$50 license per camera is very reasonable for good quality software that has support. I will admit the UI of avigilon looks much better from the videos though. Regardless, $50(+?)/camera license is too rich for a small personal/residential that doesn't require any advanced features. not to mention that the more affluent customers who might be buying surveillance software for use in a residential or small business setting are often using Macs nowadays. On the client side, I think that surveillance companies are going to get increasing pressure to support native OS X client viewer apps for Macs because more and more new PC sales are Macs.
I have an all Mac household but have a cheap C2D server in the basement running Windows Home Server 2011 for Milestone. although they might need a powerful Mac to virtualize surveillance packages. If they really insist they MUST run the server on a Mac then the easiest option is to use VMWare or Parallels to run Windows 7 or Server 2008 as a virtual machine and run it that way. I've actually got a case up at Milestone for 2 weeks now because of browser freezing when changing camera views with the web client.Ĭustomers should be pretty easy to inform that server software is designed for the biggest server/OS base and that is Windows. it works, but has a lot of bugs and performance issues. The web browser, when using the Milestone web server is kind of marginal. Not only can I view the cams, change views, zoom in, etc, but I also have relatively painless access to recordings, even over a cellular network. Personally I've found that the Milestone iPhone and Android apps work very very well. My clients like ipcam viewer for the smart phone because of the screen options and zoom features. So, what works on both a Mac and Windows well? Tried ipcamviewer2 for the Mac and it is limited in what it can do. There is no Browser out there that connects via H264 unless you do some fancy tweak'n. Low end software does not even try, and if they do the video has to be via MJPEG to work right. Video Insight does a great job until it gets to a Mac. Ipcam viewer does a great job until it gets to the Mac. What I think and see is not what they think and see and it's very hard to match a system that works for them well. I am finding more and more customers wanting it all run on a Mac or phone and you know those AppleHeads all wear rose colored glasses. After reading all of your posts I don't think I read anything on how well any of these handle it. Another angle in this market right now is Mac OS.
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