I'm up to 7 5MP cams running 20FPS and all is still well. Have 2 more to put up before I need to order some more. Might get a 4k to run at the front door, but looks like the system will do everything I need it to do - so I'm happy. If someone could make an NVR with the configurability and ease of u...

I'm up to 7 5MP cams running 20FPS and all is still well. Have 2 more to put up before I need to order some more. Might get a 4k to run at the front door, but looks like the system will do everything I need it to do - so I'm happy. If someone could make an NVR with the configurability and ease of us...

Take a look at using sub streams for motion processing. I currently have 16 4MP, two 2MP (1080p) and two 3MP cameras running on my BI server (FC630 with 14 cores of an E5-2699v3 CPU enabled and 64GB RAM) that is used for that and backups, and after switching to using sub streams, my CPU usage dropp...

Having to wait for post approval for replies kinda stinks. I can understand for new topics but sucks having to wait half a day to respond to someones question in your own thread. Anyway, now with 5x 5MP cameras and 7 1080p cameras, with substreams properly configured and functioning I am seeing ~30%...

I went over all my settings from scratch and I seem to have gotten things running better. I don't think it was processing sub streams correctly before. 24/7 recording + motion detect I am using D2D 64gb ram, 2x16gb channels per processor All switches are gigabit as is the router. Have managed 16 por...

Hi all I've been using BI for a few years. I tried a few different available NVR software programs when I first deployed my camera system and found BI was the best - in both performance and interface. At least from what I came across at the time. My system has expanded, and now I have 12 cameras. 9 ...