Hardware recommendation for 4-6 Camera

[Ma Sch]

Hi,

i'm running motioneye on an rpi3 with 2 cameras (rpi camera and a FOSCAM FI9900P). This works fine, but using a higher framerate and mor cameras does not work reliably.And i want to use 4-6 FOSCAM FI9900P cameras.

Has annyown a good hardware recommendation for this purpose?

Thanks, Martin

[Kevin Shumaker]

Need more info:

MotionEye or MotionEyeOS & what date version?

What kind of wireless setup? Single WiFi router or Access point, or multiple access points?

Do you have many other wireless devices, Phones, laptops, PCs, etc?

Is your rpi3 a 3B, 3B+ or 3A and is it connected to your network via wireless or ethernet?

The Foscams are high bandwidth devices on 2.4GHz, which means 54Mb bandwidth per AP/Router max.

You can rapidly run out of capacity, especially if you add more devices.

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[Ma Sch]

Hi,

thank you for your reply. Till ow, i use motioneye (newest version) on a rpi 3b with raspian. It's connected wireless. I have 3  Accesspoint wired via Gigabit-Ethernet to my HP J8433A ProCurve Switch .

Am Donnerstag, 4. April 2019 14:48:48 UTC+2 schrieb StarbaseSSD:

Need more info:

MotionEye or MotionEyeOS & what date version?

What kind of wireless setup? Single WiFi router or Access point, or multiple access points?

Do you have many other wireless devices, Phones, laptops, PCs, etc?

Is your rpi3 a 3B, 3B+ or 3A and is it connected to your network via wireless or ethernet?

The Foscams are high bandwidth devices on 2.4GHz, which means 54Mb bandwidth per AP/Router max.

You can rapidly run out of capacity, especially if you add more devices.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 6:14 AM Ma Sch <lebows...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

i'm running motioneye on an rpi3 with 2 cameras (rpi camera and a FOSCAM FI9900P). This works fine, but using a higher framerate and mor cameras does not work reliably.And i want to use 4-6 FOSCAM FI9900P cameras.

Has annyown a good hardware recommendation for this purpose?

Thanks, Martin

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[Kevin Shumaker]

3B has Wifi B/G/N, which means theoretically, a max of 54Mbit connectivity. If you are running Raspbian

 Desktop instead of Raspbian Lite, you will  not get full speed out of it. If you could ensure each camera connects to seperate APs, that would be of help.

The real problem is processing power and PI bandwidth.

My setup is Spectrum ISP to cable modem to Ubiquity EdgeMax Router. I use a script to enable/disable the port forwarding on an as needed basis.

I have several WiFi AC1750 &  AC1900 routers set as Access Points.

I have 3 D-Link 5020L WiFi/Ethernet cameras and 1 PiZero (running motionEyeOS) CSI PiCam all the time, and 2 other setups (One Pi3B+motionEye on Raspbian with attached USB Camera) as test beds.

I have a virtual machine on a Virtualbox Server running Ubuntu 18.10 and motionEye as my security camera hub. I have a NAS and the VBox Server acting as storage and backup storage.

I have a Gigabit Ethernet network internally (Fiber and Cat6 copper)(2x CISCO 2960X 48+2spf+POE). Multiple PCs, ethernet and wireless BlueRay and Tivos, Smart TVs, Game Consoles, etc, all playing nicely together.

I get an average of 10fps streaming per camera, and my D-Links are only 640x480.

The 3B+ gets about the same framerate via Wifi (AC) and ethernet. I believe it all comes down to it's only a PI. I can't recommend any of the competitors boards, they aren't as stable or have the support. I believe motionEye, as good as it is, is not really a competitor to any SecurityDVR, but is great for hobbyists and tinkerers.

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I realize this isn't the camera preference you indicated but my recommendation would be just the usual cheap $30 hardwired poe cameras with a refurbished desktop for <$100. Wifi and pi limitations would be a thing of the past......