I'm not staying where I'm at with my current setup. I appreciate you taking the time to comment, but the sentiment of 'don't try, stick with what you've got because I'm skeptical of you/your abilities,' is weird to me. If not, I'm going to run Blue Iris, which I have been happy wth. I however am open to other option should someone make a convincing argument for an alternative that may work better for me/my setup. I have been using it for years, which is why I am asking about a VM for it.

Only way I will be 'far more experienced' is by learning and doing. I am constantly reading, asking, trying, and learning with unRAID, is that not the point? I think unRAID can be a good option for me, so I am exploring that. If not UD and if not a disk as part of the array, then what?įor Blue Iris I am currently running 4 1080p Hikvision POE cams. I was hoping to hear from other Blue Iris VM users as to what their setups looked like so I could make some better estimations, but I can also just fine tune mine as I go. I'll ask it over in the Blue Iris community. To sum it up, don't dive head first into unRAID to start running critical applications on, whether it be your security cameras, your router software or your VPN, etc. If you don't own a BI license and have the time and patience to explore, then go for it. if you already purchased a BlueIris license, then my advice to you is simply don't bother with the others, the grass isn't greener. As for ZoneMinder and others, it's easy answer. If so I dare them to post their requirements and configuration and justify it. I have lots of experience, enough to know that it's a very narrow configuration in which it makes sense to run it on unRAID I'm sure many will chime in telling me I'm wrong in response to this. It'll save you a lot of hassle early on, and given you a much less stressful environment to learn in. My advice is simply to stay where you now running Blue Iris, don't migrate it to unRAID until you're far more experienced. But IMHO both are poor choices and this question makes me even further skeptical that I couldn't assume anything about your setup, or your level of knowledge, cause honestly I'd do neither of those paths you asked about. Yes you can use UD, Yes you could also add a drive to the array so it's only used for this singular function. With a VM it's pretty easy to add/subtract cores or memory to fine tune it. All I can suggest is to take a look at what you're running Blue Iris on today, and make a determination from there what's the equivalent to try in UnRAID. Question like this is better suited for Blue Iris message boards. Too many variables here given what little is known about your setup. It takes a lot of work to get it working well.I've had some experience along the same path you're about to travel. There's a lot of information but it's confusing. The software is not well-documented and the tutorial videos are not much better.

Very powerful software with a lot of configuration options CONS If you want reliable and seamless, look for something else. If you like tinkering and playing it's a good and inexpensive choice. I would not bother paying extra for premium support. Basically you're dependent on various user forums.

Given the lack of clarity in responses it can be weeks to get a problem fixed - if at all. And if you have a follow up question it takes a few more days. Despite paying for a full license - which is supposed to include priority support - it takes days to get a response to an email and it's rarely complete. Not because the software can't do it but because the documentation is not sufficiently clear and detailed. However, if you need reliable object detection and alerts, it takes a lot of work to get it set up right, and this is where things fall down. I have gotten six cameras working pretty well. The software is extremely powerful and configurable, which I generally like.

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