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I've been running Sighthound successfully for over a month now, and have managed to capture some unexpected things which made me wonder if anybody else had as well? The camera from the images below is pointed over my backyard wall, on a cul-de-sac street that seems to be a popular spot. We mostly se...

I found that reducing the camera framerate was very effective in reducing CPU load. Sighthound only requires 10FPS, so start stepping some cameras down near that and see if it helps.

Good Luck,
Tony

Hi jbrannen, Yep, doesn't take much CPU to simply write streams to disk. However, Sighthound does a lot more than just writing streams to disk, as I've attempted to explain in my previous post. Also, you don't need a $2K box to handle 6 cameras if you're willing to compromise a bit on resolution (do...

jbrannen, I wasn't familiar with the DIGIOP ELEMENTS software that runs on the NVR you linked to, but motion detection isn't even a bullet on the feature list here: http://www.infinias.com/video/digiop-elements-software . "Intelligent" motion detection is the key selling point of Sighthoun...

Some peculiar behavior with the iOS app. App launches in portrait view and doesn't support landscape view (not in All Cameras, Camera View or Clips). Once you start actually viewing a clip, you are allowed to rotate to landscape (which is nice). You can back out of the clip all the way back to Camer...

Devin had me try this and both worked:

Protocol: rtsp
Port: <leave empty>
Stream Path: /ch0_0.h264

Protocol: rtsp
Port: <leave empty>
Stream Path: /video.mp4

The camera serves its own webpage using a browser at its IP address (admin/000000 is the default for login).

-Tony

I just set up a Mac Mini system and wanted to share my findings for others considering this approach. My system consists of: Mac Mini (Late 2014 version), 2.6GHZ i5 (4278U Haswell), 8GB RAM NETGEAR ProSAFE M4100-D10-POE 8 Port Fast Ethernet Managed Switch 7 Lorex LNB2153 POE 1080p cameras A note abo...