IPcam: Selecting an IP Camera NVR (Nx Witness review)
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2018
- To watch and record your IP cameras you need an NVR or NVR software. In this video I walk you through the process I went through selecting the NVR software I ended up running, Nx Witness.
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I've used Blue Iris for years and I just recently installed DW Spectrum version of NX Witness so I can offer my perspective here. I must say so far that NX Witness is so much easier to use and much more of a polished product. Yes it costs more but my gosh you'll easily make up for that in the hours of work you would spend setting up BI. It immediately found my 14 cameras on my network through the ONVIF protocol and I was up and running in no time. Getting my cams set up with BI involved searching out hobbyist web sites and reading hundreds of posts looking for answers. With NX Witness you don't even need a license to start using it with live views. The license is only needed if you want to record the video streams. You can even use your mobile app for remote viewing without a license. It's easy to try everything out for free without even giving your CC info. Just download their software from their website. Here's some of the great features of NX Witness I've found so far:
- NX Witness doesn't need port forwarding, it connects through the cloud for free - BI requires port forwarding or a VPN, both of which are beyond the capabilities of the average consumer.
- NX Witness has a free client app which you can use locally or remotely. BI has a hobbyist built web client UI3 that is unreliable at best.
- NX Witness mobile app is free. BI mobile app is $10. The NX Witness mobile app is much better too.
- NX Witness server starts up on my Windows PC automatically without me even logging in. I still haven't figured out how to make that happen with BI.
- NX Witness has tabs that you can click on to see many different customization views. BI is like the soup nazi from Seinfeld, take the view we give you or leave!
- NX Witness has intelligent motion search. BI doesn't.
- NX Witness installation is like setting up a home PC. BI feels more like setting up a 1970's era mainframe.
Thank you for your comment and I couldn't agree more, I pinned it even! Because this is exactly why I also fell in love with Nx Witness very quickly after trying so much other stuff. No it's not the cheapest out there but it makes up for that in a lot of ways and since they are lifetime licenses, over time the cost isn't actually that high, especially if you compare it against Nest or other monthly cloud subscriptions! Features such as the intelligent area motion search also have become invaluable for me! No more scrubbing through hours of footage, even just motion triggered footage. "When did this car leave" *draws rectangle* 5 seconds pass "ah, ok". DONE!
@@IntermitTech Yes! That new motion search is invaluable. I've wasted so much time scrubbing footage in BI while looking for something. Another feature I really love is the ability to record 24/7 in lo-res then during an event record in hi-res. Very nice feature! That will save me loads of disc space.
Gary Gibson Thanks for the review Gary. If you don’t mind me asking where did you buy the DW Spectrum from and how much was the license? I realise that DW is cheaper to buy over NX for same software so I will go with DW
@@TheSpyNZ I downloaded DW Spectrum from their website. I bought the licenses from BHPhoto. They were about $70 in January 2020 for each camera.
Thanks, this video and the camera review one have been very helpful!
Awesome, nice to hear that! :D
Nice video! When will you upload the more advanced review of the software?
Brother, thank you so much for these vids.
ho-lee-fook !!! thx so much for the NX/DW !!! my VM CPU usage went from 40% w BI to
I'm running Blue Iris on a Server 2012 VM. I actually wanted a Linux solution too, because all my other VMs are running Linux as well, and Linux just simply works and it uses next to no resources, but for Blue Iris i made an exception. Running Server 2012 in a VM with 2 vCores and 4GB RAM, handles 3 1440p cameras just fine with only 10% CPU utilization! The mobile app is great as well, the app does cost €10 though.
You mentioned in your review that you could mount nfs shares for storage. I haven't been able to do this, did you make something using the sdk?
The only network shares I've been able to mount are samba.
First and foremost: thanks for a thorough and detailed video to this VMS software! I have followed your channel for quite a while and think it is great the stuff you are doing with the integrations for Home Assistant!
