NX Witness Server as an Axis ACAP App?
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This arises from a question I asked about how best to configure a remote solar-powered camera. The answer to that was that it was better to deploy NX Witness Server on a SBC such as a Rpi, on the same network as the camera. To take this a step further, has any thought been given to making NX Witness Server available as an Axis ACAP App directly on-camera? Assuming the camera's processor can handle it (in my case a P-1455LE), it would seem like an efficient option, in terms of power consumption and "one less thing to break".
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Hi Barry Dent,
For your applications such solution would be really useful.
I have suggested this internally quite awhile ago, and there is some movement on the subject, but I also have to admit that we face some challenges, mainly due to the chipsets Axis uses which requires quite some changes to our software. Which is technically not an issue, but limited resources and other brands that don't have these challenges lowered the priority a bit for Nx Witness mediaserver as an Axis ACAP.
But I moved this topic to our Feature Feedback section, so our product team is aware, and the feature will move higher on our priorities list.
JIRA-FR-87 -
as Norman - Nx Support mentioned, we are working on it. List of models we are looking at is those that have ARTPEC-8 in it.
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Thanks to all responders. Good luck with implementing on the Axis ARTPEC-8 devices. If it works out it would be good to see it trickle down to ARTPEC-7 and below. For me, it will be a complicated choice between the extra expense of a new, very good, camera with an API that can be accessed properly by clever people, and the combo of my much cheaper but almost- as- good image-wise existing cameras with terrible API, firmware and documentation, plus a RPi to accommodate the NX Witness Server. I will create a new post with another idea.
My suggestion for another brand might be to look at Milesight. I chose one of their cameras recently in response to the moral dilemma around the two big brands, one of which I had bought quite a few of. I might be fooling myself that Milesight does not have the same problem, but the camera is good so far, and cheap even after I paid a local reseller margin. At least for a non-technical end user like me, the documentation seems good.
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I think it's great idea to have Nx run as an ACAP...
I also agree it would be great to extend support to ARTPEC-7 as this will allow support for some entry level cameras, not sure how much more work this would add but it definitely would make it much more affordable to deploy a solution this way if the lower cost cameras could be supported.
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