generalz Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Any one using unraid for dvr? are you using IP cams that just save to a share? do you have a dedicated pc that records from the cams and saves to it. Link to comment
Zuhkov Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Any one using unraid for dvr? are you using IP cams that just save to a share? do you have a dedicated pc that records from the cams and saves to it. I don't use unraid, but my IP camera server and unraid both run as VMs on the same ESXI server. My camera server is a Windows 7 VM running Blue Iris, which I'm very happy with. I have 2 720p cameras and one VGA camera recording constantly during the night and the whole setup works great. I only maintain about 3 days of stored video (stored on a spare 1.5TB drive), though, so I never thought about storing it on unraid. It strikes me as being a little different paradigm from the write once, read many times usage that is probably more typical for unraid, but there's no reason it shouldn't work. I know there are a few users on the board that use unraid as storage for SageTV and that may be the closest DVR-type usage, so you might search the forums for posts about their experiences. Link to comment
aptalca Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I also use blueiris that I run on a winxp vm within unraid through virtualbox (512MB ram) I don't record video, but do have it set up to take snapshots whenever there is motion detected. I save them on a share within the xp vm that is shared on the network. The whole virtual machine is stored and run on a cache drive Link to comment
marcusone Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I have a VM on a differed computer that capture from numerous IP cameras and stores to unraid. Works well (note I have a cache drive) Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment
generalz Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 Thanks everybody, gave me a good place to start. Looks like I can pair these cams http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16881523028 With this card and that software http://store.bluecherry.net/pv-149-4-port-video-capture-card-v4l-windows-directshow-120fps.html I think I need to get serious with esxi I see more and more unraid setups that are working well under Virtualization Link to comment
marcusone Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Or vmware workstation is really good if you have a powerful desktop. Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment
opentoe Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Any one using unraid for dvr? are you using IP cams that just save to a share? do you have a dedicated pc that records from the cams and saves to it. I have a few IP cameras and saving video to my unRaid box. unRaid has nothing to do with, its just the area where all the videos are saved. Works really nice. Link to comment
ldasilva Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 i also have blueiris that i run on windows 7 vm under ESXi it has 6gb of ram i have 9 cameras right now 9 more cameras are on order i am keeping around 30 days of video unraid is also under ESXi works great Link to comment
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