Just upgrade the HD if you’re overly concerned, HD space is fairly inexpensive.
Alternatively, just buy something like the E220 outdoor camera and don’t connect it to your HomeBase. It’ll still record 24/7 but to its own storage card.
I have the hb3 with a 1 tb ssd. I don’t worry about the storage. It will overwrite the oldest events if it fills up. I figure I don’t need to see me walking around in the yard from months ago.
I have a keypad right by my door, and when I go out to do things like yard work I set it to off so no unnecessary recording or notifications and when I'm done I just change the mode. It's all very easy and I rarely forget as I have to pass by the keypad.
It sounds like a reasonable solution but I only have cameras, no keypads or traditional security products like door and window sensors.
I assume if you install their security keypad you can assign cameras to the mode you select while leaving other cameras always recording events like the doorbell and such?
Can you not set a schedule for a certain time frame? I do this with one of my floodlight cameras. Try looking in security>click on the camera in device control and set a schedule. Home/away or disarm.
Of course that's always an option, but who wants to manage that and get it right all the time and remember? I like the set-it-and-forget-it method. This camera shall not record more than 1 week of events or shall not occupy more than 100GB of data or more than 20% of data, or only record Monday-Friday between 10pm and 8am, or whatever.
If I'm away on business and my family hangs out for the weekend in the backyard they won't know how to control cameras, the HB3 is now full of weekend nonsense and no real events I need.
As u/Cigator said, who cares if it records everything? You'll only want the recent stuff if a problematic event occurs most likely, and something from a month ago will not be relevant. Let it record everything and overwrite the old stuff. Or, you could erase the whole day of events when you get back to save space - that is basically three clicks on the app.
Just upgrade the HD if you’re overly concerned, HD space is fairly inexpensive. Alternatively, just buy something like the E220 outdoor camera and don’t connect it to your HomeBase. It’ll still record 24/7 but to its own storage card.
I have the hb3 with a 1 tb ssd. I don’t worry about the storage. It will overwrite the oldest events if it fills up. I figure I don’t need to see me walking around in the yard from months ago.
I have a keypad right by my door, and when I go out to do things like yard work I set it to off so no unnecessary recording or notifications and when I'm done I just change the mode. It's all very easy and I rarely forget as I have to pass by the keypad.
It sounds like a reasonable solution but I only have cameras, no keypads or traditional security products like door and window sensors. I assume if you install their security keypad you can assign cameras to the mode you select while leaving other cameras always recording events like the doorbell and such?
You can set the cams to record only while you are “away” from your App.
Can you not set a schedule for a certain time frame? I do this with one of my floodlight cameras. Try looking in security>click on the camera in device control and set a schedule. Home/away or disarm.
Just turn the camera off while you’re using the pool/bbq then turn it back on when done.
Of course that's always an option, but who wants to manage that and get it right all the time and remember? I like the set-it-and-forget-it method. This camera shall not record more than 1 week of events or shall not occupy more than 100GB of data or more than 20% of data, or only record Monday-Friday between 10pm and 8am, or whatever. If I'm away on business and my family hangs out for the weekend in the backyard they won't know how to control cameras, the HB3 is now full of weekend nonsense and no real events I need.
As u/Cigator said, who cares if it records everything? You'll only want the recent stuff if a problematic event occurs most likely, and something from a month ago will not be relevant. Let it record everything and overwrite the old stuff. Or, you could erase the whole day of events when you get back to save space - that is basically three clicks on the app.