And it's much appreciated. If I knew exactly what qualifies one as a curmudgeon I would strive to be one myself, so I just settle for cynicism.pete_c said:Yup here I use the internet selfishly and I am a curmudgeon these days (age thing?)
Personally I take what I want and never really give anything back that I care about......well except for me writing to you right now.
Linwood said:Thanks, drvnbysound. I can't find anything really wrong with BlueIris per se.
I live on Windows, but doesn't mean I like it. I have to buy a Pro license for RDP to work (and probably would as I don't like things like Team Viewer as much). And I really don't like the newer windows issue with RDP assuming a tiny screen size if no screen is plugged in (and I did not plan to have a screen plugged in). Why it can't be like server I don't know.
An intriguing aspect of Xeoma is they completely separate the client and server component, and allow the client to run on windows, linux or android! Same client, so you can do anything you want including changing setup. The bad news is it's the same client and seems optimized for high bandwidth. There is a mediocre web interface though. Another thing I really liked about it besides the itnerface is that it is smart about multiple URL's for the same camera. For example, it grabs stills every second for the montage view to reduce processing/bandwidth but as soon as you switch to full screen for that camera it switches back to the video feed.
Blue Iris' android client costs money, haven't tried it yet. OK, it's not MUCH money, but really, why a free trial on one and not the other?! I have looked at the photos.
I need to pin this down soon.
I need to experiment, but this is what I have been told: on Windows 8 (not sure about 7) but not on Windows servers (at least recent ones), the RDP server sets a default resolution equal to the monitor plugged in, and if none is plugged in, uses a tiny monitor default (VGA?).drvnbysound said:What limitations are you referring to? Are they related only to W8 and newer?
I am running W7 Pro on my BI machine, have no monitor plugged in, and have no RDP issues; I get full 1080p (native monitor resolution) via RDP.
DELInstallations said:Barring that, Milestone offers a very nice freeware/trial software.
Linwood said:I downloaded and did a bit of experimentation with Xprotect Go, the few version. It looked promising, but it has a killer restriction of 5 days of storage, period. Worse than the AxxonNext limit of 1TB, at least there you can fiddle with your frame rates or other criteria to live within it.
I may come back to it at some point if I decide I'm unhappy with others, but I suspect I'd be needing to by those fairly pricey licenses for the commercial product.