We’ve been swamped with enquiries and questions since we posted our review of QCam Pro, so we decided to upload a video tutorial explaining how to setup and configure this shiny new iOS app for MOBOTIX cameras.
The thing that’s most interesting to installers is the ability in QCam Pro to re-brand the interface and resell the hosted notification service.
Search and playback within video sequences recorded by a MOBOTIX camera, can be accessed directly from any standard storage device, using a free-of-charge viewing client – without the need for a central NVR. You can read more on the subject of direct viewing access from storage here.
VMS in the MOBOTIX camera even allows powerful DVR-style event searching using a web browser. Geing universally available from any computer, web browsers are commonly used as a viewing client. In this tutorial we provide a quick guide on how to playback recorded MxPEG sequences using a web browser.
That’s right, the 92-page edition has been released in Australia and will be made available in USA, UK and France in two weeks. If you would like to obtain a copy contact your local MOBOTIX supplier or authorized distributor.
This is our biggest issue ever, with 28-pages of tutorials plus a brand new 20-page fast search MOBOTIX product guide. In our investigation articles we discuss the issues surrounding ONVIF and we’ve also include a comprehensive NAS and hard disk guide.
Did you hear the one about the shop owner who took it upon himself to find a storage device for his MOBOTIX system? He finally decided upon a D-Link DNS-323, (purchased on ebay for $290), to record megapixel video from 7 MOBOTIX cameras triggering motion detection in a high activity site. Not surprisingly the NAS instantly became the source of continuous recording errors. The only way to fix the problem was to pull it out and replace it with a more suitable NAS.
The lesson here is that the decision was based purely on price, without consultation. Which ended up costing the end user more in the short term.
Some may be unfamiliar with technologies unique to MOBOTIX such as “hemispheric video”, “decentralized recording” and “MxPEG”, but everyone understands what “no software licensing” means.
In fact, this is attracting a stream of newcomers to the MOBOTIX community, who are tired of constantly shelling out thousands of dollars to VMS vendors for the right to record and playback video.
In an interview with MxInstaller (see interview below), Craig Shipway of Vast Security expressed his distaste at being charged to connect cameras to a system that has already been paid for, “…you own the computer, you’ve bought the software, you’ve bought the cameras, then you’ve got to pay a fee to use the stuff you already own.”
When asked how much market research went into the iPad, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs replied: “None. It’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want.”
Those who worked with Jobs concur that Apple’s unrivalled innovation was more to do with intuitive vision than extensive fact gathering.
Innovative product often starts with a visionary – a leader with the ability to know what the customers want even before they do. Like magic, it’s the result of unseen forces – imagination and genius, rather than well schooled logic.
But vision is only the first part of the equation. Innovation requires well planned execution that forms brilliant ideas into useful devices.
Last month a US-based manufacturer laid claim to producing “…the world’s first line of cameras to record to storage”. The press release on the vendor’s site was edited soon after, with “world’s first” changed to “their first line of cameras to record to storage“.
The initial press release certainly took many in the MOBOTIX community by surprise. In fact it’s been 10 years since MOBOTIX invented the “decentralized recording” concept, and produced the world’s first IP camera that could record direct to storage.
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