Configuring recording

The Recording tab allows you to control the recording of images

Recording

• Record motion images will instruct i-Catcher Console to save to disk every image in which motion has been detected unless Invert motion detection is enabled where it will save all non motion and ignore motion. This is useful with the pre event recording if you want to see what caused something to stop moving.
• If Record all images is enabled, then all non motion images will be saved as well. Note that motion detection is still performed so you will still get alerts.
• TODO record audio
• Only Show Motion in the Feed Window will make i-Catcher Console only update the feed on-screen when motion is detected. By default, each image retrieved from the camera is displayed. Enabling this options will mean that overlays such as timestamps will not get updated unless there is motion
• If the Save overlay information on the image option is turned off, then i-Catcher will try and improve performance be bypassing the image re-encoding. This has the effect of removing any overlays and masks from the saved image. Please note that this will always be enabled when you are using a non JPEG based video source, you have a solid mask or image flipping is enabled.
• Stop monitoring when there is a video failure causes i-Catcher to stop the feed completely when there is an error with the video feed. This stops repeated attempts to reconnect to a camera that may be off for a long time, e.g. on a time switch. After this, they will need to be manually started again when the camera returns.

There are also two options regarding storage in the feed settings. If enabled, a separate storage path can be configured independent of the system storage path. This can be used on large systems to spread the recordings across multiple disks.

The single file recording mode uses a new recording file format where a single video file is used to hold the recordings rather than one JPEG file per frame. This reduces load on the hard disk and increases recording performance and reliability.

Pre- and Post-Event recording

Pre- and Post-event recording allow you to capture the images before and after an event so that you can record the images before and after motion occurs even though those images may not have been tagged as motion. In this way you could, for example, review the images for 15seconds before and after motion was detected

Heartbeat Images

Enabling this will periodically save an image to disk regardless of whether motion has occurred. This is useful when there are prolonged periods of no motion, and you'd like to be able to confirm this.

Heartbeat recording can also be used to create a timelapse camera when motion recording and pre and post event recording is disabled.