Recent content by mwm

Hi, I bought an (apparently) DS-2CD3132-I from AliExpress and when it said it was PoE I expected the power would be drawn through the ethernet cable but it looks like they want a PoE splitter to power this (pic below). There wasn't a single bit of documentation with the camera so I'm not...

Is that 30% CPU per camera when recording/motion detection or per camera when trying to play back? Because if it consumes 30% just for recording/motion then I really want to avoid software that unoptomised. What is IVM?

Hey, I'm trying to put a low electricity use system of 4 IP cameras around the outside of the house so I'm likely to get one of those Intel NUC boxes that idle at 4 watts and hit a load at peak of 11 watts :) I've been looking at demo documentation for the popular software packages like...