I use an appliance from Smartvue - the Smartvue S9. They have a very small version - the S9i - now that has 128GB of SSD for ~$700 that will handle 10 cameras.
http://smartvue.com/products/index.html
I have been running the S9 version for a little over a year with only a few issues. It's been very reliable and easy to use. It actually runs Fedora under the hood!
Shawn
Hi, Shawn,
Shawn Stephens wrote:
I use an appliance from Smartvue - the Smartvue S9. They have a very small version - the S9i - now that has 128GB of SSD for ~$700 that will handle 10 cameras.
http://smartvue.com/products/index.html
I have been running the S9 version for a little over a year with only a few issues. It's been very reliable and easy to use. It actually runs Fedora under the hood!
Interesting - MSRP, $300, but that does not appear to include any cameras, and if it only takes IP cameras, that's another $100 a pop, each.... Right on the edge of the budget.
So, can you ssh into it, or rsync files, or even wget the files down for long-term storage? Does it require IE to control?
mark
Lorenzo wrote:
mark wrote:
It's not a plug-in appliance, it's software. We are currently running the cameras on our servers, and my manager, as I've said, was considering a plug-in appliance, that we could access and back up from our Linux servers or workstations, and not have to worry that, as just happened with the last kernel update, it would break the drivers.
Maybe a couple of those wuold fit the bill:
and, according to the website, the control software (airVision) should install also on linux
BING! Those *are* interesting, and the price is right on the edge of affordable. I'm looking for reviews now - I see the software's been a Debian package, and installable on ubuntu (we're 95% CentOS, though), and I see things from last year saying that an RPM will be out real soon now....
Thanks very much. We may not do it - price, and Ubuntu, but this is right there.
mark
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:48 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lorenzo wrote:
mark wrote:
It's not a plug-in appliance, it's software. We are currently running
the
cameras on our servers, and my manager, as I've said, was considering a plug-in appliance, that we could access and back up from our Linux
servers
or workstations, and not have to worry that, as just happened with the last kernel update, it would break the drivers.
Maybe a couple of those wuold fit the bill:
One of my coworkers experimented with the Ubiquiti AirCam (the regular white ones, not the minis). I remember him saying the NVR software records still frames to disk rather than an actual encoded video. Meaning that if you needed to provide video to the police, insurance, whoever - you're going to have to use their software to encode a video. Recording as still frames might be common, but I'd expect the software to run a job every hour or whatever to encode frames to video ... but what do I know..
I'm told the NVR software installs rather painlessly on Debian (since there's a *.deb package), but beyond that it can be pain.
The AirCams we used do not do infrared night vision which is a big bummer.
If you want any further details, let me know and I'll ask my coworker since he worked with them more than I did. ;)
and, according to the website, the control software (airVision) should install also on linux
BING! Those *are* interesting, and the price is right on the edge of affordable. I'm looking for reviews now - I see the software's been a Debian package, and installable on ubuntu (we're 95% CentOS, though), and I see things from last year saying that an RPM will be out real soon now....
Thanks very much. We may not do it - price, and Ubuntu, but this is right there.
mark
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SilverTip257 wrote:
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:48 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lorenzo wrote:
mark wrote:
It's not a plug-in appliance, it's software. We are currently running the cameras on our servers, and my manager, as I've said, was considering a plug-in appliance, that we could access and back up from our Linux servers or workstations, and not have to worry that, as just happened with the last kernel update, it would break the
drivers.
Maybe a couple of those wuold fit the bill:
One of my coworkers experimented with the Ubiquiti AirCam (the regular white ones, not the minis). I remember him saying the NVR software records still frames to disk rather than an actual encoded video.
Meaning that if you needed to provide video to the police, insurance, whoever - you're going to have to use their software to encode a video. Recording as still frames might be common, but I'd expect the software to run a job every hour or whatever to encode frames to video ... but what do I know..
I was under the impression that when it detected motion, it saved it as a video. Still pictures every hour or so is normal.
And if we need to show someone, that will be the campus police, and possibly the FBI - this *is* a US federal gov't institution.
I'm told the NVR software installs rather painlessly on Debian (since there's a *.deb package), but beyond that it can be pain.
The AirCams we used do not do infrared night vision which is a big bummer.
Not a problem - the lights in our, aahhh, "computer labs" are on 24x7x365.25, specifically for the cameras.
If you want any further details, let me know and I'll ask my coworker since he worked with them more than I did. ;)
Please. We'd want to d/l the jpgs and the mpegs (or avi, or whatever) via cron and rsync to a server for longer term storage and backup.
mark
mark
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