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Kenwood,Lots of great advise. I've done both 16 cameras and up to 500 IP + 200 analog system. I had to configure the system to meet certain regulatory requirements and project goals, i.e. 30fps and able to store 21 days worth of video. At the time there wasn't anyone manufacturer that could meet the scope of the project.Granted a lot of improvements have happened over the past 14years.I went with DvTel along with there encoders. You know when you can take a $5 camera and make it look as good if not better than what you have. I did tweak there design considerably by going with Dell Servers which we already had for the analog cameras added their encoders to handle the analog to IP and software along with a Fiber Channel SANs by Winchester Systems.
There are very very few pieces of software that can handle that many cameras um first things first, i guess you are keeping your analog cameras you will need encoders or a hybrid DVR/NVR system for conversion then you will need to incorporate those into a network. Off hand i know their are a few pieces of software that handle up to 256 devices for example, panasonic has 'ASM-201' camera management which connects up to 256 devices i.e NVR's, DVR'S with network cards, ip cameras encoders so on.
Axis has something similar and their are others as well when you get over 64 channels your options start getting limited plus trying to integrate with access control and other systems limits your choices as well QNAP might also be a good choice i just havent been able to get my hands on one yet to see how they do and if any one says 'pelco' you should ignore them which is similar to what you have now. You are correct it is Linux only. It's been so long that I completely forgot that it was. Sorry about that.I'm sure Zoneminder could be run as a VM. Assuming the hardware has virtualization capabilities you could install Hyper-V server on it instead of Windows 7 then run a VM with one of the supported Linux distros.
But I completely understand wanting to stick with something that runs on Windows. Being a Windows administrator myself it's always my first choice.So with that being said I'd recommend Blue Iris. In my opinion it's well worth the price. Moggyman wrote:I think I must be a bit simple or something.
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The solutions I've looked at thus far all want to record footage from the cameras to my PC or local storage. As my PC isn't on 24/7 that isn't really what I want. The NVR already has a nice 2TB disk in it to which the cameras record. It's that box and it's contents I want to drive with a better Windows client than CMS if possible - or isn't that possible?Most are proprietary and you have to use what comes from the manufacturer. I have heard of some brands working with others, but that is probably because 90% of no-name brand DVR's come from 1 of 2 major manufacturers.
Wish I had better news on that front. I completely misunderstood your initial question. I read it as you were looking for something to use as a literal NVR - not just something to view your current NVR with. Knowing this and reading back over your OP I can see what you were actually asking.So to answer your actual question - I kind of doubt there is anything out there that can control a proprietary NVR system other than that NVR's proprietary software. If you don't like the NVR's software you'll need to replace it with one of the alternatives we mentioned here.
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