The scheduled recordings feature allows you to periodically record images or video going into or coming out of the Traffic Counter (or other Deepstream) application on a DNN-Cam or DNN-Node.
Note: Scheduled recordings is only officially supported on Traffic Counter v1.9 and later
Accessing Scheduled Recordings Configuration
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In the Sighthound Platform, click on the device that you would like to configure from the devices list
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In the services list, select the configuration icon (
) for the Traffic Counter service running on the device to enter the Traffic Counter configuration tool. Here, click on the ‘Service Configuration’ tab -
All input sources should be shown in the Service Configuration tab, with a config icon (
) displayed directly to the right of the each source selection drop-down. Click this icon to configure this input source
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Under “List of recording scheduled events”, click “Add list of recording scheduled events” and another dialog will populate:
Input vs Output Footage
“Input” is the raw footage that is being fed into the Traffic Counter application. For example:
“Output” is the footage with bounding boxes and other On Screen Display (OSD) markings, coming out of the Traffic Counter application. For example:
Duration and Capture Interval
For videos, the duration field specifies how long the videos recorded will be, in seconds. The capture interval specifies how often images and/or video are captured. The capture interval entered should be in the format HH:MM:SS. Some examples are:
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Capture a 5 minute video every 10 minutes
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Duration: 300
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Capture Interval: 00:10:00
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Capture a 1 minute video every hour
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Duration: 60
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Capture Interval: 01:00:00
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Capture a 10 second video every minute
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Duration: 10
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Capture Interval: 00:01:00
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Once satisfied with the scheduled recording configuration, click “Save” in the source configuration. Then click the “Save” button at the top-right hand corner of the configuration page to save the overall configuration to the device
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The images and videos recorded will, by default, be stored in a Sighthound-managed Google Cloud Platform (GCP) bucket. To gain access to this footage, please contact Sighthound support to set up a public GCP bucket for you.
