Recommended mini or Small Form Factor PC for Blue Iris

[jrfuda]

I'm doing motion detection with zones and everything... even had fun calibrating the motion detection with an RC car so it would not trigger on the cat... Even though it's a tiny, it has a decent processor and SSD - I think I doubled the RAM also. I was originally only going to use it to view 4-6 cameras, but kept adding more without straining it much. It's humming along with pretty much every BI bell and whistle with 12 cameras. I'm sure it will be fine with all 16 if I ever get them all connected. One thing I always do is a clean install of windows on new computers - gets all the junk out. The only things running are Windows 10, BI, and a VNC program since I run it headless. I used this PC for HomeSeer: https://computers.woot.com/offers/hp...core-desktop-2 which I got a great deal on. I originally was going to get another for BI, but the deal was over. The Lenovo was the closest I could get with the capabilities and low power consumption I wanted. I personally think adequate RAM and, especially, a clean OS on an SSD make a big difference.

[socalsharky]

I'm doing motion detection with zones and everything... even had fun calibrating the motion detection with an RC car so it would not trigger on the cat... Even though it's a tiny, it has a decent processor and SSD - I think I doubled the RAM also. I was originally only going to use it to view 4-6 cameras, but kept adding more without straining it much. It's humming along with pretty much every BI bell and whistle with 12 cameras. I'm sure it will be fine with all 16 if I ever get them all connected. One thing I always do is a clean install of windows on new computers - gets all the junk out. The only things running are Windows 10, BI, and a VNC program since I run it headless. I used this PC for HomeSeer: https://computers.woot.com/offers/hp...core-desktop-2 which I got a great deal on. I originally was going to get another for BI, but the deal was over. The Lenovo was the closest I could get with the capabilities and low power consumption I wanted. I personally think adequate RAM and, especially, a clean OS on an SSD make a big difference.

Does the Lenovo Tiny work because you are using it in conjunction with the NVR, or could it handle Blue Iris on its own? If you don't mind me asking, what did the NVR setup cost?

[jrfuda]

I really can't remember how much the NVR cost. I think it was rather cheap (less than $200 I think), but the HDDs probably cost me 4x as much as the NVR box. The PC would be fine by itself the way I use it,. I'm not sure how it would handle 24/7 recording, which the NVR does for me.