Done that. They've recommended Windows Server.
I said competent.
Yup. Does it support writing 24 parallel h264-compressed streams with automatic highlighting of movement, archiving support and indexing?
No, because that is not a requirement of ours. I'm fully confident I could do all that with free software should I have the motivation and requirement to do so.
Remote desktop vs. remote display
Posted Feb 18, 2013 19:58 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
I have really checked it and there's nothing available for Linux - the only project is Zoneminder and it has extremely poor hardware support.
That's one typical task in Linux migration in the real world out there. And I have encountered tons of problems like that.
Remote desktop vs. remote display
Posted Feb 18, 2013 20:50 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]
I can offer you $2000 (it's about the breakeven price for this task) for a solution that can utilize hardware not more expensive than in Windows, with similar features. It also should be done within a couple of weeks.
No thanks, because I don't need the product and I don't need the $2000.
Besides, my solution does things yours doesn't. For example, does your solution pop up a small window on our receptionist's desktop whenever motion is detected so she can see who has entered our office? Same thing for the display monitor in our kitchen in case we're all at lunch.
Does it email me when someone's in the office outside normal office hours? Does it securely archive after-hours video on a remote server so even if our office is trashed our video is still accessible?
Those are all more important and more useful to me than your features.
Remote desktop vs. remote display
Posted Feb 18, 2013 21:00 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
>Does it email me when someone's in the office outside normal office hours? Does it securely archive after-hours video on a remote server so even if our office is trashed our video is still accessible?
It actually stores all the video on a locally secure (in a vault) RAID array for a month. Certain triggers can also start live streaming to a remote storage (it's not feasible to do it all the time).
>Those are all more important and more useful to me than your features.
Sure, these are typical features of mid-level security systems. Unfortunately, there are no such systems offered for Linux. Even though there are security DVR systems running embedded Linux.
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