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Might not be something that would be too hard to build. You essentially need a outdoor rated enclosure, 12v - 18ah battery, 12v solar cell charger with 30 watts or more, and a 12v wifi camera like the following...

Maybe you've already switched to the new internet connection by now, but I wouldn't expect a significant change. 400 mbps down should be adequate for 13 remote camera's feeding into your BI server. My 8mp at 15fps uses roughly 500kB/s. If all 13 cameras were 8mp at 15fps you might see...

I have Dell T7500 with dual L5640 hex core Xeon processors and 48GB of RAM. It hosts 7 servers (6 x Windows, 1 x linux) with Hyper-V. I have 2 x 3mp and 2 x 4mp cameras, 10fps, and direct to disk recording enabled on one of the VM's. It's barely a blip in processor usage on the host, 3%...

Awesome! I'm very happy to see this as the new default ui. Thanks for working on this bp2008! :)

Just bought a HP 6300 PRO SFF with an i5-3470, 8GB RAM, and 500GB HD shipped on eBay. I installed Windows 2012 R2 and added a 120GB SSD. It pulls 25-30 watts with 3 camera's ( 2 x 3MP, 1 x 4MP) all at 10fps, H.264 encoding enabled, and without Direct to Disc(demo version). It's for my...

Nice! I did something similar with older hardware and Hyper-V. BI runs beautifully in a Windows 2012 R2 VM. I'm only running 3 camera's (2 x 3mp, 1 x 4mp) @ 10fps, motion, and direct to disk, CPU usage on the host machine is around 2-3%. Without direct to disk it was around 5-6%.

Great work! I'm late in the game, just recently setup BI to monitor a few cameras. I came across this and thought I would give it a try. Very slick and well polished. :)

What OS are you using? You might try running it with Windows 2012 R2. It's been around longer and has better VM support compared to something like Windows 10. I found an article of someone having similar issues to what you described. In addition to BI killing the Windows 10, they could also...

I appreciate the feedback. I saw another post where you suggested the HP 8300 with the i5-3570. It's a solid suggestion for someone getting started with a dedicated BI machine. I may end up doing one of those for my parents since they're interested in getting a camera security system.

I looked at several options and didn't find anything cheaper at the time. Where can I find a server that has at least 48GB of RAM, consumes less electricity, similar or better performance, and costs less than $430?

I understand TDP is not a measure of power consumption and specifically stated it in my post. I have it connected through a watt meter now. Operating load for all 6 virtual servers and Hyper-V host hovers right around 190 watts. I also have three spinning disks and a SSD for reference. Using...

Thanks for sharing, I didn't mean this as a suggestion to others and wanted to share my experience. I needed something to setup multiple servers, not just for Blue Iris. I wanted quality components and 48-64GB of memory. The processors are low power versions at 60W TDP, compared to a modern...

I thought I would share in case anyone else was interested. I didn't feel like setting up a dedicated computer and thought I would try Blue Iris on a Windows 2012 R2 VM. I'm running Microsoft's Hyper-V on a Dell Precision T7500 workstation. They're relatively cheap on eBay and you can get...

I just bought a DS-2CD2132F-IS running V5.3.0 build 151016 with the same issue. I have an older Windows server with a simple volume that is just under 200GB. The share tests successfully and will format without any errors. The drive never goes online and I can't record to it. What's odd is...

The issue with NFS/CIFS was always tested on a dedicated disk partitioned into simple volumes. I deleted and recreated the volume at different sizes thinking it was a size issue. It's not something unique to my configuration, I read the solution somewhere else online. Just create a folder in...

I'm just now getting into these and picked up one from Amazon. I thought I would share what I've learned from this particular model since I didn't anything posted about this particular model. I don't think this is a US retail camera. It came in a brown box with a white label covering the...