Recent content by pondo

Hi looney2ns, I read the cliff notes and have read many many of your posts. Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, there is literally no good equivalent door bell camera compared to the Nest Hello. I won't be using the cloud hosting. I was particularly interested in the Dahua DB11 you...

Good morning! My house was pre-wired for certain locations for cams. I'm not going to be able to move them and will have to deal with what I have. I'm in information overload in selecting the proper camera for my particular situations. In the first photo, I'd like to be able to capture faces...

Let us know how it performs!

Check the forums for optimal configuration settings. Maybe there's a setting which is maxing out your processor. I've seen posts with people running 15 2mp cameras at 15 fps on an i7-7700 or less hardware!

From what I've read, BI doesn't support direct to disk recording as a trial. That'll be the cause of your CPU usage. Why not pick up a 6th gen i5 or i7 optiplex on ebay? 6th gen intel CPU gives you H265 support for the future too.

Thank you for the cliff notes. Seems directly over the door is probably my best bet.

My first post and long time lurker! I'm building a new house and my data/telecom walk through is this week and I need to finalize where i'm going to drop CAT6 for the cameras. I'm planning on one by the garage shooting down the driveway (center the camera or place in corner?) and then another to...

I'd like a catalog and price sheet as well. Thank you!