Anyone running a Intel NUC Kit (super micro computer) for Blue Iris?

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MakeItRain

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I'm thinking soon about making a switch from Dahua NVR to a blue iris pc server. But I want something with an incredibly small footprint.

It's basically the intel NUC8i7BEH computer and wondering if it is more than capable enough to power a Blue Iris server...

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The NUCs run pretty warm under load. Repasting the CPU and undervolting helps with thermals. Other than that, they run fine for what you're looking to do.
 
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I have the NUC8i5BEH and it runs just fine. I am not running Blue Iris but do monitor my 3 Hikvision NVRs with it and no problems. Mine does not run hot. Plenty fast for my needs. Way faster than the Dell desk top it replaced.
 
It would work. They aren't cheap for their capabilities though. You've got limited internal storage and limited cooling so you might end up needing to modify it to add at least better fans if not a better heatsink, and then your small tidy package is destroyed. The alternative is letting it run hot with the built-in fan running high and the CPU being unable to turbo up very high.
 
One thing to also note that the NUC's have a mobile CPU in them, so they lack CPU power compared to a desktop CPU.
 
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Looks like this thing is 2.70GHz base frequency and turbos out at 4.5Ghz...

It may be good enough 16 channel @ 4K recording and maybe 2 channels of 4K decoding...

I really won't use much of the decoding. It's meant for streaming to it and saving the footage on the byte level. Then I will probably use it to pull Blue Iris live feed to an iPad.
 
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@MakeItRain Blue Iris decodes every incoming stream at all times even if nobody is looking at them. The "Limit decoding" option can make it so only the keyframes are decoded, which is a whole lot more efficient, but it cripples motion detection and live viewing performance, and is really easy to configure wrong because Blue Iris's defaults will allow "Limit decoding" to be disabled on all your cameras whenever you open a remote client.
 
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Wait it decodes the byte stream? That's incredibly CPU intensive and resource intensive!

My understanding was that Dahua's NVR receives the byte streams and writes it out to HDD. This is based on their "320Mbps" bandwidth. Then there is a separate rating for their decoding, usually only up to 4-channel 4K maximum on a 16-channel NVR.

Why isn't BI just writing the byte stream out raw? Is it because it doesn't understand the .dat format ?
 
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Wait it decodes the byte stream? That's incredibly CPU intensive and resource intensive!

My understanding was that Dahua's NVR receives the byte streams and writes it out to HDD. This is based on their "320Mbps" bandwidth. Then there is a separate rating for their decoding, usually only up to 4-channel 4K maximum on a 16-channel NVR.

Why isn't BI just writing the byte stream out raw? Is it because it doesn't understand the .dat format ?
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The camera does not send the stream in DAV. Blue iris does record it raw, it decodes it for motion detection live viewing and remote viewing. As BP explained you can disable this function and prevent the decoding but there are tradeoffs. Blue iris lets YOU choose how you want to do it. Its all about options. These mini pc's are a terrible choice not only because they are 2-3 times more expensive than an equivalent desktop, but as noted there is no room for any 3.5 local storage.
 
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