Banana Pi suitability for ZM? or other micro computer?
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:18 pm
Hi guys,
Looking at changing my server as it's having a few issues, and is way over-powered for what I need anyway - I recently tried moving my simple website on to a raspberry Pi and had great success wit it. There are a few services on my server that I'll be moving to independent hardware, ideally a series of Raspberry Pi's or similar.
The old server currently runs Zoneminder, I'm aiming for low power consumption, so considered the Banana Pi for ZM.
I can only find a couple of threads where people have tried it, and seem to have had some success, but there's not enough information to make an informed decision on it with current releases of ZM, and what OS release to use...
I'd be interested to know if I'd be able to do motion detection or not, as I read that'd be an impossibility with a Raspberry Pi, but permanent recording is ok.
I like the idea of the Banana Pi as it has support for SATA, so I can tie a big HDD to it, and it has fairly good processing power compared to a Raspberry Pi.
Any other low powered computers recommended for use?
Cheers, Scott.
Looking at changing my server as it's having a few issues, and is way over-powered for what I need anyway - I recently tried moving my simple website on to a raspberry Pi and had great success wit it. There are a few services on my server that I'll be moving to independent hardware, ideally a series of Raspberry Pi's or similar.
The old server currently runs Zoneminder, I'm aiming for low power consumption, so considered the Banana Pi for ZM.
I can only find a couple of threads where people have tried it, and seem to have had some success, but there's not enough information to make an informed decision on it with current releases of ZM, and what OS release to use...
I'd be interested to know if I'd be able to do motion detection or not, as I read that'd be an impossibility with a Raspberry Pi, but permanent recording is ok.
I like the idea of the Banana Pi as it has support for SATA, so I can tie a big HDD to it, and it has fairly good processing power compared to a Raspberry Pi.
Any other low powered computers recommended for use?
Cheers, Scott.