After watching this review a month ago I installed the trial and can only confirm your positive assessment. I have tried several open source/linux platforms and am recently using Bluecherry, which is also good but lacks an app and some of the nice search features which Nx Witness offeres. I am at the point I would like to BUY this software, so I logged in to my Nx Optix account online and sent a purchase request, they forwarded me to a local reseller here in Germany (Allnet) which then responded that they don't sell to end-users.....what kind of a sales model is that?? Why such a complicated process through a chain to purchase a license to digitally activate software? In the end, it seems that the private consumer isn't a customer of value.
Additionally, from what I have gathered, the approximate cost for a 4-License starter pack for Nx Witness is about 350€. I found 2 price listings online from the US for Digital Watchdog (around 284 USD)....a 100€ price difference for more or less the same software???
Of course these are frustrations unrelated to your review, and I would again like to say that I think your videos are great and I really appreciate you taking the time to go over such things in great detail.
Hi, I was looking into NX witness and i couldnt find a retailer to buy licensing. where can i purchase ? and how much does it cost ?
Thank you, Love you detail you put into the videos.
I'm using BlueIris as software on my server. Storing on my synology NAS. Also using the build-in software in the synology NAS, de app Surveillance Station. I also use a stand alone NVR with a purple 8TB WD HDD. As an app for viewing on tablets and phones around the house (on wifi) the free app IP Cam Viewer. For extra security (theft and fire), I sync everything to Dropbox, Google Drive and another NAS on a different location.
Can you integrate your doorbell camera in your system?
Nice video! 👍
Great video.
Hallo leuke video Intermit tech, ik ben ook een derdelander en woon buiten de grenzen. The rest I will do in English. i have been following you for some time and found interesting to see what you are talking about. I started in 2003 with an axis camera project and build probably one of the first wireless and battery powered cam systems. Resent I have tried iSpy but that was not a success, probably because of the limited PC power. Im planning to try to use your suggestion NX Witness. Thanks for so far, and let me know if you like a chat in Dutch. I still do have a few questions.
Is it possible to have privacy zones defined in NX Witness? Those blacked out zones shouldn't be recorded nor shown in the live view.
That would be crucial for me, as we have very strict privacy laws here (in Germany)
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Great video. I am looking at WD. Does this software support trip wire and other IVS from the dahua cameras?
Thank you !! - Can you tell us about the mention of the NAS storage? are you storing your video on as NAS ?
The next release will support Dahua IVS, including trip wire. You can couple rules to it to for instance send an alert, start recording or whatever you wish.
I'm running NX witness inside a small VM with only 32GB local storage, all footage is sent to the NAS using an NFS mount.
@@IntermitTech and C R - the 3.2 release added in-camera analytics support (aka Camera IVS) for Hikvision, Hanwha, and Axis devices. The next release we'll add more supported brands and Dahua is top of the list.
It is shame with the Shinobi. It had too much stuff written in JavaScript I think and can't easily access stuff like hardware accelerated decoding. If they use some native code or maybe WebAssembly , plus improve performance it could do better. Nx witness looks really good from their materials. Not a fun of non open source stuff, but if you have 30-50 cameras and just want things to work good and have somebody to call if it breaks , then nx witness looks like a good choice.
Great video.
Regarding the Praxis box in the background :D
Are you based in NL?
Yeah I'm dutch. I live near Den Bosch! :)
that's awesome :D
I'm 80KM away, in Den Haag
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You show the motion / object tracking on the desktop interface, dose it do the same on mobile app? I am currently using BlueIris and like how it break down the clips to show the live view and clips on motion. I got Ring door bind the video loading too slow. I am only using 6x1080 10x720 10x480 cameras. Nice to see there is something better for high resolution, but if they don't post the price on website it is most likely, they know is priced too high. As the over comments said about €475 for 8 cameras.
Not exactly sure what you are trying to ask, but currently motion search is not available on the mobile client, they do have it on the road map I believe (or least looking back at motion events).
As for the price, since it's not a subscription I still think it's fair, but it's not cheap compared to free or under a 100$ for any amount of cams, that is correct.
