Nice graphic there.
If I understand correctly, when you refer to 'Dual Teamed NICs' you are referring to two NICs in the
Blue Iris computer? So your blue line is one NIC and the red line is the other NIC.
What length of HDMI are you running from your Blue Iris computer to your loungeroom TV?
Thanks for the compliment! I find that if I spend a lot of time up front I save time and expense down the road.
4 NICS total for two teams of two. Windows 10 dropped the teaming capability from the GUI to force you to buy Server, but it can still be done from the command line
. The idea is to have as much network throughput as I can support between the cameras and the BI server and the BI server and the NAS. My switches and the NAS max out a 1 GB per port, so I decided to team. This gives the BI server 2 GB access to both networks.
My living room/loungeroomTV sits in a corner above my fireplace. The is enough open space behind it that I have a 19" rack that holds audio equipment along with the existing media server. The Blue Iris server (which will be a used I7 SFF crammed with memory) and securely mounted to a 19" shelf. The HDMI cable (actually Display Port to HDMI) will be 6' long, the same as the media server HDMI cable. The one to the bedroom will be much longer (less than 50'') but will be long distance CL2 or CL3 rated)
I do remote control via the free version of VNC, but use a wireless keyboard and mouse as a backup. I also hack into the reset switch on the computer chassis and add a pushbotton switch that lets me cycle the power from the front of the fireplace.
Rear view of the rack as I installed the initial setup. The satellite receiver on the shelf about half way up is gone and that is where the SFF BI server (workstation, actually) will sit.
Reset switch extension for the media server. I'll use a similar switch with a different colored button for the BI computer.
All buttoned up with 100% Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF). JRiver Media Center plays my music and movie library stored on the NAS. Not seen is a subwoofer behind the TV that combines well with the Paradigms .