Venting, but wish I had gone the blue iris/pc/switch route. It is like comparing OpenOffice to excel.
Hitting all kinds of limitations on the NVR, that I took for granted with blue iris.
Among them
1) nvr very limited remote troubleshooting. With bi I can even look in the router and individual ipcs. I know exactly where all files are written and can access easily. With nvr good luck.
2) nvr software-- terrible documentation, and guess as you go.
3) nvr I spent hours troubleshooting simple smtp email attachments, and ended up with poor workarounds. Get maybe 2 low res files out of 100 to come through with image. Blue iris = 100% success with attached email alerts.
4) depending on which software you use for mobile. Again, severly limited. I try to search for clips to scroll through events, I get 'suggest limiting search to less than 1 min or 1 day' say what? No image catalogs to quickly assess, but instead you get envelopes to open 1 at a time. With blue and even swann nvr, I felt much more flexibility.
5) blue has a catalog of all images and alerts, to very easily scroll through.
Sure there's more, but really regretting the nvr route.
Hitting all kinds of limitations on the NVR, that I took for granted with blue iris.
Among them
1) nvr very limited remote troubleshooting. With bi I can even look in the router and individual ipcs. I know exactly where all files are written and can access easily. With nvr good luck.
2) nvr software-- terrible documentation, and guess as you go.
3) nvr I spent hours troubleshooting simple smtp email attachments, and ended up with poor workarounds. Get maybe 2 low res files out of 100 to come through with image. Blue iris = 100% success with attached email alerts.
4) depending on which software you use for mobile. Again, severly limited. I try to search for clips to scroll through events, I get 'suggest limiting search to less than 1 min or 1 day' say what? No image catalogs to quickly assess, but instead you get envelopes to open 1 at a time. With blue and even swann nvr, I felt much more flexibility.
5) blue has a catalog of all images and alerts, to very easily scroll through.
Sure there's more, but really regretting the nvr route.