What hardware can handle more cameras than RPi3?

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bugmenot
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What hardware can handle more cameras than RPi3?

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Let say i want to use more cameras that Raspberry 3 can handle.

What (cheap) hardware you recommend for newbie?

Is it possible to run Raspbian in these other systems so i don’t need to learn new thing and can continue to use Raspbian and learn more about it?
PacoLM
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Re: What hardware can handle more cameras than RPi3?

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Hi,

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php this guys make powerful small boards. I have a U3 board and I was testing it with Debian and 4 cameras, it worked pretty well.

Hope it helps,
PacoLM

After more than 15 years, no longer using ZM as surveillance system.
Now in the dark side, using a commercial system...
bugmenot
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Re: What hardware can handle more cameras than RPi3?

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PacoLM wrote:Hi,

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php this guys make powerful small boards. I have a U3 board and I was testing it with Debian and 4 cameras, it worked pretty well.

Hope it helps,
PacoLM
Thanks. What kind of resolution your cameras had and was these analog, digital or ip cameras and what was the framerate? Did you use motion detection?
PacoLM
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Re: What hardware can handle more cameras than RPi3?

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Hi,

IP Cameras, different resolutions. 2-> 640x480, 1-> 320x240, 1-> 1280x720.

Using Modect at that time, then I switched to Mocord, because I installed an external hard drive. I have to tell that the CPU was pretty high loaded, so I decided to move to an mini-ITX board.

PacoLM

After more than 15 years, no longer using ZM as surveillance system.
Now in the dark side, using a commercial system...
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