Using RPI3 with ZM?

[yonubear]

ok all I nee some advice I am looking at replacing my aging analog cctv system and I want to go as low power as I can. the cameras are all going to be networked 1080 and 720 cameras. other than 2 cameras If it is possible with zm I want to handle all the motion triggeering via remote sensors using http commands. I intend to run 8 cameras. The one thing I would like if ZM supports it is preemptive recording I have gotten used to having it with my current setup. if a rpi3 won't do it could someone recommend a system

Thanks,
Yonubear

[mikb]

Are you asking if a Raspberry PI 3 has the grunt to process the video stream from 8 HD cameras? I'd say you are probably going to struggle -- never mind the mind the network bottleneck (the network port is an embedded USB device with associated bandwidth limits, and your storage will probably also be connected to a USB port), but the processing power may be lacking to do motion analysis on that much camera output -- so you would be totally relying on the remote sensors, and not ZM's analysis. Multiple PIs? Or just get a low power PC.

[yonubear]

Will atom based systems work or does it need more cpu tha mm that?

Thanks,
Yonubear

[V1k1]

What about Pine64? I may post a thread more toward my needs, and using Pine64. Check it out! https://shop.pine64.com/collections/boa ... -board-2gb