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Sighthound records all of the streams from all of the cameras full time. It does not just record on motion. IT RECORDS ALL THE TIME. This is a LOT OF DATA. It then processes image analysis after the fact. If writing to an SSD you WILL seriously impact its lifespan.

Walt Dockery wrote:what do you mean most people will want to run in a virtualized environment?

Most people with a decent amount of cameras are going to run this in a VM. They aren't going to waste an entire PC running this.

Well... you didn't say that you were writing to a limited usage drive, so that might be a consideration. I have been considering getting an SSD to see how that might improve my system, but this "limited write lifetime" has been a concern to me and has slowed my action in that regard (not ...

Hi Vidtec, My apologies, to ignore everything inside of a region you want to use the "Outside a region" option. (see https://www.sighthound.com/support/rule-editor#region) Regards, -Devin Devin, "outside the region" does nothing to prevent motion recording. It is still considere...

Semper Vaporo wrote:In reality, it does not matter how much video is saved to the disk

It TOTALLY matters how much video is saved to disk. SSD's have limited write endurance. When Sighthound is recording cars driving by 24/7 outside of a boundary box, then it is literally wasting money by wearing out the SSD.

The program saves all video and then lets you object search on the search screen, I'd rather have a mode where it only saves the video with the search parameter I set up on the camera screen- and nothing else. On the Search screen, my search is on the very bottom of the "look for" list. Th...