For me the interface and features currently available and in the future (can't wait for Dahua in camera analytics integration!) are worth it.
And stupid as it sounds, it's software that just always works, and that's very pleasant for a change...
@@IntermitTech - FYI - the next Nx Mobile update will include Smart Motion Search that will work similarly to the Desktop client.
Seems the price of the Nx Witness license has increased substantially - it's now €475 excluding VAT for the 8-cam version. For that kind of money I'll check the open source alternatives first...
Hey there - the MSRP of Nx Witness is $150.00 (USD) per camera. You can find a full list of Resellers and Distributors at my.networkoptix.com for competitive quotes.
@@kjeldschouten-lebbing6260 - well if putting out a clear MSRP price is wrong we don't wanna be right! ;-)
Something to note - Nx Witness VMS licenses include lifetime support and upgrades. For FREE.
Also - we do have an entry level packages (called the Starter Pack) which are lower priced (which is what mailmeplenty seems to be referencing).
The best way to get pricing is to contact one of our Reseller Partners which are all listed at my.networkoptix.com
I'm currently running 5 3MP cameras (hikvision) on an NVR. I want to switch to 8MP cameras which means i will either need to switch to another NVR or something alternative (nx witness?). At the time I choose for the NVR as a pc with blue iris on it was very pricey with regard to power consumption (electricity is very expensive over here). The NVR doesn't consume that much power.
What system is recommended for about eight 8MP cameras?...and do you have an idea of the power consumption of such a system? Thx
I'm actually working on doing a video about such a setup with NX Witness (or my idea about it at least), and trying to see if the hardware I have in mind for something like that will work. That video should be here in the new few weeks somewhere. But that's very much built like I would do it, with that said, that hardware would use
@@IntermitTech Thanks for the quick reply. I'll await the video and in the mean time start thinking about my setup here :)
Good morning sir, How to configure CCTV to NX ??
You mean analog? You'll need to digitally encode it but I don't have any experience with that myself
Hi Quindor. Are you still running this system?
RUclips led me here.
I'm currently running iSpy (Agent NVR) but haven't really done any research into other platforms. iSpy also seems more Windows-oriented.
iSpy also isn't very intuitive. I finally managed setting up MQTT alerts and FTP, but still haven't found how to move the main video storage to my NAS or reviewing alerts via Home Assistant
Yeah, I am still running Nx Witness, it's been awesome! :D
@@IntermitTech Thanks for your reply :)
Did you link it with HA, for live streaming and/or reviewing alerts? Or do you keep it as a standalone system?
@@SmartLifeEnthusiast I haven't put the time in, so it's just a single system right now. :)
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I played with DW Spectrum which worked well I only wish they supported mobile push notifications on my phone instead of email only. Do you do anything special for notifications on this system?
I've talked with them about that before and built my own version using Zapier (IFFT) integration which would send a message through Telegram. But they are looking into such features for in the future.
@@IntermitTech ok thanks I'll have to take a look at that as an option. Right now I am using Milestone (free version) which is much more resource intensive. My own compare n contrast came down to DW Spectrum (I'm in the states) vs Milestone. The only thing that put Milestone over the top was they supported camera side Analytics and push notifications. Looks like NX Witness is catching up (in Analytics) there so definitely worth another me taking another look. Thanks for the video keep up the awesome camera/nvr content. By the way your 4k cam comparison is what I used greatly for figuring out what cameras I wanted.
@@KBoatsw The Telegram message was a bit of a hack using what what available. It worked but I wasn't able to get it to send a snapshot or video of the camera with the message. So I kind of works, just not really useful right now.
NX Witness is developing though, since I've used it they've added some very nice features already! I believe in camera motion detection (Or actually in camera analytics because it can do much more!) is available for Hikvision already and for Dahua cameras is coming in the next 4.0 release!
