BI running on Synology W10 Virtual Machine

[paddy]

Has anyone tried to run Blue Iris as a virtual machine on Synology?

[TimG]

I do have a DS920+ for recording satellite tv (from a VU+ linux receiver) and running my Emby server, but I think Win10 would reduce the DS920+ to a blubbering wreck. Not tried it though

[IAmATeaf]

I didn’t even know that this was a thing so learned something new.

It seems that you can now run all types of VMs on the NAS, not too sure what sort of CPU power these come with these days but I’d have thought you’d need quite a bit of oomph to keep both the NAS and the VMs running smoothly?

[TimG]

Well the DS920+ runs Emby better than it ran on my Win10 Ryzen 1800x server, but part of that could be the 7200 rpm hard drives. The DS920+ has a four core celeron cpu and 8GB of RAM, so I don't think it could cope with Win10 in a VM.

[HeneryH]

BI is video encoding/decoding intensive.

Best case is a computer with an Intel QuickSync GPU, then maybe a computer with an Nvidia GPU.

Raw CPU cores is least optimal.

I saw someone run BI on a mini computer with a Celeron and it worked fine for about two cameras only.

[austwhite]

I've thought about this, but the CPU on the Synology would not be powerful enough for Blue Iris, unless you are running absolute basic setup with only one or two cameras. Even then I doubt the CPU would handle it. You would not have any GPU assistance on the Synology either. The 920+ has a celeron based low power CPU if I recall.
Even on an i7 running ProxMox Blue Iris was not a brilliant performer in a Virtual Machine. It works much better on dedicated hardware.
BI may work at a tolerable performance level on one the the higher powered Synology's, but you still wont get the performance of a cheaper second hand i7 PC.
On Synology, you'd be better off sticking to Surveillance Station, or Frigate or something similar to that and not using Blue Iris. Save Blue Iris for a full Windows PC.

[jdacauan]

I have just started experiencing with Blue Iris on my Synology DS720+ NAS.

There is an older guide to run it as a Container in here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueIris/comme ... _a_docker/.

[TimG]

Good luck, and let us know how it goes. BI5 tends to need a powerful cpu when you start pushing it, so I really don't think it will be very useful.

[jdacauan]

Good luck, and let us know how it goes. BI5 tends to need a powerful cpu when you start pushing it, so I really don't think it will be very useful.

The DS720+ and DS920+ have a Celeron J4125 with Intel QuickSync enabled. My hopes are up!

[TimG]

My Engineering judgement tells me you won't like how slow it runs