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    Looking for a camera security system.

    I understand what NAS and NVR are, but I've never had a surveillance system set up so I'm not sure of the exact flow of data. Consider a situation like some cameras recording to a Synology NAS running Surveillance Station. The NAS itself has an operating system installed (probably some variant...
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    Looking for a camera security system.

    Thanks for the pointers. Regarding Blue Iris, where does it get the video from? Do I configure my cameras to save to a NAS and then point the software at the NAS? Usually the software is running *on* the NVR / NAS, so when you say to install Blue Iris on a Windows Box it makes me wonder if...
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    Looking for a camera security system.

    Looking into getting a surveillance system. I had considered doing everything myself and I had honed in on probably a set of Reolink wi-fi cameras with Surveillance Station running on a synology NAS. For 5 cameras plus the NAS I priced it somewhere around $1500 for all equipment. I then...
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