Thank you for the kind words. I'll try and keep the content coming! :D
@@KBoatsw - Just an FYI - we're scheduling push notifications in the mobile app for our v4.1 release (mid-2019). In the meantime, as mentioned, Zapier is the way to go.
@@TonyLuce That is great news seriously :-) I really did like the nx product that and analytics were my only wish items. Quick question I see Hikvision is supported for analytics now but i do not see line crossing mentioned for hikvision. Does the current NX witness support Hikvision's line crossing (its not listed on the release notes)?
This looks like a really great product but the price tag just puts it way beyond what I would consider a typical consumer's reach.. I would pitch this to our clients we support all day but if I could just pay one flat fee for a ton of cameras like blue iris, that'd be way more appealing to the average home user who isn't really monitoring their feeds unless something happens.
NX need to cut their price in half and I'd jump on it. My Hikvision NVR is old and pretty bad (only IE support for web viewing now) but I only need it to pull footage so I personally have a hard time justifying the high price of NX. :/
I guess I'm just not in their target client demographic.
I kind of get your drift, but I believe there is more to consider.
Nx for instance is a lifetime license where with Blue Iris you pay per year. If you have a lot of cameras Blue Iris will stay cheaper for a long time but with like 4 cameras and an Nx starter pack you've paid the same after a couple of years, you just need to pay it up front.
Comparing Nx it to native cloud offerings such as Nest cameras and such, there is no competition, those kind of solutions are 4x or more over a period of 5 years even if you include the hardware to run it on.
So it really depends what you compare it with. Blue Iris is ok, but I personally happily paid for Nx for the way it works and the ease of use and low resource utilization that comes with it. Simple VM with 2 logical cores on a bare minimum Linux install is more then enough to run my 10x 8MP at home where with Blue Iris, if you want to use advanced functionality you need a dedicated machine almost. I also don't like Windows for my services, especially if I need to RDP in to do management and other functions.
But it really depends on your situation, if you just want to record some cameras, Blue Iris or even a Synology NAS will do just fine, but if you want to look at them with multiple clients for instance (I use it on mobile and tablet too, just like my GF) Nx starts to make a lot more sense, at least for me.
@@IntermitTech Yeah right now, I have 3 hikvisions outside and an older model NVR that they are no longer updating the firmware on (their more recent ones have a new firmware that no longer requires a web browser plugin) and I also have 7 Wyze V2's in the house so paying per-camera, especially when the license per-camera is $180 on top of the 4 camera starter pack for $500 puts me at $1400.
This is why people pay subscription fees. I would gladly pay $15/month if they would essentially rent out their NX1 to you like a cable TV provider where you keep that in your house and connect 5~10 cameras with no cloud storage. Add a week of cloud storage for an extra $10 or so. Add 10 more camera licenses for another $10 and all of a sudden, you've got a solid revenue coming in.
I get why they wouldn't want to go that route with their business model but for us (I'm a consultant for an IT MSP) it's really easy for us to sell clients Unifi security camera systems as a monthly service (we cover install, management and work with them/police in the event that footage needs to be retrieved, etc) vs an up front full price cost. We got only 1 client that paid for the system up front but 8 or 9 more happily paying a monthly "Security systems" fee that we have already far surpassed the break even point with.
Heb je al eens ivideon geprobeerd?
Have you already tried ivideon?
It's free and has (I think) the same features as the one you pay for.
Haven't tried it or looked at it but I'm looking at very different numbers? I want to record at least 14 days of footage, but let's get that down to 10 days, and assume we're not going to have to invest in any local storage, that would mean I would have to pay 99$ a year per camera. With 10 cameras that's 1000$ a year! That's enough to pay for NX Witness, the Hardware it runs on and add a disk to that to store the 14 days. But NX Witness doesn't cost anything the second, third or any other year!
And then I haven't even looked at comparing features or how well it handles 8MP cameras and/or motion detection/search. For instance, my internet line isn't even capable of streaming all my cameras to the internet at the same time so.... :S
I'm not easily convinced by these cloud online offerings and really hate subscriptions, it's almost always more expensive and even worse in my case I have hardware running anyway so wouldn't have to make additional costs for it. I understand the cloud proposition though and if my parents wanted one camera I'd probably get them a nest, but if you take your cameras even somewhat seriously, those options quickly go out of the window IMHO.
