Amcrest has their
Amcrest Blue Iris Professional Surveillance Software (Version 5, Windows Download) for $54.99 - $8.25 w/ coupon code
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$46.74.
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Note: Compatible with Windows OS only. You will be sent a license key in your order receipt and the download link to the software.
Features:
- Use motion or audio sensing to trigger recording, or record continuously or periodically.
- Overlay the current date/time as well as a logo or other information
- Optionally record audio
- Use a timer to determine when the system is armed
- Images may be captured as either JPEG images, MPEG movies or Windows Media movies (full version)
- Receive alerts via loudspeaker, email, instant message, voice phone call (with automatic redial), or external program/script
- Run Blue Iris as a Windows service so that only you have control over its operation on a shared PC
- All passwords are stored encrypted
- 64 channel recording
- H.265/H.264 video compression
- Receive alerts via e-mail, text message, or phone
- Motion and audio triggered recording
- Audio recording options available
- Built-in web-server for web-casting all cameras simultaneously, digital zoom and pan/tilt
- All passwords are stored encrypted
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Looking it up, it seems that scrypted costs $10/year/camera. That's more than it's worth for me, if I want to have several cameras locally. I'll plan to store recordings on a local nas, as I'd prefer to avoid recurring subscription fees when possible.
I have 8 4k (wide angled/double lens) cameras locally, which is like having 16 feeds with a dedicated PC that is only consuming 37 watts recording them all to WD purples.
The remote viewing is horrible and my FPS is only 3-5, so whenever I want to see something in 4k, I have to go into my server closet and fire up the monitors in there.
Are you running scrypted on a dedicated PC? How is that AI? False detections? I have a bunch of trees and in the summer shadows give out a ton of false hits.
Edit: Ahh, scrypted is a per camera annual license, f that.
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earlier this week I had a HDD failure on one of the Dells, I replaced it and restarted the system and was monitoring it for about 15-20 minutes and had random camera disconnects and frame drops galore.
earlier that day, I'd bought an M4 Mac mini from Costco to run BambuStudio at my home print farm. I decided right there to see what NVR apps were available for MacOS, found something called SecuritySpy and decided to grab the Mac mini from my truck and see how well SecuritySpy runs. I had 34 cameras all recording at 4k/15fps split across the 3 Dell units, each with 50-90% CPU usage and usually around 60-80% RAM utilization, and each one had constant crashes and memory leaks especially in the last year.
with currently 16 cameras recording on 1 base-spec 16gb M4 Mac mini, RAM usage is sitting at 8-10GB and CPU usage around 8-15% (when doing nothing else other than SecuritySpy running). watching recorded footage, there are virtually no frame drops in any of the recordings. I ordered a few more M4 minis to replace everything else and can't wait until they arrive. SecuritySpy has a 30 day fully featured trial, but so far in the 5 days I've been running it, I've had ZERO issues with it and have absolutely no problem paying for the rather expensive full license for it when the time comes
tldr: don't bother with BI unless you don't value your time
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Looking it up, it seems that scrypted costs $10/year/camera. That's more than it's worth for me, if I want to have several cameras locally. I'll plan to store recordings on a local nas, as I'd prefer to avoid recurring subscription fees when possible.
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That's saving $600+/yr, the upgraded equipment costs would most likely pay for themselves within the first year or two.
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I have 8 4k (wide angled/double lens) cameras locally, which is like having 16 feeds with a dedicated PC that is only consuming 37 watts recording them all to WD purples.
The remote viewing is horrible and my FPS is only 3-5, so whenever I want to see something in 4k, I have to go into my server closet and fire up the monitors in there.
Are you running scrypted on a dedicated PC? How is that AI? False detections? I have a bunch of trees and in the summer shadows give out a ton of false hits.
Edit: Ahh, scrypted is a per camera annual license, f that.