Fed up paying £40 a go for adding a camera to my Synology app.

[LeeH]

As the title says, everytime I add a camera it cost me £40.

So what 8CH NVR's by Hikvision have a good interface and good mobile apps to remote access?

Can you split the cameras with a POE switch as I have 2 cams remotely and dont want to pull a second cable in.

Cheers

 

[alastairstevenson]

Yes, I had the same thoughts when considering adding more cameras at $60 per licence to the QNAP NAS, and ended up buying a Hikvision 7816N-E2/8P NVR.
Before I updated the firmware recently, to get the improved 'smart events' support and a few other improvements, it had been running for over a year with no reboots or freezes. Impressively stable, and on balance better functionality than Surveillance Station with the Hikvision cameras.
But I still use Surveillance Station for the 'main' cameras, and the NAS shares are also used by the cameras and NVRs as well.

Can you split the cameras with a POE switch as I have 2 cams remotely and dont want to pull a second cable in.

Yes, you can mix and match LAN cameras and direct-to-PoE-ports cameras.

 

[LeeH]

Thanks Alastair.

So is an an 8 port a waste if I am already set up with POE switches? (its a gigabit network if it makes any odds)

I would only evey end up with 6-7 cams.

I was just wondering about processor power with a 4 port NVR running 7 cams...

I get very confused with all the Hikvisiion NVR model numbers



https://www.use-ip.co.uk/hikvision-ds-7604ni-e1-4p-4-channel-embedded-plug-and-play-network-video-recorder.html

https://www.use-ip.co.uk/network-video-recorders/8-channel

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hikvision-4-8-16-Channel-IP-NVR-HD-DVR-DS-7600-A-Series-NVR-with-POE-/151975473517?var=&hash=item236271b16d:m:mgLBruWRdcqRvXf6OBNmElA

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hikvision-8-Channel-Network-NVR-with-3rd-Party-Camera-Support-8x-POE-1080P-5MP-/172077688318?hash=item2810a125fe:g:bYgAAOSwpRRWp3Y6

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hikvision-DS-7608NI-E2-8P-A-8-Channel-NVR-8x-PoE-50Mbps-5Mpxl-HDMI-VGA-NEW-/121902326091?hash=item1c61f1e14b:g:N2AAAOSwUuFWyuTd



My head is spinning...

It also needs to eventually need to support the new 4MP cam range.

 

[alastairstevenson]

So is an an 8 port a waste if I am already set up with POE switches? (its a gigabit network if it makes any odds)

If you mean 8 port PoE, then yes, you'd be wasting the extra cost.

I was just wondering about processor power with a 4 port NVR running 7 cams...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this - 4 PoE ports? Presumably not 4 channels.
For 7 cameras I'd get a 16 channel NVR as opposed to an 8 channel model to cover the very likely unanticipated future expansion.
This is where I bought a couple of NVRs and a few cameras: http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cjQI3RK0
The 7816N-E2 - 16 channel, no PoE, is about £130 delivered.

One thing I have been impressed with in the Hikvision NVRs is the available and used processing power.
The 7816N-E2/8P has a dual-core ARMv7 2GHZ CPU with 500MB RAM
This one is running 7 cameras continuous recording, also providing 6 camera feeds to another 7816N-E2, and 4 camera feeds to a QNAP NAS.

Mem: 510620K used, 15572K free, 0K shrd, 324720K buff, 36692K cached
CPU0:  0.0% usr  1.5% sys  0.0% nic 74.9% idle  0.3% io  0.0% irq 23.1% sirq
CPU1:  0.9% usr  0.9% sys  0.0% nic 97.8% idle  0.1% io  0.0% irq  0.0% sirq
Load average: 51.78 54.02 54.77 1/291 20486
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %MEM CPU %CPU COMMAND
  946   940 root     S     512m 99.6   0 11.2 [sc_hicore]
 1748     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  1.9 [HI_VFMW_VideoDe]
  947   940 root     S    15644  2.9   0  0.0 [sc_T1]
  940     1 root     S    23044  4.3   1  0.0 [master]
  938     1 root     S <  11304  2.1   1  0.0 [iscsid]
20253 20201 root     R     1204  0.2   1  0.0 [top]
20201   600 root     S     1204  0.2   1  0.0 [sh]
18141     1 root     S     1204  0.2   0  0.0 [sh]
    1     0 root     S     1196  0.2   1  0.0 [init]
  600     1 root     S     1196  0.2   0  0.0 [telnetd]
  582     1 root     S <    888  0.1   1  0.0 [udevd]
  997     2 root     DW       0  0.0   1  0.0 [HDMI_kthread]
13822     2 root     SW       0  0.0   1  0.0 [kworker/1:0]
 8771     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/0:1]
 1114     2 root     SW       0  0.0   1  0.0 [flush-8:0]
    3     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
  172     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [sync_supers]
15061     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [kworker/u:1]
  449     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.0 [mtdblock2]
[root@dvrdvs /] #

 

[LeeH]

Sorry, I mean will a 4 channel NVR run 7 cameras by using a addition poe switch just as well as the 8 channel NVR?

I have 2 remote cameras some distance from the house on a poe ethernet switch, so I would just end up having empty channels on the back of teh NVR.

I presume a 16 channel NVR had a more powerful processor then a 4 channel NVR? So if I add too many 4MP cams to a 4 channel it will just take a dump..

Cheers.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Sorry, I mean will a 4 channel NVR run 7 cameras by using a addition poe switch just as well as the 8 channel NVR?

A 4 channel NVR will only allow you to configure 4 cameras no matter how you connect them.

So if I add too many 4MP cams to a 4 channel it will just take a dump..

The specs for different NVR models in the range cover amongst much else - the number of camera channels, the aggregate incoming bandwidth the system will handle, the maximum resolution each channel will decode.
Generally - the NVRs rated for small numbers of channels will have a different CPU/DSP (SoC) than those rated for larger numbers of channels.
You need to check out the specs and choose a model that suits your needs.
Check out this useful sticky: https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/2873-Hikvision-Product-Comparison

 

[LeeH]

I get it, thankyou and that's a very useful link.