Can I buy 2x Basic license for a 3(or 4) camera setup?

[cwizard]

You guys could always check out Video Insight. It's about $150 per camera for licensing, would you rather pay a license fee per camera when you have 10 cameras and it's $50 each? $500 in fees? I think not.

$250 for *unlimited* is a steal when you bundle the features that this software provides.

Security isn't cheap, and it's not meant to be. I've tried Blue Iris and I thought it was garbage.

[gmoeller]

Hi,

I would like to second this request. I am a satisfied user of the Basic license and want to extend my setup with one additional camera. But the difference between Basic and Pro license is simply to high to justify for just one camera.
I really looking forward to a more flexible licensing approach.

Thanks

Guido

[bnfoat]

I am also just a home user that would like to setup just 4 cameras. I think $120 for 4 cameras would be a reasonable price to pay. I just found your upgrade to pro for $190 because I already have the basic license I might consider it, but still think it is too much.

Regards, Bruce

[Semper Vaporo]

I understand people wanting only 2 or 3 cameras, but I have to warn you that it is so easy to decide that you need "just one more".

Originally, I just wanted to know when the mailman came. So, I thought just 1 camera aimed at my front porch would suffice. But, how do I know if he just walked past my house without coming up on the front porch? I added another camera to look across my front yard to see if he had been past.

But those were (cheap) narrow viewing angle webcams. I decided that if I put two cameras viewing the front yard I could see more of it, in case he took a short cut that could go around the normal path viewed by the one camera.

I also bought better cameras when I could find one cheap enough, but instead of simply replacing one camera with a better one, I put the new one in the original position and then moved the old one to a new location (view my driveway to see when the utility meter reader came by).

"Hey, that was a deer on my driveway, coming out of my backyard, how'd it get back there?" Time for another camera in a back window... now two cameras back there to see even more of the yard.

I now have 9 cameras; (4 IP cams and 5 webcams), and I am considering adding another 2 or 3.

It seems to be addictive! You may as well sign-up for the unlimited "Pro" license, I bet you will be glad you did!

[mr.Magoo]

I'll take the bait and beat this poor dead horse some more....

I have mixed feelings about SightHound as it stands today.
I LOVE the motion detection and the relatively small footprint (install size and amount of resources used when running)

I do not like the timeline (or lack there of) view which makes it very cumbersome to review footage which isn't triggered by a rule and impossible to review multiple cameras simultaneously.

I find it very annoying that I can't change how temporary clips are triggered, if I define a zone then I don't care about anything else, but temporary clips still triggers on any and everything in the view. (temporary or not, I do not want a clip every time a car drives by on the street to clutter my event view)

It would be great if you could export a JPEG (as a file, not email) on a trigger and it would be fantastic if you could submit it to Sighthound.IO / API directly from the software itself (it's my understanding that this might be coming ?).

Playback from a remote device is painfully slow unless you disable all post-processing (i.e. all original, no overlays) and my server have reasonable power and upload speeds is not an issue.

It lacks PTZ control and a few more things that I can't remember off the top of my head.

I've used quite a few products in the past, Milestone XProtect, Acti NVR3, Synology NVR, BlueIris to name a few. None of them comes close to SightHound when it comes to motion detection (milestone might have a shot with expensive 3rd party plugins), but other features are more and better with the alternatives.

So - what's my point !?
If the product was brought from an excellent motion detection engine and a reasonable video recorder to a full fledged Video Surveillance suite then $250 would be a definite bargain, but we're not there yet.

At this time I'm struggling to justify another $190 to run two more cameras, especially when I feel the lack of features may very well force me to run a second NVR to make up for the shortcomings.

[mr.Magoo]

For what it's worth, I did bite the bullet and bought the full license despite my complaints in the previous post.
Guess I have to install a lot more than four cameras now to make it worth it