I'm looking for a very compact and cheap way to view my ip cameras on HDTV from the other side of the house that is not close to location of my Dahua NVR 4KS2 series. I've tried playing with RPi3 but can't really get any of the various omxplayer scripts to work well in limited testing so far. Thought about using Android TV box since I use tinycam pro on my tablets to view NVR streams and maybe sticking that behind the HDTV. HDMI extenders are costly so wondered if there is a small compact and fairly cheap NVR that I can zip tie to back of my flat screen TV. I can then use my Rii mini i8+ keyboards to control NVR/cameras once I choose the HDMI input attached to that compact NVR. Anyone gone down this route and if so, does it have to be Dahua NVR or any NVR(probably ONVIF only if other brands)?
Compact and cheap NVR to place behind HDTV
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looney2ns
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Many use the Amazon fire stick with Tinycampro installed on it.
I don't have a fire hd stick but have tried chromecast. Probably stick with using my 8" tablets already running tinycampro if there is no master/slave NVR cheap workaround.
Can you control and make changes to NVR via apple TV or is it same like viewing via chromecast/tinycampro/firehd/browser/etc? I'm trying to see if there is a way to see the IVS trigger lines like viewing from NVR kind of like desktop viewing via RDP/Teamviewer.