Client pc for viewing 64-68 cameras

In Progress
Follow
Avatar
Nicolas Martinez

Hi. Currently using WAVE with 2 Dell R740XDs on a single site. What would be the best PC client setup for viewing the cameras on two large screens all the time? What would be the best processor to use or can XEON processor be used? Not too savvy with Ubuntu but would consider it since its less CPU intensive. 

0

Comments

4 comments

Sort by Date Votes
  • Avatar
    Vincent INEO
    • Edited

    Hi,

    First you will be able to display 64 cameras (objects) max. within the client. Second, it depends the resolution you want. By default, when you will display a lot of cameras, Nx will use the second stream (in 7fps and 640p normally used by motion detection), so it will not charge so many the processor. You have to be aware of the RAM and the network card (even on your server if you are on unicast network, ensure that you're on a 10Gbits network.) You can use Ubuntu but if you want to use this PC in videowall mode, it is not well integrated with ubuntu, you have to recreate the wall at each computer restart...

    Vincent

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Nicolas Martinez

    Thank you Vincent for the information. Would there be a certain generation I7 or I9 processor to use currently? Is there any advantages on using the videowall license vs just opening two instances of WAVE to display them on two screens?

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Vincent INEO

    Something like the i9-13900K is very good (just keep in mind to have the K and NOT the F letter at the end)

    You have to put 32GB RAM minimum. Don't forget to integrate a little graphics card to connect your screens, it will help the processor to focus on decodings the streams and not to manage the screens.

    And for the question about the license or not, it will depends the usage. If you activate the videowall options, you'll need to have another little PC to manage the screens directly via a Nx Client. But if not neccessary, you can just open two Nx instances.

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Norman - Nx Support
    • Edited

    Vincent INEO,

    Thank you for your feedback.
    Regarding the VideoWall issues with Ubuntu? Did you submit this as a ticket already for further investigations? If so, can you share the ticket number? If not, could you, so we can investigate and hopefully resolve the issue?

    Nicolas Martinez,

    Please check THIS support article regarding the recommended hardware specifications. Regarding Xeon CPU, please note that often these GPU lack graphical capabilities, and therefore most people depend on intel I-series or AMD Ryzen CPU which often have an embedded GPU that are OpenGL 2.1 compatible.

    0
    Comment actions Permalink

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

New post