surveillance station software , which one?

[Snelvuur]

All,

I have a qnap which runs surveillance station, but its like the oldest version out there which does not support my axis 241q. So basicly i wanted to have the new version (surveillance station 3) but i cant get that because its only for the synology.

Are there any alternatives which i can run? I have a windows machine running 24/7 so any windows package which is able to work wih my 241q which has things you can choose from like resolution, recording times, motion detection recording etc etc would be fine already.

So any ideas about that?

Thanks,
Eric

[Akatar]

perhaps active webcam?
http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm

[Snelvuur]

cant really tell if it has axis 241q servers too.. the axis camera manager looks ok too, but its just too much.. $$$

[phoenixb]

Hi,
I use for about 3 1/2 year activewebcam pro for home use and i must say it's a realy good pice of software for surveillance software.
an alternative might seetec 5, which is slightly more expensive but more stable then activewebcam (lower processor usage without using the axis motion option).

Grtz,

[TANE]

Eric,
I'm also using Qnap and have the Axis 241Q
combination is running fine here.

Software is not so fancy but works okay for now.

[Snelvuur]

problem with the qnap is that it does not support motion, and also i cannot set size or compression and those kinds of things..

[DJF3]

Interesting!

So you can't configure things like resolution on the QNAP?

On the following website I see screenshots (step 3) where you can configure the recording frame-rate, compression, resolution, etc.
http://www.qnap.com/pro_application.asp?ap_id=70

On step 3 it also explains how to configure motion-detect recording - that however seems to be available only on a couple of camera's/
It's a shame that the TS-xxx NAS's don't seem to support generic Camera configurations where you configure the URL that is should use to record, view, control, etc.

It looks like the Synology NAS's do support Generic Camera's.. I'm about to choose between QNAP and Synology for a NAS and the Surveillance feature is important

DJ

[Snelvuur]

synology has a newer version that support lots of models as far as i know. I have asked for this new version on the qnap but sofar no luck at the moment. The qnaps are said to be better in performance than synology but hey, if you have 70mb/s or 71mb/s who cares.. (thats my opinion) i didn't intend to use the surveillance station but it just doesn't work. It does have a generic function but then it will cost you loads of storage sinec you cant say compression or resolution.

[DJF3]

Yeah, with my Axis 2401 video-servers I can define compression, resolution and fps in the URL

It will cost a LOT of storage though..

DJ

[TANE]

10 days record cost me 34 GB
this are the settings

[Snelvuur]

what is the image url you use to grab the picture? since i dont get those settings..