Hi. I'm going to be a new user of BI. I currently have a Qsee 8 channel system with 8 HD cameras (QCN8004B) and am running it at full 1080P recording at 30fps. I can get about 3.5 days of recording. I'm not happy with Qsee and want to replace it.
I have a Dell XPS 8700 with I7 processor and nvidia graphics cards - http://www.amazon.com/Dell-X8700-18...373011,p_n_feature_four_browse-bin:2289792011
I have some questions on the hardware and BI too.
First I assume this system will work fine with the 8 cameras at 1080P @ 30fps? The cameras are QCN8004B. These are not listed in the technology section but they do support ONVIF 2.0 so I think should work.
I need to add a hard drive - I plan to add a 6 TB drive - that should give me about 10 days of recording. What drive is appropriate? I'm partial to WD and I notice that they have a drive for surveillance but it only runs at 5400 rpm. Is that ok or would a different drive work better? The drive is optimized for streaming writes and says it can support up to 32 cameras (but didn't specify resolution or FR). Would it better to get two 3TB drives to spread the write load? And can BI support writing to more than one HDD?
I will add a second NIC to keep the network traffic off my home LAN. It will be an 8+1 Linksys with 8 channels of POE to run the cameras. I assume there should be no problem with that?
Anything else I need to consider on this hardware?
On to BI.
On my current system not only do I have the video, but I also FTP images from all 8 channels every 15 seconds to an FTP server. Does BI have that capability? I can go either to the ftp server or to local disk.
I have a driveway sensor that detects when someone/something comes down my driveway. The receiving unit has a relay that has contacts for both normally open and closed and when the sensor is triggered the relay does the opposite. I have that wired to the NVR and i use that event to trigger an event and send me an snapshot email. How can I duplicate the relay input on the windows machine and get BI to sense it?
Anything else I need to consider either for hardware or software?
Thanks,
I have a Dell XPS 8700 with I7 processor and nvidia graphics cards - http://www.amazon.com/Dell-X8700-18...373011,p_n_feature_four_browse-bin:2289792011
I have some questions on the hardware and BI too.
First I assume this system will work fine with the 8 cameras at 1080P @ 30fps? The cameras are QCN8004B. These are not listed in the technology section but they do support ONVIF 2.0 so I think should work.
I need to add a hard drive - I plan to add a 6 TB drive - that should give me about 10 days of recording. What drive is appropriate? I'm partial to WD and I notice that they have a drive for surveillance but it only runs at 5400 rpm. Is that ok or would a different drive work better? The drive is optimized for streaming writes and says it can support up to 32 cameras (but didn't specify resolution or FR). Would it better to get two 3TB drives to spread the write load? And can BI support writing to more than one HDD?
I will add a second NIC to keep the network traffic off my home LAN. It will be an 8+1 Linksys with 8 channels of POE to run the cameras. I assume there should be no problem with that?
Anything else I need to consider on this hardware?
On to BI.
On my current system not only do I have the video, but I also FTP images from all 8 channels every 15 seconds to an FTP server. Does BI have that capability? I can go either to the ftp server or to local disk.
I have a driveway sensor that detects when someone/something comes down my driveway. The receiving unit has a relay that has contacts for both normally open and closed and when the sensor is triggered the relay does the opposite. I have that wired to the NVR and i use that event to trigger an event and send me an snapshot email. How can I duplicate the relay input on the windows machine and get BI to sense it?
Anything else I need to consider either for hardware or software?
Thanks,
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