In my first post I told you want was needed to make the pc work well with bi.
The people here are trying to save you money with the hard earned knowledge that they have acquired over time.
Reolink as well as many other equipment manufacturers pay reviewers for good reviews. Nobody here makes money from reviews.
I saw your post and will be taking your HDD/SSD suggestion into my planning,
Having it store locally and offload daily is probably better indeed.
Thats one thing ive learned, so thanks.
Also, you did mention you had an i7-4970 handling 15 cameras pushing 720MP/S with a CPU load of 20%,
but im not entirely sure how that translates. Is it 15 cameras x 4MP x 12fps or something?
I presume you are direct to disk recording all of them? How high does CPU load get when a couple of them detect motion?
That CPU is also significantly better than the i5-4590, it being 4c/8t instead of 4c/4t, and also 0.3Ghz faster too boot.
Would it be a fair guess to say the i5 would handle your setup, but at 40 to 50% load?
DDR3 RAM is dirt cheap and the optiplex can go up to 16Gb, so thats an easy bump.
And yeah I know a lot of manufacturers sweeten the deal for a good score,
I just purely looked at the picture quality which seemed pretty good at first glance.
But the lack of iframe control kinda breaks the deal on those Reolinks I guess, atleast for
Blue Iris.
Most of us do not use actual LPR cameras to read plates. Almost any good quality camera that actually lets you set parameters and the camera doesn't ignore ones it doesn't like can work. Most of the consumer grade cameras do not allow you to override settings and they use algorithms that give the best and brightest still image, but motion suffers as a result of it.
This video used a Texas Plate which are known to be great contrast plates for LPR, and he changed the letters and used an even more contrast letter sticker than the actual plate.
His example wasn't a true test unless you are looking at parked cars. And it was an ideal set-up, bright out and high-contrast Texas Plates. What about a dirty or rusty plate? What about a paper temporary tag?
How many perps stop for the camera like this freeze frame from his tests?
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All I can tell you is when we had a door checker come thru here, my neighbor's with 4K reolinks, arlo, and ring did not produce a single image that the police could do anything with. Their cars were rummaged thru and were less than 10 feet from their camera. Meanwhile, the perp didn't come onto my driveway, but my 2MP optically zoomed to a pinch point on the public sidewalk 65 feet away got the clear shot for the police to find the person and my neighbors get their stuff back.
Not being able to set whitebalance was indeed something that irked me on my shitty wyzecams.
They could have been alright if it was for just setting alone, but alas, automatic HDR..
Him choosing an advantageous plate is a bit skeevy I suppose,
though in my situation that doctored plate of his is still at a disadvantage.
Dutch number plates are about twice as big and quite loud as well;
He also wasn't just standing still, him running by seems to produce a sharp still.
That's particularly what caught my eye.
And I would wager that looking semi directly at a camera is a prerequisite for getting a good look at the face.
Atleast I dont think expensive cameras can fly around and change perspective for a better shot?
Well, excluding drones I suppose.
I guess its personal preference, but zooming a cam in that far shrinks the FOV significantly,
wouldn't that make it almost a gamble on if it will actually see something happening?
The maximum range I would have to worry about is about 35ft on a lit city road,
personally I think I would prefer a higher resolution overview without zooming
so I won't have to worry about nearby things happening out of shot.
with a crappy 5442 2.8mm overview cam...