Oh, I just took a look at the cameras they sell. Those don't even compare to what we are talking about here. Tiny sensors, don't go above 1080p, fun stuff to play around with and then buy a real camera. In my opinion, but still.
@@IntermitTech yes but they have a free option where you can host your own server. And I have been able too keep 2 weeks of storage on my server. It doesn't use that many resources and supports endless amount of camera's. The only cloud part in the free option is small clips of the movement. I could send you a small clip of what it can do if you want. At place where we can private message if that is okay. Btw I don't work for the company. I'm just very pleased by the software
@@IntermitTech oh and I just use the software not the cameras. I got my cameras separately
@@maxdewispelaere2801 I've been looking at some videos and it just doesn't even compare in features and interface in my opinion but it depends how important those things are to you.. The free option is nice but I often don't trust those because most of the time if they aren't severely limited, they'll do so later on forcing you to pay somehow, but that might be my paranoia. Anyway, it's cool if you like it, but I'm not warm towards it from what I've seen.
Why do these companies sell like this? Do they realise it's 2019? Why do I have to go to a third party dodgy looking website to buy your software, why can't I buy from you with an automated system that gives me a license straight away?
Nx Witness is sold through a channel of security surveillance and IT Resellers because an IP video system requires many other 3rd party devices (networking equipment, cameras, power supplies, mounts, etc) and those typically come through the same reseller channel. That being said - we feel your pain. IP cameras and good networking gear are now available via Amazon and other online platforms and so there is a new emerging market - especially home automation / IoT tinkerers - who wants direct support. We get that, and we're working on an idea to make it easier to buy directly.
@@NetworkOptix almost a week I'm looking at how to buy this software, in my country there is no dealer that can sell me this software. Most of the dealer sites are in NL language without posibility to swith to english and so on. I will just rise up what Garry Newman said it's 2019 why it's so difficult to buy software?
@@MrPompinis The reason that we do not offer direct sales is that the global transaction fees do not justify small orders at this stage and also it would multiply the number of customers we need to offer direct support which we simply aren't equipped for.
All our distributors have had intensive training by us and are capable of offering 1st and 2nd tier support in their customers own timezone and own language. For 3rd tier support to our channel partners we have a dedicated support team and our developers available to offer the best support in the market, and absolutely for free.
Please reach out to me via amsterdam@networkoptix.com and I'm more than happy to connect you to one of our resellers that can offer you our solution and provide you all the necessary support.
@@NetworkOptix As someone that uses vmware and freenas at home; it would be amazing if I could purchase a license directly from you. Perhaps you could put up terms & conditions or some kind of warning before buying stating that the you, the customer, is on your own for hardware and there will be no support offered other than making sure the license works. I would pay for that.
Do you still use Nx Witness?
I do yes!
"Big Windows Server"?? While I appreciate your videos and your opinions I was a bit taken aback when you made this comment. Clearly your you were going into this with a bias towards Linux. While it's fine to have that bias I disagree with immediately discounting Windows solutions out of the gate. At least that seems to be the path you took. I was also looking for your review of each of the packages you didn't choose, or a good comparison.
On another note you should put the name of the product you are discussing on screen when you have other text such as the pros/cons. It was difficult to know what product you were talking about.
That said the cost of the NX Witness is crazy for a homeowner. Close to $600 US for 8 cameras is crazy when BI is available for $50-60 dollars and will run on a very inexpensive desktop system. No cloud required. I'm not an expert in these products by any means but it just seems your perspective might be a bit skewed.
Just expecting more from this video that actually shares the pros/cons of each rather than jumping right to product you "recommend". Makes it seem more like an advertisement than a guide.
