Why I choose the MotionEye open source motion detection software after I had D-Link, Amcrest & Hikision cameras?

Last Updated on July 15, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org ordered some time ago a high-quality Amcrest surveillance camera in the U.S. which never arrived in Switzerland:

I first had a D-Link DCS-5020L camera which was good. Great was especially the feature to send a number of e-mails triggered by an event. This could easily be observed from a remote location.

But then I needed a camera with zoom. So a bought an Amcrest camera in the United States for around 500 USD. But when I used it, the wireless connector was broken and not usable, and Amcrest did not take back the camera. The warranty was already gone. The Amcrest software on PC is great. It allows to record videos triggered by motion.

Then I ordered a second used Amcrest camera in the U.S. which never arrived in Switzerland as described above.

Then I bought Hikvision cameras. They are cheaper than Amcrest cameras. But then it was only possible to take pictures triggered by an event with the PC software, but not to record videos. And often the object of investigation could not be seen on the pictures.

So I had to buy additionally a HiLook recorder which can record videos triggered by motion. I am very negative about such recorders. I prefer PC software to do this. Also to export videos recorded by motion with a HiLook recorder is tricky. And I miss my PC software to control my cameras.

So I became interested in MotionEye. It offers to record videos triggered by motion.

I installed MotionEye according to this instruction on my Ubuntu PC:

It is great to have a Ubuntu PC with motionEye on it and large hard drives instead of HiLook recorders which are very basic and unhandy.. It was quiet easy to install MotionEye on a Ubuntu PC with the above instruction. And for a first test I used a smartphone as an ip camera, which was easy to install as well. Now I am looking for a good camera for MotionEye.

https://groups.google.com/g/motioneye/c/pJhyqSzEuuM

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And is it not so, that society in general does not accept stock market speculation and scalping with products as those which are listed here? And will you not be politically incapable of finding a majority of the voters if you do stock market speculation and scalping with these products?

And as a consequence will you not be condemned and punished by a political referendum soon? Especially if you do this to a Swiss, since are not majority of Swiss against stock market speculations and scalping with people on a budget? And people in Switzerland are known for a lot of political referendums, since we have direct democracy in this country.

And Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org will fight up to the European Court of Human Rights against people who do stock market speculation and scalping with the products which are mentioned on www.petergamma.org. And if they do not have yet the legal basis there to do so, he will fight for it.

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What is a scalper?

A scalper is someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost. For instance some says: “He got theater tickets through a scalper”: Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit. And is it not also scalping if you take reviews from this site to make out of it a new product offer, and sell it for a higher price? We doubt that you will be successful with it. Since Peter Gamma will review your product and will user not come back to www.petergamma.org after that?