Hello all.
I have been a frequent lurker on the forum in the past, having been a BI user for around 4 years or so. I have managed to research, set up and maintain my own 12 camera home system on Blue Iris using information I have found here and on the BI website and have never had to ask for external assistance - until now.
My home system consists of 12 Hikvision 4MP PoE cameras all hard wired and networked to a HP EliteDesk G2 with i5-6500 CPU @3.20GHz with 16GB Ram and on board graphics. It is running Windows 10 Pro with 2 6TB WD Pulple HDD which are continuously recording and manage around a week of storage. The CPU typically runs between 15-20%. I have a wall mounted monitor displaying all 12 camera sub streams permanently in my home office and don't run any alerts or routines. It is a nice system and works at fairly low resources and has proven to be reliable and relatively power efficient in my view.
The challenge I have now is that I have just bought a new garage building a few miles from home. I would like to be able to add four cameras to this garage - two inside, two outside - and have them display and record at home just in the same way as my home cameras. Now I am sure this is possible but I don't have much of a clue where to start.
Both properties have high speed fibre but do not currently have static IP's. Although I believe I can pay for this to be added as a feature. The garage currently has no hardware other than a fibre router.
So do I build another BI system at my garage or do I go for something else and port the cameras? Really, I don't know the best way to do this. I have no need to be able to view the cameras at the garage itself, so perhaps I just need four cameras and a POE switch? The only things I'd like would be able to go for night-time colour cameras (if they are any good?), and perhaps run a motion alert on the internal cameras.
Thank you in advance for any and all help.
Behr.
I have been a frequent lurker on the forum in the past, having been a BI user for around 4 years or so. I have managed to research, set up and maintain my own 12 camera home system on Blue Iris using information I have found here and on the BI website and have never had to ask for external assistance - until now.
My home system consists of 12 Hikvision 4MP PoE cameras all hard wired and networked to a HP EliteDesk G2 with i5-6500 CPU @3.20GHz with 16GB Ram and on board graphics. It is running Windows 10 Pro with 2 6TB WD Pulple HDD which are continuously recording and manage around a week of storage. The CPU typically runs between 15-20%. I have a wall mounted monitor displaying all 12 camera sub streams permanently in my home office and don't run any alerts or routines. It is a nice system and works at fairly low resources and has proven to be reliable and relatively power efficient in my view.
The challenge I have now is that I have just bought a new garage building a few miles from home. I would like to be able to add four cameras to this garage - two inside, two outside - and have them display and record at home just in the same way as my home cameras. Now I am sure this is possible but I don't have much of a clue where to start.
Both properties have high speed fibre but do not currently have static IP's. Although I believe I can pay for this to be added as a feature. The garage currently has no hardware other than a fibre router.
So do I build another BI system at my garage or do I go for something else and port the cameras? Really, I don't know the best way to do this. I have no need to be able to view the cameras at the garage itself, so perhaps I just need four cameras and a POE switch? The only things I'd like would be able to go for night-time colour cameras (if they are any good?), and perhaps run a motion alert on the internal cameras.
Thank you in advance for any and all help.
Behr.
