

480p is a resolution, bitrate will still play a factor

 

You can still store the footage locally initially, and then upload it elsewhere. Or store it locally, and open the respective ports or setup a VPN so you can access the content elsewhere. Plex may be a good option for this. It's meant for TV/Movies, but technically it will work with all video content. This would let you stream the footage wherever, in whatever quality you opted for

[mluton]

I have my webcams send images on movement to a local folder on my server, which is in my google drive folder so it uploads to the cloud.

 

It is possible but you need a good upload speed and you need to break your video runs into segments of about 10mb.

[brwainer]

In your camera's settings for the video stream/file encoding, there should be an option for what bitrate to use. Whatever you set this to, that is how much data will need to be transferred from the camera.

 

If your camera is doing the motion detection and just uploading captured files, then you just meed to multiply the bitrate by the maximum number of cameras you think might be detecting motion at once (of course they won't upload their file until the recording is complete).

 

If the cameras are streaming 24/7 to a server / service that is either storing all footage or doing motion detection there, then it would just be your bitrate times 5.