DVR on WD My Cloud products or similar NAS.
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After following the SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVR development this past summer https://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hd-homerun-dvr/
It occurred to me that such a system for Nx Witness / DW Spectrum would be awesome. Have you thought about making the Nx Witness Server work as a plugin for some of these advanced NAS units? Maybe they don't have enough processing ability, but from a price standpoint it would be awesome if it worked on the Western Digital My Cloud series.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/nas/expert/
Even if just for 16-max camera systems.
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Jeff - it's an excellent idea.
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Just wanted to say after much research on the various NAS operating systems we personally decided to go with QNAP boxes for our offices and are really liking the QTS 4.2 software. If you are working on a NAS app version of Nx Witness or DW Spectrum, then QNAP is now our first recommendation. :-)
(However, Synology was a close second)
For cheaper units the devices from Western Digital and Netgear would likely reach the cheapest market segments, if that's what you are aiming for.
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I'm wondering if there had been any progress on this idea? I haven't seen NX Witness or DW Spectrum show up in the QNAP app center.
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Any further development on this idea? I keep having customers wanting cheap 2-4 camera systems and keep having to use something else to get the DVR cost cheap enough.
However, I think maybe buying a $250 QNAP TS-251 might work great, if DW Spectrum would run on it.
https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-TS-251-Personal-Transcoding-TS-251-US/dp/B00L8GHOQ8/
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Old thread, but you can run NX in docker on Synology and QNAP.
There is just an issue with licensing due to hardware ID's.
Would love for this to be resolved, im trying to docker my world at the moment and this is the last step!
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Gentlemen,
We have released an experimental package to run Nx in a Docker environment. More about this can be read HERE.
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Gentlemen,
We are aware there are plenty of such requests, but they all have their differences that might or might not make it possible to use Nx Witness on your preferred platform.
We have to draw a line somewhere, since we do not have the resources to test Nx for all platforms and without proper testing, we just can't support it, although it is reasonable to expect that it will work on the majority of platforms.
I hope this clarified a bit why we have such limitations.
To offer some guidance about this subject, we created a support article about creating your own NVR with our software on your desired platform and/or OS. You can find it HERE.
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