Hybrid system recomendations

[seiser01 0]

I have a home CCTV system that I'm assembling from both analog and IP-based cams.

 

The analog cams all feed back to an Amcrest 960H with I use as a decoder so that I can pull them into Blue-Iris on my PC. Blue Iris also displays all of my IP based cams.

 

Here are my questions:

 

1) Should I use all my cams as dumb cameras and have Blue Iris manage the motion detection and recording (high centralized processing requirement) or allow the IP cameras to do the motion detection and recording to an FTP server (Less processing requirement on the BI processor)?

2) If I go with the second option, Can I still do playback of all feeds in Blue Iris?

 

Thanks,

Steve