so now that those days are finally behind us I feel like it's safe to
reveal just how much of a complete joke
the security was at the old Linus Media Group headquarters there was a barely
functional video system remote access that barely worked and only on NX phone
with no notifications not to mention the video feeds wouldn't have told us much
if anything about a wouldbe robber and backing it up with some horrible
residential grade alarm system on only some of the doors and none of the
Windows these were cost-saving measures that made sense at the time we moved
into the old house Studio but no longer
do now that we've expanded to a team of nearly 10 people and are working on
stuff like our upcoming Acer curved 34in
freesync gaming monitor video that's that's coming drop a like if you're
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old Office security was a bad scene but not anymore this is our brand spanking
new surveillance server from datacash doca who we chose to work with for a
number of reasons there's all the stuff on their site they use only topnotch
Hardware like this particular Trend net switch that they found is great for PoE
cameras as well as the variety of different cameras that we've got outdoor
ones you know uh fisheye ones regular ones all that kind of stuff they've got
a three-year parts and labor warranty with on-site replacement like if
something goes wrong they swap out a new camera on the spot they have a system to
detect if one of your cameras fails and let you know before you have to find out
and they're Canadian which maybe we can get like a motion trck little Canadian
flag I can wave here but none of that is actually the reason that we ended up
going with them in spite of having offers from multiple camera and
surveillance companies data cach whether it's the owner Phil or any of the team
members who we've worked with there are just our kind of people make sure you
check them out at datacash doca Linus if you or anyone in your company needs
video surveillance their communication was amazingly prompt and professional
with questions answered thoroughly sometimes too thoroughly like long emails any time of day and if that's not
enough on their site you'll find mention of optional CPU liquid cooling in their
machines and hot swap systems for the
surveillance drives these guys are bonafide enthusiasts which is probably
why you'll notice that our surveillance server is ridiculously Enthusiast grade
let's run through the specs so they use an iar USA case for most of their builds
because while it only supports 15 drives that's less than the Norco RPC 4224 that
we use all the time the sleds are completely toolless you just slide a
bare drive in and Bam you've added more storage to your surveillance system more
on the WD purple drives we're using in a bit poking around around inside the guts
of our surveillance system are also hilariously Overkill like to the point
where we could dramatically increase our camera count down the road without any
slowdowns even when we're using you know uh more intensive features like real
time dewarping of 360 Dee cameras we've
got a core i74790 quad core processor installed on Aus z97 WS motherboard and
while that's not full server grade ASUS's WS Hardware is built for heavy
and continuous workloads and gets more validation for obscure Hardware like the
raid card that we actually scavenged and uh threw in here this is from our old
server our systems got 8 gigs of DDR3
memory from Kingston it uses a 750 W power supply from Cooler Master although
depending on how many drives and spinup power draw you might want to buffer on
the side of a little bit more power supply capacity if you're actually
installing all 15 drives we've just got nine in here and then finally on boot
Drive Duty we've got not one but two of Intel's fast and reliable 7 30 series
ssds running in raid one so this puppy would be pretty hard to take out with a
drive failure which leads nicely back to the hard drives we're using I like Solid
State Storage as much as anyone but for a workload like this the capacities not
to mention the price make it completely unsuitable so we went back to good
oldfashioned mechanical in the form of wd's purple series of surveillance
drives unlike normal desktop drives purple drives aside from being
specifically validated in a wide iety of security systems feature firmware
upgrades like ATA streaming support and wd's proprietary allframe which in a
nutshell optimizes them to handle the very unique workload of video
surveillance that is multiple many
highdef video streams continuously being written and then overwritten once the
drives fill up 24 hours a day 7 days a
week in a hot server room environment with vibration from other nearby
equipment all of this without dropping frames in the recording something that
was a major concern for us because like what's the point of a security system
that runs great most of the time and then that one clear shot of someone's
face there's a corrupted or missing frame or something like that which isn't
to say that I would recommend spending this much on a system that only manages
to handle recording videos without corruption and playing them back without
revealing too much about this part of
our new security setup because that would be stupid I can show you some of
the cool stuff it can do so there's a mobile app for monitoring uh this works
from anywhere and can actually even stream in high dep this feature you're
looking at is called a missing object alarm potentially very useful in a
workshop environment for an expensive piece of equipment that isn't supposed
to move so it can actually trigger a notification to me or even trigger an
audible alarm if that object isn't detected anymore this shows how the
viewfinder can be customized to show some very different live view options so
you can set up up tiles to see a normal view of a camera a zoomed in view of a
camera with even multiple views especially useful with fisheye lenses by
the way possible from the same camera depending on what kind of arrangement
you want camera locations can also be overlaid on a map of the building so you
can see indicators for where there are people moving about and check in on what
they're doing cool here we see an intruder alarm and showing how to find a
log of these alarms from within the interface oh and this one is some of the
fancier cameras that you can hook up to this system actually support features
like zoom and autofocus which is as simple as just using a scroll wheel on
the mouse but this one this last one is
the killer feature that gets me all excited like the missing object alarm it
detects something that's moved but this one is capable of doing it after the
fact so say for example someone enters the kitchen and moves someone else's
dishes I can quickly scan through and see who it was yes there is a plan to
make sure people only use their own dishes at the new office speaking of the
new office this is where I would normally have like some kind of AD or
something but not today well sort of an ad but it's for a Linus Media Group
event on August 21st we will be doing the first ever in-person Linus Media
Group garage sale and just general fan
Meetup you guys will be able to come out to the new office which by that time
we'll have the the address listed correctly on the Linus Medi group.com
website so it's in uh kind of the Cloverdale area in Su and you guys will
be able to come out there and meet the crew we're expecting it to run from
around noon to sometime kind of early evening depending on when things wrap up
we might even be doing like tours of the inside we're going to try and have some
snacks and drinks and stuff there so uh come on down and check it out August
21st 2015 if you guys are like watching this video sometime in the future I
don't want a bunch of people showing up on August 21st the following year cuz
that would be super sad so um yeah I
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