Category:Surveillance Station

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USB Webcam Recording

Affordable webcam surveillance

        Video surveillance systems can be too expensive and difficult to maintain for general home users. QNAP NAS, by supporting webcam monitoring and recording, offers an affordable and easy-to-use option for home and office security. The Surveillance Station of the NAS monitors your home and office 24/7, captures still images, and saves them into compressed MJPEG video clips on the NAS storage. You can view the live video stream and the recorded files remotely via the web interface of the NAS anytime, anywhere.

Webcam surveillance requirements

        To get started, you need to get a webcam with built-in UVC (USB Video Class) driver. You may refer to the following lists for the UVC-compliant webcams:

QNAP Compatibility List
http://www.qnap.com/pro_compatibility_others.asp
Logitech UVC Webcam List
http://logitech-en-emea.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6471/related/1
http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices/logitech_uvc_device_list.pdf
Linux UVC Webcam List
http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/
Note:

1. The third-party sources can only be used as a reference and QNAP cannot guarantee the full compatibility.
2. The supported resolution and frames per second (FPS) are automatically detected based on the webcam hardware (QUSBCam v1). The maximum resolution will always be used.

ARM-based NAS: 640x480, 320x240, or 160x120 at 2FPS
X86-based NAS: 960x720, 640x480, 320x240, or 160x120 at 5FPS
3. Maximum one webcam is supported by the NAS (QUSBCam v1).

4. For ARM-based NAS, if you set the resolution to be 640x480, then the CPU utilization can be higher than 90% most of the time.

5.  Currently the USB 3.0 ports do not support USB webcam connection.

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