BLUE IRIS LINUX UPGRADE
The i3 host was getting a bit long in the tooth for some other services I host anyway so I thought it this was the perfect time to do a "forklift" upgrade on the whole system. Building a dedicated machine just for camera usage was not a path I wanted to go down so I opted for the latter.
I had two options: I could either dedicate a physical machine for just BI or rebuild the virtualization host to a beefier setup and keep one host for everything. I knew my host CPU would not be able to handle 13 cameras being thrown at it plus the other VMs I run on the host for my other uses. Doing some further digging, I found out the high CPU utilization was because the VM guest has no access to the CPU quicksync that Blue Iris can utilize for H.264 decoding. I had whiteboxed together this host many many years ago. The virtualization host was running a very old Ivy Bridge i3 chip that has only 2C/4T available to it. With two cameras attached, the VM was using about 50% of the two vCPUs I allotted to it. I was a bit disappointed in the performance however. I quickly spun up a test Win 10 VM, installed the demo version of BI, and attached a couple cameras to the software. So I found this site and started doing some reading. It takes ages to load the cameras and looking up clips, fast forwarding, and rewinding through recordings is painfully slow. While this works, the ACC software is pretty terrible and very limited. I have been running the standard and free Axis Camera Companion software for years and just letting the cameras record to a NAS VM I setup on my virtualization server. The one Dahua I just bought from Andy a couple weeks ago. The Axis cameras were purchased years ago before I found this site (and Andy). I have 13 cameras (12 Axis and 1 Dahua) in my business.
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