Different folder for motion capture versus continuous capture / Feature Request

dsiles
dsiles
edited September 2016 in SecuritySpy
Recently purchased SS and love the package. I don't have a fast enough connection to upload all files, but would like to send motion capture files up to Dropbox versus syncing everything. Is there a way through scripting or possible feature update to allow a different folder to specified for motion captures different from the continuous capture. I realize I could specify a SFTP server, but I would like to leverage Google Drive / Dropbox instead. The motion files are small enough and not as frequent they would get synced okay and would be the more interesting clips.

Only thing I can think of right now is run FTP server on another machine on the local network and have the incoming directory land in a Google Drive / Dropbox sync folder, but I hate to tie up another machine to do this.

Thanks...

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  • Ben
    Ben
    The only way to do this at present would be to add two instances of the camera to SecuritySpy: one records continuous files to the local drive only, and the other records motion files to a location within your Dropbox folder.

    Adding the camera twice won't add to your network bandwidth or SecuritySpy license, as this situation will be recognised by the software.
  • dsiles
    dsiles
    Thanks... I will give this a shot.
  • ryan
    ryan
    Another suggestion I've played with is to create a bash script that runs behind the scenes using launchd and searches your SecuritySpy captures folder for motion videos (I use it for the jpg stills) and moves them to your Dropbox sync folder. You could also set criteria such as how long you want to keep the motion files for in the Dropbox folder and if you have a limit on your dropbox storage, to delete old files when you run low (so new files are always uploaded).

    Of course this could be overkill for your situation :)

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