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    Need help choosing a Hikvision NVR for my Hikvision cameras

    The E series is garbage. It'll run 4 4mp cameras at medium quality, but if you try one at maximum quality with no other cameras connected it'll constantly freak out and reboot itself. Not sure about the 4 channel E1, but the 8 channel E2 does support H265 but do yourself a favour and give...
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    Is it possible to do this?

    You don't need a vpn to connect to remote cameras. Personally I do think it's probably the best option, but if you know a little bit about networking you can connect the nvr to the public ip address of the remote site on a random port, port forward that connection to the internal ip address of...
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    Is there a Blue Iris equivalent for Linux?

    I ran nx witness (and Wisenet Wave) vms on an Ubuntu server (with a pitiful atom processor) running other services and it worked fine (it was only running 4 cameras, but they were all a minimum of 3mp bar one 1080p cube camera) Dw Spectrum, Wisenet Wave and NX Witness are all essentially the...
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    Nvr with linux client

    Hello. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any manufacturers on the market offer a linux client. I'm a Linux user at home and although I can (and do) make use of wine and virtual machines, I'd rather just get equipment that I can use naively on Linux. I've currently got a couple of Dahua...