Questions · Cameras
Can I mix cameras from several brands in the same system?
Yes, and it is the usual thing in installations that have grown in phases. What makes it possible is ONVIF, the set of profiles that lets one manufacturer's camera talk to another's video software: profile S covers live video streaming, G adds recording and searching it, T the more modern video and event functions, and M everything to do with analytics metadata.
The small print is that by that route you get what is common, not everything. Each manufacturer's own functions —its on-board analytics, its fine image adjustments, its special night modes— usually need the specific integration the software manufacturer has written for that brand. So it is worth checking, before buying, whether the system has its own integration with that model or is going to handle it by the generic route.
The other part of mixing is management, and it weighs more than it looks: each brand has its own configuration tool, its own firmware cycle and its own way of handling passwords. Three brands in an estate of any size are three different maintenance routines, and that is the real reason many installations end up settling on one brand even when technically they do not have to.
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