Currently the public beta for version 2 is free to download, explore, and use.  If you are not an existing Bluecherry version 1 customer and you plan to use analog cameras, you will need to purchase a Bluecherry hardware compression card. Contact for details.

Basic support includes 30 days of free phone support and unlimited tickets
Priority support includes one year of free phone support, with unlimited tickets

• 4 / 8 / 16 channel H.264 hardware compression capture card (Open source driver)
• Audio and video recording
• Video4Linux and ALSA standards
• De-interlacing support (on-card)
• Motion detection support (Requires the Bluecherry recording software)
• Video and Audio output (RCA / Composite)

These cards has several features not commonly found on traditional Linux supported MPEG-4 encoders, including:

• Each port has a MJPEG and H.264 encoder, each can be opened separately.
• Each device shows up as a Video4Linux(2) device and you have access to each encoder using standard Video4Linux APIs.
• Each port is loaded up as an ALSA sound device, allowing for encoding G.723 audio from each audio input.
• The driver exposes the video output as a display device, allowing you to control the video output (specify which inputs are displayed on the composite output)
• The driver is available on GitHub: github.com/bluecherrydvr/solo6x10

Note: The device has supports on-card motion detection, however this feature is not currently exposed in the driver and requires our software to make use of it.

More technical details on this card and driver can be found here: https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/solo6x10/blob/master/README.md

Identifying Bluecherry H.264 capture cards:

Bluecherry H.264 cards will show up (assuming you have the latest pci.ids file) with this command: 

$ lspci |grep -i Bluecherry

04:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Bluecherry BC-H16480A 16 port H.264 video and audio encoder / decoder