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I've been a happy user of frigate ( https://frigate.video ) with fully local isolated setup: multiple poe cameras on a dedicated network, coral to supplement on-camera recognition, HA+Prometheus for alerts and smarts. Excited to see another project, especially in Rust(not for the memes; python env management has bit me a few times when hacking). One major gripe with frigate that I have is the way it treats detection…
I've been wishing for a self hosted alternative to cloud cameras. My house was recently robbed and it was incredibly frustrating to know that criminals were literally in my house but not be able to see them due to the general crappiness of modern big tech software. Seems silly to pay to upload all my video of my own house to who knows where and struggle to download it back with absurdly sluggish proprietary software…
My DIY setup uses cameras on an isolated VLAN that prohibits outbound internet access, RTSP data collected by Frigate[0] with Coral TPU recognition, and alerts via Pushover[1] notifications. My push notifications include an unencrypted thumbnail with a link to Frigate that only works via VPN connection. Seems like this project offers a lot of what I had to cobble together. Nice work. I like that it offers encrypted n…
ZoneMinder?
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Ubiquiti cameras store the data on-prem. Not open source, and not the cheapest (but not absurd either). App is acceptable.
I read elsewhere that people are upset since Ubiquiti now requires using Unifi hub, at least for initial configuration. Maybe others do too?
I have unifi WiFi APs so have all the rest of the hub/controller anyway and trialled one camera but ultimately opted for Nest cameras instead.
> However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns.
> Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know.
There's Frigate [1] which is off-cloud, opensource and self-hosted and it does person detection using GPU or Google Coral. It relays camera streams over WebRTC using ssl and works well with Home Assistant [2], which is your self-hosted off-cloud smart home solution.
Then there's moonfire-nvr [3] which is written in rust and less feature complete than frigate.
And then there's sentryshot [4], another option written in rust.
Interestingly, your project got more stars since you posted it on HN than sentryshot has in total, and they have had a product out since 2021 while yours only support a single camera model and has no object detection.
I suppose this reflects how unknown these option are, which is kind of unexpected since googling "rust nvr" lists them all in the first page.
2: https://www.home-assistant.io/
3: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr
4: https://github.com/SentryShot/sentryshot
> The prototype currently has a lot of limitations: mainly that it has only been tested with one IP camera
Since you use rust, you should maybe have a look at retina:
https://github.com/scottlamb/retina
Personally, I use frigate with Home Assistant linked to HomeKit, so I get snapshots & video from frigate straight into my iPhone lock screen as soon as it detects moving people or cars outside my house.
Also, if I were to set this up behind a firewall, would I need to port forward something so I can access it on the road?
Certainly interesting project, but I do encourage people to do more thorough research before starting a new project and claiming they needed to fill a void. > However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns. > Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know. There's Frigate [1] which is off-cloud, opensource and self-hosted and it do…
Certainly interesting project, but I do encourage people to do more thorough research before starting a new project and claiming they needed to fill a void. > However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns. > Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know. There's Frigate [1] which is off-cloud, opensource and self-hosted and it do…
I've got frigate running at 3 sites and use wireguard to log into them and then monitor/review through the browser. Truly awesome technology. Self-hosting object detection and getting alerts is very effective and satisfying.