How do i get the cameras to show like this on the dashboard?
And how do I get panic buttons to sho up like this??
That’s VeraSecure setup. When you subscribe to Vera’s monitoring service.
Ahaaa! Bummer as it would have made it easier to sell Vera’s own app.
My wife and I use VeraMate to give us the information we are looking for on 1 screen:
Ahaaa! Bummer as it would have made it easier to sell Vera’s own app.[/quote]
It should work on most vera’s if you run the latest firmware. The original beta for it ran on an Edge.
Ahaaa! Bummer as it would have made it easier to sell Vera’s own app.[/quote]
It should work on most vera’s if you run the latest firmware. The original beta for it ran on an Edge.[/quote]
Is it a beta as I am running 1.7.2607 and do not have these features on my edge.
There was a separate beta firmware for the monitoring service with additional functions. I believe those have now been rolled into the main firmware and should be enabled when you subscribe to the monitoring service (buttons) The camera’s may either be the monitoring or the cloud camera service (gold or platinum) Vera now offers. You’d have to check with them for the exact details.
Haha and micasa boasted about no month fee when i Bought the Vera…
It feels like the dont want you to use the Vera app …
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There is no monthly fee for Vera. The monitoring and more elaborate camera cloud support are additional services that you do not have to subscribe to to use your Vera normally to control your zwave devices and IP camera’s et all.
With the no monthly fee plan you still get 1GB cloud storage. Just without the additional features of the monthly pay plan. Vera has to pay for the additional storage of your pictures and since there is no monthly fee they can use for revenue, I can’t blame them for charging a small monthly fee if you want that additional storage and added options. You can do it yourself using eg Blue Iris but you have to purchase that software, purchase a computer and pay the electricity bill for it to be on 24/7. Not forgetting the labor to keep it maintained.
You can also self monitor your sensors and device et al (like I do) for free. If you want the premium of having a centralized security monitoring service, like with any other security monitoring service, you will have to pay a fee. I do not know of any security monitoring service that offers that for free. If you do, please let me know as I will check them out.
Both the camera could service and the security monitoring are recent additions. The free features have not been limited in any way to the best of my knowledge.
Does Vera only do stills or video?
If they do video I always wondered how well cloud services works?
I have Charter ----> Spectrum 100Mbps down but only 5 Mbps Upload. I have 10 Hikvison cameras some 3Mp some 4Mp versions. Depends on Frame rates but my calculator shows around 3.4Mbps per camera (3MP camera, H.264, 10fps) bandwidth usage. And that’s a very low setting on only the 3MP not 4MP cameras (which I don’t by a good camera and lower all settings to a choppy picture). At this rate I can’t have more then 1 camera recording at a time based on my upload speeds.
How do people get around that?
50/5 here on Spectrum (was BrightHouse) and yeah, if you want better upload speeds you will have to switch to FIOS I fear.
Does Vera only do stills or video?
If they do video I always wondered how well cloud services works?
I have Charter ----> Spectrum 100Mbps down but only 5 Mbps Upload. I have 10 Hikvison cameras some 3Mp some 4Mp versions. Depends on Frame rates but my calculator shows around 3.4Mbps per camera (3MP camera, H.264, 10fps) bandwidth usage. And that’s a very low setting on only the 3MP not 4MP cameras (which I don’t by a good camera and lower all settings to a choppy picture). At this rate I can’t have more then 1 camera recording at a time based on my upload speeds.
How do people get around that?[/quote]
Get a local SVR and record all of your cameras all at their best frame rate and res 24/7. Cloud services are for people with too much money and not enough knowledge in this area.
Fios or now Frontier is not available in my area. I have At&t and its not even U-verse it regular DSL with like 6 or 12Mbps download and something worse up.
As someone who used to get excited when my 28.8 kbps dialup first “supported” 56 kbps but I usually connected at 33 kbps, it amazes me how we cannot “live” with moments of 10/1 mbps (what I used to get when I first went with cable). I think I have 15/2.5 mbps most of the time, which works well for the both of us, but we get annoyed when our Netflix streams buffer due to these momentary slow downs.
And a broadband outage is akin to losing power.
Sorry, my point is Vera is not for cameras. I use it to give me a glance inside the house - like when I get motion in the dining room, but cameras do not show anyone is there, and it was just that camera sending a false motion. Vera showing stills works well for that purpose.
Blue Iris will record a motion, and I can preserve that video as evidence for my police report - should I ever need to do that. If I want to watch my cameras’ streams, I use the camera’s app on my phone, use Blue Iris’s webserver, or log into my computer via Teamviewer to watch the streams on the full Blue Iris software.
I never found a burning desire to encumber Vera with more work than she can handle.
+1 on Blue Iris. Although I view the camera’s remotely via ImperiHome, all the heavy lifting is done by a quiet lil mousey Lenovo TS140 Xeon box. Which also runs Serviio and 2 different TTS servers. I use the same model as my workstation.
I agree on the cloud sentiment. Too much reliance on that. Remember that AWS outage a few months back and the widespread chaos that created? I’m trying very hard to keep my HA setup as little dependent on the internet as possible. About the only part that needs connectivity is Alexa and she’s a convenience rather than a necessity.