Dedicated hardware DVR vs Zoneminder, and PC performance
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:23 am
Strange, this post ended up in the Non-Zoneminder chat forum.. reposting here!
Hi everyone,
My church is after a camera system after the alarm went off in the middle of the night a couple of times. I'm currently deciding between zoneminder on a new decently-spec'ed PC, or a dedicated hardware DVR. Zoneminder definitely has more features, but stability is more important. Barring hardware failure, can I assume it's as stable or more stable than a dedicated hardware DVR?
We're gonna start with maybe 4 - 5 cameras first, then later down the track maybe up to 16 or 20.
I'll most likely use a Kodicom 8800 board off ebay. I would order the one off bluecherry but they want US$70+ for shipping to Australia - no thanks!
I'm hoping to be able to do motion recording on 8 or 16 channels at 10-15fps at a mixture of 702x576 and 352x288 (maybe 50-50). Is that realistic to expect? Some channels may be off a 9100A... those boxes are handy!
The PC will be a Core 2 Duo E6300 2.13GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB Seagate or WD drive, 945 chipset on an MSI motherboard.
I'm in the process of installing Zoneminder onto a HDD (as opposed to the liveCD) to test. I'm not familiar with how it handles lots and lots of record entries - what happens if i aim a camera at an entrance, resulting in lots and lots of capture events? Will I eventually end up with a list of like 1000 events on a page?
thanks!
Hi everyone,
My church is after a camera system after the alarm went off in the middle of the night a couple of times. I'm currently deciding between zoneminder on a new decently-spec'ed PC, or a dedicated hardware DVR. Zoneminder definitely has more features, but stability is more important. Barring hardware failure, can I assume it's as stable or more stable than a dedicated hardware DVR?
We're gonna start with maybe 4 - 5 cameras first, then later down the track maybe up to 16 or 20.
I'll most likely use a Kodicom 8800 board off ebay. I would order the one off bluecherry but they want US$70+ for shipping to Australia - no thanks!
I'm hoping to be able to do motion recording on 8 or 16 channels at 10-15fps at a mixture of 702x576 and 352x288 (maybe 50-50). Is that realistic to expect? Some channels may be off a 9100A... those boxes are handy!
The PC will be a Core 2 Duo E6300 2.13GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB Seagate or WD drive, 945 chipset on an MSI motherboard.
I'm in the process of installing Zoneminder onto a HDD (as opposed to the liveCD) to test. I'm not familiar with how it handles lots and lots of record entries - what happens if i aim a camera at an entrance, resulting in lots and lots of capture events? Will I eventually end up with a list of like 1000 events on a page?
thanks!