Having said that, it is reasonable to use for lightweight or application-specific add-on features.
CANTEK ON SECURITYSPY PRO
(A 64bit iPhone or iPad Pro has more processing power and lots more memory than any of these NAS/embedded devices). Other than the thrill of saying "I got xxx running on my NAS" it is totally ridiculous to consider it for anything serious.
CANTEK ON SECURITYSPY MAC
No GPU or any hardware accelerators obviously.Īn old Mac Mini (or any old Mac) is lightyears ahead in performance. The CPU is a low-power ARM V7 and total ram is only 512MB and not expandable (because the hardware is a SOC). These systems run a stripped-down embedded Linux called "BusyBox". Just an FYI - Now working with a Synology Wi-Fi router that has similar capabilities to run optional "packages" like the Synology NAS.Īlthough conceptually very interesting to consider running apps on this or similar NAS, the reality is very different. Beyond that, you're stuck with an iMac or a Mac Pro.Īnd now I'm off to buy a USB 3 -> HDMI adapter to see if it improves performance. If you only have a couple cameras, a MacBook Pro might be a good option. In the long run it pays for itself in cheaper power bills and less hardware to maintain. Instead of dedicating an expensive Mac to the task, I built a multipurpose server with an expensive copy of virtualization software. Now I'm up to 7 cameras ranging 2-4MP I needed a bigger system to keep up with my demands and I built my own. It was a great option when I only had four 1.3MP cameras. I used to use a nice retina MacBook Pro for this. If you want to use SecuritySpy - and face it, why wouldn't you - you will need to have a computer running 24/7. These are things your NAS was not designed to do.
The Mac does a lot of fancy things like motion detection and event notification. I spent less than half that.Īs for running SecuritySpy on a NAS: it's not a computer and it will never happen. The Mac Pro needed to compare to this rig would cost around 5000USD. This is by far the cheapest way to deal with 4-8 cameras pushing billions of pixels per second. VMware natively supports Mac virtual machines I just had to make it think it was running on a Mac. It's not a hackintosh in the sense that I didn't modify MacOS at all. I have a 1TB "laptop" spinning drive dedicated as a video storage volume while the boot volume runs on a really fast SSD. It also run a pfsense VM and a mythbuntu VM.
It has 32GB ram, E3-1225 Xeon processor and 4 internal drives. I run Security Spy w/ Indigo & Ubiquiti UniFi AP Manager on a 10.10 MacOS VM running inside VMware ESXi 6.0 on a Super Micro 1U. I just want to throw it out there, since Ben said he's never seen anyone do it.