Sighthound, SecuritySpy, EvoCam
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105437 - Posts: 27
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Re: Sighthound, SecuritySpy, EvoCam
I run SightHound and Blue Iris. BI runs in a Parallels VM on the Mac that is running SH. SH is superior in motion detection that are meaningful. BI has a TON more features and capabilities. The most frustrating thing about SH is the lack of development. Just my two cents...
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nunuvyurbiz - Posts: 42
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Re: Sighthound, SecuritySpy, EvoCam
Well, it looks like Evological went out of business, so never mind EvoCam.
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lolwutdo - Posts: 5
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Re: Sighthound, SecuritySpy, EvoCam
@105437
What is your mac's specs? and how's your performance running a VM with BI and SH at the same time?
I really wish I could just stick to sighthound alone for its superior motion tracking but they're being slow as fuck to implement any new features, what's the point of even having a subscription if you're only gonna offer 1-2 minuscule updates a year?
What is your mac's specs? and how's your performance running a VM with BI and SH at the same time?
I really wish I could just stick to sighthound alone for its superior motion tracking but they're being slow as fuck to implement any new features, what's the point of even having a subscription if you're only gonna offer 1-2 minuscule updates a year?
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whmoorejr - Posts: 7
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Re: Sighthound, SecuritySpy, EvoCam
I've got 10 cameras currently..... several more in boxes just looking for the right place to locate them.... The 10 are on 2 separate NVRs. (8 CH Each). They were cheep... +/- $200 w/o hard drives... but I had lots of those laying around. That is where most of the heavy lifting for me is. They just continuously record. Tried "motion" with different NVRs and DVRs.... might help you get to the recorded area or conserve hard drive space if you only record on motion.... but I have found that IP Cameras sometimes don't talk correctly to the NVRs. (For some NVRs, Motion Detect has to be turned on and set up on both the IP Camera and the NVR... inconsistencies between the setup = no motion capture). Since hard drives are always getting cheeper.... Continuously record works for me.
When talking with the developers at SecuritySpy.... if my plan was to have a 16 camera system, I'd be looking at $400+ for software and a $8,000 machine to run it on. They told me that the two biggest resource hogs on SecuritySpy is Encoding and Recording.
For those of you running SecuritySpy and Sighthound, if you are pulling the image off of SecuritySpy, then SecuritySpy is Decoding the image from the camera then re-encoding the image to send to Sighthound. Same thing if you add overlays on SecuritySpy.... it will double CPU usage when it now re-encodes the image. <-- My interpretation of some email correspondence between my self and SS.
If all I use SecuritySpy for is to analyze & view my cameras and trigger stuff with my home automation system, then (according to Ben Software), I can do 16 cameras on a mac mini or iMac just fine. (Versus the 12core Mac Pro @ $8,000 to record). So, wherever you can trim the fat on encoding and recording... that will free up CPU usage.
I'll throw one more software into the mix.... Xeoma. Lots of features and it works on multiple platforms and roughly half the cost of Security Spy. I have an older version (v14.3), they are on v16.8.17 now. At this point, I'm just using it as a full screen camera monitor on my automation server computer then I use "RemoteSite" to web serve the monitor on my network.
When talking with the developers at SecuritySpy.... if my plan was to have a 16 camera system, I'd be looking at $400+ for software and a $8,000 machine to run it on. They told me that the two biggest resource hogs on SecuritySpy is Encoding and Recording.
For those of you running SecuritySpy and Sighthound, if you are pulling the image off of SecuritySpy, then SecuritySpy is Decoding the image from the camera then re-encoding the image to send to Sighthound. Same thing if you add overlays on SecuritySpy.... it will double CPU usage when it now re-encodes the image. <-- My interpretation of some email correspondence between my self and SS.
If all I use SecuritySpy for is to analyze & view my cameras and trigger stuff with my home automation system, then (according to Ben Software), I can do 16 cameras on a mac mini or iMac just fine. (Versus the 12core Mac Pro @ $8,000 to record). So, wherever you can trim the fat on encoding and recording... that will free up CPU usage.
I'll throw one more software into the mix.... Xeoma. Lots of features and it works on multiple platforms and roughly half the cost of Security Spy. I have an older version (v14.3), they are on v16.8.17 now. At this point, I'm just using it as a full screen camera monitor on my automation server computer then I use "RemoteSite" to web serve the monitor on my network.
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nunuvyurbiz - Posts: 42
- Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:36 pm
Re: Sighthound, SecuritySpy, EvoCam
whmoorejr wrote:I've got 10 cameras currently..... several more in boxes just looking for the right place to locate them.... The 10 are on 2 separate NVRs. (8 CH Each). They were cheep... +/- $200 w/o hard drives... but I had lots of those laying around. That is where most of the heavy lifting for me is. They just continuously record. Tried "motion" with different NVRs and DVRs.... might help you get to the recorded area or conserve hard drive space if you only record on motion.... but I have found that IP Cameras sometimes don't talk correctly to the NVRs. (For some NVRs, Motion Detect has to be turned on and set up on both the IP Camera and the NVR... inconsistencies between the setup = no motion capture). Since hard drives are always getting cheeper.... Continuously record works for me.
When talking with the developers at SecuritySpy.... if my plan was to have a 16 camera system, I'd be looking at $400+ for software and a $8,000 machine to run it on. They told me that the two biggest resource hogs on SecuritySpy is Encoding and Recording.
For those of you running SecuritySpy and Sighthound, if you are pulling the image off of SecuritySpy, then SecuritySpy is Decoding the image from the camera then re-encoding the image to send to Sighthound. Same thing if you add overlays on SecuritySpy.... it will double CPU usage when it now re-encodes the image. <-- My interpretation of some email correspondence between my self and SS.
If all I use SecuritySpy for is to analyze & view my cameras and trigger stuff with my home automation system, then (according to Ben Software), I can do 16 cameras on a mac mini or iMac just fine. (Versus the 12core Mac Pro @ $8,000 to record). So, wherever you can trim the fat on encoding and recording... that will free up CPU usage.
I'll throw one more software into the mix.... Xeoma. Lots of features and it works on multiple platforms and roughly half the cost of Security Spy. I have an older version (v14.3), they are on v16.8.17 now. At this point, I'm just using it as a full screen camera monitor on my automation server computer then I use "RemoteSite" to web serve the monitor on my network.
Don't neglect other variables, though, such as framerate and type of compression (h264 takes way more CPU than MP4, which takes more than motion JPEG).