Is there an app out there that will configure motion detect? I bought my 5th Amcrest camera, For some reason it couldn't use the Amcrest IE plugins already installed. After installing its plugin IE failed on the other 4 cameras. Needless to say I'm kind of mad. This is a serious problem when you have a lot of cameras to maintain. IE plugins do not scale. You must be backwards compatible.
That said, there's a CGI command I'm playing with to do this if I can figure out all these fields. This wouldn't be that difficult for an app to do automatically and am surprised Amcrest's Pro View doesn't do this. Actually Pro View is kind of worthless for my use case without this capability (I couldn't find it).
Does anyone know of a third party app that will allow me to config motion detect fields. Right now I'd pay for one if it allows me to never have to deal with IE and plugins again.
How to config motion detect without IE
Re: How to config motion detect without IE
It's frustrating, believe me but you can get it to work. First, you have to download an old version of IE. I use 11. You have to clear all the settings. Also, I'm pretty sure the plugin looks at specific IP/urls so it will ask you for each occurrence of a unique IP/url. As I said, it's frustrating but be patient.
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Re: How to config motion detect without IE
Thanks for the encouragement. I poked around in Tools -> Manage Add ons and saw the Amcrest plug in. Highlight the Amcrest plug in and there's a button in the bottom left called "More Information." Click that and apparently the plug in is tied to to an IP address. I changed that to allow all and now all the cameras are working to the same plugin and they work again.
This motion detect system is the best feature on these cameras IMHO. That it can be done on camera is very efficient. The IE plugin is fancy and nice but there should be some rudimentary fall back that can work in any browser. Just take a snapshot, throw a grid over it and calculate the zones that way. Probably can do it in PHP. It doesn't have to be fancy. I only change zones when a camera has to be moved somewhere else so not that often. My backup plan was to use graph paper and a calculator.
This motion detect system is the best feature on these cameras IMHO. That it can be done on camera is very efficient. The IE plugin is fancy and nice but there should be some rudimentary fall back that can work in any browser. Just take a snapshot, throw a grid over it and calculate the zones that way. Probably can do it in PHP. It doesn't have to be fancy. I only change zones when a camera has to be moved somewhere else so not that often. My backup plan was to use graph paper and a calculator.