Trolling and searching hasn't really offered much to satisfy my curiosity on this topic, so I wanted to start a discussion. Most of you appear to be Blue Iris fans, but here are my thoughts.
Blue Iris needs a beast of a machine to run because everything is done in Blue Iris. Everyone is building these i7 machines to run it and leave them on 24/7. The thing I've been digging about HikVision iVMS-4200 is the server/client setup. The cameras do the heavy lifting and the server just stores the data. I've been monitoring the CPU and RAM usage and it's next to nothing when only the server is running. When you open up the client, it becomes a CPU hog. My thoughts, let the cameras do their work all the time on a cheap, power efficient headless machine. Those few times you actually check on your footage, you can use your beast (in my case an i7 laptop) to run the client. Why have an expensive, power hungry machine dedicated to the task? A TS140 Lenovo would work great with the server/client software.
I'm wanting to build a dedicated low power machine soon to run iVMS-4200 or anything out their similar. I would love something a little less cryptic than iVMS-4200 though. Sometimes it's not clear what's going on with triggers and recordings. I feel like playback could be a little more friendly. It seems like non of the search parameters work properly based on triggers. The client also seems to set off a bunch of triggers when it's up, no matter what I disable.
What are the other low cost softwares that operate like this? Efficient server and a client that can run on another machine when needed to playback.
(Side note: I get Windows Server free because I'm a STEM student. I also want to build a machine to experiment with that if anyone has any input for hardware/software/general usefullness)
Thanks.
Blue Iris needs a beast of a machine to run because everything is done in Blue Iris. Everyone is building these i7 machines to run it and leave them on 24/7. The thing I've been digging about HikVision iVMS-4200 is the server/client setup. The cameras do the heavy lifting and the server just stores the data. I've been monitoring the CPU and RAM usage and it's next to nothing when only the server is running. When you open up the client, it becomes a CPU hog. My thoughts, let the cameras do their work all the time on a cheap, power efficient headless machine. Those few times you actually check on your footage, you can use your beast (in my case an i7 laptop) to run the client. Why have an expensive, power hungry machine dedicated to the task? A TS140 Lenovo would work great with the server/client software.
I'm wanting to build a dedicated low power machine soon to run iVMS-4200 or anything out their similar. I would love something a little less cryptic than iVMS-4200 though. Sometimes it's not clear what's going on with triggers and recordings. I feel like playback could be a little more friendly. It seems like non of the search parameters work properly based on triggers. The client also seems to set off a bunch of triggers when it's up, no matter what I disable.
What are the other low cost softwares that operate like this? Efficient server and a client that can run on another machine when needed to playback.
(Side note: I get Windows Server free because I'm a STEM student. I also want to build a machine to experiment with that if anyone has any input for hardware/software/general usefullness)
Thanks.