I appreciate your comment, I actually don't mind a bit of discussion or different thoughts! :)
This video was the culmination of basically a frustrating 2 months to find NVR software that would meet the critias I mentioned in the video. So you are correct, this was not a pro/con video about several NVR's rather my journey and what my end result has become and why but very specific for my situation and wishes.
About some of your comments: I have a lot of experience of managing Windows and Linux servers, running inside of a VM it's just a given fact that Windows requires at least 2GB memory of it's own on top of what your program needs. With a Linux server we're talking several hundred MB, not Gigabytes. Hence the fact my NVR VM is running with only 1536MB memory allocated to it, below what I would consider the minimal amount for windows. Managing updates for all my Linux boxes is a lot easier then my stand-alone Windows servers too, and we're also not looking at license costs because officially you would need to add at least 100$ to the cost of Blue Iris because of that. With that I'm not saying I hate Windows or would never use it, but as an operating system for small services like this, in my opinion it's not the best choice and a minimal Linux install is.
The cost for NX Witness is high from a home user perspective, in that you are right. But it's also very subjective, after my search and as mentioned in the video, my disappointment with what is available, I was happy to pay for the features NX Witness has and how well it works. I'm also not buying 50$ cameras but 4K (8MP) cameras of around ~200$ a piece. And compared to what an "average user" will pay in for instance Nest fee's, suddenly it doesn't look all that expensive at all. So it really depends what you compare it with in my opinion.
So in that regard, I paid cold hard cash for those licenses and Network Optix/NX Witness has given me nothing. They are however a company which is involved with their users and I do maintain contact with them and they even comment on my videos as can be seen, which I appreciate a whole lot! :D
p.s. The NX Witness cloud is a free feature and not a "subscription". Their licenses are lifetime licenses and as mentioned in the video, the cloud feature only enables easy connecting from outside of your home.
@@IntermitTech Really appreciate your reply as well. :) Sometimes the "Internetz" can be a harsh place. That said....
One of my issues with the entire video security "community" is that for those willing to venture beyond the consumer plug and play stuff it's a daunting task. Most of those will have little to no Linux experience let alone VM experience. Windows is familiar and familiar = safe for most consumers who will need to support their own install. Looking at cost of ownership I disagree that Windows is more expensive. I'm sure you've ventured onto the IP Cam Talk forums and there's lots of posts there about acquiring $200ish systems off ebay that can easily handle an 8 camera system, for example. Most would already come with a Windows license.
The other thing about the VM approach is that the idea that it is "free" is very misleading. Remember you aren't talking about users with VM systems already running in a home server lab... they would need hardware for the base system regardless. So for pretty much all it's not hardware cost free. I bet that that VAST majority of those users don't have any sort of dedicated system for anything and it would be a mistake to suggest they use their "home office" PC for an NVR since they will end up turning it off and on.
So my point I think is that if we assume the most likely target market they will need new hardware + new software. The costs are essentially going to be the same, more likely significantly less to build a BI system that can easily run 8-12 cameras than to do the same with NX Witness. I haven't had a chance to test out NX Witness and frankly given their shady approach to marketing the product (they intentionally hide their pricing and resellers) I have no interest in doing so.
Just my opinion. I do appreciate your perspective though and your videos have been helpful. I just bought a new home and am about to add about 6 cameras to my existing 6 (all need installed still) and I am looking at the Dahuas you reviewed in another video previously. The 5 series ones I think they were.
Lastly I would really like to see a comparison of say NX Witness vs BI from your perspective if you were every up to doing so. If you never really tested BI then of course disregard this but I'm curious of how it compares feature wise. I'm still learning BI currently.
@@santiagodraco It seems my first attempt at a reply actually didn't get posted... let me try this again.
I think we're actually not to far off with agreeing with each other. My videos are most often for the slightly more advanced user. They often spawn from the "Hey, you know about computers and cameras, I want something good and don't want to pay monthly to Nest or whatever, what would you advise?" kinds of questions. So it's for users who go online and do read guides, watch videos and maybe look at forums on how to setup stuff. Not the "open box, plug in micro-usb, start app, connect to wifi, pay here, done" type of people, enough videos with (in my opinion) useless comparisons between products the video shooter has no experience with whatsoever out there for those kind of products.
