Dave Lonsdale
Pulling my weight
I have Blue Iris and had been using a little over 2TB plus an SSD to continuously record 12x2MP Dahua cams. I get 7 days of recordings by using h.265 where possible and a max frame rate of 10fps with top end bit rate settings. I will definitely know if I need to archive a recording within 7 days and so don’t need more. I put up with a little bit of noise to limit NR motion blur caused by a low frame rate.What's your recording setup like: NVR/BI? what about retention schedule and recording drive space? Just curious, as I was planning on relaying on the motion sensors to trigger recording, but if I can not get sensitive right I just might switch to continuous. Right now I am using BI, 4 cams, 6TB of recording drive space. Not overly concerned with drive space usage as I could add more if need be, my original plan was to retain 30 days but not at continuous recording.
Some of my cams are a bit long in the tooth and I have upgraded so far with 2x5442 4MP cams now that Ken Pletzer has worked his magic using the substreams for signal processing to limit CPU load. That guy deserves a medal. More pixels create more bits and I’m looking at adding another drive.
Wildcat_1 also deserves full credit for his perseverance. Regarding SMD, could the problem be Dahua’s marketing team? I can imagine them sitting round the meeting table and deciding, “wouldn’t it be nice and sell more product if...” “What about a press release next week and - oh - instruct the technical guys to make it happen.” I hope the software engineers don’t throw in the towel and need upgraded hardware. If that happens, FW upgrades for the products we’re buying now will cease like it did for the Dahua IP cams I bought some years ago.