How to defeat bugs in IP video surveillance?

Question

CCTV

Hi, All...

The story is this - there is a "smart" camera OMNY 200 PRO , I assume that this is some kind of branded Chinese (which one, I have not been able to understand yet). Now there are 6 such cameras. Then the fun begins - there is a machine with a Core i7-4790K, 8GB RAM, an SSD for the system and 1TB for the archive. Now this machine is Windows. Now I will tell you what I tried and what came of it.

1) Ivideon
There are no cameras in the lists, but it works. But it works crookedly. If TCP - cameras regularly fall off. Many events are not recorded in the archive - this is not acceptable. If UDP - then when moving in the frame in 90% of cases, a moving object will be followed by a trail of artifacts (pixels). Otherwise, it works well, software motion detection works perfectly, it is written without loss. Loading proca approximately from 24% to 30%.

2) Macroscope (demo version)
I like everything, everything is fine, there are no glitches like in Ivideon. There is only one problem - 6 cameras load percent into the shelf. So far, the developers cannot understand why. Sent logs to them - did not save.

The rest of the zoo also tried everything, and AxxonNext, and everything else - I don’t like it. The question is - what am I doing wrong, is it really so difficult in 2015 to assemble a normal video surveillance system that would just work ???!!!

Answer 1

Well, firstly, these are not the worst cameras. Secondly, most of the cameras now are China.
Next - you have a problem in planning.
- Is your machine with Core i7-4790K, 8GB RAM, etc., a dedicated video server, or will you be watching on it?
- In order not to slow down the percentage, you need to configure the receipt of 2 streams from the cameras and the operation of the built-in motion detector.
- 1TB disk for the archive is very small. On 6 cameras in FullHD 4Mbps, its stream is enough for half a day.
Summarizing, I can say that both Macroscop and AxxonNext can cope with such a config and should not slow down.
Perhaps you should have initially considered buying an NVR instead of a PC-based video server.
It would be both cheaper and easier to set up.