And although I understand what you are saying, that you can get cheap hardware from somewhere which runs Windows already and just run the NVR software on there, that to me is a very "5 year ago" method of doing things. I run multiple things in my house such as all my Lighting, Domotica, Storage, NAS, etc.. and don't want seperate boxes for all of that. So I've moved to VMware and some RAID storage a long time ago and never looked back, the idea of having to service an old Windows machine somewhere in the corner is horrible for me. ;)
Still, I can understand people who have no other interest in IT that being a thing to do but then I'd probably advise them just to get a hardware NVR box from Dahua or run a Synology. Just most of the people I see around me now a days have at least a NAS, maybe a Raspberry Pi somewhere and a lot of IT people at least have a simple Proxmox/VMware box in the house. To me it makes more sense to utilize those resources then to run another machine.
So it's mostly about perspective I think. And you are right that this isn't a beginners guide video but rather a "I've got this shitty foscam for a while now, but I'd like more" type of video. I started like that and grew into more myself and for me, NX Witness was a god sent after how crappy most other software handles 8MP cameras. As I said in the video, right now it's using about 10% to 15% of a simple i5 box with no hardware GPU or anything.
I'll admit that although I did install Blue Iris I could have looked longer at it but the initial setup and performance really didn't do it for me. That combined with the Windows fact, put me off before I gave it a fair chance maybe.
My previous NVR (Genius Vision) I ran for years ran on Windows and honestly, it was a bitch to maintain. I was running 3 of these systems for the last a few years and the amount of trouble Windows from updates alone or it shitting it's own C drive or other random Windows problems I had between these 3 systems was horrible. I've switched over to Linux with NX Witness and the way it's all managed and the simplicity of managing several servers or of the Linux systems beneath them (at least for me) has been awesome and in my opinion, well worth the money. But again, this is very situation dependant, I'm VERY happy with NX Witness
I'll try and install Blue Iris in the future again and look past the Windows part a bit. I also never meant to say BI is shit, i just think NX Witness is great for what it does and was actually so excited about it and how it works that I created these videos about it. ;)
@@santiagodraco thank you for your comments. I will discuss your comment internally to see if there is a way to address this to satisfy more users. Regarding pricing, there is nothing shady; the MSRP is $150,00 per camera and is sold through our distribution channel throughout the world which can be found at our website.
We know there are plenty of cheaper options, but we don't aim for being the cheapest, we aim for the best user experience and being the most open platform so any developer can create their own solutions with Nx. Considering this, we offer really competitive pricing.
The reason that we do not offer direct sales is that the global transaction fees do not justify small orders and also it would multiply the number of customers we need to offer direct support which we simply aren't equipped for.
All our distributors have had intensive training by us and are capable of offering 1st and 2nd tier support in their customers own timezone and own language. For 3rd tier support we have a dedicated support team and our developers available to offer the best support in the market, and absolutely for free.
Feel free to reach out to me directly via amsterdam@networkoptix.com to continue the conversation if there are still questions to be answered. Or post them here of course.
Nice review! Let us know if we can be of any assistance in answering any questions you have about Nx Witness. FYI - the v4.0 Beta version - is available for download and testing now at my.networkoptix.com under the Downloads tab next to the Release and Monthly Patch. It's a bit buggy but has some really great new features.
You might want to work on your pricing as well.
Cool product - Is the price 180 USD pr. camera to record? If I have 4 camera and want to record from all camera it cost 720 USD?
@@santiagodraco Where do you find anything about pricing?
Hey Santiago & Rene - The MSRP price for Nx Witness is $150.00 / camera for a lifetime license with free upgrades. You can search for Resellers at my.networkoptix.com
your link take me to a login page. my.networkoptix.com/#/login Do I need and account for pricing and dealer info?